Joseph Sheridan le Fanu is perhaps the best ghost story writer to emerge from the Victorian Age. His ghost classics include The Familiar,...

Back before there were sparkly vampires with waxed chests and gelled hair, there were the founding fathers of vampirism. These were...

My first collection of short stories, Mailboxes - Mansions - Memphistopheles , has won a finalist award in the International Best Book Aw...

In 1847 Blackwood's Magazine published an article titled: "Letters on the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions - Vampyrism....

The Midwest Book Review has just published a glowing review of The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Vampire Anthology - "...

I am a huge fan of The Cure. So when I learned of Ten Imaginary Years that was published over twenty years ago, I had to read it. Initi...

The Unholy Compact Abjured was published by French novelist Charles Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835) in 1825. This is a very early vampire story ...

It's not often that I post a review of one of my books in its entirety. In fact, I never do. Nicola Manning, however, has recently pu...

Not many vampire stories were published in the English language from 1800-1849. Those that were, however, are very interesting. One of them ...

I am excited about The Raven , the new John Cusack movie about Edgar Allan Poe. It starts showing this Friday. In my view Poe does not get h...