The Vampire Almanac (Volume 1)

This dual nature of the vampire stretching between love and death creates a moral ambiguity which is omnipresent in its literary treatment incorporating and contrasting seduction and horror heroism and villainy. It only reflects the nature of life after death and how it is perceived by its surrounding culture. Is it a desirable dream or a hateful abomination? A reward or a punishment? And what price must one pay for such survival? The stories contained in this collection featuring some of the most famous vampires in literary history incorporate all of these contradictions; in them vampires can be both super-human and sub-human sexual predators and impotent romantic and passionate and yet devoid of soul. Ultimately the vampire is our own face reflecting in the mirror of our beliefs the incarnation of our spiritual choices. Stories by Matthew Baugh Nathan Cabaniss Matthew Dennion Win Scott Eckert Brian Gallagher Martin Gately Rick Lai David McDonald Frank J. Morlock Christofer Nigro Catherine Robert Dola Rosselet Frank Schildiner Michel Stéphan and Artikel Unbekannt featuring Alinska Elizabeth Bathory Captain Vampire Carmilla Nadine Carody Dracula Koschei Lenore Orlok Ruthven the Vampire City and the Vampires of Mars.