Vampire Stories From New England Author:Lawrence Schimel (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) The blue blood of one of America’s most historic regions pulses through Vampire Stories from New England, a collection of bloodcurdling tales set in the nation’s northeastern states. — Though they range in locale from the coast of Maine to the mountains of New Hampshire, and from the cities of Massachusetts to the backwoods of Vermont... more », the tales of terror gathered here all portray the vampire as a predatory monster that mocks the dignity and reserve we associate with New England’s aristocratic culture. The vampires in these stories take many forms: a helpless woman who drains the vitality from her too-giving caretakers in Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman’s "Luella Miller"; a small Massachusetts town whose is interest in tourists is more than commercial in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s “Investigating Jericho”; a basement-dwelling being that leaches life from unsuspecting tenants in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shunned House”
Steeped in New England’s old and colorful heritage, these ten stories feature vampires who hide in the dark shadows of the region’s Puritan past, and whose supernaturally long lives blend well with its antiquated customs and traditions.« less