Young Blood
Mike Baker
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ISBN: 0821744984
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Synopsis: A collection of terrifying tales features early works from Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Robert E. Howard, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, and other writers. Original.


Lords of the Night
Bennett, Janice, Sarah Blayne, Monique Ellis
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ISBN: 0821755935
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Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp.
Pub. Date: March 1997

Synopsis: Three hauntingly romantic tales that transport readers to a Regency London where dashing lords of darkness possess charms no lady can resist. Includes "Dark Shadows" by Sara Blayne, "The Full of the Moon" by Janice Bennett, and "The DeVille Inheritance" by Monique Ellis. A Regency romance original.


Love in Vein
Poppy Z. Brite
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ISBN: 0061054909
Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks
Pub. Date: October 1995

Synopsis: Like scotch or very dry martinis, these 20 servings of "vampiric erotica" may be for many a resistible acquired taste. Those who do wind up enjoying this controversial new literature that goes "deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers" may, however, find this anthology intoxicating. In it, the beast is beautiful, a situation probed by Charles de Lint, Gene Wolfe, and less-known others. Celebrating "unspeakable intimacies," the stories explore the subversive appeal of vampirism in all its manifestations as readers meet a color-blind veterinarian mysteriously--and, without regular refills, only temporarily--restored to a world of color by a strange elixir from a prostitute's third nipple; a vampire whose dying, mortal wife has nourished him for years by allowing him to hurt her, then draw her sensations of fear and pain from her for his own sustenance; and a pair of lesbians who literally copulate the father of one to death. Not as mainstream as Ann Rice, this anthology might be most comfortable in extensive and specialized horror collections.


Love in Vein II
Poppy Z. Brite
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Format: Mass Market Paperback - 432 pages
ISBN: 0061054909
Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks
Pub. Date: February 1998

Synopsis: Following the success of Love in Vein, Poppy Z. Brite offers a second dark gift--another intimate volume of vampiric erotica. From the New Orleans goth scene to the punk bars of Amsterdam, from the Dark behind the glow of Las Vegas to the secret lovers who dwell in Lugosi's tomb--platinum pop stars, lascivious lap dancers, naughty necrophiles, this collection contains 18 stories from master storytellers.


Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women
Victoria A. Brownworth
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1878067710
Publisher: Seal Pr Feminist Pub
Pub. Date: February 1996

Synopsis: Based largely on the murderous late-medieval figures Elizabeth of Bathory and Vlad the Impaler--both infamous for sucking or drinking their victims' blood--vampires seem to have become twentieth-century icons. Despite the plethora of vampire yarns and studies, Brownworth's is the first collection of vampire stories all by women. Particularly interesting are Toni Brown's "Immunity," set against a background of Afrocentric supernatural folklore, Judith M. Redding's "Unexpurgated Notes from a Homicide Case File," in which detective Teresa Dash considers the unusual case notes about four young black urbanites, Meredith Suzanne Baird's "They Have No Faces," which returns us to the original turf of the vampire in Eastern Europe, as does Judith Katz's chillingly funny and grotesque "Anita, Polish Vampire, Holds Forth at the Jewish Cafe of the Dead," in which the first Jewish vampire entertains a fascinated visiting scholar. Wonderfully broad-ranging, this anthology will find an appreciative audience among both vampire aficionados and just plain adventurous readers.


King Vikram and the Vampire : Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance
Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, Isabel Burton
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Format: Paperback - 243 pages
ISBN: 0892814756
Status: Out of Stock
Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd.
Pub. Date: April 1993

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Tomorrow Sucks
Greg Cox, T.K.E. Weissopf
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ISBN: 0671876260
Publisher: Baen Books
Pub. Date: October 1994

Synopsis: From the streets of old London to the squalid fleshpots of Mars, from the Russian steppes to the gleaming decks of interplanetary spaceships, a new breed of bloodsucker is on the loose. These scientific vampires stalk through time and space in search of prey, both human and otherwise. And not even Dracula was more deadly. Original.

Journeying from the streets of old London to the decks of interplanetary spaceships, a new collection of science fiction vampire tales features short stories by Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Dean Ing, Spider Robinson, and other notable authors.


