The Vampire Hunter's Casebook
Peter Haining
363pp.
ISBN: 0760704708/0751512842
Status: Amazon.com Out of Stock
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date: August 1997

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Armed with a crucifix, a wooden stake, a bottle of holy water, and a string of garlic, the vampire hunter ventures into the world of the undead to end the existence of those who have already died. This collection of 14 stories shifts the traditional focus of the genre from creatures of the night to the figures who stalk them. Introduced by the archetypal vampire hunter, Dracula's Professor Van Helsing, here are tales from such acclaimed authors as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Anne Rice, Robert Bloch, and Peter Tremayne--whose eerie tale transplants the character of Van Helsing to modern-day Ireland.

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When the mysterious Vincent Morthanos arrives to stay at her father's inn, 16-year-old Cynda is mesmerized. His charm and sensitivity are irresistible. His attentiveness is constant. Cynda's sure she's in love. Daring to hope that the stranger shares her feelings, Cynda is innocently blind to who he really is--or to the terrible danger of coming under his spell.

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Someone is killing the vampires of London and Professor James Asher has to find the killer. With his wife a hostage, what would happen if he actually found the killer? Would his fate be doomed by knowing the locations and identities of the vampires? This is a mystery, a history, a fantasy, and a fantastic vampire novel for readers to sink their teeth into. Reissue.

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Barbara Hambly proved herself a triple-threat storyteller when she tackled the popular vampire genre with Those Who Hunt the Night, and created a bestseller. This book continue the eerie exploits of James Asher, former spy in His Majesty's Secret Service, and Don Simon Ysidro, the oldest, most cunning of London's vampires. HC: Del Rey. Former British secret service agent James Asher squares off with Don Simon Ysidro, oldest and most cunning of London's vampires. A tale of international espionage involving foreign governments in league with vampires. A sequel to Those Who Hunt the Night. ~ Synopsis copyright Fiction Digest

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Introducing Anita Blake, vampire hunter extraordinaire. Most people don't even bat an eye at vampires since they've been given equal rights by the Supreme Court. But Anita knows better - she's seen their victims... A serial killer is murdering vampires, however, and now the most powerful vampire in town wants Anita to find the killer.

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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter for Animators, Inc., is offered a cool mil to raise a 283-year-old corpse. But she knows that "the older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it". Only a human sacrifice is "big" enough to raise this old soul - and Anita's no murderer.

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Anita Blake is an expert on creatures of the night. She has dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves, and been wooed, but not won, by Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of the city. Now there's a new vampire in town named Alejandro and he wants Anita for his servant. His attempts to win her lead to a war of the undead.

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The local pack of werewolves comes to prenatural expert Anita Baker for help after a number of their pack come up missing--probably because she is dating the leader of the pack. Anita has survived a lot, from jealous vampires to killer zombies, but this love thing may kill her yet. From the author of Circus of the Damned.

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With a price on her head and professional killers on her trail, Anita Blake, prenatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, turns to the men in her life for help. Which in her case, means an alpha werewolf and a master vampire. She needs as much protection as possible, human or otherwise. But Anita is beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one. Anita Blake, vampire hunter extraordinaire, was first introduced to readers in Guilty Pleasure, the first book of this series. In the Killing Dance, she finds that a price has been put on her head.

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When three dead teenagers are slaughtered in a way no one had ever seen before, and a girl is found drained of blood in her bed, it's obvious that something is very wrong in and around Branson, Missouri. And Anita Blake is right in the middle of it all.

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"You can't trust anyone who sleeps with monsters". That's what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only "The Executioner" could save them from the inferno.

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You never forget your ex-fiancé. And when Richard calls Anita Blake at three in the morning, she knows it won't be good news. It seems Richard had gotten himself thrown in jail on a rape charge. But Anita knows that though he is a monster, Richard's no rapist. And it's up to her to prove his innocence -- before the blue moon creates even bigger problems for Richard...

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There are a lot of monsters in Anita Blake's life. And some of them are human. One such individual is the man she calls Edward, a bounty hunter who specializes in the preternatural. He calls her to help him hunt down the greatest evil she has ever encountered. Something that kills and maims and vanishes into the night. Something Anita will have to face alone...

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Bestseller Hamilton's Anita Blake, police consultant, executioner, necromancer, private eye and wereleopard protector, returns in her amorous 10th adventure, driven more by conflicting desires for the lovers she neglected in her last outing, Obsidian Butterfly (2000), than by the urge to solve any mystery. Once again, in a world where vampires and werecreatures are protected by law, Blake attempts to resolve her libido's constant crisis. Plunged into the netherworld of a leather D/S (dominant/submissive) bar, Narcissus in Chains, by the abduction of one of her inherited wereleopards, Blake finds herself deep into shapeshifter politics and a were creature power struggle that is all a metaphor for her own inner struggle. Whom should she choose werewolf Richard or vampire Jean-Claude? Or should she take a new lover? Who cares? Blake is eventually infected by the "ardeur" from the vampire clan and tinged with shapeshifting abilities from the were clan. As she becomes more like the fantastic creatures she protects or kills, she, alas, doesn't get any more interesting as a character. Her obsessions with lust serve mainly to overwhelm a rickety plot. Blake needs to put her clothes back on and get back to work. Too much flesh and not enough plot leads to the old but so true saying, "Less is more."

