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Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemainowicz, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.) - Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories From The Weird Fiction Pulps (Gramercy, 1992)
Introduction - Stefan R. Dziemainowicz
Weird Tales
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow
Bassett Morgan - The Wolf Woman
Everil Worrell - The Canal
Clark Ashton Smith - A Rendezvous In Averoigne
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife
Robert E. Howard - The Horror From The Mound
Edmond Hamilton - Vampire Village
Carl Jacobi - Revelations In Black
C. L. Moore - Shambleau
J. Wesley Rosenquest - Return To Death
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach - Isle Of The Undead
Earl Pierce, jnr. - Doom Of The House Of Duryea
Henry Kuttner - I, The Vampire
Robert Barbour Johnson - The Silver Coffin
Lester Del Rey - Cross Of Fire
Frank Belknap Long & Otis Adelbert Kline - Return Of The Undead
Greye La Spina - The Antimacassar
Astounding Science Fiction
A. E Van Vogt - Asylum
Strange Tales
Marion Brandon - The Dark Castle
Hugh B. Cave - Stragella
Terror Tales
Raymond Whetstone - The Thirsty Dead
Horror Stories
Arthur J. Burks - Murder Brides
Unknown/ Unknown Worlds
Robert Bloch - The Cloak
Manly Wade Wellman - When It Was Moonlight
Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction
August Derleth - "Who Shall I Say Is Calling?"
Fantastic Universe
William Tenn - She Only Goes Out At Night
Worlds Beyond
C. M. Kornbluth - The Mindworm
Beyond Fantasy Fiction
Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean - Share Alike
Joe L. Hensey - And Not Quite Human
Orbit
Charles Beaumont - Place Of Meeting
Amazing what you can cram into 442 pages. Although many of these selections are familiar from Haining (and others') collections, this is a must have for anybody who loves their trad vampires but isn't at all worried about the occasional bizarre twist to the formula.
Includes:
Joe L. Hensley - And Not Quite Human: All it took was one spaceship to conquer Earth and the Arcturians even captured the few skeletal specimens who miraculously survived the attack. But as the ship roars through space, the crew are afflicted by nightmares (even though these have been abolished) in which blood, bats and skulls feature prominently. The crew then begin commiting suicide in increasingly imaginative ways. The captain is incredulous: "It's been bred out of the race ... it just doesn't happen! ... it's against the rules!" A visit from one of the earthlings, Adam Manning, educates him as what is and isn't possible to the undead.
Robert Bloch - The Cloak: Henderson buys a cloak for $5 from a mysterious Hungarian in a costumiers. He wears it to the Lindstrom's Halloween ball, he steals the show, attacking the host and generally causing a stir with his increasingly bizarre behaviour. Famously filmed by Amicus for their "The House That Dripped Blood" omnibus.
Manly Wade Wellman - When It Was Moonlight: An episode in the life of Edgar Allan Poe: Eddie, investinged a reported case of premature burial in Philladelphia, encounters the woman who survived the ordeal, Elva Gauber. His ensueing efforts to get to the truth about the incident almost costs him his life, but it does give him the germ of the idea for "The Black Cat".
J. Wesley Rosenquest - Return To Death: A scientist, feared by superstitious Transylvanian villagers, suffers an attack of catalepsy. He's on the verge of being buried alive when he sits up in his coffin. Fortunately, the mountain folk know a vampire when they see one.
Earl Pierce jnr. - Doom Of The House Of Duryea: Father and son are reunited after twenty years following the death of Aunt Cecilia who insisted on their being kept apart when the father was accused of draining the blood of two of his children, a family taint going back five generations. Dad demands of his boy that he ties him to the bed to prevent him going walkabout in his sleep. Darkness falls.
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow: Baron Cznezron must drink the blood of a virgin once every century to prolongue his evil existence. Together with his undead accomplice, (who was hung by an irate woman a few centuries back after a spate of child deaths), he abducts a beautiful girl and imprisons her in the caverns beneath Hazeltown House, Harrisonville.
Enter de Grandin, Trowbridge and Costello, just as the spreadeagled girl is about to have her throat slit ...
Robert E. Howard - The Horror From The Mound: A luckless Texan farmer, Steve Brill, excavates an old Indian burial mound in search of buried gold. His activities disturb the undead Moorish noble, De Valdez. The vampire celebrates his freedom by killing Brill's neighbour. As Brill, the archtypal musclebound Howard hero, reads up on the history of De Valdez, a ghastly face appears at the window ...
Henry Kuttner - I, The Vampire: "It's awful - I'm not sure yet what happened. His wife ... came to life while they were cremating her. They saw her through the window, you know ...screaming and pounding at the glass while she was burned alive. Hess got her out too late. He went stark raving mad ..."
