Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories

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Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us…<br><br>Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker’s legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.<br><br>Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Aleksei Tolstoy’s tale of a vampire family to Fitz James O’Brien’s invisible monster to Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s rich and sinister widow, Good Lady Ducayne. Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and finishes the collection with Stoker’s own Dracula’s Guest – a chapter omitted from his landmark novel.<br><br>Vampires captivated Victorian society, and these wonderful stories demonstrate how Romantic and Victorian writers refined the raw ore of peasant superstition into a whole vampire mythology of aristocratic decadence and innocence betrayed.

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