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A growing, squirming collection of ASCII monsters, free vampire books and other obscure nonsense of the spoopy variety.
Use the menu to your right (or below) to sort through the shelves. You can start with the live HTML pages or try the textfiles section for an in-house bibligraphy, glossary and various guides on homelab equipment. If such nerding appeals to you, stay right where you are. I'll get the smores and hot coco. When you're done, try the off-site section for my Webcomic, its side-projects or you can visit my best friend Lutzbug.
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| Title | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| a_blood_sucking_ghost.txt | An article about Bohemian villagers excavating and staking the corpse of a suspected vampire. (1892) | txt: Books |
| a_dream.txt | A giant, loved by his people, is drained by a vampire while his admirers are helpless to stop it. (1894) | txt: Books |
| a_horrible_superstition.txt | An article about Peacedale villagers excavating and staking the corpse of a suspected vampire. (1872) | txt: Books |
| a_living_vampire.txt | An article about a reported vampire sighting in an Anglo-Indian colony. (1910) | txt: Books |
| a_modern_vampyre.txt | An article arguing vampire hysteria is the result of untreated mental illness rather than supernatural reality. (1850) | txt: Books |
| a_rhode_island_superstition.txt | An article discussing the Rhode Island belief that tuberculosis deaths are caused by vampires. (1892) | txt: Books |
| a_slayer_of_vampires.txt | A Macedonian man quells nearby vampires, much to the derision of a shopkeeper. (1918) | txt: Books |
| a_triad_of_mediaeval_myths.txt | Passages from Stray Leaves of Science and Folklore arguing for the consideration of vampiric existence. (1870) | txt: Books |
| a_vampire.txt | A sailor tells a tale of floral vampires draining the forest's trees, as an allegory for selfishness. (1884) | txt: Books |
| a_vampire_legend.txt | An article exploring vampire legends as symbolic attempts to explain evil, death, and human misfortune. (1908) | txt: Books |
| an_authenticated_vampire_story.txt | A remote Carpathian castle becomes associated with an alleged vampire after a series of sudden deaths. (1909) | txt: Books |
| an_irish_vampire.txt | A rural Irish family encounters a recently-buried priest with unmistakable signs of vampirism. (1925) | txt: Books |
| an_old_superstition.txt | An article reporting the exhumation of a Prussian noble alleged by his family to be a vampire. (1874) | txt: Books |
| another_dracula.txt | A Pennsylvanian town is taken by the arrival of an apparent vampire and his strange coffin. (1930) | txt: Books |
| Archive.org Listing | The entire Dancing with the Dead comic, downloadable via Archive.org. | Off-site |
| aylmer_vance_and_the_vampire.txt | A wealthy man falls ill and consults a psychic, who reveals a vampiric force has bound itself to his wife. (1914) | txt: Books |
| bats_belfry.txt | A lord discovers an occult book in his manor and inadvertently summons the undead. (1926) | txt: Books |
| belief_in_vampires.txt | An article on Grecian vampire beliefs and the exhumation of an alleged vampire. | txt: Books |
| believe_in_vampires.txt | A satirical article mocking vampire superstition among rural Rhode Islanders. (1896) | txt: Books |
| Bestiary | A bestiary of ASCII critters. | Live Page |
| bibliography-anthologies.txt | A bibliography of vampire anthologies and story collections, from the 1920s to 2025. | txt: Guides |
| bibliography-guides.txt | A bibliography of vampire encyclopaedias, reference guides, and film guides. | txt: Guides |
| bibliography-studies.txt | A bibliography of academic studies, essays and theses on vampire literature, film and folklore. | txt: Guides |
| carmilla.txt | During her stay in a Styrian schloss, a young woman becomes the latest obsession of a vampiress. (1872) | txt: Books |
| clarimonde.txt | An elderly priest recalls his first lover, the vampiress Clarimonde. (1836) | txt: Books |
| cross_of_fire.txt | A nobleman discovers he's been turned into a vampire, and struggles to cope. (1939) | txt: Books |
| Dancing with the Dead | An Awful-British-Sex-Dramedy in the form of an Underground Comic. Free to read, freer to spread. | Off-site |
| daughter_of_the_moonlight.txt | Two detectives at a country club encounter two women, one of whom appears to be a vampiress. (1930) | txt: Books |
| doom_of_the_house_of_duryea.txt | A man meets his estranged father in a lodge, only to uncover a devastating vampiric curse. (1936) | txt: Books |
