The Mammoth Book of Dracula

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With his 500-year lifetime so far, and centuries yet ahead, the character of Dracula has an ever-unfolding biography, to which this 100th-anniversary tribute contributes 33 stories . Dracula visits, in these pages, such locales as the Côte d'Azur, the wilds of Oregon, the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler, communist Eastern Europe, Rome at the dawn of the 21st century , and the ruins of post-apocalyptic New Jersey. He encounters Bettie Page, Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Lou Reed, and Francis Ford Coppola . The authors include such contemporary masters as Kim Newman, Nicholas Royle, Terry Lamsley, Joel Lane, Brian Stableford, and Ramsey Campbell. The book also has a foreword by Bram Stoker's great-nephew, and includes the never-before-published prologue to Stoker's theatrical version of Dracula.

CONTENTS
Introduction: I Bid You Welcome by Stephen Jones
Foreword: Geeat Uncle Bram And Vampires by Daniel Farson
Dracula: or The Un-Dead: Prologue by Bram Stoker
Dracula's Library by Christopher Fowler
The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendant of Attila, Scourge of God by Thomas Ligotti
Daddy's Little Girl by Mandy Slater
Conversion by Ramsey Campbell
The Devil Is Not Mocked by Manly Wade Wellman
Teaserama by Nancy Kilpatrick
Blood Freak by Nancy Holder
Zack Phalanx is Vlad The Impaler by Brian Lumley
When Greek Meets Greek by Basil Copper
Coppola's Dracula by Kim Newman
The Second Time Around by Hugh B. Cave
Endangered Species by Brian Mooney
Melancholia by Roberta Lannes
Children Of The Long Night by Lisa Morton
Mbo by Nicholas Royle
The Worst Place In The World by Paul J. McAuley
Larry's Guest by Guy N. Smith
A Taste Of Culture by Jan Edwards
Rudolph by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Roadkill by Graham Masterson
Volunteers by Terry Lamsley
Black Beads by John Gordon
Your European Son by Joel Lane
Quality Control by Brian Stableford
Dear Alison by Michael Marshall Smith
Bloodlines by Conrad Williams
Windows '99 Of The Soul by Chris Morgan
Blood Of Eden by Mike Chinn
The Last Testament by Brian Hodge
The Last Vampire by Peter Crowther
The Lord's Work by F. Paul Wilson
Lord Of The Undead by Jo Fletcher