Great Classic Vampire Stories: Eight Chilling Tales
About this audiobook
Groundbreaking for the time in which they were written, the vampire stories of the 1800s have inspired many modern writers. Enjoy the thrilling stories that originated the genre of vampire fiction. This collection includes: Fragment of a Novel, by Lord Byron (1816); The Vampyre, by John Polidori (1819); The Family of the Vourdalak, by Aleksei Tolstoy (1839); Varney the Vampire, by James Malcolm Rymer (1847); Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872); A True Story of a Vampire, by Count Eric Stenbock (1894); and Count Magnus, by M. R. James (1904).
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Simon Vance is the critically acclaimed narrator of approximately 400 audiobooks, winner of 27 AudioFile Earphones Awards, and a 12-time Audie Award-winner. He won an Audie in 2006 in the category of Science Fiction and was named the 2011 Best Voice in Biography and History and in 2010 Best Voice in Fiction by AudioFile magazine. Vance has been a narrator for the past 25 years, and also worked for many years as a BBC Radio presenter and newsreader in London. Some of his best-selling and most praised audiobook performances include Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies (an Audie award-winner), Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander series (all 21 titles), the new productions of Frank Herbert’s original Dune series, and Rob Gifford’s China Road (an AudioFile 2007 Book of the Year). Vance lives near San Francisco with his wife and two sons.
