The Kiss of the Vampire. Russian Mysticism

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