Vampires, Wine, and Roses - Softcover

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Synopsis

A collection of tales about vampires contains fiction from noted writers such as Bram Stoker, Rod Serling, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, H.P. Lovecraft, Sting, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Review

This out-of-the-ordinary vampire anthology features 34 vampire writings from (mostly) literary writers: William Shakespeare (an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet), Anne Rice (a rare story), Sting (a song), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Southey, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron, H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Sir Walter Scott, Ivan Turgenev, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baudelaire, Jules Verne, Voltaire, John Keats, Woody Allen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, Conrad Aiken, Sir Thomas Malory, Thomas Hardy, Rod Serling, Goethe, Lenny Bruce, T. S. Eliot, Edith Wharton, H. P. Lovecraft, and Bram Stoker. John Richard Stephens's interesting introduction discusses the history of vampires in print from Sophocles to Karl Marx to Virginia Woolf.

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