Dalby, Richard; Dracula's Brood
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Vampire Stories
Richard Dalby
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ISBN: 1555219004
Publisher: Book Sales, Inc.
Pub. Date: October 1993

Synopsis: Loathsome, yet charged with decadent glamour, it is small wonder that the vampire has been a popular and recurring theme of horror fiction, and has inspired some of the finest writing in thhe genre.

In this volume are gathered tales that may keep the reader awake long aftre midnight; a multitude of variations and unexpected twists of the theme which make few concessions to those of a sqeamish nature. Included are works by such renown writers as John Wyndham, Anne Rice, Robert Bloch, and the undisputed master of the vampire tale, Bram Stoker,, plus an introductory word from a man who has, over his acting career, staked numerous Princes of Darkness - Peter Cushing.


A Whisper of Blood
Ellen Datlow
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ISBN: 0441002668
Status: Out of Stock
Publisher: Ace Books
Pub. Date: October 1995

Synopsis: Here are 18 chilling tales of vampirism from esteemed writers of science fiction and horror. Authors include Robert Silverberg, Suzy McKee Charnas, Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, David J. Schow, Karl Edward Wagner, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilbur, Thomas Ligotti, and many more. Reissue.


Blood is Not Enough
Ellen Datlow
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Killing Me Softly
Gardner Dozois
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Format: Paperback - 326 pages
ISBN: 0061053287
Status: Out of Print
Publisher: HarperPrism
Pub. Date: November 1995

Synopsis: True love is a rapture that outlives the flesh, a desire that reaches beyond the grave, a passion that transfigures even death. This hauntingly seductive new collection of erotic stories by today's most celebrated authors probes the shadowy realm where life's two great mysteries - love and death - meet and embrace.


Issac Asimov's Vampires
Gardner Dozois, Sheila Williams
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ISBN: 0441003877
Publisher: Ace Books
Pub. Date: November 1996

Synopsis: Provocative tales of immortal hunger and desire transport readers to a tantalizing world that awakens when the sun goes down. From the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, readers take an eerie trip into the dark side of night with stories by Pat Cadigan, Sharon N. Farber, Gregory Frost, Tanith Lee, Susan Palwick, David Redd, Mark W. Tiedmann and Connie Willis.


Vampire and Werewolf Stories
Alan Durant, Nick Hardcastle
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Format: Paperback - 224 pages
ISBN: 0753451522
Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Pub. Date: October 1998

Synopsis: Featuring an invigorating mix of classic and contemporary writing by such authors as Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, and Angela Carter, this collection of nightmarish stories and excerpts provides an ideal introduction to children just beginning to read classic fiction. Line illustrations.


Girl's Night Out
Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Hardback - 545 pages
ISBN: 0760704244
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Publisher: Barnes and Noble Books
Pub. Date: 1997

Synopsis: Girl's Night Out taps this rich vein of horror fiction for 29 blood chilling tales of vampire villainesses and heroines. Its selections span the spectrum from theh dramatic to the satiric, and feature female characters who are he equal of men in their capacity for passion and evil.


Time of Vampires
P.N. Elrod, Martin H. Greenberg
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ISBN: 0886776937
Publisher: New American Library
Pub. Date: May 1996

Synopsis: Eighteen chilling short stories--by Tanya Huff, P. N. Elrod, Lois Tilton, and other notable authors--journey into the dark world of the vampire, revealing the exploits of these creatures of darkness throughout history, from ancient Greece to the present day. Original.

In this all new anthology, 18 of todays top authors take a bite out of vampire lore with their own nightmarish visions. From a vampire blessed by Christ, to the truth about Oscar Wilde and the Bow Street Runners, such acclaimed authors as Tanya Huff, P.N. Elrod and Lois Tilton are among the writers brave enough to take on these thirsty lords of the night. Original.


After Midnight
Carol Finch, Colleen Faulkner, Karen Ranney
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ISBN: 0821760416
Publisher: Zebra Books
Pub. Date: November 1998

Synopsis: Handsome vampires roam the centuries in search of everlasting love. Graveyards and garlic, rapturous esctasy and ravishing passion by moonlight... three bewitching women of theh past fall in love with the most dashing of the undead...


