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The Woman With the Oily Eyes

Art by M. D. Jackson

This one begins: “The Woman With the Oily Eyes” by Dick Donovan is one of the few vampire tales that hasn’t been anthologized to death. It appeared in only two collections (so far): Mike Ashley’s Vampires: Classic Tales (2011) and Conner and Klinger’s In the Shadow of Dracula (2011). Its neglect isn’t because the story is a poorly done example worthy of being forgotten. I am surprised Hugh Lamb never used it. (He did use “A Night of Horror”, one of the most effective horror tales ever, in my opinion, so he was aware of Muddock.) The story was followed by “Sequel to The Woman With the ‘Oily Eyes'”.

If you’d like to read the rest, please check out Monster: From the Pages of Dark Worlds Quarterly.