"Es reiten die Toten so schnell" (or: the Vampyre sucking at his own Vein) (German: "The Dead ride so fast"; usually referred to as "Es reiten die Toten so schnell") is the seventh album by darkwave act Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 2003. A double vinyl edition and an A5-sized boxed set edition was released, in limited quantities of 666 and 1,999 copies, respectively. The double vinyl edition came with a poster, t-shirt, postcards, communion wafers and "authenticated" graveyard soil.