Blood and Roses
Sharon Bainbridge
280 pages
ISBN: 1557739854
Status: Out of Print
Publisher: Diamond Books
Pub. Date: January 1994

Synopsis:
When a woman turns into a vampire after a visit to the home of Sir Geoffrey, a mysterious and eligible bachelor, she seeks a cure from a doctor who claims to be a colleague of the man who killed Dracula. Original.

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A tantalizing tale of horror infused with the dark lustre of Japanese Gothic - certain to leave an indelible mark on the imagination. Becoming a vampire was easier than she ever dreamed... Living as a vampire was more complicated than she ever expected... Understanding what it meant to be a vampire would prove harder than she ever imagined...

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Ardeth is leading the predictable life of a graduate student. Then she is grabbed off the street and thrown into a prison cell with a dark, mysterious stranger--Dimitri Rozokov, a Russian aristocrat--and vampire. Hardcover previously published by Fawcett entitled 'The Night Inside'.

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After his wife's death, snake handler and cocaine addict David Bathory feels mysteriously drawn to the homeland of his vampire ancestors, where, in the wake of his father's "undeath," battle lines are being drawn between his brother Michael and uncle Stephen. As Michael and Stephen begin their war to head the vampire family, David is led down a path full of horrors and destruction during a cross-country odyssey of discovery, for the two vampires, one of them destined to carry on the Bathory tradition, are struggling for the power David could add to the one or the other. Caught between the real world and the evil his family has created over the course of centuries, David descends into an abyss of incest and satanism before he finally escapes. Baker spins a gothic tale that blends the influences of Bram Stoker's Dracula and the general lore of vampires with sensual imagery and occult themes to create a unique novel well worthy of horror fans' attention.

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There is a vampire war brewing in the underworld and at the center of it all is Damali Richards, spoken word artist and Vampire Huntress. But she is not just any Vampire Huntress, she is the millenium Neteru. A woman so potentially powerful that the vampire world is about to invoke a bloody battle that threatens to spill over onto her streets in order to posses her. It's just a matter of who will get to her first. Fallon Nuit, a rogue vampire, is one of the most powerful Damali has ever encountered and he has allied himself with the deadly Amanrath demons in order to claim her. But the Vampire Council has plans for her as well. And now an unlikely variable has entered into the equation, an ex-lover now turned vampire with an agenda of his own. And she must risk trusting him once more if they are to survive.

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This Dark Age Supplement for Vampire is one great read. What I liked about this book is that it gave historical view of the codes and conducts of chivalry, and the sociteies of the canite knighthoods. Whitewolf's eyecatching artwork in its shades of black white, catch the feel of the Dark Ages and creates a good atmosphere for the book. For those who play Vampire: TDA, this books holds are real treat as it details the "Grail Knights" briefly mentioned in previous books. They are something more than you typical Cainite Knight. Also featured in this book are some New Traits and Merits & Flaws for your character. This is one book I feel I will have plenty of use for in my library. ~A reader

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The Sabbat: wild, free. Vampires reveling in their inhumanity. In Toronto, they rule the night. The Camarilla: silent, restrained. Vampires denying the Beast within. In Toronto, they are prisoners, trophies of conquest, trapped inside the confines of the Box. Bianka has come to lead Camarilla to freedom through rebellion, to give them a change to recover their lost pride. Lot can't allow that to happen. It is his duty to the Sabbat to ensure that the Camarilla remain prisoners. Two fierce sects. Two missions that could destroy the uneasy peace in the city. One great, unexpected love that could destroy two vampires.

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The book is very good but I highly recommend getting Kindred of the East first and getting familiar with it. The book shows the different events and systems for the Dark Ages for Kindred of the East and it does a very nice job. Among my favorite is the list of the old weapons used in the far east like the naginata and the sai. Overall the book was good, but of course good only for those interested in Kindred of the East. ~malec

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A grisly horror epic in the tradition of Vampire Junction. Is the Bloodletter merely a figment of a crazed writer's imagination--or a real vampire who has haunted Hollywood since the days of Bela Lugosi? HC: Tor. Novelist Stephen Albright is the creator of a vampire character who takes possession of people. Afraid the vampire is taking possession of him as well, he seeks help from psychologist Eva LaPorte. In the light of the murders being committed in the vampire's name, she finds him a fascinating case and falls in love--to her regret. The setting is Los Angeles. - Synopsis copyright Fiction Digest

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In the dead of night, a desperate plea for help calls him to the rescue of a woman he had loved and lost. Reality and dream merge in a macabre dance of death as Richard seeks to save fragile human lives he has sworn a blood-oath to protect. Haunted by the anguish and raptures of his ancient past and locked in a lethal struggle to survive in the present, Richard must reconsile the two if he is ever to find eternal peace. But the price is that the Dark Fates demand of him is very high. For over a thousand years he's served them well, yet now they want all he has left: his battered and tarnished soul...