| dracula.txt | Various people chronicle the arrival of a mysterious count, and the subsequent death that ensues. (1897) | txt: Books |
| draculas_guest.txt | A young Englishman, on his way to meet Count Dracula, experiences various strange encounters. (1914) | txt: Books |
| dreams-2024.txt | The Dream Diary for 2024. | txt: General |
| dreams-2025.txt | The Dream Diary for 2025. | txt: General |
| dreams-2026.txt | The Dream Diary for 2026. | txt: General |
| dreams-all.txt | The Dream Diary, complete. | txt: General |
| Dungeon Keeper 2 Shrine | A fansite for Dungeon Keeper 2 entirely in HTML. | Live Page |
| european_folklore_in_the_united_states.txt | An article recounting European-derived superstitions that have persisted in the United States. (1889) | txt: Books |
| excerpts_on_bulgarian_vampire_belief.txt | Passages from Bulgarian Superstitions describing the characteristics of the country's vampires. (1877) | txt: Books |
| Flickermaus | Small reviews for the atmospheres of vampire films before 2000. | Live Page |
| for_the_blood_is_the_life.txt | A vampiric ghost returns to haunt a coastal Italian tower. (1912) | txt: Books |
| Foxtrot: Gone Away | A horror-comedy text-adventure. You're trapped in the hunting lodge of a certain Belfort, and if the waistline's any clue, you're on the menu. | Off-site |
| Foxtrot: Gone Away Walkthrough (1.0) | A full walkthrough for the Adventuron build of Foxtrot: Gone Away. | Off-site |
| four_wooden_stakes.txt | After a string of killings, two men set out to slay their culprit, a vampire. (1925) | txt: Books |
| glossary-a-e.txt | Glossary entries A to E. | txt: Guides |
| glossary-f-j.txt | Glossary entries F to J. | txt: Guides |
| glossary-k-o.txt | Glossary entries K to O. | txt: Guides |
| glossary-p-t.txt | Glossary entries P to T. | txt: Guides |
| glossary-u-z.txt | Glossary entries U to Z. | txt: Guides |
| good_lady_ducayne.txt | A young woman enters the employ of a mysterious aristocrat after the untimely deaths of her predecessors. (1896) | txt: Books |
| guides-croc.txt | How to transfer files from your command line. | txt: Guides |
| guides-ergo-irc.txt | How to create an Ergo IRC server. | txt: Guides |
| guides-gallery-dl.txt | How to bulk-download images from your command line. | txt: Guides |
| guides-nearly_free_speech.txt | How to host a website on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. | txt: Guides |
| guides-raspberry-pi.txt | How to establish a Raspberry Pi from scratch. | txt: Guides |
| guides-wget.txt | How to download websites from your command line. | txt: Guides |
| haunted_by_a_vampire.txt | An article about a railroad brakeman and his alleged experiences with a vampire. (1897) | txt: Books |
| Hiareth | A Bitsy game where you wander the English countryside as a newly dead Will O' the Wisp. First released Halloween 2025 with Foxtrot. | Off-site |
| Invitatio | A website template dressed in the style of a 17th-century funeral invitation. | Live Page |
| isle_of_the_undead.txt | A yacht party fights for their lives on an island of the undead. (1936) | txt: Books |
| lang_on_the_vampire.txt | An article about the persistent belief in vampires, particularly in New England. (1904) | txt: Books |
| let_loose.txt | An architect uncovers an evil force in the grounds of a remote Yorkshire village. (1890) | txt: Books |
| ligeia.txt | A widower descends into near-madness attempting to revive his wife. (1838) | txt: Books |
| Link Library | All the links I find useful. | Live Page |
| living_vampyres.txt | An article theorising that vampire beliefs originated from uninformed reactions to decomposition. (1851) | txt: Books |
| luella_miller.txt | A New England village is plagued by a mysterious woman and the untimely deaths of her carers. (1903) | txt: Books |
| mrs_amworth.txt | Two men find out that their Sussex village is haunted by a vampiress. (1922) | txt: Books |
| negotium_perambulans.txt | A Cornish village suffers an attack from a vampiric force. (1922) | txt: Books |
| pepopukin_in_corsica.txt | A knight seeks to marry a noblewoman, only for his rivals to torment him with vampire-themed pranks. (1826) | txt: Books |
| Pearlnight Commissions | High-quality colour renders of the DWTD cast, drawn by my best friend Lutzbug! | Off-site |
| restless_souls.txt | Two detectives meet an uncanny woman on Halloween Eve, leading them into the clutches of the supernatural. (1928) | txt: Books |
| return_of_the_undead.txt | A group of medical students desecrate a grave as a prank, only to uncover a vampire. (1943) | txt: Books |
| return_to_death.txt | A Transylvanian scientist becomes trapped in suspended animation and is mistaken for a vampire. (1936) | txt: Books |
