pre-Stoker vampire tales

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY dfordoom)

Lately I've become rather interested in pre-Stoker vampire tales. The fascinating thing about them is that they're often very different to post-Stoker vampire stories. One that I'm very fond of is Johann Ludwig Tieck’s "Wake Not the Dead", written around 1800. And of course there’s John Polidori’s hugely influential “The Vampyre”, again dealing with a vampire very different from the more familiar post-Dracula ones.

Conan Doyle’s horror

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY dfordoom)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle isn’t the first name that comes to mind when discussing horror, but he actually wrote many horror short stories, including “Lot No.249” which I believe was one of the inspirations for the original movie version of “The Mummy”. It’s quite a good story, too. Some of Conan Doyle’s horror stories are very unconventional and highly original, a good example being “The Horror of the Heights”.