This collection of horror stories includes selections from the late 18th century to the early 20th century and presents a literary evolution of the vampire. This volume includes:

"Christabel" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A Fragment" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
"The Vampyre" by John William Polidori
"Wake Not the Dead" by Johann Ludwig Tieck
"Clarimonde" by Theophile Gautier
"The Mysterious Stranger" by Karl von Wachsmann
"The Last Lords of Gardonal" by William Gilbert
"Carmilla" by J. Sheridan LeFanu
"Let Loose" by Mary Cholmondeley
"A Mystery of the Campagna" by Baroness Anne Crawford von Rabe
"The Vampire Maid" by Hume Nisbet
"Luella Miller" by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
"The Tomb of Sarah" by F. G. Loring
"The Transfer" by Algernon Blackwood
"Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker
"Mrs. Amworth" by E. F. Benson
"The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" by Arthur Conan Doyle