The Mammoth Book of Vampires Author:Stephen Jones (Editor) Award-winning horror editor Stephen Jones presents thirty-six modern masters of the macabre -- among them Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Cambell, Les Daniels, Dennis Etchison, M. R. James, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, Kim Newman, Bram Stoker, F. Paul Wislon and others -- in this collection of the very best in vampire fiction which blends ... more »sheer horror with dark humor, deadly tenderness with tingling terror. For the classic vampire, as this volume amply shows, the Blood is the Life. So you'll discover throughout these always scary and diversely crafted pages, from Hugh B. Cave's pulp thriller "Stragella" through to Harold Waldrop's bizarre mix of vampire and Nazis in "Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen". In between lie artful chillers by the likes of Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Robert Bloch and Basil Copper, along with new and original stories by Niel Gaiman with "Vampire Sestina," and Kim Newman with "Red Reign." You can sink your teeth, too, in F. Paul Wilson's fast-paced thriller "Midnight Mass," Manly Wade Wellman's "Chastel," offering bloody intrigue and adventure with Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant; and Les Daniel's "Yellow Fog," which features his enigmatic vampire-hero Don Sebastian de Villanueva.« less