25 classic vampire stories laying the foundation for today's popular series:

* Wake Not the Dead, Johann Tieck

* Vampyre, a Tale, John Polidori

* Dead Lover, Theophile Gautier

* Varney the Vampire, James Malcolm Rymer

* Last Lords of Gardonal, William Gilbert

* Carmilla, J. Sheridan Le Fanu

* Ken’s Mystery, Julian Hawthorne

* Mystery of the Campagna, Anne Crawford

* Last of the Vampires, Phil Robinson

* True Story of a Vampire, Stanislaus Stenbock

* Vampire of Croglin Grange, Augustus Hare

* Good Lady Ducayne, Mary Braddon

* Dracula & Dracula's Guest, Bram Stoker

* Tomb of Sarah, F.G. Loring

* Luella Miller, Mary Wilkins-Freeman

* Lazarus, Leonid Andreyev

* House of the Vampire, George Sylvester Viereck

* Singular Death of Morton & The Transfer, Algernon Blackwood

* For the Blood is the Life, Marion Crawford

* An Episode of Cathedral History, M.James

* Aylmer Vance and the Vampire, Alice Claude Askew

* Vampire, Jan Neruda

* Mrs. Amworth, E.F. Benson