Vampire Stories is a collection of eighteen bone-chilling horror stories written by various writers, based on vampires and werewolves. Alan Durant has only compiled these stories into one book. This book is preferable for children aged nine to sixteen. Vampires have always given many of us creeps: those piercing red eyes with their sinister, hypnotic powers, those sharp, menacing fangs and all that blood-sucking…Warevolves, on the other hand, have a pathetic quality about them that we find somehow endearing. Whereas vampires are cool and calculating in their malevolence, werewolves have the air of desperate, cursed creatures, acting from some unhappy compulsion. This may have something to do with the way the creatures were portrayed in the horror films we have seen. Dracula was a suave, cunning, remorselessly evil villain, while the Wolf Man was a hairy snarling, but rather brainless beast. Both creatures, though, have inspired a rich and varied literature – and indeed contin...
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