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VAMPIRE

Literature with vampires and similar life-draining creatures

• 'Good Lady Ducayne', Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1896, printed in The Strand Magazine, illustrated)

• 'The Parasite', Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

  • (1894, printed in Harper's Weekly, illustrated; part 1, part 2, part 3) ​

  • (1895, published in full as a novella, illustrated) 

• 'Carmilla', Sheridan Le Fanu (1871)

  • (1871-1872, printed as a serial in The Dark Blue, illustrated)

  • (1872, printed in In a Glass Darkly, vol. 3)

• The Vampire City /La Ville-Vampire, Paul Féval

  • Original text in French by Paul Féval (1874, serialised in Le Moniteur Universel - click 'SUIVANT' at the top right of the page to view each instalment; 1875, published in full as a novel)

  • Translated into English by Brian Stableford (2003, printed copies can be purchased here)

• 'Luella Miller', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)

• ​'Viy'/'Вий', Nikolai Gogol

  • Original text in Russian by Nikolai Gogol (1835, printed in Mirgorod /Миргород)​

  • Translated into English by Claud Field (1916, printed in The Mantle and other Stories)

• 'Ken's Mystery', Julian Hawthorne (1888 printed in David Poindexter's Disappearance, etc.)

• 'The Fate of Madame Cabanel', Eliza Lynn Linton (1872, printed in All the Year Round)

• The Blood of the Vampire, Florence Marryat (1897)

• 'The Oval Portrait' [originally published as 'Life in Death], Edgar Allan Poe (1842) 

  • (1842, published under the original title, printed in Graham's Magazine)​

  • (1845, printed in The Broadway Journal)

• 'The Vampyre', John Polidori (1819)

• Varney, the Vampyre, James Malcolm Rymer (1845-46)

• 'Olalla', Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)

  • (1885, printed in The Court Society Review)

  • (1887, printed in The Merry Men and other Tales and Fables) 

• Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897)

• 'Dracula's Guest', Bram Stoker (1914, printed in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories) 

• 'The Flowering of the Strange Orchid', H. G. Wells (1894)

  • (1894, printed in Pall Mall Budget)

  • (1895, printed in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents; 1904 reprint of this publication)

• The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells (1898)

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