Vampire Compendium WebCD

An E-book Anthology of Classic Vampire Literature

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Back in October I thought I was close to having the Vampire Compendium WebCD ready to go to market. When I started working on this project I didn't plan to make it a comprehensive "E-book Anthology of Classic Vampire Literature." Originally, I envisioned it as containing a few of the best known works of fiction. But the more research I did the more works I identified (some of them fairly obscure and difficult to obtain), and the more works I found the more I thought to myself, why not include them all? Clearly the reason for not doing that would be to get this e-book completed sooner rather than later. However, I have decided I want the first edition to be as comprehensive as possible. It will take a little longer to complete, but it will be a much better "anthology" for having invested the extra time and effort.

The main purpose of this product is to provide a single anthology that contains what is essentially the literary canon of classic vampire literature in English. By "classic," I am referring to vampire literature written during the 19th century (and the early part of the 20th) that has followed in the tradition of Polidori's "The Vampire" and the original European folklore from which the traditional vampire fiction has sprung--Bram Stoker's Dracula being the consummate example of the classic vampire tale. This scope also includes the primary works of poetry which in a few cases are not actually "vampire" poems, but none the less contain the primary themes of vampirism that inspired later writers of fiction to pen what has become the traditional vampire story. Furthermore, in addition to being the only comprehensive anthology of classic vampire literature in electronic format (or print for that matter), The Vampire Compendium WebCD will include the full text of the very rare vampire novel The Woman in Black (originally published in 1906 by an unknown author who used the pseudonym M. Y. Halidom), and Dudley Wright's Vampires & Vampirism (1914), neither of which have been available in electronic format before now.

Below is a list of all the works I currently plan to include on the CD-Rom. The list below is subject to change, but as of right now there are nearly fifty works which represent several thousand pages of printed text. I can guarantee that if you attempted to obtain all of the works below in printed format, you would literally have to spend hundreds of dollars, and you would find that some of the works are simply not available at all. In spite of this, I promise you that I will being offering this e-book anthology at a very reasonable price--a price that will be comparable to purchasing a hardback fiction bestseller at your local bookstore.--Webhead 3/11/04

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