These free vampire books bring together Dracula and the classic tales that came before it. Every novel and short story here is in PDF and in the public domain.
Long before Bram Stoker, Victorian readers were already afraid of the undead. Their nights were full of pale strangers, cursed graves and strange marks on the neck.
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Classic Vampire Novels
These classic vampire novels run from Varney the Vampire, the Victorian penny dreadful, to Dracula and Carmilla. Read them side by side to see where Bram Stoker found his ideas.
Count Dracula leaves Transylvania for London, and his story is pieced together from letters, diaries and press clippings until Van Helsing leads the hunt. Our own Project Aldus edition: the complete 1897 text, carefully typeset and easy to read on any screen.
A lonely girl in a Styrian castle takes in a beautiful, mysterious guest, and grows weaker as their friendship deepens. Our own Project Aldus edition of the 1872 novella that created the female vampire, twenty-five years before Dracula.
Sir Francis Varney stalks the Bannerworth family across more than 200 chapters of this Victorian penny dreadful. The complete edition of the serial that gave the vampire his fangs, his hypnotic stare and his tortured conscience.
Harriet Brandt charms everyone at a Belgian seaside resort, yet the people closest to her waste away. Published the same year as Dracula, it imagines a vampire who drains others without fangs and without knowing it.
Rupert Sent Leger inherits a castle on the Adriatic and starts receiving night visits from a pale woman wrapped in a burial shroud. Stoker's later vampire mystery, told through letters and journals like Dracula.
A brilliant young writer moves in with a celebrated author and slowly loses his best ideas, his memory and himself. This 1907 novel swaps blood for creativity and is one of the first stories of a psychic vampire.
Published in New York only months after Polidori's tale, this 1819 satire sets its vampire in Haiti among enslaved people, revolution and resurrection. The first vampire story written in America, with an introduction by its modern editors.
Vampire short stories began on a stormy night in 1816, when Lord Byron inspired Polidori's The Vampyre. From Gautier's Clarimonde to Benson's Mrs Amworth, each one reads in a single sitting.
Born on the same stormy night of 1816 as Frankenstein, Polidori's tale turned Lord Byron into Lord Ruthven, the first aristocratic vampire. This annotated student edition adds notes and context to the story that started it all.
A young priest glimpses a dazzling courtesan on the day of his ordination and spends years living a double life with her, by night, as she drinks his blood. Gautier's 1836 romance in the translation by Lafcadio Hearn.
A grieving husband watches his dead first wife, Ligeia, fight her way back to life through the body of his second. Poe's tale of a will stronger than death is a classic of the revenant and the proto-vampire.
In a superstitious Breton village, a pale English wife is blamed when the local children start to sicken. Linton's 1872 story turns the vampire hunt into a study of fear, gossip and mob violence.
A young composer rents a lonely villa outside Rome and falls for a woman who appears only in the vaults at night. Told by his friends after he vanishes, this 1886 tale is one of the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era.
A young woman takes a well-paid job as companion to a wealthy old lady on the Riviera and wakes each morning paler, with strange marks on her arm. Braddon's 1896 story, with the original illustrations from The Strand Magazine.
Everyone who takes care of the delicate, helpless Luella Miller ends up wasting away and dying. An old neighbor tells the story of a New England village and the woman who fed on kindness.
A curious English traveler researching old Swedish families grows fascinated with the tomb of a cruel 17th-century count. One of M. R. James's most chilling ghost stories, where the undead count is never quite seen.
On a moonlit Calabrian coast, a strange mound by the shore hides the body of a gypsy girl who loved a young man too much to let him go. Crawford's atmospheric story of a vampire bound to a lonely grave.
For fifteen years a man dreams of a house, a hostess and a room in the tower that is waiting for him. When he finally visits the real house, he is given that same room and meets the woman who sleeps beneath it.
On Walpurgis Night an Englishman ignores his coachman's warnings and wanders into an abandoned village near Munich, where a giant wolf and a tomb await him. The episode cut from Dracula opens this collection of nine Stoker tales.
A cheerful widow settles in a quiet English village, and soon a strange illness starts to spread among the neighbors. Benson's 1922 story is a witty, unsettling take on the vampire next door.
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