Garlic cloves and wooden stakes are no match for centuries of the undead's mischief and seduction. Here are thirteen original and imaginative stories that reveal the vampiric truths behind certain historical happenings.
H. P. Lovecraft, T.E.D. Klein, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Darrell Schweitzer, John Glasby, Michael R. Collings, Brian Stableford, Brian McNaughton, Frank Belknap Long, Stephen Mark Rainey, Jason Van Hollander, Henry Kuttner, Mark McLaughlin, Lin Carter, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Adrian Cole, Robert M. Price & John P. McCann
Fritz Leiber, C.M. Kornbluth, Darrell Schweitzer, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Alfred Bester, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Randall Garrett, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Robert Silverberg, Murray Leinster, Tom Purdom, Philip K. Dick, Jerry Sohl, Pamela Rentz, Henry Kuttner, Frank Belknap Long, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds, James Blish, Ben Bova, Myron R. Lewis & Marion Zimmer Bradley
Gardner Dozois, Allen Steele, Cory Doctorow, Jay Lake, Donald E. Westlake, Frederik Pohl, Avram Davidson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Sheckley, Pamela Sargent, George Zebrowski, Brenda W. Clough, Keith Laumer, Darrell Schweitzer, Bruce Bethke, Grania Davis, Sterling E. Lanier, James C. Stewart, Rick Raphael, Walter S. Tevis, Charles L. Fontenay, Ken Scholes, Everett B. Cole & Walter J. Sheldon
Edward M. Lerner, Richard A. Lupoff, Clifford D. Simak, Damien Broderick, Reginald Bretnor, William F. Nolan, John Gregory Betancourt, James H. Schmitz, C.J. Henderson & Darrell Schweitzer
Robert, Jean Lorrah, William Maltese, A. R. Morlan, Edward R. Morris, Charles Nuetzel, Robert Reginald, Pamela Sargent, Darrell Schweitzer, Brian Stableford, Doru Tatar, E.C. Tubb & George Zebrowski
Gary Lovisi, John Russell Fearn, Lonni Lees, Richard A. Lupoff, William Maltese, Ardath Mayhar, A. R. Morlan, Darrell Schweitzer, Brian Stableford, Gerald Verner, Don Webb, Lois June Wickstrom, Lucrecia Darling & George Zebrowski
Michael Swanwick, Persephone D'Shaun, Imogen Howson, Nancy Kress, Ben Loory, J.M. Sidorova, R. S. A. Garcia, Curtis C. Chen, Darrell Schweitzer, Edwina Harvey, Avram Davidson & Andy Duncan
Bram Stoker, F. Marion Crawford, Steve Rasnic Tem, Robert E. Howard, Jay O'Connell, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock, Eric Stenbock, E. F. Benson, Darrell Schweitzer, Warren Lapine, Alledria Hurt, Lillian Csernica, J. A. Campbell, Darin Kennedy, Joann Verostko, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, Melanie Tem, F. G. Loring, Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg, Hume Nisbet, Stephen Woodworth, Gerri Leen, Charles S. Ramsburg, Jr., Linda Tiernan Kepner, Stephen Antczak, Mary E. Braddon, Victoria Glad, Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Jan Neruda, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Augustus Hare, T. F. Ridgwell & Theophile Gautier
Darrell Schweitzer, George R.R. Martin, James Morrow, Charles Stross, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Joe W. Haldeman, Harry Turtledove, Zoran Živković, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D.G. Compton & Howard Waldrop
Charles Todd, Cynthia Ward, Somtow Sucharitkul, Phyllis Ann Karr, Michael Bracken, Paul Di Filippo, Barb Goffman, Elizabeth Zelvin, Darrell Schweitzer, Algis Budrys & E. E. Doc Smith
Darrell Schweitzer, Ann K. Schwader, Don Webb, James Chambers, Robert Guffey, Gordon Linzner, Bryan D. Dietrich, John R. Fultz, Frederic S.Durbin, Nicholas Kaufmann, Tim Lees, Adrian Cole, Geoffrey Hart, Harry Turtledove, Will Murray, Robert M. Price & Keith Taylor
Steve Liskow, Justin Gustainis, Darrell Schweitzer, A.R. Morlan, Hal Charles, Nicholas Carter, Frank Kane, Murray Leinster, George O Smith & Marie Corelli
S. T. Joshi, Mark Samuels, Donald R. Burleson, Donald Tyson, Richard Gavin, WH Pugmire, John Shirley, David Hambling, Simon Strantzas, Jason V. Brock, Scott Wiley, Mark Howard Jones, Darrell Schweitzer, Stephen Woodworth & Jonathan Thomas
Nancy Springer, Douglas Smith, James Dorr, Winston Marks, Lisa Lepovetsky, Eric Choi, Darrell Schweitzer, Meriah Crawford, Jonathan Shipley, Gregory L. Norris, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Gregg Chamberlain, Kelly A. Harmon, David Hoenig, Steven R. Southard, Nicole Kurtz, Geoff Gander & Gustavo Bondoni
S. T. Joshi, John Shirley, Gemma Files, Jonathan Thomas, Steve Rasnic Tem, Nancy Kilpatrick, WH Pugmire, Lynda E. Rucker, Michael Washburn, Jason V. Brock, Michael Aronovitz, Clint Smith, George Edwards Murray, Richard Gavin, Darrell Schweitzer, Cody Goodfellow, Lynne Jamneck, Reggie Oliver & Stephen Woodworth
