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•  Voices from the Vaults: Authentic Tales of Vampires and Ghosts • interior artwork by Tibor Kovalik
• 1 • Introduction (Voices from the Vaults: Authentic Tales of Vampires and Ghosts) • essay by Devendra P. Varma
• 9 • The Count's Soliloquy • poem by Margaret L. Carter
• 11 • Domdaniel • (1975) • novelette by Peter Allan
• 31 • The Tomb of Sarah • (1900) • short story by F. G. Loring
• 41 • The Room in the Tower • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 51 • The Beautiful Vampire • (1963) • novelette by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of La morte amoureuse 1836)
• 75 • Nellie's Grave • short story by Vlad Kinkopf
• 81 • The Italian Count • essay by Peter Underwood
• 89 • The Hungry Stones • (1916) • short story by
  রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর^?Ravīndranātha Thākura
  (trans. of
  ক্ষুধিত পাষান^?Kshudhita Pashan
  1895) [as by Rabindranath Tagore]
• 99 • A Call in the Blood • short story by Margaret L. Carter
• 103 • The Cloak • (1939) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 117 • The Painted Skin • [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio • 40] • (1880) • short story by
  蒲松龄^?Pú Sōnglíng
  Pu Songlin
  Pu Sung-ling
  (trans. of
  畫皮^?Huàpí
  Huapi
  1766) [as by P'u Sung-Ling]
• 121 • For the Blood Is the Life • (1905) • short story by F. Marion Crawford
• 133 • Schalken the Painter • (1935) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 151 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 165 • Thurnley Abbey • (1907) • short story by Perceval Landon
• 177 • Count Magnus • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 187 • The Phantom Coach • (1864) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
• 199 • The Man on the Stairs • (1936) • short story by Montague Summers [as by Anonymous]
• 213 • The Family of the Vourdalak • (1978) • novelette by
  Алексей Константинович Толстой^?Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
  (trans. of La famille du Vourdalak 1838) [as by Alexis Tolstoy]
• 235 • Varney, the Vampyre (excerpt) • [Varney the Vampyre (excerpts)] • (1847) • short fiction by Thomas P. Prest (variant of Varney the Vampire (excerpt) 1987) [as by Thomas Preskett Prest]