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In Gaul at the dawn of the Middle Ages, Lord Richard was his family's fighting man, its invincible champion--until some force twisted his blade from his hand. And then he met the Lady Sabra, who soothed his wounds, healed his pride--and turned him into a vampire under her tutelage. His new job: Keeper of the King of England. True to Sabra's wishes, the English king was keeping civilization alive. Richard's object in unlife: keep the king alive at all costs. But that was then--now it's the 1990s and Richard's job isn't over. And to top it all off, Lady Sabra has fallen victim to the sickness of the vampire, a frightening transformation which will effectively end her life if Richard doesn't find the Holy Grail in time to save her. HC: Baen. A vampire is appointed bodyguard to Canada's prime minister who is under a death threat from an IRA terrorist. The guard is Richard Dun, officially a Toronto security consultant but in fact a 1000-year-old vampire. Dun discovers the IRA terrorist is also a vampire. - Synopsis copyright Fiction Digest

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As beautiful and cruel as a wild animal Elizabeth Bathory casts a shadow of terror across Europe. Seducing. Killing. Bathing in the blood of the innocent, thousands fear her savage quest for immortality. But few knew the source of her inspiration. Catherine Austra, who came to Elizabeth in the night, Catherine who possesed the dark gift she craved. Catherine, whose full red lips held the secret of eternity... the kiss of a vampire.

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Paul Stoddard came to Europe to learn the antique art of glassmaking. But there, in the shadow of rising Nazism, he fell in love with a beautiful, seductive woman. A woman of many secrets. Her family, the proud and noble Austras, are vampires. Her cousin has been sent to a concentration camp. And now Paul has decided to join the vampires' war... against the Reich. A breathtaking novel of erotic terror, Blood Alone unveils the epic story of the blood-cursed Austras - a magnificent family of vampires introduced in Bergstrom's stunning debut, Shattered Glass.

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Like any great artist, Helen Wells craved immortality. Now, through the unholy kiss of Stephen Austra, her vampire lover, she can taste eternity. But her passion demands a cruel price - her utter surrender to the darkest animal urges... the aching need to hunt... to kill... to drink.... At first, Helen resists the savage nature of this strange new life. Until a hired killer begins to stalk her family. Some men deserve to die. And some hungers demand to be fed.

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Stephen Austra is a prominent artist, renown for his wonderous restorations of stained glass in cathedrals and churches. He is also a vampire. But he respects ordinary human lives, and would never hurt a soul. Or so his lover, Helen Wells, desperately wants to believe... Chilling, erotic and provacative, this sensational novel by Elaine Bergstrom will lure you into a world where immortal evil meets undying passion. And where a series of appalling murders leads a beautiful young woman into the depths of suspicion... and to new heights of terror.

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Witnessing the beheading of her father by a conquering overlord, a young baroness pledges revenge despite the new ruler's just ways, and ingratiates herself to a high position while devising evil plans as a vampire of souls.

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Jonathan must destroy the Gathering Cloth, a web in which the darkest evils of Ravenloft are trapped, before the evil breaks him and dooms him to eternal darkness.

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In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco. Some want to coexist with humans, using genetic engineering in a macabre experiment to find a new source of blood. But some would rather go out in a blaze of glory — and UNIT's attempts to contain them could provoke another devastating war. The Doctor strikes a dangerous bargain, but even he might not be able to keep the city from getting caught in the crossfire. While he finds himself caught in a web of old feuds and high-tech schemes, his new companion Sam finds out just how deadly travelling with the Doctor can be.

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The chilling, arousing, and ultimately moving memoirs of an undead - but all too human - soul. Bowen's Rafael, a red-blooded male with an insatiable hunger for the same, is the perfect antidote to the effete malcontents haunting bookstores today.

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Chilling Beauty, Monstrous Appetites

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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Buffy Summers and her group of close-knit friends are the first in Sunnydale to notice the curious newcomers who arrive late one day by boat. A strange, hooded woman and an enormous man covered in Maori tribal tattoos would be enough to attract anyone's attention, but Buffy and her friends know that folks like this don't come to Sunnydale to sample the produce - they come to invoke the powers of the Hellmouth. And if Giles knows his stuff, they've also come to stage The Dust Waltz - a sinister celebration that begins with a battle to the death between creatures of the night and ends with the opening of the gateway to Hell!

Synopsis:
The Anarch Cookbook is well written. It is indeed a manual for Anarch politics, warfare and their way of unlife. With descriptions on strategies for times of peace as well as melee and ranged combat tactics, weapon infos and bomb making. Notes on water cannons, bullet proof vests and shield parry. How to incite riots and revolts and how pacify them again. Useful for Anarchs and counter forces, like the Prince, the Primogen, the police and paramilitary units. It is a manual and for that it's good. On the other hand it lacks everything concerning their history and decision making processes within the movement, either in Camarillan cities, the Anarch Free State or in Sabbat strongholds. The Cookbook only pictures the USA. The statement all, Anarchs left Europe in an Exodus-like migration, seems to be blown out of proportions. The movement began in the old world and nothing explains why all Anarchs should have left European cities only to live in the then Camarilla controlled American cities. The book misses any comment on the unlifespan of Anarchs. I guess not all of them are neonates. Or is it their doom to die young - even in "peaceful" cities? Though many probably do, a number of Elders from the of the Inquisition might still exist. To resume, it's not an encyclopedia it's a cookbook.

