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A Blood Sucking Ghost

The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo  |  1892  |  Missouri  |  2 mins/392 wds

An article about a group of Bohemian villagers excavating and staking the corpse of a suspected vampire.

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A Dream

Eva Horton  |  1894  |  Tennessee  |  3 mins/553 wds

A giant, loved by his people, is drained by a vampire while his admirers are helpless to stop it.

A Horrible Superstition

The Ipswich Journal  |  1872  |  Ipswitch, England  |  2 mins/333 wds

An article about a group of Peacedale villagers excavating and staking the corpse of a suspected vampire.

A Living Vampire

Dudley Wright  |  1910  |  England  |  6 mins/1152 wds

An article about a reported vampire sighting in an Anglo-Indian colony.

A Modern Vampyre

Green-Mountain Freeman  |  1850  |  Vermont  |  10 mins/2394 wds

An article that argues vampire hysteria is the result of untreated mental illness rather than supernatural reality.

A Rhode Island Superstition

Unknown  |  1892  |  3 mins/ 752 wds

An article that discusses the Rhode-Island belief that tuberculosis deaths are caused by vampires.

A Slayer of Vampires

Unknown  |  1918  |  2 mins/ 474 wds

A Macedonian man quells nearby vampires, much to the derision and disbelief of a shopkeeper.

A Triad of Mediaeval Myths

J. Scoffern, M.B. Lond.  |  1870  |  England  |  18 mins/4351 wds

Passages from Stray Leaves of Science and Folklore that argue for the consideration of vampiric existence.

A Vampire

A. L. G.  |  1884  |  United Kingdom  |  19 mins/4629 wds

A sailor tells his cousins a tale of floral vampires draining the forest's trees, as an allegory for selfishness.

A Vampire Legend

Alfred Fellows  |  1908  |  14 mins/ 3399 wds

An article exploring vampire legends as symbolic attempts to explain evil, death, and human misfortune.

An Authenticated Vampire Story

Franz Hartmann  |  1909  |  9 mins/ 2073 wds

A remote Carpathian castle becomes associated with an alleged vampire after a series of sudden deaths.

An Irish Vampire

R.S. Breene  |  1925  |  7 mins/ 1668 wds

A rural Irish family encounters a recently-buried priest with unmistakable signs of vampirism.

An Old Superstition

Holmes County Republican  |  1874  |  Ohio  |  6 mins/1322

An article reporting the exhumation of a Prussian noble, who his family allege is a vampire.

Weird Tales: Another Dracula

Ralphe Milne Farley  |  1930  |  Illinois  |  1 hr 20 mins/19250 wds

A Pennsylvanian town is taken by the arrival of an apparent vampire and his strange coffin.

Aylmer Vance and the Vampire

Alice and Claude Askew  |  1914  |  33 mins/ 7898 wds

A wealthy man falls ill and consults a psychic, who reveals that a vampiric force has bound itself to his wife.

Bat's Belfry

August William Derleth  |  1926  |  14 mins/ 3338 wds

A lord discovers an occult book in his manor and inadvertently summons the undead.

Belief in Vampires

The Morning news  |  Georgia  |  9 mins/2128 wds

An article on Grecian vampire beliefs and the exhumation of an alleged vampire.

Believe in Vampires

Boston Daily Globe  |  1896  |  11 mins/2729 wds

A satirical article that mocks vampire superstition among rural Rhode Islanders.

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu  |  1872  |  1 hour 57 minutes/ 154352 wds

During her stay in a Styrian schloss, a young woman becomes the latest obsession of a vampiress.

Clarimonde

Théophile Gautier  |  1836  |  55 mins/ 13232 wds

An elderly priest recalls a woman he met on his ordination, his first lover, the vampiress Clarimonde.

Daughter of the Moonlight

Seabury Quinn  |  1930  |  Illinois  |  52 mins/12440 wds

Two detectives at a midsummer country club encounter two women, one of whom appears to be a vampiress.

