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• 12 •  Vampires: Encounters with the Undead • interior artwork by Mary Woronov
• 13 • Introduction: "There Are Such Things!" • essay by David J. Skal
• 17 • from The Book of Vampires • essay by Dudley Wright
• 23 • from The Phantom World • essay by Augustin Calmet
• 29 • Tale of a Russian Vampire • essay by Helena P. Blavatsky [as by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]
• 31 • from Vampires of Roumania • short fiction by Agnes Murgoci
• 37 • The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • (1966) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori [as by John Polidori]
• 52 •  Loving Lady Death • interior artwork by Lee Woodward Zeigler
• 53 • Loving Lady Death • novelette by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of La morte amoureuse 1836)
• 75 • The Family of the Vourdalak • novelette by
  Алексей Константинович Толстой^?Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
  (trans. of La famille du Vourdalak 1838) [as by Alexis Tolstoy]
• 97 • from Varney the Vampyre Or, the Feast of Blood • [Varney the Vampyre (excerpts)] • short fiction by James Malcolm Rymer
• 103 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 159 • The Fate of Madame Cabanel • (1873) • short story by Eliza Lynn Linton
• 171 • A True Story of a Vampire • short story by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (variant of The True Story of a Vampire 1894) [as by Eric, Count Stenbock]
• 179 •  Good Lady Ducayne • interior artwork by Gordon Browne
• 179 • Good Lady Ducayne • (1896) • novelette by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• 201 • Dracula's Guest • [Dracula] • (1914) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 211 • from Dracula • [Dracula] • short fiction by Bram Stoker
• 222 •  The Vampire • interior artwork by Philip Burne-Jones
• 222 • The Vampire • (1897) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 223 • Fatal Image: The Artist, the Actress, and "The Vampire" • essay by David J. Skal
• 261 • Luella Miller • (1902) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 273 • Count Magnus • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 283 • The Singular Death of Morton • (1910) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 292 •  Vampires: Encounters with the Undead [2] • interior artwork by Mary Woronov
• 293 • For the Blood Is the Life • (1905) • short story by F. Marion Crawford
• 305 • The Room in the Tower • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 315 • Vampires • essay by Albin Grau
• 316 •  Vampires • interior artwork by Albin Grau
• 319 •  Vampires [2] • interior artwork by Albin Grau
• 321 • The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1924) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 335 • Bewitched • (1925) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 353 • "When She Was Fed": Bela Lugosi's Real-Life Vampire Romance • essay by Gladys Hall
• 357 • The Dark Castle • (1931) • short story by Marion Brandon
• 368 •  Vampires: Encounters with the Undead [3] • interior artwork by Mary Woronov
• 369 • Revelations in Black • (1933) • novelette by Carl Jacobi
• 385 • I, the Vampire • (1937) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• 401 • The Bat Is My Brother • (1944) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 417 • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes • (1949) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 429 • from I Am Legend • short fiction by Richard Matheson
• 444 •  Vampires: Encounters with the Undead [4] • interior artwork by Mary Woronov
• 445 • Unicorn Tapestry • [The Vampire Tapestry] • (1980) • novella by Suzy McKee Charnas
• 495 • from American Vampires • essay by Norine Dresser
• 515 • An Interview with a "Vampire" • essay by David J. Skal
• 523 • Stalking the Vampire • essay by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
• 541 • Last Call for the Sons of Shock • (1991) • short story by David J. Schow
• 553 • Coppola's Dracula • [Anno Dracula] • (1997) • novella by Kim Newman
• 595 • Bela's Plot • (1997) • short story by
  Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan