Pre-Dracula Vampire Literature Masterpost Part II: 1850 - 1897
Le Vampire (The Vampire) by Alexandre Dumas (1851) [Cadytech.com]
Le Vampire (aka The Vampires of London) by Angelo de Sorr (1852) [Black Coat Press - English Translation ($)]
La Baronne Trépassée (The Dead Baroness aka The Vampire and the Devil’s Son) by Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail. (1852) [Ebooksgratuits.com - French PDF] [Black Coat Press - English Translation ($)]
“Le Vampire” (“The Vampire”) by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1857) [Fleursdemal.org - Multiple Translations] [Poemhunter.com]
“Quetait-ce?” (“What Was It?”) by Fitz-James O'Brien (1859) [University of Adelaide] [Bartelby.com] (not explicitly about vampires, although it does concern a creature that bites sleeping people)
Le Chevalier Tenebre (The Shadow Knight aka Knightshade) by Paul Henri Corentin Féval (1860) [Black Coat Press - English Translation ($)]
“The Mysterious Stranger” by Anonymous (1860) [The Literary Gothic]
“The Cold Embrace” by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1860) [GoogleBooks] [Gaslight] (not explicitly about vampires, although it does concern the re-arisen dead)
“Les Métamorphoses du vampire” (“Metamorphosis of a Vampire”) by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1860) [Fleursdemal.org - Multiple Translations]
Le Vampire Du Val-de-Grace (The Vampire of the Val-de-Grace) by Leon Gozlan (1861) [GoogleBooks - French] [Archive.org - French] [Black Coat Press - English Translation ($)]
Spirite: A Fantasy by Théophile Gautier (1861) [GoogleBooks] [Wikisource - French] (not explicitly about vampires, although it does concern the re-arisen dead)
“The Vampire; or, Pedro Pacheco and the Bruxa” by William H. G. Kingston (1863) [GoogleBooks] (concerns a bruxa, rather than typical Slavic vampires)
La Vampire (The Vampire aka The Vampire Countess) by Paul Henri Corentin Féval (1865) [Project Gutenberg - French] [Black Coat Press - English Translation ($)]
La Ville-Vampire (Vampire City) by Paul Henri Corentin Féval (1867) [Archive.org - French] [Black Coat Press - English Translation ($)] (apparently features Gothic author Ann Radcliff as a vampire hunter)
“The Last Lords of Gardonal” by William Gilbert (1867) [GoogleBooks: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3] [Gaslight]
Vikram and the Vampire by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1871) [Project Gutenberg] [GoogleBooks] [SacredTexts] (concerns a vetana or baital, rather than typical Slavic vampires)
“The Vampire Cat of Nabéshima” by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford in Tales of Old Japan (1871) [GoogleBooks] [Project Gutenberg] (concerns a bakeneko, rather than typical Slavic vampires)
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, in his In a Glass Darkly (1872) [GoogleBooks] [Archive.org] [Project Gutenberg] [Lesvampires.org] [SFF.net]
“Ombra” by Mrs. Richard S. Greenough, in Arabesques (1872) [GoogleBooks] [Archive.org] (concerns an animate corpse-like double awakened by the use of blood)
“Strigoii” (“Ghosts”) by Mihai Eminescu (1876) [Gabrielditu.com - English and Romanian]
Le Capitaine Vampire (Captain Vampire) by Marie Nizet (1879) [Black Coat Press - English Translation ($)]
“The Fate of Madame Cabanel” by Eliza Lynn Linton (1880) [Scribd][Vampiresrealm.files.wordpress]
“Posle Devedeset Godina” (“After Ninety Years”) by Milovan Glišic (1880) [Kodkicosa.com - Serbian]
“The Man-Eating Tree” by Phil Robinson, in his From Under the Punkah (1881) [GoogleBooks] [Archive.org] (about a carnivorous plant, rather than a human vampire)
“Klara Milich” by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1882) [University of Adelaide] (not explicitly about vampires, although it does concern the re-arisen dead)
“The Vampyre” by Owen Meredith (1882) [GoogleBooks] [Archive.org]
“Life’s Secret” by Rev. Lal Behari Day, from Folk Tales of Bengal (1883)[GoogleBooks] [Archive.org] [Project Gutenberg] [Vampiresrealm.files.wordpress - PDF] (concerns a man mystically killed and brought back to life)
“The Vampire” by Jan Naruda (1884?) [Project Gutenberg]
“Manor” by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1884) [Urania Manuscripts] [Project Gutenberg - German]
“Strigoiul” (“The Vampyre”) by Vasile Alecsandri [Lesvampires.org] [Thevampiresrealm.wordpress.com - Romanian]
The Horla by Guy de Maupassant (1887) [University of Virgina] [Project Gutenberg - French]
“Ken’s Mystery” (aka The Grave of Ethelind Fionguala) by Julian Hawthorne (1887) [East of the Web]
“A Mystery of the Campagna” by Anne Crawford (under pseudonym Von Degen) (1887) [GoogleBooks] [Vampiresrealm.files.wordpress.com - PDF]
“The Old Portrait” by Hume Nisbet (1890) [Multoghost.files.wordpress.com]
“The Vampire Maid” by Hume Nisbet (1890) [Project Gutenberg] [Lesvampires.org]
“Let Loose” by Mary Cholmondeley (1890) [Project Gutenberg] [The Literary Gothic] [Lesvampires.org] (not explicitly about vampires, although it does concern the re-arisen dead and a specter seeking the blood of a victim)
Le chateâu des Carpathes (The Castle of the Carpathians) by Jules Verne (1892) [Archive.org] [Project Gutenberg - French]
“The Vampire” by Felix Dahn (1892) [GoogleBooks]
“The Death of Halpin Frayser” by Ambrose Bierce (1893) [GoogleBooks] [East of the Web] (not explicitly about vampires, although it does concern the re-arisen dead and a great deal of blood)
The Parasite by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1894) [Project Gutenberg] [University of Virgina] (about psychic vampirism, rather than sanguinary vampirism)
“The True Story of a Vampire” (aka “The Sad Story of a Vampire”) by Stanislaus Eric aka Count Eric Stenbock (1894) [Lesvampires.org]
“A Kiss of Judas” by X.L. (Julian Osgood Field), in his Aut Diabolus Aut Nihil, and Other Tales (1894) [GoogleBooks] [Archive.org]
Lilith by George MacDonald (1895) [Project Gutenberg] [Ccel.org]
“Good Lady Ducayne” by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1896) [GoogleBooks] [University of Minnesota Duluth] (not explicitly about vampires, although it does concern the harvesting of a victim’s blood)
“The Vampire of Croglin Grange” by Augustus Hare (1896) [Project Gutenberg] [Lesvampires.org] [National Wildlife Foundation - PDF]
“Phorfor” by Matthew Phipps Shiel (1896) [GoogleBooks]
Adapted from this forum post. Original poster has not read all works listed, but has applied descriptive/helpful notes where possible.
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