Leslie Shepard - Dracula Book Of Great Horror Stories

[dem bones]

Leslie Shepard (ed.) - The Dracula Book Of Great Horror Stories (Citadel, 1981: UK, Robert Hale, 1992)

Leslie Shepard - Introduction

Charles Dickens - Captain Murderer
Edgar Allan Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum
Edward Bulwer-Lytton - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain
Guy de Maupassant - The Inn
Jerome K. Jerome - The Dancing Partner
H. G. Wells - The Cone
W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw
E. F. Benson - Caterpillars
Bram Stoker - The Judge's House
William Hope Hodgson - The Voice in the Night
M. R. James - Count Magnus
H. P. Lovecraft - The Festival
L. P. Hartley - The Travelling Grave
Algernon Blackwood - The Wendigo

Leslie Shepard (1917-2004) was the Dublin-based founder of the Bram Stoker Society, and a respected authority on Gothic lit & Irish ballads, so he was surely capable of a better anthology than The Dracula Book Of Great Horror Stories, perhaps the least imaginative selection this side of Susan Hill's Ghost Stories? Sadly, companion volume, 1977's The Dracula Book Of Great Vampire Stories from the same publisher, proves otherwise.

Leslie Shepard - Introduction

J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
Guy de Maupassant - The Horla
Count Stenbock - The Sad Story of a Vampire
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Good Lady Ducayne
F. G. Loring - The Tomb of Sarah
F. Marion Crawford - For the Blood Is the Life
E. F. Benson - The Room in the Tower
Algernon Blackwood - The Transfer
Bram Stoker - Dracula's Guest
Jan Neruda - The Vampire
E. F. Benson - Mrs. Amworth
Victor Roman - Four Wooden Stakes
Franz Hartmann - An Authenticated Vampire Story

The two books are united in an omnibus edition, The Dracula Book[/b], (Wings, 1991).

[Michael Connolly]

This is one of Edmund J. Sullivan's original illustrations for "The Tomb of Sarah" by F.G. Loring, Pall Mall Magazine (December 1900).  It's not typical of the illustrations for magazines at the time. It looks very modern.



It can be found here: www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/302051

[helrunar]

Wow!!! I read that story back in one of my paperbacks sometime in the mid 1970s... will have to look it out again.

cheers,

H.

[ripper]

Nov 10, 2016 15:45:52 GMT helrunar said:

Wow!!! I read that story back in one of my paperbacks sometime in the mid 1970s... will have to look it out again.

cheers,

H.

It's a fine tale and one of my favourite of the earlier vampire stories.

[Michael Connolly]

Nov 11, 2016 13:23:41 GMT ripper said:

Nov 10, 2016 15:45:52 GMT helrunar said:

Wow!!! I read that story back in one of my paperbacks sometime in the mid 1970s... will have to look it out again.

cheers,

H.

It's a fine tale and one of my favourite of the earlier vampire stories.

"The Tomb of Sarah" is one of the first vampire short stories written after Stoker's Dracula was published. It certainly uses much of the vampire lore used by Stoker.

[Michael Connolly]

Nov 10, 2016 14:34:37 GMT Michael Connolly said:

This is one of Edmund J. Sullivan's original illustrations for "The Tomb of Sarah" by F.G. Loring, Pall Mall Magazine (December 1900).  It's not typical of the illustrations for magazines at the time. It looks very modern.



It can be found here: www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/302051

This is the first appearance of "The Tomb of Sarah" from Pall Mall Magazine:archive.org/details/1900thetombofsarahloringinpallmallmagdec

I only like the first illustration.