For centuries readers have enjoyed discovering stories of the weird and the supernatural. This collection contains some of the earliest and most influential stories from the dawn of vampire fiction. Containing the complete original stories taken from their earliest published versions and accompanied by informative notes on each of the authors and stories, this collection contains stories from the pens of such authors as: Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, M. R. James, John Polidori, F Marion Crawford and J Sheridan Le Fanu.