Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins tosuck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination anddread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some ofthe earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori'sThe Vampyre and James Malcolm Rymer's Varney the Vampyre, a tale whichheld readers in thrall when it was first published in the mid-nineteenthcentury. As well as these rare stories and those featuring the more wellknown bloodsuckers such as Le Fanu's Carmilla and Stoker's Dracula, thereis a clutch of lesser known but equally frightening tales written byexpert practitioners in the art of raising goose pimples. Children of theNight is a volume filled with the rich blood of chilling vampire fiction