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War of Ages, a reprint of the Anarchs Cookbook and Elysium, provides source material and background information on the two extremes in the world of kindred. While they both retain the look and feel of the older, first edition books, the information within is still just as valid for the setting as when they were first published several years back. Elysium, the elders half of the book, provides rules for creating elders (including new elder-specific backgrounds, merits and flaws), ideas on plotlines for elders games, secret "Gehenna Cults", and tips on how to run a chronicle that lasts for centuries. The anarch cookbook contains all sorts of background and storyline information for ST's and players that want to indulge in the wilder side of being a cainite,

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My friends and family have good reason to worry about this little diary of mine. But now that I've made my decision to write this, I don't think I can, or should, go back. I am a vampire, you see... Thus begins the remarkable saga of Mara McCuniff. It is a story that spans the 1600 years from her birth in the 4th century in a small British village to her present day life in Los Angeles; from her life as a very human daughter, wife, and mother to her unwilling transformation into a vampire at the hands of the Master to her centuries of undying existance as a creature of the night. Forced to hide from those who feared her and sought to destroy her, it is Mara's destiny to forever roam the night in order to survive. Around her the world is constntly changing and as Mara adapts to the new ways, one thing remains a constant - her thirst for life's blood.

Synopsis:
Through her riveting memoirs, female vampire Maria Theresa Allogiamento takes readers on a wild and intimate journey into the secret world of vampires--from 18th-century Italy to present-day Los Angeles.

For a number of years people have been saying that I'm dead and buried. Needless to say, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated... With thses words, so begins the memoirs of Maria Theresa Allogiamento - a vampire ahead of her time who plans on setting the record straight. Travel with Theresa from 18th-century Italy to present-day Los Angeles as she takes us on a wild and intimate journey into the secret world of vampires. Learn how Theresa decided to choose immortality and witness her transformation from naive girl to seductive temptress... quenching her insatiable thirst for all that the world has to offer and teaching her enemies that the best revenge is blood revenge!

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Lost Souls
Poppy Z. Brite
355 pages
ISBN: 0440212812
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company, Incorporated
Pub. Date: September 1993

Synopsis
This book comes highly recommended by some of the best horror writers in the business, and deservedly so, but it is not for the weak of stomach. It is the story of a lost soul, a boy named Nothing, who was born of a vampire and is searching for his true family. But he dimly understands that joining his vampire brothers will cost him more of his humanity than he wants to give up. A mysterious, caring psychic named Ghost tries to save him from his fate and, because Nothing loves this man, he must choose to preserve his own humanity in order to save Ghost's life. The book is graphic in its presentation of kinky sex mixed with vampirism and murder but nonetheless compelling. From Library Journal: Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.

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Bitter Crusade
Zach Bush, James Maliszewski & Joshua Mosqueira Asheim
ISBN: 1588462145
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc.
Pub. Date: July 2001

Synopsis:
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The Vampire's Apprentice
Richard Lee Byers
288 pages
ISBN: 0821736329
Status:
Publisher: Zebra Books
Pub. Date: January 1992

Synopsis:
Awakening to find himself embalmed and buried in his own grave, David Brent clawed his way to the surface to find himself transformed, a walking corpse, abandoned by his mentor, and tortured by a relentless thirst... This was not what Carter, the charming vampire, had promised David before biting him. Where was carter now... and who was going to teach David how to feed his insatiable hunger, use his new immortal powers, and stay out of harm's way? Abandoned and betrayed, dead to everyone he'd ever loved, David loathed and feared his savage new existence... But his rage would not let him perish. An inhabitant of the darkness, a bloodthirsty, nightstalking monster, David found his own way, teaching himself the answers to the ancient myths he was now heir to... and when he finally mastered his many powers, David went looking for Carter - because David was dying again, but htis time he was dying for revenge.

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The World of Darkness, Vampire: Netherworld
Richard Lee Byers
330 pages
ISBN: 0061054739
Publisher: Harper
Pub. Date: June 1995

Synopsis:
Rose was one of the city's free people - the lonely, occasionally beautiful ones one the edges of society. She made drawings of tourists and lived on tips. Zane had taken her into his heart, and now Rose was making him believer in the power of love. That belief died the night he found her body on the beach. And for Zane, belief was replaced by desire. Desire for vengeance. The kind of vengeance that could only be delivered by the Kindred, the vampire clans.

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