Ovid Publishing Group

The Vampire
Library

From bloated corpse to brooding count — two centuries of vampire fiction and the true history of the creature that refuses to stay dead. Gothic classics, annotated editions, and the essential popular history of the genre's most durable monster.

Gothic Classics· Folklore & Mythology· Vampire History· Annotated Editions· Carmilla · Dracula · The Vampyre· Horror Cinema· Gothic Classics· Folklore & Mythology· Vampire History· Annotated Editions· Carmilla · Dracula · The Vampyre· Horror Cinema·

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Titles in the Vampire Library

A History of Vampires in Folklore and Art
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Nonfiction · Popular History

A History of Vampires in Folklore and Art

Arthur C. Rauscher

From bloated corpse to brooding count — the full history of the creature that refuses to stay dead. Part One covers world folklore from Mesopotamia to the Americas. Part Two traces the vampire through two centuries of art, literature, and cinema.

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The Vampyre
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Gothic Fiction · 1819 · Annotated Edition

The Vampyre: A Gothic Vampire Novella

John William Polidori

The story that invented the modern vampire. Written during the same ghost-story challenge that produced Frankenstein, Polidori's 1819 novella gave the world the aristocratic vampire — the ancestor of every brooding predator in two centuries of horror fiction.

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Carmilla
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Gothic Fiction · 1872 · LGBTQ+ · Annotated Edition

Carmilla: A Sapphic Vampire Novella

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Twenty-five years before Dracula, Le Fanu wrote the vampire novel that shaped everything that followed. Carmilla is also among the earliest works of queer fiction in the English language — the desire between the two women is not coded or hidden. It is the engine of the story.

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