Vampires: Back in Time to the First Darkness - The Original Stories

Here come the creatures of the night, in eight timeless tales of horror that have terrified generations and inspired the recent flowering of vampire literature. Discover classics of the genre, such as John Polidori's The Vampyre (written by Lord Byron's physician) and Carmilla, the novella that inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula and provoked a scandal with its lesbian undercurrent. This fascinating collection also features Johann Ludwig Tieck, Sheridan LeFanu, Guy de Maupssant, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (and his beloved detective, Sherlock Holmes), E.F. Benson, and Stoker himself, with “Dracula's Guest”--believed to be the original first chapter of his novel, excised by the publisher. 

The eight authors are: 
Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), a German poet and novelist, one of the founding fathers of Romanticism; 
John Polidori (1795–1821), the poet Lord Byron’s physician; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels; 
Bram Stoker (1847–1912), author of the novel Dracula; 
Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), a Frenchman, considered one of the world’s greatest short story writers; 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), creator of super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes; E.F. Benson (1867–1940), best known for his Mapp and Lucia stories;
and one anonymous author