Scary Books, Kiddies!
The Midnight People. Edited
by Peter Haining, 1968, Pocket. No cover
credit, but the image is from a triptych created around 1590 by Hieronymus
Bosch, Death
and the Miser.
The triptych, reconstructed:
This anthology is focused solely on the vampire. It opens and closes with excerpts from Montague Summers’s The Vampire in Europe.
The
first selection is the only nonfiction piece, about Fritz Haarmann, “the
Hanover Vampire”—proof indeed that real human behavior can be nastier than
anything made up. The other stories are
by the usual suspects: Bloch, Bradbury,
Polidori, Matheson.
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