Blood Muse: Timeless Tales of Vampires in the Arts
Esther M. Friesner, Martin H. Greenberg
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Synopsis: The leading humorous fantasist (Friesner) and the leading sf-fantasy anthologist (Greenberg) collaborate to compile this less than wholly humorous anthology. The stories disclose vampires in painting, cinema, music, sculpture, dance, writing, and several other fine and performing arts. If any subsidiary theme predominates, it is the loneliness of the vampire compounding--and sometimes fighting against--the loneliness of the artist. Particularly memorable stories include those by established writers Jane Yolen and Susan Shwartz and those by relative unknowns Thomas Roche, Laura Ann Ginman, Gregory Nicoll, and Tim Waggoner. The average quality is more than acceptable, as the contents both explore the main theme with intelligence and offer an abundance of good reading to the literate vampire fan.


A Taste for Blood
Martin H. Greenberg
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Celebrity Vampires
Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Mass Market Paperback - 318 pages
ISBN: 0886776678
Publisher: New American Library
Pub. Date: October 1995

Synopsis: From a Catskill song and dance team to an act of kindness by Marilyn Monroe, from a mysterious admirer of Tallulah Bankhead to an opera singer who might steal more than the show, here are 20 original tales about those who thirst to drink the rich, dark wine of fame. Original.


Vamps : An Anthology of Female Vampire Stories
Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh
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ISBN: 0886771900
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Vampire Slayers : Stories of Those Who Dare to Take Back the Night
Martin H. Greenberg, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1581820364
Publisher: Cumberland House
Pub. Date: September 1999

Synopsis: Vampire Slayers is one of two things, depending on the reader: an absolute, must-have for the fan of vampires and particularly vampire-hunters; or, for the less-than-pleased with Van Helsing, a curious and eclectic selection of occult stories. Those who don't like horror at all will probably be bored (many of the stories involve similar settings: vampires take over the world), but fans will be entertained, as the stories stretch over many writers and styles.


Children of the Night : Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and 'Lost Children'
Martin H. Greenberg, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
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ISBN: 1581820372
Publisher: Cumberland House
Pub. Date: September 1999

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Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Mass Market Paperback - 316 pages
ISBN: 0886775310
Publisher: New American Library
Pub. Date: September 1992

Synopsis: Bram Stoker's Dracula has held a unique place in literature since the novel first sent shudders of fear through its captivated readers. This imaginative, bloodcurdling selection of original Dracula tales features the talents of Edgar Award winner John Lutz, P.N. Elrod, Rex Miller, F. Paul Wilson, and other top writers of the mystery, fantasy, and horror genres. Original.


Vampires: The Greatest Stories
Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Hardcover, 308pp
ISBN: 1567311679
Publisher: Fine Communications, Incorporated
Pub. Date: August 1997

Synopsis: The touch of cold fangs. The pallor of undead skin. The human shape that casts no reflection. The nocturnal wanderer, the nighttime feeder, like the owl, the bat, and the snake.

Vampires have always been with us, in our nightmares. From the cannibal, the werewolf, and the ghoul, extract various features and mix in the right proportion, to yield that most evil, most terrifying of all human-like creatures, the vampire: among us, but not one of us, resembling us, mingling with us, but secretly stalking us.


Vampire Detectives
Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 0886776260
Publisher: New American Library
Pub. Date: April 1995

Synopsis: Nineteen vampire tales include the story of a Toronto vampire detective who is pitted against one of her own kind, a Hollywood private eye who finds a script becoming dangerously real, and a cop on the trail of a bloodthirsty killer. Original.


Midnight Mass and Other Great Vampire Stories
Martin H. Greenberg
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ISBN: 0787119040
Publisher: Dove Booksellers
Pub. Date: September 1999

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Virtuous Vampires
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Sisters of the Night
Barbara Hambly, Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Mass Market Paperback - 320 pages
ISBN: 0446600520
Publisher: Aspect
Pub. Date: October 1998

Synopsis: This gripping collection of 15 original stories immortalizes the most mysterious, sensual and deadly women of all--female vampires. Some of the hottest names in the SF/fantasy/horror field have created these enchanting creatures' fantastic history from ancient times to now in dark and terrifyingly beautiful stories.


