Search Worlds Without End

Since his creation one hundred and twenty years ago, the name of Dracula has become synonymous with the legend of the vampire and the character is one of the world's most iconic to appear in fiction and film. Now, this history of the blood-drinking nobleman follows Dracula from his origins in Transylvania, through his travels down the decades, into a dystopian twenty-first century where vampires rule the world.

Is it possible that the Count's condition can be cured by modern medicine? How does the mythology perpetuated by literature and movies affect the existence of a real bloodsucker? How can an immortal creature adapt to the social and technological changes that have already shaped our modern world? And what happens when Dracula turns up for his own birthday party?

These and many other questions are answered by acclaimed authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Charlaine Harris, Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, Paul McAuley, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, F. Paul Wilson and many others, including Dracula's original creator Bram Stoker with a long-lost version of the story first presented in 1897.

Table of Contents:

• The Giaour (excerpt) - (1813) - poem by Lord George Gordon Byron
• Introduction: I Bid You Welcome - (1997) - essay by Stephen Jones
• Dracula: or The Un-Dead: Prologue - (1897) - short fiction by Bram Stoker
• Dracula's Library - (1997) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendant of Attila, Scourge of God - (1985) - short fiction by Thomas Ligotti
• Daddy's Little Girl - (1997) - short story by Mandy Slater
• Conversion - (1977) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Devil Is Not Mocked - (1943) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• Teaserama - (1997) - short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Blood Freak - (1997) - short story by Nancy Holder
• Zack Phalanx Is Vlad the Impaler - (1977) - short story by Brian Lumley
• When Greek Meets Greek - (1997) - novelette by Basil Copper
• Coppola's Dracula - (1997) - novella by Kim Newman
• The Second Time Around - (1997) - short story by Hugh B. Cave
• Endangered Species - (1997) - novelette by Brian Mooney
• Melancholia - (1997) - short story by Roberta Lannes
• Children of the Long Night - (1997) - novelette by Lisa Morton
• Mbo - (1997) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Worst Place in the World - (1997) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Larry's Guest - (1997) - short story by Guy N. Smith
• A Taste of Culture - (1997) - short story by Jan Edwards
• Rudolph - (1987) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Roadkill - (1997) - short story by Graham Masterton
• Volunteers - (1997) - short story by Terry Lamsley
• Black Beads - (1997) - short story by John Gordon
• Your European Son - (1997) - short story by Joel Lane
• Quality Control - (1997) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Dear Alison - (1997) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• Bloodlines - (1997) - novelette by Conrad Williams
• Windows '99 of the Soul - (1997) - short story by Chris Morgan
• Blood of Eden - (1997) - short story by Mike Chinn
• Dracula Night - (2007) - short story by Charlaine Harris
• The Last Testament - (1997) - short story by Brian Hodge
• The Last Vampire - (1997) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• The Lord's Work - (1992) - novelette by F. Paul Wilson
• Lord of the Undead - (1997) - poem by Jo Fletcher