About the book: 2007 / The new anthology contains thirty-five classic and modern stories about vampires written by such famous authors as Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Neil Gaiman, Tacitus Lee, Kim Newman, Christopher Fowler, Brian Lumley and others. Mysterious, cruel, aristocratic, sexy, impassive, like death itself, and capable of the most burning passion - vampires have been an attractive and fashionable theme in world literature and cinema for more than a century .Ejected by the eternal darkness or generated by human superstitions; fiends of evil or victims of a fatal illness; bestial bloodsuckers or refined connoisseurs of the scarlet wine of life - vampires will definitely capture, if not your blood, then your relentless attention.