 "Something Had to Be Done" is a short story by David Drake. The tale is recognized for its gritty realism and its exploration of the psychological impact of violence.
"The Cookie Lady" is a horror short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is a story of terror, chilling and memorable. It tells of a chubby teenager boy called “Bubber” who visits the kindly old neighborhood lady who bakes him cookies. But what Bubber does not not know is that the cookie lady has an agenda, the cookie lady is not as kindly as she seems.
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 An alternate history where vampires have taken over, in Europe at least, and are the aristocracy. The emergence of science and technology, in the guise of a microscope, has given these vampires a reason to fear the humans they have come to dominate. Like any form of tyranny there will be those who accept it, and there will also be those who rebel.
Author - Brian M. Stableford 
The Bat is My Brother is a short story by Robert Bloch, first published in the November 1944 issue of Weird Tales. The story, Graham Keene, who awakens to find himself buried alive in a pauper's grave and discovers he has become a vampire due to a recent attack. The story is recognized as one of Bloch's significant contributions to the horror genre, which also includes his famous novel Psycho.
 Some lovers desire beyond possessing your flesh. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer 
 Beware generous strangers. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 Two classic vampire stories. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Even vampires are vain.
A Beautiful Vampire by Arabella Kenealy was published in 1896. It features Lady Deverish, a psychic vampire who drains life force rather than blood.  So what did Dr. Van Helsing do after he vanquished Dracula in Transylvania? | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 The first story written by Seabury Quinn about his paranormal detective Jules de Grandin. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Two stories of the undead, the ones with fangs and a thirst for blood.
In 1972 KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER transfixed audiences. The movie became the highest-rated TV movie in U.S. history and spawned the cult TV series starring Darren McGavin. The TV movie’s iconic screenplay was written by horror legend and novelist Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) and was based on an unpublished novel by Jeff Rice, which was released the following year. The Beefsteak Room by Peter Haining features vampire hunter Van Helsing. The story was inspired by Peter Cushing's portrayal of Professor Van Helsing, and uses as reference the Beefsteak Room at the Lyceum Theatre where actor Sir Henry Irving held gatherings where his guests retold strange tales. Bram Stoker was Irving's manager at the end of the 19th century, and no doubt was inspired by the conversations told over the dinner table.  Not everything that appears to be salvation, actually is. Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 Featuring Ingmar Magnus, consultant in the field of vampirism. | Author: Karl Edward Wagner | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer | #marlenepardopellicer
 A grim and gruesome tale of a strange appetite, the story of a grisly horror. | Author: Manly Wade Wellman | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 There are vampires that satisfy their lust for blood in the most diabolical way. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Alluring, attractive, seductive, there are some enticements that end only in death.
Fritz Leiber’s The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1949) is a tale of erotic obsession and terror. The photographer who unleashed her on the world and fell for her spell, confesses “there are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood”. 
Like a siren's call, the dead have ways of alleviating their loneliness.
The Drifting Snow is a short story by August Derleth published in 1939 (sometimes under the pseudonym Stephen Grendon), originally published in Weird Tales. It is a chilling, unique horror tale featuring "snow vampires" in Wisconsin that blend into winter storms to lure victims. The story focuses on atmospheric dread and the danger of isolation 
Even the best families have skeletons in their collective closet, and sometimes it's much worse than skeletons.
Excerpt: "I had decided to spend a leisurely summer in Europe, concentrating, if at all, on genealogical research. I went first to Ireland, journeying to Kilkenny, where I unearthed a mine of legend and authentic lore concerning my remote Irish ancestors, the O’Braonains, chiefs of the Ui Duach in the ancient kingdom of Ossory. The Brennans (as the name was later spelled) lost their estates in the British confiscation under Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Stafford. The thieving Earl, I am happy to report, was subsequently beheaded in the Tower." 
What need does evil have to seduce us, if we instead seek it out willingly and lay down at its feet?
Revelations in Black by Carl Jacobi is a short story first published n 1933. Excerpt: "It was a dreary, forlorn establishment way down on Harbor Street. An old sign announced the legend: Giovanni Larla—Antiques, and a dingy window revealed a display half masked in dust. Even as I crossed the threshold that cheerless September afternoon, driven from the sidewalk by a gust of rain and perhaps a fascination for all antiques, the gloominess fell upon me like a material pall. Inside was half darkness, piled boxes and a monstrous tapestry, frayed with the warp showing in worn places. An Italian Renaissance wine-cabinet shrank despondently in its corner and seemed to frown at me as I passed." 
Even among supernatural beings, there's a pecking order.
Dayblood is a science fiction/vampire short story by Roger Zelazny that offers a unique twist on the vampire genre. It is narrated by a "vampire-vampire" (a vampire who feeds on other vampires) named Werdeth, who poses as a man named Wayne to protect his "charges"—a pair of vampires—from human hunters. The story is known for its suspenseful, first-person narrative and a shocking twist ending. 
There are those that are born dark, and only seek to join the darkness they sprung from.
Drink My Blood by Richard Matheson was first published in 1952. It tells the story of Jules who is obsessed with one things: becoming a vampire. 
A turreted castle sits overlooking a small German village, very picturesque, and very evil.
The narrator is on a walking tour across Germany in the year 1933. While following his maps, he somehow takes a wrong turn and loses his way but eventually manages to find himself in a very rural and primitive village called Kaldenstein. The traveler asks an innkeeper about the old castle on the cliff, but disbelieves him and a priest who warn him the Count of Kaldenstein is a vampire. 
A diplomatic mission turns into a nightmare trip in order to battle the darkest evil.
Princess of Darkness is a short story by Frederick Cowles, first published in 1940 as part of his collection Fear Walks the Night. A British agent is sent to investigate the mysterious and seductive Princess Bessenyei, not realizing what she truly is. 
Three tales of dark women, whose method is seduction, and whose end is death.
Hume Nisbet is the author of three stories. First The Vampire Maid is a classic vampire story about a traveler who takes lodgings with an apparently kind landlady and her pale invalid daughter, who instantly casts a spell upon him. The Old Portrait was first published in 1890 in Stories Weird and Wonderful. It is a supernatural mystery about an artist who acquires an old and very sinister painting. Hume Nisbet wrote The Demon Spell in 1894, where he incorporated elements of spiritualism, murder and madness. 
Perhaps the vampire's deadliest ability is to have its victims come willingly and give more than blood.
The story Luella Miller, written by Mary Wilkins Freeman and included in her 1903 short story collection The Wind In The Rose Bush, tells the tale of a mesmerizing but dangerously seductive woman, who always takes more than she gives. 
How thin is the line between life and death, love and hate, between sanity and destruction?
Services Rendered is a novelette by Louise Cooper. It tells the story of Penny, who desperate to save her dying husband hires a vampire to save him. Interwoven are themes of jealousy, vulnerability and dark magic. Too late she learns the truth of the old adage: "Be careful what you wish for." |
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