Creatures of the Dark: 10 Vampire Horror Novels
Ten Classic Gothic Tales of Seduction, Revenants, Folklore, and Victorian TerrorBy Bram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, John William Polidori, Florence Marryat, F. Marion Crawford, Richard Francis Burton, Lallu Lal, John T. Platts, Mazhar Ali Khan
Length102h 24m
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Creatures of the Dark: 10 Vampire Horror Novels surveys the vampire's evolution from folkloric revenant to modern Gothic predator. Moving among sensational romance, penny-dreadful extravagance, decadent fantasy, travel-inflected tale, and the psychologically charged Gothic novel, the volume places canonical narratives such as Dracula and Carmilla beside less frequently encountered works. Its transnational range also recalls that vampiric figures emerge not only from Victorian anxieties about sexuality, disease, inheritance, and invasion, but from older South Asian, European, and oral narrative traditions. The contributors form an unusually capacious literary constellation: foundational Gothic stylists, Victorian popular-fiction innovators, translators, Orientalists, and transmitters of Indic storytelling. Together, their texts illuminate the nineteenth century's traffic between folklore and print culture, imperial encounter and imaginative appropriation, elite literary experiment and mass-market sensation. The presence of materials associated with Lallu Lal, John T. Platts, and Mazhar Ali Khan broadens the anthology beyond an exclusively Anglo-European genealogy, inviting readers to consider translation and cultural mediation as integral to the vampire's literary history. Ideal for students of Gothic literature, horror, folklore, and Victorian culture, this collection offers a rare comparative reading experience. It rewards readers with ten distinct approaches to darkness while fostering dialogue among competing visions of monstrosity, desire, death, and the uncanny.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length102 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Carmilla
26CHAPTER VII.
2Prologue
27CHAPTER VIII.
3Chapter 1. An Early Fright
28CHAPTER IX.
4Chapter 2. A Guest
29CHAPTER X.
5Chapter 3. We Compare Notes
30CHAPTER XI.
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6Chapter 4. Her Habits — A Saunter
31CHAPTER XII.
7Chapter 5. A Wonderful Likeness
32CHAPTER XIII.
8Chapter 6. A Very Strange Agony
33CHAPTER XIV.
9Chapter 7. Descending
34CHAPTER XV.
10Chapter 8. Search
35CHAPTER XVI.
11Chapter 9. The Doctor
36CHAPTER XVII.
12Chapter 10. Bereaved
37CHAPTER XVIII.
13Chapter 11. The Story
38CHAPTER XIX.
14Chapter 12. A Petition
39CHAPTER XX.
15Chapter 13. The Woodman
40CHAPTER XXI.
16Chapter 14. The Meeting
41CHAPTER XXII.
17Chapter 15. Ordeal and Execution
42CHAPTER XXIII.
18Conclusion
43CHAPTER XXIV.
19Dracula
44CHAPTER XXV.
20CHAPTER I.
45CHAPTER XXVI.
21CHAPTER II.
46CHAPTER XXVII.
22CHAPTER III.
47The Vampyre
23CHAPTER IV.
48The Vampyre; a Tale
24CHAPTER V.
49EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GENEVA.
25CHAPTER VI.
50Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood
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