Dark Tyrants: A Vampire: The Dark Ages Anthology
Robert Hatch, Justin Achilli
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Synopsis: This book is good for spawning ideas for your V:DA chronicle. However, some of the stories are better than others. Many of the clans are mentioned including: a great story about native Gangrel being colonized by Christians in Ireland. Unfotunately there is no stories on everyones favorite: the Tzimice.


Mammoth Book of Vampires
Stephen Jones
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0881847968
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date: July 1992

Synopsis: The masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in these never-before-collected stories and short novels of the vampire in all its frightening forms. Authors include Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, and David J. Schow. Includes the first publication of Red Reign, by Kim Newman, author of Bad Dreams and The Night Mayor.



Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories
Pam Keesey
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Format: Paperback - 251 pages
ISBN: 1573440760
Publisher: Cleis Pr
Pub. Date: December 1998

Synopsis: In an erotic celebration of the lesbian vampire--the quintessential bad girl who defies all the rules--the most popular lesbian authors writing today, including Jewelle Gomez, Robbi Sommers, and Pat Califia, present ten compelling stories.


Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories
Pam Keesey
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1573440140
Publisher: Cleis Pr
Pub. Date: October 1995

Synopsis: Like its prequel Daughters of Darkness, Dark Angels reclaims the vampire as a sensual, homoerotic being, whose female essence has been overwritten by Hollywood images of heterosexual seduction.


City of Darkness: Unseen
Erin Kelly, Stewart Wieck
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1565048105
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Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc
Pub. Date: May 1995

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Love Bites
Amarantha Knight
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ISBN: 1563332345
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Synopsis: A volume of tales dedicated to legend's sexiest demon,the Vampire. Includes such names as Ron Dee, Nancy A. Collins, Nancy Kilpatrick, Lois Tilton, David Aaron Clark, and promising new talent.


World of Darkness: Dark Destiny
Edward E. Kramer, John Cobb
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1565048156
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc.
Pub. Date: March 1997

Synopsis: Throughout history, humanity has been manipulated by shadowy, inhuman beings. Secret wars have been waged to settle vampires' disputes. Cultures have been created to advance mages' visions of Ascension. Enemies of the Earth have been defeated by werewolves as they prepare for their Apocalypse. This is the World of Darkness, a place where fears become reality.


Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate
Edward E. Kramer, Mike Mignola, Nancy A. Collins
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1565048164
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Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc
Pub. Date: March 1997

Synopsis: In this historical journey, readers will experience the fall of the Roman Empire, the crucifixion of Christ, and the Spanish Inquisition. They will meet Joan of Arc, Alister Crowley and Adolph Hitler--and witness their manipulation of the forces from beyond. Unspeakable truths are now revealed. The collection features fiction by a host of bestselling authors.


Dark Destiny III : Children of Dracula
Edward E. Kramer
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Format: Mass Market Paperback - 400 pages
ISBN: 1565048385
Status: Out of Stock
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc
Pub. Date: March 1998

Synopsis: Readers discover the bloody legacy of the World of Darkness' greatest villain, Vlad Tepes, the Impaler, known to his victims as Dracula. A tyrannical warlord in life, in death Dracula has risen to an apex of power unimaginable to mortals and vampires alike. Now the atrocities of Dracula and his children stand revealed in this thrid collection of anthologies chronicling the dark and complex world of vampires.


Vampire Stories to Tell in the Dark
Anthony Masters
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ISBN: 0140369546
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Publisher: Puffin
Pub. Date: 1995

Synopsis: Ten chucklingly chilly short stories that closely resemble those told around the campfire to frighten younger children.


Under the Fang
Robert McCammon
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ISBN: 0671695738
Status: Out of Stock
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pub. Date: August 1991

Synopsis: This book is broken down into a number of short stories with the same premise. That is, a post apocalyptic explosion of vampires. They rule our world. They've enslaved mankind as their food source. I found the story of the freedom fighters in the antartic holding out against a military made up entirely of vampires to be engaging. The tired vampire colonel who wishes to have the bloodshed stop was a great character that I wish could have been explored more indepth. The stories are unique and show a mad world where humanity is 'under the fang'.


