Young Blood
Mike Baker, Ed.
349 pages
ISBN: 0821744984
Status: O/P
Publisher: Zebra Books
Pub. Date: March 1994

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.

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.

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Welcome to the world of the vampire, sensuous lover, dark guest, shapechanger and demon, whos lusts know no bounds, and in whose embrace no man is safe. "There are many breeds of vampires. Some have fangs that unsheathe like a cat's claws, some have stingers in their tongues, and some are smotherers who lie heavy on your chest and crush the breath from you. Some eat blood, or semen, or organs, or shit, or life itself. "I eat dreams."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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