People tend to develop pernicious anaemia when Chevalier Futaine, the mysterious star of forthcoming Hollywood blockbuster Red Thirst, is around. And now he has his designs on Jean, who he believes to be the reincarnation of his soul-mate, Sonja, staked some centuries earlier by a busybody priest.
Lester del Rey - Cross Of Fire: One of the grimmer stories. Karl Harhoffer falls victim to the woman known to the villagers as 'the night lady.' Evil things are whispered and even his Priest turns against him when Karl insists on seeing her. His friends, Flamchen and Fritz, eventually pay for their misguided loyalty, joining him in undeath. It is left to Karl to terminate their reign of terror.
William Tenn - She Only Goes Out At Night: Sympathy for the vampire. In Groppa County they'll tell you how old Doc Judd can handle anything, so it's lucky he's around when his son, Steve, falls for Tatiana Latianu, just as a weird epidemic begins to lay low the children of the community. The narrator, a Rumanian, realises there's something wrong about the girl when he starts getting twinges in his wooden leg. The Doc works out a humane solution to the situation and everybody's happy. Bloody spoilsport dogooders, eh?
Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean - Share Alike: Adrift in a lifeboat, Hofmanstahl and Craig. The former, a decent enough fellow, is also a vampire. They reach a compromise on how they're going to get by until they're rescued. Which will weaken first?
Charles Beaumont - Place Of Meeting: ... and the undead shall inherit the earth. In view of the food shortage, however, their leader advises them to return to their graves for a few centuries until the nuclear winter thaws and man starts wandering the surface again.
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife: The tight-fisted, stupid Placide kills his gipsy wife Nita when he suspects her of having an affair with a mysterious pedlar and discovers - via a blackened crucifix with mutilated saviour placed under his bed - that he's had a curse placed upon him. He hurls the crucifix at her corpse and it embeds in her neck. Before he and his equally dense friend Lebaudy can bury her, a cat settles on her breast and licks the blood away from her throat - and Nita returns as a werewolf! The pedlar who caused all the trouble is a vampire and he and Nita bring terror to the Cajuns before his accidental staking by Lebaudy. Nita avenges herself on her husband - who, once savaged by his were-wife is impaled by the sexton to round off a really bad day - and survives to feature in a sequel.
Introduction - Stefan R. Dziemainowicz
Weird Tales
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow
Bassett Morgan - The Wolf Woman
Everil Worrell - The Canal
Clark Ashton Smith - A Rendezvous In Averoigne
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife
Robert E. Howard - The Horror From The Mound
Edmond Hamilton - Vampire Village
Carl Jacobi - Revelations In Black
C. L. Moore - Shambleau
J. Wesley Rosenquest - Return To Death
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach - Isle Of The Undead
Earl Pierce, jnr. - Doom Of The House Of Duryea
Henry Kuttner - I, The Vampire
Robert Barbour Johnson - The Silver Coffin
Lester Del Rey - Cross Of Fire
Frank Belknap Long & Otis Adelbert Kline - Return Of The Undead
Greye La Spina - The Antimacassar
Astounding Science Fiction
A. E Van Vogt - Asylum
Strange Tales
Marion Brandon - The Dark Castle
Hugh B. Cave - Stragella
Terror Tales
Raymond Whetstone - The Thirsty Dead
Horror Stories
Arthur J. Burks - Murder Brides
Unknown/ Unknown Worlds
Robert Bloch - The Cloak
Manly Wade Wellman - When It Was Moonlight
Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction
August Derleth - "Who Shall I Say Is Calling?"
Fantastic Universe
William Tenn - She Only Goes Out At Night
Worlds Beyond
C. M. Kornbluth - The Mindworm
Beyond Fantasy Fiction
Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean - Share Alike
Joe L. Hensey - And Not Quite Human
Orbit
Charles Beaumont - Place Of Meeting
Amazing what you can cram into 442 pages. Although many of these selections are familiar from Haining (and others') collections, this is a must have for anybody who loves their trad vampires but isn't at all worried about the occasional bizarre twist to the formula.
Includes:
Joe L. Hensley - And Not Quite Human: All it took was one spaceship to conquer Earth and the Arcturians even captured the few skeletal specimens who miraculously survived the attack. But as the ship roars through space, the crew are afflicted by nightmares (even though these have been abolished) in which blood, bats and skulls feature prominently. The crew then begin commiting suicide in increasingly imaginative ways. The captain is incredulous: "It's been bred out of the race ... it just doesn't happen! ... it's against the rules!" A visit from one of the earthlings, Adam Manning, educates him as what is and isn't possible to the undead.
