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• 11 • Introduction (The Midnight People) • essay by Peter Haining
• 15 • Fritz Haarmann - "The Hanover Vampire" • (1928) • essay by Montague Summers
• 21 • The Vampire of Croglin Grange • (1900) • short story by Augustus Hare
• 26 • The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • (1819) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori
• 50 • The Storm Visitor (excerpt) • [Varney the Vampyre (excerpts)] • short story by Thomas P. Prest
• 57 • Three Young Ladies • [Dracula Excerpts] • short story by Bram Stoker
• 62 • An Episode of Cathedral History • (1914) • short story by M. R. James
• 82 • Bat's Belfry • (1926) • short story by August Derleth
• 93 • "And No Bird Sings" • (1926) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 109 • The Believer • (1931) • short story by Sydney Horler
• 116 • The Drifting Snow • (1939) • short story by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon]
• 129 • When It Was Moonlight • (1940) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 147 • Over the River • (1941) • short story by P. Schuyler Miller
• 162 • Drink My Blood • (1951) • short story by Richard Matheson (variant of "Drink My Red Blood ...")
• 172 • Pillar of Fire • (1948) • novelette by Ray Bradbury
• 218 • Doctor Porthos • short story by Basil Copper
• 226 • The Living Dead • (1967) • short story by Robert Bloch (variant of Underground)
• 234 • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes • (1949) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 253 • Postscript (The Vampire in Europe) • (1929) • essay by Montague Summers