The Mammoth Book Of Dracula By Stephen Jones (editor)

With his 500-year lifetime so far, and centuries yet ahead, the character of Dracula has an ever-unfolding biography, to which this 100th-anniversary tribute contributes 33 stories (only 6 of which have been previously published). Dracula visits, in these pages, such locales as the Côte d'Azur, the wilds of Oregon, the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler, communist Eastern Europe, Rome at the dawn of the 21st century (a chilling tale in which he is forced to imitate the Messiah), and the ruins of post-apocalyptic New Jersey. He encounters Bettie Page, Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Lou Reed, and Francis Ford Coppola (with the entire cast and crew of Apocalypse Now, in a hilarious spoof). The authors include such contemporary masters as Kim Newman, Nicholas Royle, Terry Lamsley, Joel Lane, Brian Stableford, and Ramsey Campbell. The book also has a foreword by Bram Stoker's great-nephew, and includes the never-before-published prologue to Stoker's theatrical version of Dracula.

 

CONTENTS

Introduction: I Bid You Welcome by Stephen Jones

Foreword: Geeat Uncle Bram And Vampires by Daniel Farson

Dracula: or The Un-Dead: Prologue by Bram Stoker

Dracula's Library by Christopher Fowler

The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendant of Attila, Scourge of God by Thomas Ligotti

Daddy's Little Girl by Mandy Slater

Conversion by Ramsey Campbell

The Devil Is Not Mocked by Manly Wade Wellman

Teaserama by Nancy Kilpatrick

Blood Freak by Nancy Holder

Zack Phalanx is Vlad The Impaler by Brian Lumley

When Greek Meets Greek by Basil Copper

Coppola's Dracula by Kim Newman

The Second Time Around by Hugh B. Cave

Endangered Species by Brian Mooney

Melancholia by Roberta Lannes

Children Of The Long Night by Lisa Morton

Mbo by Nicholas Royle

The Worst Place In The World by Paul J. McAuley

Larry's Guest by Guy N. Smith

A Taste Of Culture by Jan Edwards

Rudolph by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

Roadkill by Graham Masterson

Volunteers by Terry Lamsley

Black Beads by John Gordon

Your European Son by Joel Lane

Quality Control by Brian Stableford

Dear Alison by Michael Marshall Smith

Bloodlines by Conrad Williams

Windows '99 Of The Soul by Chris Morgan

Blood Of Eden by Mike Chinn

The Last Testament by Brian Hodge

The Last Vampire by Peter Crowther

The Lord's Work by F. Paul Wilson

Lord Of The Undead by Jo Fletcher