Coffins The Vampire Archives Vol 3 Author:Otto Penzler (Editor) A chill inducing and masterful collection of vampire tales, culled from the dark recesses of the nefarious and world renowned Vampires Archives. Coffins, the third volume in the mass market series, contains some of the best of the best of vampire fiction. Including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, and ... more »Many Many More, it takes its readers deep inside the crypts of the living dead, in all their supernatural splendor. Featuring: -- Heart Pounding Shrieks -- Blood Soaked Moonlit Hunts -- High Stakes Adventure -- Evil Assignations.
Contents, 20 stories: Introduction by Otto Penzler; * The Living Dead / Robert Bloch; * Dracula's Chair / Peter Tremayne; * The Last Lords of Gardonal / William Gilbert; * The Horla / Guy de Maupassant; * The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire / Arthur Conan Doyle; * The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady / Brian Stableford; * Wailing Well / M.R. James; * Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time / Harlan Ellison; * A Mystery of the Campagna / Anne Crawford; * The Vampire / Vasile Alecsandri; * Duty / Ed Gorman; * The Men & Women of Rivendale / Steve Rasnic Tem; * Doctor Porthos / Basil Cooper; * The Singular Death of Morton / Algernon Blackwood; * Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe; * When It Was Moonlight / Manly Wade Wellman; * Four Wooden Stakes / Victor Roman; * Blood-lust / Dion Fortune; * A Case of Alleged Vampirism / Luigi Capuana; * Midnight Mass / F. Paul Wilson.« less