Vampires
The vampire before Hollywood: Polidori's aristocrat, Le Fanu's Carmilla, Stoker's "Dracula's Guest", and stranger things that feed on blood, life or attention. Some of these stories helped invent the modern vampire.
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The Room in the Tower Classic
For fifteen years a man has dreamed of the same country house and the same quiet family, and of a room in the tower he must not enter. Then he is invited to stay there.
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Carmilla Classic
In a lonely Styrian castle, a young woman welcomes a mysterious and beautiful guest whose arrival coincides with a wave of strange deaths.
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Mrs. Amworth Classic
A cheerful widow moves to a quiet English village, wins everyone over with her bridge parties, and soon after a strange illness begins.
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Clarimonde Classic
An old priest confesses how, on the day of his ordination, a glance from a beautiful woman led him into a double life.
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Luella Miller Classic
The villagers avoid the empty house where Luella Miller once lived, a delicate, helpless beauty whose friends and husbands all wasted away.
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The Vampyre Classic
A young gentleman befriends the cold and fascinating Lord Ruthven, and joins him on a tour of Europe that leaves a trail of ruin.
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For the Blood Is the Life Classic
On the roof of an old tower in Calabria, a host points out a mound of earth in the moonlight and tells the story of the girl buried there.
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An Episode of Cathedral History Classic
When a Victorian restoration strips a cathedral choir of its old woodwork, the townsfolk start to suffer bad dreams and worse.
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Olalla Classic
A wounded British officer convalesces at the decaying Spanish mansion of an ancient family, and falls for the beautiful, devout daughter.
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Dracula's Guest Classic
On Walpurgis Night, an Englishman in Munich ignores his coachman's pleas and walks alone toward an abandoned village.