Vampires vs. Werewolves – Ultimate Collection
Classic Gothic Tales of Blood-Drinkers, Shapeshifters, Folklore, Terror, and TransformationBy Bram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, Clemence Housman, John William Polidori, Richard Francis Burton, Jan Neruda, Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, Hume Nisbet, E. F. Benson, Dudley Wright, Henry Kuttner, George Sylvester Viereck, Anthony Pelcher, Earl Peirce, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Victor Rowan, Victoria Glad, Marie de France, Alexandre Dumas Père, George W. M. Reynolds, Eugene Field, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Rudyard Kipling, Robert E. Howard, Gladys Gordon Trenery, Clifford Ball, Sabine Baring-Gould, Caroline Taylor Stewart
Length180h 8m
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Vampires vs. Werewolves – Ultimate Collection maps the enduring contest between two of Gothic literature's most mutable monsters. Spanning medieval lays, Romantic and Victorian tales, sensation fiction, decadent fantasy, popular serials, and twentieth-century weird fiction, it reveals how vampirism and lycanthropy have served as figures for erotic transgression, contagion, predation, colonial anxiety, inheritance, and unruly desire. Familiar Gothic scenarios of nocturnal pursuit and cursed transformation stand beside folkloric, comic, and adventure-driven variations, making the volume a capacious survey of supernatural storytelling. Its contributors constitute an unusually broad transnational and transhistorical assemblage: French, Irish, British, Central European, and American writers work across languages, genres, and publishing cultures. From Marie de France's medieval imaginative inheritance through nineteenth-century Gothic and penny-dreadful traditions to pulp-era fantasy and horror, these voices trace the changing literary uses of the monstrous body. The collection thereby situates its creatures within Romanticism, fin-de-siècle decadence, imperial Gothic, and modern popular fiction, while preserving the distinct pressures and pleasures of each mode. Recommended for students of the Gothic and for general readers of supernatural fiction, this anthology offers a rare opportunity to compare competing mythologies in one volume. Its breadth encourages close attention to shifting conventions, cultural fears, and narrative strategies, fostering a productive dialogue between canonical landmarks and less frequently studied popular texts.
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length180 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 15, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Space-Eaters (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XVIII.
2Vampires vs. Werewolves – Ultimate Collection
27CHAPTER XIX.
3The Vampyre (John William Polidori)
28CHAPTER XX.
4EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM GENEVA.
29CHAPTER XXI.
5INTRODUCTION
30CHAPTER XXII.
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6THE VAMPYRE
31CHAPTER XXIII.
7EXTRACT OF A LETTER, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF LORD BYRON'S RESIDENCE IN THE ISLAND OF MITYLENE.
32CHAPTER XXIV.
8Dracula (Bram Stoker)
33CHAPTER XXV.
9CHAPTER I.
34CHAPTER XXVI.
10CHAPTER II.
35CHAPTER XXVII.
11CHAPTER III.
36Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker)
12CHAPTER IV.
37Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier)
13CHAPTER V.
38Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu)
14CHAPTER VI.
39PROLOGUE
15CHAPTER VII.
40CHAPTER 1. AN EARLY FRIGHT
16CHAPTER VIII.
41CHAPTER 2. A GUEST
17CHAPTER IX.
42CHAPTER 3. WE COMPARE NOTES
18CHAPTER X.
43CHAPTER 4. HER HABITS — A SAUNTER
19CHAPTER XI.
44CHAPTER 5. A WONDERFUL LIKENESS
20CHAPTER XII.
45CHAPTER 6. A VERY STRANGE AGONY
21CHAPTER XIII.
46CHAPTER 7. DESCENDING
22CHAPTER XIV.
47CHAPTER 8. SEARCH
23CHAPTER XV.
48CHAPTER 9. THE DOCTOR
24CHAPTER XVI.
49CHAPTER 10. BEREAVED
25CHAPTER XVII.
50CHAPTER 11. THE STORY
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