For the Blood is Life

This anthology presents English, German, Austrian, American, and Scottish classic vampire tales – astonishing beings that just two centuries ago migrated from the realm of legends and traditions into the world of fiction and have since become some of the... most popular heroes of modern cultural mythology. Echoing each other in characters, situations, and meanings, the Gothic (and not only) plots of the book reveal to the reader, behind the veil of everyday reality, an irrational and terrifying world that overturns the self-assured claims of omniscience characteristic of the modern man.
The phenomenon of vampirism is narrated by J. W. Polidori, L. von Sacher-Masoch, J. Hawthorne, E. Nesbit, E. F. Benson, and other authors of the 19th century.