| rhode_island_fears_vampires.txt | An article about enduring vampire superstitions in Rhode Island and how they affect local burial practices. (1896) | txt: Books |
| spectres_called_vampyres.txt | An article about vampires in Eastern Europe, reported sightings and methods of destruction. (1765) | txt: Books |
| stories_of_vampires.txt | An article about widespread belief in vampirism and individuals claiming to be vampires. (1884) | txt: Books |
| superstitions_of_new_england.txt | A family exhumes their deceased daughter after suspecting she's risen as a vampire to drain her brother. (1822) | txt: Books |
| the_animistic_vampire_in_new_england.txt | An article arguing that vampire belief in New England represents ancient animistic beliefs. (1896) | txt: Books |
| the_black_vampyre.txt | A mixed-race slave revives as a vampire and seeks revenge on his captor. (1819) | txt: Books |
| the_blood_of_the_vampire.txt | A mixed-race vampiress unknowingly causes the deaths of the people she seeks to flatter. (1897) | txt: Books |
| the_canal.txt | Two men exploring an abandoned canal encounter a local vampire. (1927) | txt: Books |
| the_coffin_lid.txt | A moujik negotiates with a corpse for the resurrection of two murdered children. (1873) | txt: Books |
| the_dog_and_the_corpse.txt | A moujik and his dog meet a corpse that attacks them, but the moujik abandons his dog, who fosters a grudge. (1873) | txt: Books |
| the_fan.txt | A man meets an old woman, once beautiful yet still alluring due to a mysterious hypnotic fan. (1925) | txt: Books |
| the_flowering_of_the_strange_orchid.txt | A man buys an exotic orchid that reveals itself to be a vampire. (1894) | txt: Books |
| the_hills_of_the_dead.txt | A Puritan adventurer and a voodoo sorcerer plan to destroy a race of African vampires haunting a hillside city. (1930) | txt: Books |
| the_horla.txt | A man descends into madness, suspecting he is being attacked by a vampire. (1886) | txt: Books |
| the_house_of_the_vampire.txt | An experienced psychic vampire aims to drain an aspiring writer of his skills and sanity. (1907) | txt: Books |
| the_last_of_the_vampires.txt | Skeletons found in the Amazon Basin attest to a fatal confrontation between a man and a reptilian vampire. (1893) | txt: Books |
| the_man_who_cast_no_shadow.txt | Two detectives investigate a European nobleman and discover he's a vampire. (1927) | txt: Books |
| the_man_with_wax_hands.txt | A mysterious stranger with wax-like hands visits a Danube farmhouse, seemingly causing the death of its daughter. (1880) | txt: Books |
| the_mysterious_stranger.txt | A party of travellers in the Carpathians encounters a seemingly helpful stranger, secretly a vampire. (1860) | txt: Books |
| the_ocean_leech.txt | A group of sailors attempts to fight off a grotesque vampiric cephalopod. (1925) | txt: Books |
| the_phantom_world.txt | All relevant vampire chapters from Augustin Calmet's treatise of supernatural phenomena. (1746) | txt: Books |
| the_problem_of_the_vampire.txt | An article that explores and theorises about different explanations for alleged vampire activity. (1924) | txt: Books |
| the_return_of_the_undead.txt | A man recalls a dying friend's warning about the undead and his plea to prevent their rise. (1943) | txt: Books |
| the_room_in_the_tower.txt | A man stays in a friend's haunted tower, while a vampiress lurks and plans to turn him. (1912) | txt: Books |
| the_shroud.txt | A slovenly girl steals the shroud from a corpse, only to suffer its revenge. (1873) | txt: Books |
| the_silver_countess.txt | A detective investigates a strange statue and its connection to a long-dead countess. (1929) | txt: Books |
| the_skeleton_count.txt | A count makes a pact with dark forces to resurrect a woman from the dead, transforming her into a vampiress. (1828) | txt: Books |
| the_soldier_and_the_vampire.txt | A soldier encounters a vampiric warlock and quests to vanquish him for good. (1873) | txt: Books |
| the_tinkle_of_the_camels_bell.txt | A wanderer follows the sound of a camel bell into a disorientating house and meets a vampiress. (1928) | txt: Books |
| the_tomb_of_sarah.txt | A rector and a church restorer set to vanquish a vampire Countess and free their village from her presence. (1900) | txt: Books |
| the_transfer.txt | A governess feels suspicious of an overbearing uncle, a metaphorical vampire, while a real specimen lurks nearby. (1912) | txt: Books |
| the_true_story_of_a_vampire.txt | A young woman recalls the loss of her brother at the hands of a charming vampire count. (1894) | txt: Books |