Robert Bloch - The Cloak: Henderson buys a cloak for $5 from a mysterious Hungarian in a costumiers. He wears it to the Lindstrom's Halloween ball, he steals the show, attacking the host and generally causing a stir with his increasingly bizarre behaviour. Famously filmed by Amicus for their "The House That Dripped Blood" omnibus.
Manly Wade Wellman - When It Was Moonlight: An episode in the life of Edgar Allan Poe: Eddie, investinged a reported case of premature burial in Philladelphia, encounters the woman who survived the ordeal, Elva Gauber. His ensueing efforts to get to the truth about the incident almost costs him his life, but it does give him the germ of the idea for "The Black Cat".
J. Wesley Rosenquest - Return To Death: A scientist, feared by superstitious Transylvanian villagers, suffers an attack of catalepsy. He's on the verge of being buried alive when he sits up in his coffin. Fortunately, the mountain folk know a vampire when they see one.
Earl Pierce jnr. - Doom Of The House Of Duryea: Father and son are reunited after twenty years following the death of Aunt Cecilia who insisted on their being kept apart when the father was accused of draining the blood of two of his children, a family taint going back five generations. Dad demands of his boy that he ties him to the bed to prevent him going walkabout in his sleep. Darkness falls.
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow: Baron Cznezron must drink the blood of a virgin once every century to prolongue his evil existence. Together with his undead accomplice, (who was hung by an irate woman a few centuries back after a spate of child deaths), he abducts a beautiful girl and imprisons her in the caverns beneath Hazeltown House, Harrisonville.
Enter de Grandin, Trowbridge and Costello, just as the spreadeagled girl is about to have her throat slit ...
Robert E. Howard - The Horror From The Mound: A luckless Texan farmer, Steve Brill, excavates an old Indian burial mound in search of buried gold. His activities disturb the undead Moorish noble, De Valdez. The vampire celebrates his freedom by killing Brill's neighbour. As Brill, the archtypal musclebound Howard hero, reads up on the history of De Valdez, a ghastly face appears at the window ...
Henry Kuttner - I, The Vampire: "It's awful - I'm not sure yet what happened. His wife ... came to life while they were cremating her. They saw her through the window, you know ...screaming and pounding at the glass while she was burned alive. Hess got her out too late. He went stark raving mad ..."
People tend to develop pernicious anaemia when Chevalier Futaine, the mysterious star of forthcoming Hollywood blockbuster Red Thirst, is around. And now he has his designs on Jean, who he believes to be the reincarnation of his soul-mate, Sonja, staked some centuries earlier by a busybody priest.
Lester del Rey - Cross Of Fire: One of the grimmer stories. Karl Harhoffer falls victim to the woman known to the villagers as 'the night lady.' Evil things are whispered and even his Priest turns against him when Karl insists on seeing her. His friends, Flamchen and Fritz, eventually pay for their misguided loyalty, joining him in undeath. It is left to Karl to terminate their reign of terror.
William Tenn - She Only Goes Out At Night: Sympathy for the vampire. In Groppa County they'll tell you how old Doc Judd can handle anything, so it's lucky he's around when his son, Steve, falls for Tatiana Latianu, just as a weird epidemic begins to lay low the children of the community. The narrator, a Rumanian, realises there's something wrong about the girl when he starts getting twinges in his wooden leg. The Doc works out a humane solution to the situation and everybody's happy. Bloody spoilsport dogooders, eh?
Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean - Share Alike: Adrift in a lifeboat, Hofmanstahl and Craig. The former, a decent enough fellow, is also a vampire. They reach a compromise on how they're going to get by until they're rescued. Which will weaken first?
Charles Beaumont - Place Of Meeting: ... and the undead shall inherit the earth. In view of the food shortage, however, their leader advises them to return to their graves for a few centuries until the nuclear winter thaws and man starts wandering the surface again.
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife: The tight-fisted, stupid Placide kills his gipsy wife Nita when he suspects her of having an affair with a mysterious pedlar and discovers - via a blackened crucifix with mutilated saviour placed under his bed - that he's had a curse placed upon him. He hurls the crucifix at her corpse and it embeds in her neck. Before he and his equally dense friend Lebaudy can bury her, a cat settles on her breast and licks the blood away from her throat - and Nita returns as a werewolf! The pedlar who caused all the trouble is a vampire and he and Nita bring terror to the Cajuns before his accidental staking by Lebaudy. Nita avenges herself on her husband - who, once savaged by his were-wife is impaled by the sexton to round off a really bad day - and survives to feature in a sequel.