Dracula

Bram Stoker  |  1897  |  11 hrs 13 mins/ 160272 wds

Various people chronicle the arrival of a mysterious count, and the subsequent death that ensues.

Dracula's Guest

Bram Stoker  |  1914  |  20 mins/ 4877 wds

A young Englishman, on his way to meet the transylvanian count Dracula, experiences various strange encounters.

European Folklore in the United States

Jeremiah Curtin  |  1889  |  6 mins/1524 wds

An article recounting European-derived superstitions that have persisted in the United States.

Excerpts on Bulgarian Vampire Belief

S. G. B. St. Clair / Charles A. Brophy  |  1877  |  11 mins/2566 wds

Passages from Bulgarian Superstitions describing the characteristics of the country's vampires.

For the Blood is the Life

F. Marion Crawford  |  1912  |  28 mins/6691 wds

A vampiric ghost returns to haunt a coastal Italian tower.

Good Lady Ducayne

Mary Elizabeth Braddon  |  1896  |  42 mins/ 9991 wds

A young woman enters the employ of a mysterious aristocrat after the untimely deaths of her predecessors.

Haunted by a Vampire

The Lewiston Daily Sun  |  1897  |  3 mins/609 wds

An article about a railroad brakeman and his alleged experiences with a vampire.

Isle of the Undead

Lloyd Arthur Eshbach  |  1936  |  42 minutes/9927 wds

A yacht party fights for their lives on an island of the undead.

Lang on the Vampire

Andrew Lang  |  The Saint Paul globe  |  1904  |  5 mins/1193 wds

An article about the persistent belief in vampires, particularly in New England.

Let Loose

Mary Chomondeley  |  1890  |  30 mins/ 7168 wds

An architect uncovers an evil force in the grounds of a remote Yorkshire village.

Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe  |  1838  |  26 mins/ 6295 wds

A widower descends into near-madness attempting to revive his wife.

Living Vampyres

Lynchburg Virginian  |  1851  |  6 mins/1361 wds

An article theorising that vampire beliefs originated from uninformed reactions to decomposition.

Luella Miller

Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman  |  1903  |  23 mins/6072 wds

A New England village is plagued by a mysterious woman and the untimely deaths of her carers.

Mrs Amworth

E.F. Benson  |  1922  |  25 mins/ 5965 wds

Two men find out that their Sussex village is haunted by a vampiress.

Negotium Perambulans

E.F. Benson  |  1922  |  25 mins/6154 wds

A Cornish village suffers an attack from a vampiric force.

Pepopukin in Corsica

Unknown  |  1826  |  27 mins/6386 wds

A knight seeks to marry a noblewoman, only for his rivals to torment him with vampire-themed pranks.

Weird Tales: Restless Souls

Seabury Quinn  |  1928  |  Illinois  |  1 hr 1 min/14622 wds

Two detectives meet an uncanny woman on Halloween Eve, leading them into the clutches of the supernatural.

Rhode Island Fears Vampires

Unknown  |  The Times  |  1896  |  6 mins/ 1401 wds

An article about enduring vampire superstitions in Rhode Island and how they affect local burial practices.

Spectres Called Vampyres

The Hartford Courant  |  1765  |  3 mins/ 742 wds

An article about the existence of vampires in Eastern Europe, reported sightings and methods of destruction.

Stories of Vampires

Washington grit  |  1884  |  Maryland  |  5 mins/1208 wds

An article about the widespread belief in vampirism and individuals claiming to be vampires.

Superstitions of New England

Unknown  |  1822  |  3 mins/ 797 wds

A family exhumes their deceased daughter after suspecting she's risen as a vampire to drain her brother.

The Animistic Vampire in New England

The American Anthropologist  |  1896  |  Virginia  |  19 mins/4509 wds

An article arguing that the belief of vampires in New England is a representation of ancient animistic beliefs.

The Black Vampyre

Uriah Derick D'Arcy  |  1819  |  35 mins/ 8346 wds

A mixed-race slave revives as a vampire, and seeks revenge on his captor.

