The Kiss of the Vampire. Russian Mysticism

Forget about pale aristocrats in cloaks from Western European hills. The Russian vampire is a different phenomenon, much more mysterious... He is a upyr, a vurdalak, a dead murderer, wandering not through gothic castles, but through dimly lit streets of provincial towns, through dark forests and gloomy estates, where it smells of fear and sin. The collection of Russian vampire prose includes stories by Valerian Olin, Vladimir Dahl, Grigory Danilevsky, Teffi, Evdokia Nagrodska, Alexei Tolstoy, and other writers.