Since the first decades of the 19th century, vampires, ghouls, ghouls and the restless dead have filled the pages of Russian prose and poetry. The publication includes over thirty works of Russian vampire prose of the 19th - first half of the 20th centuries, including many lost stories and novellas that have remained in obscurity for both readers and researchers until today. The works collected in the anthology “The Red-Lipped Guest” convincingly prove that the field of Russian literary vampirology is much richer than it seems even to trained readers and other specialists. The publication is provided with detailed comments.