The Blood of the Vampire

Florence Marryat  |  1897  |  6 hrs 8 mins/87659 wds

A mixed-race vampiress unknowingly causes the deaths of the people she seeks to flatter.

Weird Tales: The Canal

Everil Worrell  |  1927  |  Illinois  |  35 mins/8373 wds

Two men exploring an abandoned canal encounter a local vampire.

The Coffin Lid

W. R. S. Ralston  |  Russian Folk-Tales  |  1873  |  England  |  3 mins/625 wds

A moujik negotiates with a corpse for the resurrection of two murdered children.

The Dog and the Corpse

W. R. S. Ralston  |  Russian Folk-Tales  |  1873  |  England  |  2 mins/424 wds

A moujik and his dog meet a corpse that attacks them, but the moujik abandons his dog, who fosters a grudge.

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

H.G. Wells  |  1894  |  13 mins/2985 wds

A man buys an exotic orchid that reveals itself to be a vampire.

The Horla

Guy de Maupassant  |  1886  |  42 mins/9889 wds

A man descends into madness, suspecting he is being attacked by a vampire.

The House of the Vampire

George Sylvester Viereck  |  1907  |  2 hours 26 minutes

An experienced psychic vampire aims to drain a aspiring writer of his skills and sanity.

The Last of the Vampires

Phil Robinson  |  The Contemporary Review  |  1893  |  12 mins/2842 wds

Skeletons found in the Amazon Basin attest to a fatal confrontation between a man and a reptilian vampire.

Weird Tales: The Man Who Cast No Shadow

Seabury Quinn  |  1927  |  Illinois  |  30 mins/7110 wds

Two detectives investigate a european nobleman and discover he's a vampire.

The Man with Wax Hands

Jules Claretie  |  The Sunday Call  |  1880  |  17 mins/4032 wds

A mysterious stranger with wax-like hands visits a Danube farmhouse, seemingly causing the death of its daughter.

The Mysterious Stranger

Unknown  |  1860  |  1 hr 5 mins/15482 wds

A party of travellers in the Carpathians encounters a seemingly helpful stranger, secretly a vampire.

The Phantom World

Augustin Calmet  |  1746  |  2 hrs/28194 wds

All relevant vampire chapters from his treatise of supernatural phenomena.

The Problem of the Vampire

Ralph Shirley  |  1924  |  16 mins/3808 wds

An article that explores and theorises about different explanations for alleged vampire activity.

Weird Tales: The Return of the Undead

Return of the Undead (1943) Otis Adelbert Kline and Frank Belknap Long  |  1943  |  New York  |  30 mins/7108 wds

A man recalls a dying friend's warning about the undead and his plea to prevent their rise.

The Room in the Tower

E.F. Benson  |  1912  |  22 mins/5283 wds

A man stays in a friend's haunted tower, while the mother, a vampiress, lurks and plans to turn him.

The Shroud

W. R. S. Ralston  |  Russian Folk-Tales  |  1873  |  England  |  3 mins/656 wds

A slovenly girl steals the shroud from a corpse, only to suffer its revenge.

Weird Tales: The Silver Countess

Seabury Quinn  |  1929  |  Illinois  |  47 mins/11296 wds

A detective investigates a strange statue and its connection to a long-dead countess.

The Skeleton Count

Elizabeth Caroline Grey  |  1828  |  31 mins/7307 wds

A count makes a pact with dark forces to resurrect a woman from the dead, transforming her into a vampiress.

The Soldier and the Vampire

W. R. S. Ralston  |  Russian Folk-Tales  |  1873  |  England  |  5 mins/1201 wds

A soldier encounters a vampiric warlock and quests to vanquish him for good.

Weird Tales: The Tinkle of the Camel's Bell

Frank Owen  |  1928  |  Illinois  |  16 mins/3761 wds

A wanderer follows the sound of a camel bell into a disorientating house and meets a vampiress.

