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“Dracula’s Guest invokes the dangerous shadows of Victorian culture, those dark places where passion, terror, pathos, and sorrow mingle and merge. Gathering together canonical works along with less familiar knock-out masterpieces, Michael Sims has produced an anthology designed to keep us all up at night.”
—Maria Tatar, Professor and Chair of the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, author of The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales and Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

“In this fine new anthology, Michael Sims brings to bear his extensive knowledge of Victorian tales and their tellers on the vampire genre. Despite the title, Sims’s nets have caught fascinating material that pre-dates Dracula and the Victorians. Some will be familiar (excerpts from works by the Abbé Calmet, Lord Byron, John Polidori, and Varney the Vampire, for example), but other authors and stories will be new to many, revealing an unexpected depth and breadth to the thrall of the undead. With a thoughtful introduction to the volume as well as each story, this book belongs in the crypt of every student of the creatures of the night!”
—Leslie S. Klinger, author of The New Annotated Dracula and The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

Before “Twilight” and “True Blood,” even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the 19th century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker’s legendary 1897 novel Dracula. Michael Sims has collected the very best vampire stories of the Victorian era—from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, and even Japan—into a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. At a time when vampires have been recreated in a modern context, Dracula’s Guest will remind readers young, old, and in between of why the undead won’t let go of our imagination.

Foreign Sales
China: Daxiang Publishing House

Foreign Sales
Bulgaria: Animar
China: Jiuzhou Press
German: Klett-Cotta
Korean: Ire Publishing
Polish: Polski Instytut
Spanish: Critica
Taiwan: Rye Field Publications