THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRE STORIES
BY WOMEN
Edited By Stephen Jones
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
My Life Among the Undead
INGRID PITT
The Master of Rampling Gate
ANNE RICE
Homewrecker
POPPY Z. BRITE
When Gretchen Was Human
MARY A. TURZILLO
The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeakea
TANYA HUFF
La Diente
NANCY KILPATRICK
Miss Massingberd and the Vampire
TINA RATH
The Raven Bound
FREDA WARRINGTON
Vampire King of the Goth Chicks
NANCY A. COLLINS
Just His Type
STORM CONSTANTINE
Prince of Flowers
ELIZABETH HAND
Services Rendered
LOUISE COOPER
Aftermath
JANET BERLINER
One Among Millions
YVONNE NAVARRO
Luella Miller
MARY E. WILKINS-FREEMAN
Sangre
LISA TUTTLE
A Question of Patronage
CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO
Hisako San
INGRID PITT
Butternut and Blood
KATHRYN PTACEK
Sleeping Cities
WENDY WEBB
The Haunted House
E. NESBIT
Turkish Delight
ROBERTA LANNES
Venus Rising on Water
TANITH LEE
Year Zero
GEMMA FILES
Good Lady Ducayne
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON
Lunch at Charon's
MELANIE TEM
Forever, Amen
ELIZABETH MASSIE
Night Laughter
ELLEN KUSHNER
Bootleg
CHRISTA FAUST
Outfangthief
GALA BLAU
My Brother's Keeper
PAT CADIGAN
So Runs the World Away
CAITLIN R. KIERNAN
A North Light
GWYNETH JONES
Jack
CONNIE WILLIS
Vampyr
JANE YOLEN
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Vampire Stories
by Women
Edited by Stephen Jones
Introduction by Ingrid Pitt
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First published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2001
First Carroll & Graf edition 2001
Collection and editorial material copyright © Stephen Jones 2001
Illustrations copyright © Randy Broecker 2001
ISBN 0-7867-0918-9
Printed and bound in the EU
Stephen Jones lives in London, England. He is the winner of two World Fantasy Awards, three Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and two International Horror Guild Awards as well as being a thirteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant (the first three Hellraiser movies, Night Life, Nightbreed, Split Second, Mind Ripper, Last Gasp etc.), he is the co-editor of Horror: 100 Best Books, The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales, Gaslight & Ghosts, Now We Are Sick, H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror, The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, Secret City: Strange Tales of London and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Dark Terrors, Dark Voices and Fantasy Tales series. He has written Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide, The Essential Monster Movie Guide, The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide, The Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide, The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie Guide and The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide , and compiled The Mammoth Book of Terror, The Mammoth Book of Vampires, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, Shadows Over Innsmouth, Dancing With the Dark, Dark of the Night, Dark Detectives, White of the Moon, Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner, The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes and Phantoms and Fiends by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, James Herbert: By Horror Haunted, The Conan Chronicles by Robert E. Howard (two volumes), Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror, Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden, Clive Barker's The Nightbreed Chronicles and the Hellraiser Chronicles . You can visit his web site at http://www.herebedragons.co.uk/jones
Acknowledgments
Special thanks for their help and support in compiling this volume to Val and Les Edwards, Randy Broecker, Hugh Lamb, Tina Rath, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Sara Broecker, Kim Newman, Ellen Datlow, The Author's Guild, Mandy Slater, Jo Fletcher, Roger MacBride Allen, John Clute, Robert L. Fleck, Krystyna Green, Nick Robinson and, of course, the incomparable Ingrid Pitt.
"Introduction: My Life Among the Undead", copyright © Ingrid Pitt 2001.
"The Master of Rampling Gate", copyright © Anne O'Brien Rice 1984. Originally published in Redbook , February 1984. Reprinted by permission of the author.
"Homewrecker", copyright © Poppy Z. Brite 1998. Originally published in slightly different form on GettingIt.com , 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author.
"When Gretchen Was Human", copyright © Mary A. Turzillo 2001.
"The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeakea", copyright © Tanya Huff 1999. Originally published in What Ho, Magid . Reprinted by permission of the author.