Vampire literature is an amazingly varied genre of writing, providing elements of everything from the penny dreadful horrors to powerful doses of myth and eroticism. Because it contains its own mythology and its own set of rules, it has also proved a psychologically attractive genre for many writers from its Romantic inception to the present day.

This anthology includes Bram Stoker's detailed research notes for "Dracula", the culmination point of vampire literature. The author has written a full introduction, exploring the historical and imaginative implications of vampire mythology in the arts from the medieval Count Vlad to President Ceaucescu.

CONTENTS
Lord Byron to Count Dracula · Christopher Frayling
A Voyage to the Levant · Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Treatise on the Vampires of Hungary and Surrounding Regions · Augustin Calmet
The Vampyre [as by Lord Byron] · John Polidori ·
Fragment of a Story · Lord Byron ·
A Visit to the Theatre [from Memoirs] · Alexandre Dumas ·
Varney, the Vampyre [anonymously] · James Malcolm Rymer ·
Wake Not the Dead · Johann Ludwig Tieck
Aurelia · E. T. A. Hoffmann
What Was It? · Fitz-James O’Brien ·
A Kiss of Judas · X. L. (Julian Osgood Field)
The Family of the Vourdalak · Alexis Tolstoy;
The Fate of Madame Cabanel · Eliza Lynn Linton ·
The Genesis of Dracula · Christopher Frayling ·
Working Papers for Dracula · Bram Stoker ·
Research Papers for Dracula · Bram Stoker ·
Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker ·
Dracula [Dracula] · Bram Stoker ·
Haemosexuality · Christopher Frayling ·
Psycopathia Sexualis · Richard von Krafft-Ebing ·
On the Vampire [from On the Nightmare] · Ernest Jones
The Psychoanalysis of Count Dracula · Maurice Richardson