Beastly Babes: Nine Classic Tales of Female Vampires

Ladies first! Long before Dracula haunted the pages of literature, readers devoured tales of the vixens of vampirism: Carmilla, Lamia, Clarimonde, and others! Nine classic Hell's belles of horror fill the pages of this curated, edited, and annotated volume of traditional vampire tales written by literary greats including Poe, Kipling, and Goethe—giving readers a murderous mix of fabulous femmes fatales!<br/><br/>Edited and annotated for Wolf Print Press, LLC by award-winning author Shannon Delany to include: Notes following each story and including biographical information about the author and his life, as well as mention of any edits made to the story and why, Book Club Questions to allow for additional thought and potential discussion with others, and Sources and footnotes so readers can explore the classic literature and related history long after reading the book. The classic stories included are: Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Lamia by John Keats Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wake Not the Dead by Ernst Raupach The Vampire by Madison Julius Cawein Clarimonde by Théophile Gautier (translated by Lafcadio Hearn) The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling The Bride of Corinth by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translated by E. A. Bowring and translated by Aytoun and Martin).