The Lady of the Shroud

Count Dracula leaves Transylvania for London, and his story is pieced together from letters, diaries and press clippings until Van Helsing leads the hunt. Our own Project Aldus edition: the complete 1897 text, carefully typeset and easy to read on any screen.

Bram Stoker

A lonely girl in a Styrian castle takes in a beautiful, mysterious guest, and grows weaker as their friendship deepens. Our own Project Aldus edition of the 1872 novella that created the female vampire, twenty-five years before Dracula.

Sheridan Le Fanu

Sir Francis Varney stalks the Bannerworth family across more than 200 chapters of this Victorian penny dreadful. The complete edition of the serial that gave the vampire his fangs, his hypnotic stare and his tortured conscience.

James Malcolm Rymer

Harriet Brandt charms everyone at a Belgian seaside resort, yet the people closest to her waste away. Published the same year as Dracula, it imagines a vampire who drains others without fangs and without knowing it.

Florence Marryat

A brilliant young writer moves in with a celebrated author and slowly loses his best ideas, his memory and himself. This 1907 novel swaps blood for creativity and is one of the first stories of a psychic vampire.

George Sylvester Viereck