The Tomb of Sarah

F.G. Loring  |  1900  |  22 mins/5154 wds

A rector and a church restorer set to vanquish a vampire Countess and free their village from her presence.

The Transfer

Algernon Blackwood  |  1912  |  18 mins/4281 wds

A governess feels suspicious of an overbearing uncle, a metaphorical vampire, while a real specimen lurks nearby.

The True Story of a Vampire

Count Stembock  |  1894  |  13 mins/3183 wds

A young woman recalls the loss of her brother at the hands of a charming vampire count.

The Two Corpses

W. R. S. Ralston  |  Russian Folk-Tales  |  1873  |  England  |  1 min/289 wds

A soldier flees a ravening corpse and takes refuge in a chapel while it squabbles with another.

The Unholy Compact Abjured

Charles Pigault-Lebrun  |  1825  |  6 mins/1526 wds

A young soldier resists the temptations of witchcraft and undeath through his Christian faith.

The Vampire, His Kith and Kin

Montague Summers  |  1928  |  10 hours 16 mins

The progenitor of many a vampire history text, by a sincere believer of the undead.

The Vampire Legend

James Spence  |  1918  |  16 mins/3895 wds

An article about vampires as a universal response to disease and guilt surrounding the dead.

The Vampire Maid

Hume Nisbet  |  1900  |  13 mins/2481 wds

A man stays in an English country house, only to find himself stalked by its vampiric maid.

The Vampire of Croglin Grange

Augustus Hare  |  1896  |  7 mins/1548 wds

A family in Cumberland suffer an attack from an ancestral vampire.

The Vampire Pipe

Mountain Home maverick  |  1907  |  Idaho  |  2 mins/547 wds

An inventor falls victim to the blood-sucking machine he created.

The Vampire Superstition

Vere D. Shortt  |  1915  |  11 mins/ 2694 wds

An article about the decline of vampire belief as a result of increased education about burial practices.

The Vampyre

John William Polidori  |  1819  |  34 mins/8133 wds

During his travels a young nobleman unknowingly befriends a vampire and becomes his latest victim.

The Vampyre: A Hungarian Legend

New York dispatch  |  1871  |  New York  |  2 mins/366 wds

An article about the exhumation of a Hungarian peasant named Arnold Paul, an alleged vampire.

Weird Tales: The White Vampire

Arlton Eadie  |  1928  |  Illinois  |  19 mins/4592 wds

A colonial officer encounters a mysterious vampiric figure during an African expedition.

They Burned the Vampire

The Madison daily leader  |  1893  |  South Dakota  |  1 min/235 wds

An article about the exhumation of a Hungarian peasant named Arnold Paul, an alleged vampire.

Think Vampires Kill Sheep

Crossville chronicle  |  1919  |  Tennessee  |  1 min/265 wds

An article about an alleged vampire slayer in Macedonia who kills vampires blamed for attacking sheep.

To Be or Not to Be a Vampire

Mary Pickford  |  The Morning Leader  |  England  |  3 mins/713 wds

An actress expresses her fascinations with Theda Bara and her iconic Vampire role.

Vampire and Bruxa

Sacramento Daily Union  |  1874  |  California  |5 mins/1130 wds

An article contrasting the decline of vampire belief with the continued persistence of belief in the Evil Eye.

Vampire in Literature

The Birmingham age-herald  |  1913  |  Alabama  |  3 mins/691 wds

An article that compares literary vampires with their folkloric counterparts.

Vampire of Lakeview

Unknown  |  1888  |  11 mins/2726 wds

An alleged vampire menaces Chicago, causing widespread hysteria in a modern city.

Vampire of Slav Origin

The Birmingham age-herald  |  1916  |  Alabama  |  2 mins/528 wds

An article that describes the slavic vampire.

Vampires

Franz Hartmann  |  1908  |  5 mins/1193 wds

An article arguing that vampirism is innate human capacity rather than literal undeath.

