Next in line, chronologically moving forward toward the 1897 publication of Stoker's Dracula :Classic Vampires Revisited:
A Beguiling Corruption
1835: “Berenice” (story) by Edgar Allan Poe
1835: “Morella” (story) by Edgar Allan Poe
1836: “The Dead Lover” (“La Morte Amoureuse”) (novella) by Théophile Gautier
Yes, yes, and with an intro by me.
Poe often explored vampirism in his work. Decades before Le Fanu's Carmilla, Poe and Gautier made the femme fatale a mainstay of vampire literature.
The creepy cover art is by my good friend Allen Koszowski, a World Fantasy Award-winning artist.
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