Somewhere in the Night: Eight Gay Tales of the Supernatural
Jeffrey N. McMahan
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Format: Paperback - 190 pages Reprint
ISBN: 1555834329
Publisher: Alyson Pubns
Pub. Date: October 1997

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The Vampire in Verse
Steven Moore
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0961194421
Publisher: Dracula Press
Pub. Date: November 1985

Synopsis: This anthology is an excellent resource for those with a "serious" interest in vampire literature as well as those who just enjoy spooky poetry. The selection is very thorough, ranging from the early 1800s through the 1970s and including classics from Byron, Keats, and Kipling as well as obscure poems that might otherwise be impossible to find. Thorough endnotes give useful information about the poets and the context in which they wrote. This definitely deserves a place on the shelf of any vampire fan.




The Ultimate Dracula
Byron Preiss, Leonard Wolf
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Format: Paperback - 358 pages
ISBN: 0440503531
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Pub. Date: October 1991

Synopsis: Features original works by Anne Rice, Dan Simmons, Ed Gorman, and others.


Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood and Immortality
Michael Rowe, Thomas S. Roche
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1573440590
Publisher: Cleis Pr
Pub. Date: October 1996

Synopsis: Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood, and Immortality, is a collection of cutting-edge gay male vampire stories. The tales are darkly sensual and engaging, yet complicated in their relationship to eroticism and the myths of blood, devourment, isolation, freedom and ecstasy.


The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
Alan Ryan
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Format: Paperback - 640 pages Reprint edition
ISBN: 0140124454
Publisher: Penguin USA
Pub. Date: September 1990

Synopsis: Collected here are 32 stories featuring the frightening creature--the vampire. Just in time for Halloween, this character will be shown in all its forms--male, female, alive, undead, on the prowl, in the bedroom, hungry and hedonistic, doomed and daring.


Blood Lines: Vampire Stories from New England
Lawrence Schimel, Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Paperback - 224 pages
ISBN: 1888952504
Publisher: Cumberland House
Pub. Date: September 1997

Synopsis: Introduction, NEW HAMPSHIRE "Investigating Jericho" Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, MASSACHUSSETTS "The Brotherhood of Blood" Hugh B. Cave, CONNECTICUT "Chastel" Manly Wade Wellman, MAINE "The Doom of the House of Duryea" Earl Pierce Jr., VERMONT "Moonlight in Vermont" Esther Friesner, CONNECTICUT "Secret Societies" Lawrence Schimel, MASSACHUSSETS "Luella Miller" Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, NEW HAMPSHIRE "When the Red Strom Comes" Sarah Smith, CONNECTICUT "The Beautiful, the Damned" Kristine Kathryn Rusch, RHODE ISLAND "The Shunned House" H. P. Lovecraft


Fields of Blood : Vampire Stories from the American Midwest
Lawrence Schimel, Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Paperback - 240 pages
ISBN: 1888952792
Publisher: Cumberland House
Pub. Date: April 1998

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Streets of Blood : Vampire Stories from New York City
Lawrence Schimel, Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Paperback - 240 pages
ISBN: 1888952784
Publisher: Cumberland House
Pub. Date: May 1998

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Southern Blood : Vampire Stories from the American South
Lawrence Schimel, Martin H. Lawrence, Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Paperback - 203 pages
ISBN: 1888952490
Publisher: Cumberland House
Pub. Date: September 1997

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The Book of Dracula
Leslie Shepard
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The Dracula Book of Great Horror Stories
Leslie Shepard
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Format: Paperback Reprint edition
ISBN: 0806507659
Publisher: Carol Pub Group
Pub. Date: September 1991

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The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories
Leslie Shepard
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Format: Paperback - 269 pages Reissue edition
ISBN: 0806507047
Status: Out of Stock
Publisher: Citadel Pr
Pub. Date: June 1987

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Classic Vampire Stories
Leslie Shepard
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 080651664X
Status: Out of Stock
Publisher: Birch Lane Pr
Pub. Date: November 1995

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The Darkest Thirst : A Vampire Anthology
Thomas J. Strauch
Our Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback - 247 pages
ISBN: 1891946005
Publisher: Design Image Group Inc
Pub. Date: March 1998

Synopsis: The Darkest Thirst (put together by an unnamed editorial committee) is an anthology of 16 original vampire tales. They're organized under five subheadings. The first, Dark Histories, are stories set in the past, ranging from a pregnant vampire at the time of the Norman Conquest to a World War II story about soldiers in the Balkan Mountains. Edo van Belkom, a 1998 Bram Stoker winner, contributes a well-researched tale that asks "What if?" about Rasputin and his famous resistance to being murdered.

