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pire lives. The legend turns out to be true, but Dr. Felton, a local physician in a Van Helsing-like role, helps save the day. |
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615. Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet" (excerpt). |
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616. Southey, Robert. "Thalaba the Destroyer" (excerpt). |
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617. Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Olalla." |
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618. Sting. "Moon Over Bourbon Street." |
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619. Stoker, Bram. "Dracula's Guest." |
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620. Turgenev, Ivan. "Phantoms." |
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621. Verne, Jules. "The Carpathian Castle" (excerpt). |
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622. Voltaire. "Vampires." |
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623. Wells, H. G. "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid." |
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624. Wharton, Edith. "Bewitched." |
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625. Tolstoy, Alexis. Vampires: Stories of the Supernatural. Edited by Linda Kuehl. Translated by Fedor Nikanov. Illustrated by Mel Fowler. New York: Hawthorn, 1969. Hardcover. |
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Count Alexis Constantinovich Tolstoy was author, poet, and older cousin of Count Leo Tolstoy of War and Peace fame. The spooky tales in this collection were written sometime in the mid-nineteenth century. Of the four stories in this collection only two have a vampire theme "The Vampire" and "The Family of a Vourdalak." |
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626.. "The Vampire." |
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A young man named Runevsky becomes enamored of a beautiful girl whose grandmother, warns an acquaintance, is a vampire. This acquaintance, a man by the name of Rybarenko, tells his new friend his own horrifying tale of a vampiric encounter in order to convince Runevsky of his story's truth. |
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627.. "The Family of a Vourdalak." |
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