The masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in these never-before-collected stories and short novels of the vampire in all its frightening forms. Authors include Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, and David J. Schow. Includes the first publication of Red Reign, by Kim Newman, author of Bad Dreams and The Night Mayor.

Contents:

• Introduction: The Children of the Night
• Human Remains by Clive Barker
• Necros by Brian Lumley
• The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady by Brian Stableford
• A Place to Stay by Michael Marshal Smith
• The Brood by Ramsey Campbell
• Root Cellar by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Hungarian Rhapsody by Robert Bloch
• The Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Prime-time TV Special by Christopher Fowler
• Vampire by Richard Christian Matheson
• Stragella by Hugh B. Cave
• A Week in the Unlife by David J. Schow
• The House at Evening by Frances Garfield
• Vampyrrhic Outcast by Simon Clark
• The Labyrinth by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner
• Doctor Porthos by Basil Copper
• Straight to Hell by Paul McAuley
• It Only Comes Out at Night by Dennis Etchison
• Investigating Jericho by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Dracula's Chair by Peter Tremayne
• A Taste for Blood by Sydney J. Bounds
• The Better Half by Melanie Tem
• The Devil's Tritone by John Burke
• Chastel by Manly Wade Wellman
• Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen by Howard Waldrop
• Red as Blood by Tanith Lee
• Laird of Dunain by Graham Masterton
• A Trick of the Dark by Tina Rath
• Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson
• Blood Gothic by Nancy Holder
• Yellow Fog by Les Daniels
• Fifteen Cards from a Vampire Tarot by Neil Gaiman
• Vintage Domestic by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Try a Dull Knife by Harlan Ellison
• Andy Warhol's Dracula Anno Dracula 1978-79 by Kim Newman