Blood and Roses : Vampires in 19th Century Literature  

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Blood and Roses : Vampires in 19th Century Literature (1992) is a collection of 19th century vampire fiction edited by Adèle Olivia Gladwell and James Havoc, published by Creation Books.

Seventeen texts by European authors, covering the whole period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to proto-Surrealism, in a single volume charged with "sex, blood and horror".

The collection includes: Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Machen, Comte de Lautréamont, Count Stenbock, J.-K. Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Théophile Gautier, Charles Nodier, Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Oscar Wilde, Ivan Turgenev, Charlotte Bronte, J. M. Ryder.

Partial list of stories, the longer ones are excerpted:

• The Vampyre by John Polidori
• Smarra by Charles Nodier
• The Beautiful Dead by Theophile Gautier
• Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Feast of Blood by J.M. Rymer
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• The Vampire's Metamorphoses by Charles Baudelaire
• The House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer Lytton
• Phantoms by Ivan Turgenev
• Maldoror by Isidore Ducasse
• Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
• La-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen
• The True Story of A Vampire by Count Stenbock
• Dracula by Bram Stoker