Search Worlds Without End

In these exsanguinating stories, Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes masterfully reinvents the vampire genre as he introduces the reader to a cleaning woman who discovers she is working for Dracula's son; a couple trapped in a house created by the mind of a centuries-old vampire; a young boy whose ancestor is depressed by his undead existence; a creature of darkness that sucks the life-force from its victims, and the unusual offspring of a werewolf and a vampire who is threatened by an obsessed clergyman.

Contents:

• A Family Welcome - (1971) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Acquiring a Family - (1986) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Amelia - (1980) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Birth - (1974) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Great-Grandad Walks Again - (1973) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Keep the Gaslight Burning - (1976) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Looking for Something to Suck - (1969) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Louis - (1987) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• My Mother Married a Vampire - (1978) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Rudolph - (1987) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Books of R. Chetwynd-Hayes - (1997) - essay by uncredited
• The Buck - (1980) - shortfiction by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Fundamental Elemental - (1997) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Labyrinth - (1974) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Sad Vampire - (1975) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes - (1997) - interior artwork by Jim Pitts
• The Werewolf and the Vampire - (1975) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• Foreword: Never Beastly to Vampires - essay by Stephen Jones

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction (The Other Side)
• 11 - Woodwork--1850
• 73 - Bricks and Mortar--1969
• 121 - Loft Conversion--1980
• 161 - Labour-Saving Devices--2000

Table of Contents:

• Housebound
• Lileas and the Water-Horse
• Lord Dunwilliam and the Cwn Annwn
• The Colored Transmission
• The Echo
• The Ghostly Earl
• The Monster
• The Throwback
• Under the Skin
• Where Yesterday: A Modern Fairy Story

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a dark and dreadful establishment known as The Monster Club, where vampires indulge in a rather different kind of Bloody Mary and ghouls tear into their gruesome repasts. Here, along with the usual monsters - vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and some of Dr Frankenstein's more freakish creations - you'll find other, less familiar ones. You'll meet the frightening Fly-by-Night, the hideous shaddy, the horrible mock, and the dreaded shadmock, perhaps the most terrible of all.

When Donald McCloud offers a starving man a meal, he unexpectedly discovers that the man is a vampire - and he's the main course! Accompanying the vampire, Eramus, to The Monster Club, Donald encounters a whole host of strange monsters, who, in a series of five linked stories, recount to Donald their monstrous exploits. But as Donald is regaled with these tales of monsters and their unfortunate human victims, it gradually dawns on him that as the only human in a club full of bloodthirsty monsters, he might be in a bit of a predicament....

Contents:

• Prologue (The Monster Club) - (1976) - short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Fly-by-Night - (1976) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Humgoo - (1976) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Mock - (1976) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Shadmock - (1976) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Werewolf and the Vampire - (1975) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• 'Shadmocks Only Whistle': An Introduction to The Monster Club - essay by Stephen Jones

Nightmares of shuddering horror...

The terror-crazed ghost of Battersea...
A monster that feeds on virgin's blood...
The evil Black Riders who hunt by night...
A midnight feast of the ghouls...

Echoing down the eerie centuries, tals of mortal fear to curdle the blood by a master storyteller.

Table of Contents:

• The Ghouls
• The Ghost Who Limped
• Danger in Numbers
• Something Comes In From The Garden
• The Man Who Stayed Behind
• Christmas Eve
• Building Site Manuscript
• No Need for Words
• The Wailing Waif of Battersea
• The Holstein Horror