The second, Obsessions, contains a clever cyberspace tale in which TepesAllure and Raven meet each other in a chat room. The best in the collection is "Waiting for the 400" by Kyle Marffin, author of Carmilla: The Return. In this classic noir love story set in the 1950s, a sultry gal with dark red hair and a sleeveless dress to match gets off the train from Chicago and walks right into the heart of the man who runs the rural depot in northern Wisconsin. The outcome of their encounter is ambiguous, lingering in the reader's mind like an old blues song.

The third, The Hunted, features three action tales about vampires and those who pursue them. The fourth, Redemption, offers a heady dose of Catholicism, as nuns and priests both test and find faith in their encounters with the undead.

The fifth, Arts & Letters, has two tales about the aesthetic dimension of the vampire experience. Robert Devereaux's "Nocturne A Tre in B-Double-Sharp Minor" is a beautifully imagined variation on the erotic possibilities of a conductor's talent, and Deborah Markus's "For the Love of Vampires" finishes off the anthology with a witty, self-referential meditation on what authors who write about vampires really want.

Some of the stories are a bit predictable--black velvet cloaks, fog-shrouded mountain passes, the blood hunger burning in the veins--but the prose is rarely off-key. The Darkest Thirst is a classy and satisfying anthology.


Kiss of Death
Thomas J. Strauch
Our Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback - 283 pages
ISBN: 1891946056
Publisher: Design Image Group Inc
Pub. Date: December 1998

Synopsis: They lurk among the shadows in grimy city alleys, they reveal themselves amidst humanity's own man-made horrors, they rise from the darkness in fog shrouded forests, they may even hide in the house right next door, sitting there beside us, mirroring our strangest dreams and our most terrifying nightmares, weaving their dark magic of sin and lust and delicious violence, just waiting to embrace us with their kiss of madness...their kiss of dark desire...their kiss of death.


Strangers in the Night
Anne Stuart, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Maggie Shayne
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ISBN: 0373483120
Publisher: Harlequin Retail Inc
Pub. Date: October 1995

Synopsis: These three spooky love stories include Anne Stuart's Dark Journey--Cloaked in the form of a stranger, he lived a lie with the one woman he couldn't deny himself. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Catching Dreams--He existed only in her dreams, until she found him in the flesh, and herself in a nightmare. And Maggie Shayne's Beyond Twilight--He was a vengeful vampire hunter--fated for a forbidden love to last an eternity. Original.


Blood Kiss: Vampire Erotica
Cecilia Tan
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Format: Paperback - 140 pages
ISBN: 1885865007
Status: Out of Stock
Publisher: Circlet Pr
Pub. Date: October 1994

Synopsis: Newly reprinted with a gold foil embossed cover, Blood Kiss continues to sell as the vampire craze brought on by Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire continues to grow. Blood Kiss contains the first appearance of "Cinnamon Roses" by Renee M. Charles, chosen for inclusion in the 1995 Best American Erotica by Susie Bright.


Erotica Vampirica: Sensual Vampire Stories
Cecilia Tan
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Format: Paperback - 192 pages
ISBN: 1885865082
Status: Out of Stock
Publisher: Circlet Pr
Pub. Date: November 1996

Synopsis: In the tradition of Blood Kiss: Vampire Erotica (Circlet Press, 1994) Erotica Vampirica collects tales of vampire mythos where sex and sexuality are no longer sublimated or hidden. These vampires are more than just allure and smoke, they burn with lust and the physical need to sate their hunger.


Cherished Blood: Vampire Erotica
Cecilia Tan
Our Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback - 192 pages
ISBN: 188586518X
Publisher: Circlet Pr
Pub. Date: November 1997

Synopsis: Cherished Blood is the third of Circlet Press's top-selling erotic vampire anthologies. Distinguished from the popular works of Anne Rice and other vampire authors, whose vampires such blood instead of having sex, Cherished Blood features vamps whose physical needs go beyond a nightly drink.




Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps
Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg
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Synopsis: Collects a story from each of the "pulp" fiction magazines available from the 1920s to the 1950s, guaranteed to chill and thrill--if they don't make ill--all but the most bloodless readers.


The Rivals of Dracula : a century of vampire fiction
Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg
Retail Price: $???
Format: Hardback - 377 pages
ISBN: 0552104108
Status: Out of Print
Publisher: Barnes and Noble
Pub. Date: 1996

Synopsis: It has been almost one hundred years since a clutch of intrepid Englishmen drove a stake through Dracula's heart, and yet the cunning count, thanks in no small part to his creator, Bram Stoker, continues to exercise a tenacious hold on the imagination of both readers and writers. We refuse to let him die. Not that his immortality consists of a fixed image. Rivals of Dracula, a collection of stories written over the last five decades that feature Dracula as a character, is the culmination of theh vampire's exploits so far.


1000 Viscious Little Vampire Stories
Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg
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Format: Hardback - 588 pages
ISBN: 1566195586
Status: Not availiable on Amazon.com
Publisher: Barnes and Noble
Pub. Date: 1995

Synopsis: As the tales in 1000 Viscious Little Vampire Stories make clear, there is no simple answer to the question: What is a vampire? For in this volume, no two vampires are exactly alike, and readers will find that their presence is not limited to the worlds of fantasy, horror, and science fiction; the vampire is equally at home in mundane worlds in which any suggestion of the supernatural is conspicuously lacking.


World of Darkness: The Beast Within
Stewart Wiek
Our Price: $???
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1565040864
Status: Out of Stock
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc
Pub. Date: May 1994

Synopsis: This anthology of 13 vampire tales explores the even darker side of the World of Darkness' San Francisco. Authors include S.P. Somtow, Lois Tilton, Lawrence Watt-Evans and Matthew Costello.


Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
Leonard Wolf
Our Price: $13.56
Format: Paperback - 379 pages Reprint
ISBN: 0195132505
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr.
Pub. Date: September 1999

Synopsis: Featuring selections from such writers as Anne Rice, Edith Wharton, Joyce Carol Oates, Woody Allen, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, Blood Thirst presents a blood-curdling collection of the best vampire fiction since the publication of Dracula 100 years ago.

A roundup of over two dozen vampire tales illustrating the evolution of the genre since Bram Stoker, gathered by Wolf, our tireless annotator of terrorlit (Dracula, p. 372, etc.). What, Wolf asks, makes vampires so attractive today? He notes in his cogent Introduction that vampire tales draw from the gruesome in mainstream horror, the pulsing eroticism of bodice rippers, the supernatural in sword-and-sorcery. But blood is the primary metaphor, Wolf says, drawing on folk knowledge and traditions from Cain and Abel to Christ and transubstantiation, while the modern blood exchange brings on a kind of sexual dream- bliss beyond the facts of intercourse.


Vampire Bugs: Stories Conjured from the Past
Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Curtis E. James
Our Price: $14.95
Format: Hardcover - 80 pages
ISBN: 0385320825
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Pub. Date: February 1995

Synopsis: Beware of conjurers and voodoo queens! In their wake, strange things happen. Witches shrink to the size of peas, and children are transformed into bugs or birds. But if fear hides in the folds of the voodoo queen's cloak, so does power. Conjure women and conjure men--versed in spells and potions to cure any ill--were once familiar figures in America. The occupation has dwindled, but the fascination remains. Their feats live on in folktales and history.



Vampires; A Collection of Original Stories
Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg
Our Price: $4.50 + $2.35 special surcharge
Format: Paperback - 240 pages
ISBN: 0064404854
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date: August 1993

Synopsis: Thirteen tales, at least one for every taste (as long as it's blood): mall-rat vampires, pious Jewish vampires, squeamish vampires, and shaman vampires; vampires accepted, rejected, or defeated. Scary stories, labored stories, funny stories--after this, no one could claim that when you've seen one vampire you've seen them all. Not for everybody, but (mostly) good clean fun for enthusiasts.

Miscellaneous

Graphic Novels/Comic Books/Magazines

Graphic Novels
Taboux

Comic Books
Tomb of Dracula
Vampirella

Magazines

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