A Coven of Vampires

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A Coven of Vampires
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Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author Brian Lumley
Illustrator Bob Eggleton
Cover artist Bob Eggleton
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre Horror
Published1998 (Fedogan & Bremer)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pagesix, 228
ISBN 1-878252-37-2
OCLC 39854583

A Coven of Vampires is a collection of horror short stories by English writer Brian Lumley. The stories all concern vampires. It was released in 1998 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 1,100 copies, of which 100 were numbered and signed by the author, and illustrator. Most of the stories originally appeared in a number of different anthologies and collections or in the magazines Terror Australis , Fantasy Tales, Weirdbook, Fear!, Fantasy and Science Fiction and Kadath.

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