A review by raincorbyn
Vampire Tales: The Big Collection by Augustus Hare, Hume Nisbet, Fred M. White, Victor Roman, Bram Stoker, H.B. Marriott-Watson, Everil Worrell, E.F. Benson, Clark Ashton Smith, Eliza Lynn Linton, Uel Key, F.G. Loring, Marsh Richard, M.R. James, Phil Robinson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Algernon Blackwood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Marion Crawford, Dion Fortune, Pu Songling, Robert E. Howard, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Anne Crawford, Julian Hawthorne, Claude Askew, Vincent O’Sullivan, Cynthia Asquith, Louise J. Strong, E.G. Swain, Leonid Andreyev, E. Nesbit, Luigi Capuana, Hesketh V. Pritchard, D.H. Lawrence, Jan Neruda, John William Polidori, Ulric Daubeny, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Vernon Lee, Mary Cholmondeley, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Walter de la Mare, Guy de Maupassant, Count Stenbock, Théophile Gaultier, William Gilbert, Horacio Quiroga, Nikolai Gogol, Ludwig Tieck, H.G. Wells

2.0

$3 for 900 pages of classic vampire tales.

It's a good deal, and a great start for people looking for an intro to the usual suspects - le Fanu, M.R. James, Poe, Lovecraft, Jacobi, Clark Ashton Smith. That said, it's very repetitive, and disappointingly almost all 1800s-1930s white guys "monstering" women with agency and/or racial minorities. There are a few gems in the rough, but the rough is pretty rough, and there's a lot of it.

3 stars if you want to know how and what these dudes wrote, 2 stars if you know most of them already.