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A vampire serial killer who preys on strippers is on the loose. Called in to consult on the case, Anita fears her judgment may be clouded by a conflict of interest. For she is, after all, the consort of Jean-Claude, the ever-intoxicating Master Vampire of the City. Surrounded by suspicion, overwhelmed by her attempts to control the primal lusts that continue to wrack her as a result of her passionate contacts with vampires, werewolves, and the shapeshifter Micah, Anita does something unprecedented: She calls for help.

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An introduction story for Vampire - The Masquerade leads back into the beginnings of the game. Appeared to the first levy of the game and of White wolf do not separate of Atlasgames, leads it the players and the narrators into an at that time yet new world on. On 16 sides, a tiny adventure is offered in that the PLAYERS begin as persons and become within less sides Vampiren. Blood Nativity is suited really for the beginner also if one thoroughly can ignore the references to the control device, but can all without difficulties on the newest levy umarbeiten. The most important part is received become an invitation which the characters yet as persons and is introduced become like it slowly into a new world. Nothing really spectacular, but how said thoroughly suited for true beginners (udn of that that it actually yet create the story to receive), and for further evening also ausbaufähig. More is not to be said also is not supposed to be betrayed probably to 16 sides, and much more over the rRest of the story.

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Anne Marie Montclair: Devastated by her mother's tragic death, she hungers for an escape from her misery. Must Anne Marie abandon her beloved twin brother to find the happiness she craves? Paul Montclair: Haunted by his contempt for the father who abandoned him, he searches for the power to forget his past. When Paul's hatred drives him to betray Anne Marie, can he regain the trust of the only person he truly loves?

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Anne Marie Montclair: Horrified by her true nature, Anne Marie denies her cravings. Must she cut herself off from her twin brother forever to avoid becoming a vampire? Paul Montclair: Seduced by a beautiful vampire, Paul plunges into his father's legacy. Will Paul's new power destroy Anne Marie and him?

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Anne Marie Montclair: Terrified by her brother's recklessness, she struggles to resist her thirst for blood. Will Anne Marie lose Paul forever if she remains a mortal? Paul Montclair: Crazed by his vampiric hunger, he commits a terrible crime. Will he go over the edge and make Anne Marie his final victim?

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A teenage vampire is forced to resist her bloodthirsty nature when she falls in love with a mortal boy, and her growing feelings make her desperately seek to become human again.

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Transformed into a vampire by her rival Rina, a vengeful Chelsea forms a pact with the evil Vlad, a centuries-old vampire who promises to reunite Chelsea with her boyfriend if she will deliver Rina to him.

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Anne Marie Montclair: Tormented by her brother's monsterous transformation, she fights for control of her life. Must Anne Marie deceive her true love to save herself? Paul Montclair: Hunted by those who know his secret, he seeks out his father's lethal protection. But will his father's unquenchable bloodlust lead to Paul's destruction?

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All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining - and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead... or undead

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Vampires have lived among Mankind for countless millenia, hiding in the darkness, hunting, feeding and killing Mortals. They live lives of utter secrecy, scattered far apart, always aware that the surging tide of Humanity could crush them if they became truly aware of their presence. For Eleisha, a young vampire who has remained hidden since the 19th Century, things are about to change.

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Harriet had never truly craved physical love - nor had she desired any other man except her husband. Until David de Morrissey swept her away... Brilliant and darkly handsome, he came to her as a confidant to her loniness. But what begins as a friendship becomes something far more thrilling as she succumbs to the lure of his seductive charms - and discovers erotic delights and hungers unlike any she has known. But when this seducer of her soul reveals his own tormented secret, it is too late - Harriet has already crossed into a realm of uninhibited passions. And nothing can save her now...

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Wreythville's cemetery had rested quietly under South Holston Lake, but now the receding waters exposed an island of graves. And as the tombstones emerged, so did the unstaked dead that had been buried beneath them. Freed, the ancient breed of vampires arose with a frightful new power, seeking vengeance.

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A master at scaring people, reclusive horror author David Matthewson meets his match. But what is happening to him to too terrifying for words. Monique, a beautiful vampire with a deadly thirst for blood, is an evil older than death. And she is also David's number one fan. She will teach him her deadliest secrets. Seduce him with his darkest nature. With a promise of eternal desire, she waits...

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Presents various vampire legends from over the centuries while pointing up the impossibility of the existence of such a creature.

