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Jul 11, 2015
The editor(s) of this collection love Sir Conan Doyle and before reading this I thought I did too. However reading the intro which reminds one of all the kinds of books he wrote and having read some of them I realized 'he's just not that good'. The 'vampire' definition has been stretched so that the book can exist but really there are few 'undead' in these stories. So FIRST the title of the book is misleading an advertising ploy. Then SECOND the stories are not very captivating. And lastly reminded me of my latest rereading of some of the Holmes stories (some of which are in this volume) that too often I didn't care about the solution, which really means I didn't care about the mystery. So Conan Doyle wasn't a hack but also not a great writer, I suspect, unless you are 9-13 years old.