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Contents: • Introduction (Girls' Night Out: Twenty-Nine Female Vampire Stories) • (1997) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz 1 • The Insufficient Answer • (1951) • novelette by Robert Aickman 46 • Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • shortstory by E. F. Benson 60 • The Scent of Vinegar • (1994) • novelette by Robert Bloch 88 • Good Lady Ducayne • (1896) • novelette by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 114 • Sometimes Salvation • (1995) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan 131 • The Brotherhood of Blood • (1932) • novelette by Hugh B. Cave 152 • A Mystery of the Campagna • (1886) • novelette by Anne Crawford 183 • For the Blood Is the Life • (1905) • shortstory by F. Marion Crawford 198 • I Vant to Be Alone • (1995) • shortstory by Barbara D'Amato [as by Barb D'Amato ] 205 • Nellie Foster • (1933) • shortstory by August Derleth 211 • Madeleine • (1995) • shortstory by Barbara Hambly 228 • Ken's Mystery • (1883) • novelette by Julian Hawthorne 249 • Revelations in Black • (1933) • novelette by Carl Jacobi 271 • The First Time • (1990) • shortstory by K. W. Jeter 285 • Girl's Night Out • (1995) • shortstory by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg 300 • Night Laughter • (1986) • shortstory by Ellen Kushner 304 • La Dame • (1995) • shortstory by Tanith Lee 316 • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes • (1949) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber 331 • Dress of White Silk • (1951) • shortstory by Richard Matheson 336 • Shambleau • [Northwest Smith] • (1933) • novelette by C. L. Moore 365 • My Dear Emily • (1962) • shortstory by Joanna Russ 387 • American Gothic • (1987) • shortstory by Ray Russell 402 • The Pearls of the Vampire Queen • [Nifft] • (1977) • novelette by Michael Shea 436 • The End of the Story • [Averoigne] • (1930) • novelette by Clark Ashton Smith 453 • The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady • (1988) • novelette by Brian Stableford 475 • The Last Grave of Lill Warren • [John Thunstone] • (1951) • novelette by Manly Wade Wellman 496 • Luella Miller • (1902) • shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman ] 509 •...To Feel Another's Woe • (1989) • shortstory by Chet Williamson 523 • The Canal • (1927) • shortstory by Everil Worrell