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  The House of the Vampire

  George Sylvester Viereck

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  Not only is The House of the Vampire (1907) one of the first known gay vampire stories, but it is also one of the first psychic vampire stories—where a vampire feeds off more than just blood 
  The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a mysterious older master, who seems to have left a trail of ruined proteges in his wake. The story is as much about the nature of artistic creation as it is a chilling vampire tale.

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  The Missing Word

  Austin Philips

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  A short story from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection Glimpses of the Unknown. A group of telegraphists are on the edge of their seats awaiting news of the prime minister who is dying. But a storm causes a power cut, and one of the men, Old Shayler, recalls a stormy night 15 years ago, where a man was killed, and not by the lightning…

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  The Princess of Darkeness -...

  Rachel Lawson

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  Vampires Queen Astra and King Max of Vampires's daughter is on her first day at kindergarten will this ankle biter be a pain in the neck. 
  "Hurry up Astry we're late!" cried Astry Starfire's Mum, "get in the car." 
  Astry jumped in her Mum's car. 
  "You remember every thing?" asked her mother Astra, Queen of Vampires. 
  "Yes Mum," Astry said.," got my lunch bottle." 
  "Remember to call it tomato juice not blood and don't share it," said her mum. 
  ''Yes mum" said Astry. 
  "And don't tell any one about vampires," said Astra. 
  "Yes mum," said Astry. 
  "We're here!" said Astra a while later. 
  "Out you hop," said said Astra. 
  "Mummy why is that girl so pale," a young child asked seeing Astry. 
  The mum of the child saw Astra and Astry scooped up their child and put them in their car and said "You're going to another Kinder," and sped off in their car.

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  Rappaccini’s Daughter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  A short story from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection Evil Roots. First published in 1844, ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’ is one of the oldest short story examples of Botanical Gothic. The story is set in Padua and follows botanist Giacomo Rappaccini’s garden of poisonous plants. A student from the university of Padua falls for a maiden in the luscious garden, but he soon learns some troubling information about his beloved’s true nature…

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  Edgar Allen Poe: THE CASK OF...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative follows a person being buried alive – in this case, by immurement. As in "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", Poe conveys the story from the murderer's perspective.

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  The Other Woman

  Ambrose Ibsen

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  After the death of his wife, Annika, Chester Lane is forced to pick up the pieces and start anew. 
   
   
   
  Trouble is, some of the pieces don't appear to fit. 
   
   
   
  There was much more to Chester's late wife than met the eye; her short life had been a troubled one, filled with frightening oddities—some of which may have had a hand in her untimely death. 
   
   
   
  Perishing under horrifying and mysterious circumstances, Annika's absence casts a long shadow across Chester's life. Hungry for answers in the wake of her death, he starts asking questions better left unasked. 
   
   
   
  How did his beloved meet her end? Why does the smell of her signature perfume begin to turn up everywhere in the weeks after her passing? Who is the shadowed figure that stalks around his home and peers into his windows as the sun sets? Has his wife truly returned from the dead, or is he being haunted by a dark presence from her terrifying past? 
   
   
   
  The deeper Chester digs into Annika's past, the closer he gets to unearthing a true nightmare—a nightmare that had been set in motion long before they'd said, "I do." 
   
   
   
  The Other Woman is a tale of supernatural horror and mystery by Ambrose Ibsen, the author of The Haunting of Beacon Hill and Asylum.

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