Introduction: Images of the Vampire / C.M. Collins -- The mysterious stranger (from the German, 1860) -- The vampyre / J.W. Polidori -- Dracula's guest / B. Stoker -- Wake not the dead / J.L. Tieck -- Revelations in black / C. Jacobi -- Schloss Wappenburg / D. Scott-Moncrieff -- The room in the tower / E.F. Benson -- Blood son / R. Matheson -- A rendezvous in Averoigne / C.A. Smith.