A Night With A Vampire (Read by David Tennant)

A Night With A Vampire (Book at Bedtime)
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4
Reader: David Tennant
Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4

Series 1: Monday 22 to Friday 26 November 2010 22:45-23:00
Series 2: Monday 28 November to Friday 2 December 2011 22:45-23:00

101 - Dead Persons in Hungary, by AA Calmet.
Antoine Augustin Calmet published an apparently serious anthropological history of the Vampire throughout Europe in the early 19 century called "The Phantom World." All the people he spoke to were adamant about what they had witnessed. His account therefore appears all the more disturbing and became the basis for the flights of Vampiric fancy that took off in the Victorian age.

102 - The Family of the Vourdalak, by Aleksey Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy's lesser known brother has written this compelling story about a patriarch who sets off on a mysterious mission but fears he may come back a Vampire. If he should return to their village after 10 days - he begs his family to deny him access and plunge a stake through his heart.

103 - The Horla, by Guy de Maupassant
After an unusual Brazilian ship enters the harbour - our hero suddenly begins to feel unwell, and starts to have feverish and disturbing visions. Only too late does he discover the demonic nature of the South American ship's cargo.

104 - Luella Miller, by Mary E Wilkins Freeman
Luella Miller seems incapable of surviving on her own - so she calls on friends, relatives and lovers to help her. And they all die - one by one - until there is no one left to lift a finger to assist this most demanding of women. An unusual tale - set in small town America.

105 - Clarimonde, by Theophile Gautier
As a young man approaches his first moments as a priest his eyes glance to heaven - and sees leaning over the sanctuary railing - a young woman of extraordinary beauty. And so begins a sensational struggle for his soul...

201 - The Lady of the House of Love, by Angela Carter
A virginal English soldier, travelling through Romania by bicycle, finds himself in a deserted village. He comes across a mansion inhabited by a vampiress who survives by enticing young men into her bedroom and feeding on them. She intends to feed on the young soldier but his purity and virginity have a curious effect on her...

202 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, by Fritz Lieber.
This 1949 story has exerted it's grip on many an imagination and has been filmed several times. It concentrates on the magnetic power of the Vampire and - in this case - the utterly captivating and inescapable lure of a Vampiress cum glamour model.

203 - Bewitched, by Edith Wharton.
Saul Rutledge had a girlfriend before he married his current wife. Unfortunately, he still slips at night to see her. Even though she dies several years ago...

204 - Drink My Blood, by Richard Matheson.
Written in 1951 this is an unusually dark comic twist on the Vampire tale about a young pasty-faced school kid, Jules, whose only ambition in life is to become a Vampire. But will his dreams come true?

205 - A Lot of Mince Pies, by Robert Swindells.
Swindells is a British author known mainly for his children's books and indeed, this tale first appeared in a collection of haunted tales for the young adult. But it has a macabre and chilling undertone - set at Xmas and focussing on a group of carollers who visit the same cottage every year - and receive a special treat in return...