horror tales, english

Contains over thirty selections of vampire fiction written between 1816 and 1984.

Presents sixteen stories by such authors as H. G. Wells, Paul Bowles, and David B. Silva featuring ghosts and other scary creatures.

Presents a critical analysis of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula," the story of an evil, but compelling vampire; and discusses how the work reflected turn-of-the-century tensions about race, class, gender, and the place of science and technology in the modern world.