Vampires

Reginald Hodder  |  1914  |  9 mins/2209 wds

An article arguing that vampirism exists in ways subtler than imagined.

Vampires and Ghouls

Unknown  |  Appletons' Journal  |  1871  |  13 mins/3030 wds

An article arguging vampire beliefs are products of superstition, ignorance and mental illness.

Vampires and Vampirism

Owen Prothero  |  The Occult Review  |  1909  |  15 mins/3582 wds

An article that theorises about the reality of vampirism and advises a cautious approach to alleged sightings.

Vampires and Vampirism

Dudley Wright  |  1914  |  2 hrs 18 mins/32948 wds

A collection of vampire lore from around the world.

Vampires and Vamping

New-York tribune  |  1901  |  New York  |  1 min/287 wds

A satirical article that mocks the concept of vampirism, describing it as an unintuitive game.

Vampirism in Rhode Island

J. Earl Clauson  |  1937  |  5 mins/1101 wds

An article about tuberculosis and its attribution to vampirism, despite growing medical knowledge.

Vampirism in Servia

The Cincinnati daily star  |  1876  |  Ohio  |  6 mins/1520 wds

An article about the attempts of a Serbian village to treat a dying girl, suspecting a vampire is the cause.

Vampyres: Their Crimes and Punishments

New-Hampshire statesman and state journal  |  1844  |  New-Hampshire  |  9 mins/2119 wds

An article about several historical cases of vampires, including Arnold Paul.

Vampyrism

Herbert Mayo  |  On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions with an Account of Mesmerism  |  1851  |  28 mins/6593 wds

An article that suggests alleged vampires were actually people buried alive or suffering trancelike states.

Vampyres

Harper's New Monthly Magazine  |  1854  |  18 mins/4333 wds

An article about the evolution of vampire folklore and its translation into popular literature.

Vanquishing a Vampire

C. H. M.  |  1928  |  7 mins/1707 wds

An occultist allegedly dispels an alleged vampire, advising that magic serve the good of others.

Wake not the Dead

Ernst Raupach  |  1823  |  45 mins/ 10747 wds

A grieving lord uses dark magics to revive his wife, only to be met with the horrors of playing God.

Weird Tales: Cross of Fire

Lester del Rey  |  1939  |  14 mins/3238 wds

A nobleman discovers he's been turned into a vampire, and struggles to cope.

Weird Tales: Doom of the House of Duryea

Earl Peirce  |  1936  |  24 mins/5690 wds

A man meets his estranged father in a lodge, only to uncover a devastating vampiric curse.

Weird Tales: Four Wooden Stakes

Victor Roman  |  1925  |  18 mins/4314 wds

After a string of killings, two men set out to slay their culprit, a vampire.

Weird Tales: Return of the Undead

Otis Adelbert Kline and Frank Belknap Long  |  1943  |  32 mins/7712 wds

A group of mediecal students desecrate a grave as a prank, only to uncover a vampire.

Weird Tales: Return to Death

J. Wesley Rosenquest  |  1936  |  9 mins/ 2240 wds

A Transylvanian scientist becomes trapped in a state of suspended animation and is mistaken for a vampire.

Weird Tales: The Fan

Frank Owen  |  1925  |  7 mins/1775 wds

A man meets an old woman, once beautiful yet still alluring due to a mysterious hypnotic fan.

Weird Tales: The Hills of the Dead

Robert E. Howard  |  1930  |  31 mins/7352 wds

A Puritan adventurer and a voodoo sorcerer plan to destroy a race of African vampires haunting a hillside city.

Weird Tales: The Ocean Leech

Frank Belknap Long  |  1925  |  17 mins/3933 wds

A group of sailors attempts to fight off a grotesque vampiric cephalopod.

Weird Tales: The Wolf Woman

Bassett Morgan  |  1927  |  23 mins/5486 wds

A group of scientists unknowingly resurrect a fearsome vampire huntress and her loyal wolves.