Follows the evolution of the fiendish figure in folklore, literature, film, and the theater, and discusses actual cases of medical vampirism.

"The best writer in the genre since H. P. Lovecraft." - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
"Outstanding in the genre." - August Derleth
"In the same class as M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood." - Michael and Mollie Hardwick
"One of the last great traditionalists of English fiction." - Colin Wilson
Frederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton Scarsdale to accompany his research team in search of "The Great White Space," described in ancient and arcane texts as a portal leading to the extremities of the universe....

"One of the last of the great traditionalists of English fiction." - Colin Wilson
"An outstanding British writer in the genre." - August Derleth
"Britain's leading purveyor of the macabre." - Peter Haining
High above the Hungarian village of Lugos rise the towers of Castle Homolky, whose subterranean dungeons contain the remains of a chamber of horrors once used for the torture of enemies, and whose tragic and violent history has caused it to be known as The House of the Wolf. Into this legend-haunted region comes John Coleridge, an American professor and expert on lycanthropy,...