Many well-known authors contributed short stories to this book. It's a great read. These are well and truly vampire stories, not the current vampire romances that are so popular. Fun to read!

And well does this anthology deserve its “mammoth” title! Another in a series of huge, themed compendiums from reliable editor Stephen Jones, this is an able mix of classic and contemporary vampire fiction.It begins well with Clive Barker’s weird HUMAN REMAINS, about a rent boy haunted by a doppelganger. Fans of the author will know to expect the gruesome stuff in this one. Brian Lumley’s NECROS is less inspiring and more predictable, winning points for the craft evident in the author’s writing

2.5 actualI was disappointed in a lot of the stories.

Really 2.5 stars.It was okay; a big, fat volume of vampire stories. Several of them were good, a couple were bad, and some were over familiar from previous anthologies (Dracula's Guest, for example). These were all pitched at the vampire as bloodsucking monster end of the spectrum (good!) rather than the vampire as tortured boyfriend that seems to (still!) be the type in urban fantasy novels.If you haven't read much vampire short fiction, it would be a good purchase. If you already have several

Four stories really stood out from the crowd in this anthology: * Necros by Brian Lumley * Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner * The Better Half by Melanie Tem * Midnight Mass by F. Paul WilsonEach one had at least one twist to the vampire lore that I had never seen before and enjoyed immensely. Unfortunately, while those four stories were exceptional, the remaining 25 were not. While none of the stories were bad, they all seemed to lack something new or different. They failed at grabbing m...

The book gave me a paper cut...like it wanted my blood...enough said.

Like every other anthology, it was a hit or a miss. Some stories were really good, others not so much. I enjoyed:Humans Remains by Clive BarkerThe Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady by Brian StablefordThe Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Prime-Time TV Special by Christopher FowlerThe House at Evening by Frances GarfieldInvestigating Jericho by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (my personal favorite)Blood Gothic by Nancy HolderYellow Fog by Les DanielsFifteen Cards From A Vampire Tarot by Neil GaimanVintage Do...

I didn't care for a lot of the stories (due to writing style or too much grittiness) but it was worth a read for these:- “Necros” by Brian Lumley- “Root Cellar” by Nancy Kilpatrick- “The Labyrinth” by R. Chetwynd-Hayes- “The Better Half” by Melanie Tem- “The Devil’s Tritone” by John Burke- “Red as Blood” by Tanith Lee- “A Trick of the Dark” by Tina Rath- “Blood Gothic” by Nancy Holder

This compilation of vampire stories allows you to see vampires as you never would have thought

This might be the single best collection of vampire stories I've read thus far. It has a lot of the truly great stories from the Vampire Archives book, such as Human Remains, Doctor Porthos, and Midnight Mass while being in a much more manageable (though sadly out of print) package. It also has some truly great vampire tales I haven't encountered before. There are two tales that consider the vampire on film, one about a man's attempt to create a new adaptation of Dracula in which the film itself...

Human Remains by Clive BarkerNecros by Brian LumleyThe Man Who Loved The Vampire Lady by Brian StablefordA Place To Stay by Michael Marshall SmithThe Brood by Ramsey CampbellRoot Cellar by Nancy KilpatrickHungarian Rhapsody by Robert BlochThe Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Prime-Time TV Special by Christopher FowlerVampire by Richard Christian MathesonStragella by Hugh B. CaveA Week In The Unlife by David J. SchowThe House At Evening by Francis GarfieldVampyrrhic Outcast by Simon ClarkThe L...

First off, hats off to these writers, because there were a LOT of scary vampires in this book! Some of the stories were of course better than others, and a few I just really could not get into, but this book definitely offered a wide range of vampirism, and I appreciated that most of all! Every story was different. Some of them even incorporated actual events and history into the stories, which added to it for me. I really enjoyed the majority of this collection.

This collection of short stories is, in itself, a tribute to something quite remarkable, in that over the past one hundred and twenty years the Vampire has become such powerful favourite among fictional characters that it has spurned its own sub-genre. There are vampire movies just as there are cowboy movies and there are vampire stories just as there are detective stories. Other mythical monsters have come and gone, from Frankenstein to the Alien, but none has been so enduring, so universally l...

4.2 stars!I've yet to stumble upon a five star vampire anthology. That said, Mammoth is one of the best vampire horror anthologies I read. I prefer evil scary vampires to sexy ironic blood suckers. Mammoth provides a decent number of the blood type of stories I like. It's a solid read and a valuable reference book for scanning horror authors previously unknown to me. Excellent addition to any serious horror or vampire collection.

Good light reading, I would have liked to see greater originality and more surprise endings, but I suppose its difficult for authors to come up with a lot of original ideas when the Vampire trope is so clearly defined in the public consciousness.

very hit and miss as the first 9 stories were pretty average but it did get better in the end and the stories to the end of the book were a lot better,

Disappointing!I had such high hopes for this book but so many of the stories were whimsical and lightweight.

A pretty fair assortment of classic and (at the time) new tales of vampires.I've highlighted the ones I've particularly liked. This includes:Human Remains by Clive BarkerNecros by Brian LumleyThe Man Who Loved the Vampire LadyFor the Blood is the Life by F. Marion CrawfordThe Brood by Ramsey CampbellHungarian Rhapsody by Robert BlochLigeia by Edgar Allan PoeVampire by Richard Christian MathesonStragella by Hugh B. CaveA Week in the Unlife by David J. SchowThe House at Evening by Frances Garfield...

I am already reading the story by Clive Barker's "Human Remains" from The Books od Blood so I will skip reading this story. Necros by Brian Lumley: so far this story is very slow, I don't particularly care about the obsessive detail about the way the female character looks (it's seems to be perversely obsessive) The story was boring, slow paced and predictable, I figured out who was the vampire in the story is (even though it isn't specifically mentioned) Hopefully the rest of the author's work

A fun fact: this was one of the first books I can ever really remember reading as a child, and it was one of the various vampire books I read when I was a kid that really cemented my love of vampires and the supernatural. My mum had the older copy (with the vampire lady on the cover) and I think I must have consumed all the stories a fair few times over by now. It's been quite a few years now since I re-read this collection and I'm thinking I will definitely need to do one soon.