HorrorBabble's VAMPIRES: 16 Tales of the Undead

Since the first appearance of a vampire in Robert Southey’s 1801 epic poem, THALABA THE DESTROYER, we mortals have endured a morbid fascination with these peculiar creatures of the night. They come in many forms: charming and seductive; ghastly and terrible. When the lights go down, they prey upon us, thirsty for our life-sustaining, vital fluid… Join us, as we explore a number of classic yarns concerning the various guises of the vampire: from Aleksey Tolstoy’s horrifying description of a vampiric family in THE FAMILY OF THE VOURDALAK, to Robert E. Howard’s tale of a creature loosed from bondage after having been buried for over three centuries, in THE HORROR FROM THE MOUND. Thank the gods these creatures are merely fictitious… …aren’t they? Bandcamp: https://horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/alb... 00:00:00 - An Introduction 00:02:10 - The Brotherhood of Blood 01:00:25 - The Nightmare Road 01:15:18 - Vampire Village 01:49:20 - The Horror from the Mound 02:34:40 - Count Magnus 03:08:38 - The Silver Coffin 03:32:50 - I, the Vampire 04:20:14 - The Return of the Undead 05:08:00 - The Vampire Maid 05:23:02 - Doom of the House of Duryea 05:59:56 - Four Wooden Stakes 06:29:06 - Dracula's Guest 06:58:00 - The Family of the Vourdalak 08:01:36 - The Fire Vampires 08:45:12 - The Canal 09:41:18 - The Hollow Moon 10:50:27 - Further Listening THE BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD by Hugh B. Cave (WT, May 1932) "The sensational story of a beautiful vampire doomed to prey upon the living." THE NIGHTMARE ROAD by Florence Crow (WT, March 1934) "An unnamed narrator relates a story told to them by a friend at a dinner party involving a strange experience on an isolated road in Germany." VAMPIRE VILLAGE by Edmond Hamilton (WT, November 1932) "A strange story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant, and the eerie adventure of two American travellers." THE HORROR FROM THE MOUND by Robert E. Howard (WT, May 1932) "A grisly tale of a screaming fear let loose from bondage after having been buried for more than three hundred years." COUNT MAGNUS by M. R. James (Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary, 1904) "A traveler in Sweden stumbles upon the history of a mysterious and ominous figure." THE SILVER COFFIN by Robert Barbour Johnson (WT, January 1939) "The tale of an ancient, metal coffin, and the legend concerning what lies within." I, THE VAMPIRE by Henry Kuttner (WT, February 1937) "The story of a vampire on the loose in Hollywood, feasting on the stars of the silver screen." THE RETURN OF THE UNDEAD by Arthur Leeds (WT, Nov 1925) "A hospital vampire–morphine–and a ward full of children." THE VAMPIRE MAID by Hume Nisbet (Stories Weird and Wonderful, 1900) "Set on the wild, British moors, this is the tale of a man who falls in love with a vampire." DOOM OF THE HOUSE OF DURYEA by Earl Peirce, Jr. (WT, October 1936) "A man and his father are keen to put to rest certain dark legends concerning their ancestry." FOUR WOODEN STAKES by Victor Rowan (WT, Feb 1925) "A tale of vampirism at the remote Holroyd estate." DRACULA'S GUEST by Bram Stoker (Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories, 1914) "The story of an unnamed Englishman exploring an abandoned village populated by otherworldly beings." THE FAMILY OF THE VOURDALAK by Aleksey Tolstoy (The Russian Messenger, January 1884) "A tale of vampirism in rural Serbia." Translated by Nina Zumel: https://multoghost.wordpress.com THE FIRE VAMPIRES by Donald Wandrei (WT, February 1933) "A scourge struck from the sky, killing countless thousands." THE CANAL by Everil Worrell (WT, Dec 1927) "The bizarre tale of a man whose evening explorations deliver him into the clutches of something dark and menacing." THE HOLLOW MOON by Everil Worrell (WT, May 1939) "A fascinatingly different story about the weird adventure that befell a party of Americans shipwrecked in the South Seas." Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music and production by Ian & Jennifer Gordon Become a HorrorBabbler here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/horrorbabble/... Support us on Bandcamp or Patreon: https://horrorbabble.bandcamp.com   / horrorbabble   HorrorBabble MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/horrorba... The HorrorBabble Podcasts: https://www.horrorbabble.com/podcast https://www.horrorbabble.com/original... Search HORRORBABBLE to find us on: AUDIBLE / ITUNES / SPOTIFY Home: https://www.horrorbabble.com Rue Morgue: http://www.rue-morgue.com Social Media:   / horrorbabble     / horrorbabble     / horrorbabble   This is an ORIGINAL HorrorBabble Production.