Have you tried Sir Charles Birkin?
Midnight House put out A Haunting Beauty, a collection of his short stories from the '30s, '40s, '50s, back in 2000. Pretty good stuff.
Sarban is a writer you’ve probably tried, but if not, look for Ringstones and Other Curious Tales or the superb short novel The Sound of his Horn.
Midnight House – I think those are the folks who did the Bob Leman collection (which is awesome). Nope, I haven’t tried him, or Sarban. Thanks – I’ll check these out.
Amazon lists the Birkin publisher as “Darkside Press,” but I’ve got the book in front of me and the colophon reads Midnight House.
They also did a great collection of W.C. Morrow’s stuff, which had been out of print for about a hundred damn years. His book was originally called The Ape, the Idiot, and Others, and was considered on of the great lost American classics of horror…Morrow was a disciple of Ambrose Bierce, and was responsible for such short nifties as “Over an Absinthe Bottle,” “His Unconquerable Enemy,” “The Permanent Stiletto,” and “In a Dark Room.” (Great titles, huh?)
Midnight put it out as The Monster Maker and Other Stories. Bless 'em.
The Birkin book is out of print at the publisher, but I found a copy at ABE for $35, which is probably a huge bargain. I also found Ringstones for $8, at Amazon.
So now I get to look for W. C. Morrow. Okay! 
On second thought, I have a bookcase full of horror anthologies, and a quite a few of them are “old”. I’ll bet there’s some Morrow there.
Have you read any Leo Perutz? Are Birkin and Sarban like that – old world-like, elegant, and mysterious?
Sarban is a little H.G. Wellsy. The Soulnd of his Horn is a dystopian novella set one huindred years after WWII, in a world where the Nazis won. It’s cool because it only shows us a small part of this world, and implies what’s going on on the rest of the planet.
Birkin is…well, I dunno if “elegant” is the word. He’s typical of mid-20th-century Brit writers of the macabre. Comparable to Nelson Bond, Cynthia Asquith, Robert Aickman…
Another vote for In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien. Very creepy and effective, although more of a thriller than a horror novel, I’d say.
I’d recommend Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (a small Maine town in 1975 is slowly, inexorably overtaken by vampires) and Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin (about vampires along the Mississippi River before the Civil War - think “Bram Stoker meets Mark Twain”). Both masterpieces of the genre, and not a detective or waitress to be seen!
Oh, good choices!
Salem’s Lot and Fevre Dream are two of the best vampire novels, I think. Salem’s Lot put vampires in small towns, which was brilliant. Before that, if you stayed out of Eastern Europe, you thought you were safe.
My favorite part of Fevre Dream is when Marsh reveals his origins – it’s two or three pages maybe, in the middle of the book, and it’s just heartbreaking.
I think you mean Joshua York, not Marsh the steamboat captain?
But you’re right, that’s a great chapter.
You’re right, it was York. Thanks for correcting that.
Maybe it’s time for a re-read.