The works that make up this book can safely be called forgotten classics of vampire literature. The collection opens with the romantic short story “The Mysterious Stranger”, specially translated for our publication - a work that deeply influenced the famous “Dracula” by Bram Stoker. “The Ghoul on Furshtatskaya Street” , one of the central works of Russian vampire literature, still remained unknown to both most modern readers and researchers of the genre. “Dead Man Killer” by G. Danilevsky combines a vampiric story with a detective investigation. A. Amphiteatrov's short stories “He”, “The Story of a Madness” and “The Cimmerian Disease” are brilliant variations on the theme of vampiric lovers. Madness and death await people who have been chosen by vampires as their beloved... The collection “Vampire” concludes with one of the first Russian science fiction writers and creator of mystical stories S. Solomin (Stechkin), offering a number of original interpretations of vampirism.