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CAPTAIN
VAMPIRE
by Marie Nizet
adapted by
Brian Stableford

All Cossacks are thick-skinned, it's true, but Boris Liatoukine plied the knout so often and hard that one day, when he found himself in an out-of-the way spot with his men, they stripped him naked, intending to freeze him to death!




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ISBN-10: 1-934543-01-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-934543-01-6

Water cascaded down on him, and when he had the appearance of a pretty crystal statue, the Cossacks, glad to be rid of their Lieutenant, got back on their horses. When they arrived back at camp, the first person they saw was Liatoukine, fully dressed and not even chilly. One of the Cossacks went mad, and Liatoukine had the rest executed by a firing-squad. Ever since then, he's been known as Captain Vampire...


Written in 1879 (18 years before
Dracula) by 19-year-old Marie Nizet, Captain Vampire, in its method and tone alike, is way ahead of its time. Although its plot has supernatural elements, and its antagonist is manifestly demonic, the novel's true purpose is to bring out the horror of war. A significant work in the history of horror fiction, it is undoubtedly one of the finest literary works ever to have made use of the vampire motif.

Translated and annotated by
Brian Stableford.

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Contents: Captaine Vampire (1879) by Marie Nizet; Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.