| the_two_corpses.txt | A soldier flees a ravening corpse and takes refuge in a chapel while it squabbles with another. (1873) | txt: Books |
| the_unholy_compact_abjured.txt | A young soldier resists the temptations of witchcraft and undeath through his Christian faith. (1825) | txt: Books |
| the_vampire_his_kith_and_kin.txt | The progenitor of many a vampire history text, by a sincere believer of the undead. (1928) | txt: Books |
| the_vampire_legend.txt | An article about vampires as a universal response to disease and guilt surrounding the dead. (1918) | txt: Books |
| the_vampire_maid.txt | A man stays in an English country house, only to find himself stalked by its vampiric maid. (1900) | txt: Books |
| the_vampire_of_croglin_grange.txt | A family in Cumberland suffer an attack from an ancestral vampire. (1896) | txt: Books |
| the_vampire_pipe.txt | An inventor falls victim to the blood-sucking machine he created. (1907) | txt: Books |
| the_vampire_superstition.txt | An article about the decline of vampire belief as a result of increased education about burial practices. (1915) | txt: Books |
| the_vampyre.txt | During his travels a young nobleman unknowingly befriends a vampire and becomes his latest victim. (1819) | txt: Books |
| the_vampyre_a_hungarian_legend.txt | An article about the exhumation of Hungarian peasant Arnold Paul, an alleged vampire. (1871) | txt: Books |
| the_wolf_woman.txt | A group of scientists unknowingly resurrect a fearsome vampire huntress and her loyal wolves. (1927) | txt: Books |
| they_burned_the_vampire.txt | An article about the exhumation of alleged vampire Arnold Paul. (1893) | txt: Books |
| think_vampires_kill_sheep.txt | An article about an alleged vampire slayer in Macedonia who kills vampires blamed for attacking sheep. (1919) | txt: Books |
| to_be_or_not_to_be_a_vampire.txt | An actress expresses her fascination with Theda Bara and her iconic Vampire role. | txt: Books |
| Vampire Books Online | A library of public-domain vampire literature, filterable by read time. | Live Page |
| Vampire Code | A vampire-themed version of the Geek Code. | txt: General |
| Vampire Prompt Generator | A keyword generator for helping you come up with vampire-themed art. | Live Page |
| vampire_and_bruxa.txt | An article contrasting the decline of vampire belief with the continued persistence of belief in the Evil Eye. (1874) | txt: Books |
| vampire_in_literature.txt | An article comparing literary vampires with their folkloric counterparts. (1913) | txt: Books |
| vampire_of_lakeview.txt | An alleged vampire menaces Chicago, causing widespread hysteria in a modern city. (1888) | txt: Books |
| vampire_of_slav_origin.txt | An article describing the Slavic vampire. (1916) | txt: Books |
| vampires_1908.txt | An article arguing that vampirism is an innate human capacity rather than literal undeath. | txt: Books |
| vampires_1914.txt | An article arguing that vampirism exists in ways subtler than imagined. | txt: Books |
| vampires_and_ghouls.txt | An article arguing vampire beliefs are products of superstition, ignorance and mental illness. (1871) | txt: Books |
| vampires_and_vampirism_prothero.txt | An article theorising about the reality of vampirism and advising a cautious approach to alleged sightings. | txt: Books |
| vampires_and_vampirism_wright.txt | A collection of vampire lore from around the world. | txt: Books |
| vampires_and_vamping.txt | A satirical article mocking the concept of vampirism, describing it as an unintuitive game. (1901) | txt: Books |
| vampirism_in_rhode_island.txt | An article about tuberculosis and its attribution to vampirism, despite growing medical knowledge. (1937) | txt: Books |
| vampirism_in_servia.txt | An article about a Serbian village's attempts to treat a dying girl, suspecting a vampire is the cause. (1876) | txt: Books |
| vampyres_harpers.txt | An article about the evolution of vampire folklore and its translation into popular literature. | txt: Books |
| vampyres_their_crimes_and_punishments.txt | An article about several historical cases of vampires, including Arnold Paul. (1844) | txt: Books |
| vampyrism_mayo.txt | An article suggesting alleged vampires were actually people buried alive or suffering trancelike states. | txt: Books |
| vanquishing_a_vampire.txt | An occultist allegedly dispels an alleged vampire, advising that magic serve the good of others. (1928) | txt: Books |
| wake_not_the_dead.txt | A grieving lord uses dark magics to revive his wife, only to be met with the horrors of playing God. (1823) | txt: Books |
| weblog.txt | The front-page weblog. | txt: General |