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• vii • Introduction (Children of the Night) • (2007) • essay by David Stuart Davies
• 3 • The Vampire of Croglin Hall • (2007) • short story by Augustus Hare (variant of The Vampire of Croglin Grange 1900)
• 7 • The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • (1966) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori [as by John Polidori]
• 25 • Varney the Vampyre • [Varney the Vampyre (excerpts)] • (2007) • short fiction by James Malcolm Rymer
• 41 • The Curse of the Vourdalak • (2007) • novelette by
  Алексей Константинович Толстой^?Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
  (trans. of La famille du Vourdalak 1838) [as by Alexis Tolstoy]
• 65 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 131 • Dracula and the Three Brides • [Dracula Excerpts] • (2007) • short fiction by Bram Stoker
• 155 • For the Blood Is the Life • (1905) • short story by F. Marion Crawford
• 171 • Good Lady Ducayne • (1896) • novelette by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• 195 • An Episode of Cathedral History • (1914) • short story by M. R. James
• 211 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1910) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 233 • Bewitched • (1925) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 253 • The Welcome Visitor • (2007) • short story by David Stuart Davies