Groundbreaking for the time in which they were written, the vampire stories of the 1800s have inspired many modern writers. Enjoy the thrilling stories that originated the genre of vampire fiction. This collection includes: Fragment of a Novel, by Lord Byron (1816); The Vampyre, by John Polidori (1819); The Family of the Vourdalak, by Aleksei Tolstoy (1839); Varney the Vampire, by James Malcolm Rymer (1847); Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872); A True Story of a Vampire, by Count Eric Stenbock (1894); and Count Magnus, by M. R. James (1904).