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Romance, laughter and gunplay result when Amy Reilly, a rebel without a cause, and her brother Paul Reilly, an occult store owner, discover that there are vampires in the really real world and you can haunt your ancient relatives. Add a meddling goddess, witchcraft, reincarnation, some elitist bloodsuckers and a vampire feud and you have a fast-paced fun read with lots of love, sex, violence and most important of all, family loyalty.

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Angel became a vampire hundreds of years ago in Ireland, but was cursed by gypsies and forever roams the earth with a soul. Now he's met Buffy, and even though she's sworn to kill his kind, there may be a chance for their love--so long as he keeps his vampire hunger in check. Color photo insert.

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The strongest magick ever distilled, and the deadliest butcher England has ever known... Buffy Summers is on the trail of a killer demon in Sunnydale, and reluctantly accepts the help of Spike. Anything's better than his moping around. But Spike -- as usual -- has his own agenda, and it involves something the demon is carrying: a vial of pure magickal power. Spike knows plenty of people and demons who will pay top dollar for this vial: Doc, Rack...and an ancient evil known as The First. Spike has encountered The First before. In the good old days in Victorian London, when Spike, Drusilla, Angelus, and Darla ran through the night in pursuit of dark fun, another evil being was stalking the streets, dispatching young women with brutal efficiency. But when the so-called "Jack the Ripper" struck too close to their twisted "family," the vampires found themselves on the same side as the Slayer of that time. Working to bring down Jack, and running afoul of The First, Spike and the Slayer formed an uneasy alliance, which followed Spike all through the twentieth century to present day Sunnydale, now blanketed in a mysterious fog...

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When an old classmate of Buffy's from L.A. is killed and Willow is severely injured in a car accident, both in the space of one week, the Slayer must yet again face the vulnerabilities of her mortal friends. No one is invincible, least of all the Slayer herself. After all, Buffy's very existence as the Chosen One bears witness to the demise of countless Slayers called before her. At the same time, from a place of nightmares -- which Buffy and Faith share -- a terrible evil invades Sunnydale, setting off a quartet of disasters: A controlled burn of some old forest growth escalates into a raging fire that threatens to devour the town; astonishingly high tides at the beach take out boats, oceanfront property, and innocent bystanders; a hurricane pummels the beleaguered town, but does not quench the fire; and a massive earthquake erupts, disgorging pockets of natural gas from huge sinkholes. Clearly, these catastrophes are linked to the Slayers' nightmares, which revolve around four strangely swathed, indistinct figures. One is burning, one is dripping wet; one is covered in mud, one shrouded in windswept linen. Each trudges across pristine desert sand dunes carrying a box of grafted skin and bone that Faith thinks she recognizes from a previous battle. Research leads Giles to the Watcher's Diaries, where he learns that the last Slayer to encounter a similar container was India Cohen -- Buffy's immediate predecessor. Strangely, Buffy has never given much thought to the young girl whose death activated her own era as the Chosen One. But now she must draw on the strength of those who came before her -- or something else will draw on hers. For Buffy is being stalked by a monstrous force that journeys through time, fortifying itself by draining the primal power of a Slayer. Mortal though she may be, if she wishes to stop this demonic presence, Buffy must orient herself on a continuum that predates even humanity itself...

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When a smart, well-balanced student suddenly shoots his family and then himself, Buffy and her gang suspect the usual vampires, demons or witches. But when it turns out that everyday stuff like drugs, pressure and thwarted love are to blame, Buffy decides to dig a little deeper.

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Buffy Summers is hip, modern, and pop culture savvy. Rupert Giles, her Watcher, is a stuffy Brit whose idea of bliss is a good book and a strong cup of tea. Odd as the duo may be, though, they have managed to avert their fair share of apocalypses. Plural. One thing they can't seem to conquer, however, is Buffy's bad birthday luck. At eighteen, Buffy is subjected to a Watcher's Council Cruciamentum, a test of her own non-physical wiles -- and of Giles's attitude toward both his charge and his calling, as well. And when the Slayerettes throw a surprise party for Buffy's big 1-9, Giles finds himself feeling useless and out-of-the-loop-y. But it is at the Slayer's twentieth birthday gathering that both Buffy and Giles are forced to re-examine the nature of blood ties and the definition of family -- or risk losing a mutual loved one more important to them -- and the fate of the world -- than either ever imagined....

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For Angel, life as a vampire was a constant thrill. Power, danger, cool clothes (never getting old, also a plus). But in the end, it was all about the kill -- until he killed the wrong girl. "Gypsies, in my experience, are heavily into vengeance. They cursed me. Gave me back my soul. I had to live with everything I'd done and I had to live forever. It took another woman to show me that my endless life was worth living." Buffy the Vampire Slayer was Angel's first true love, but the relationship was doomed from the start -- a moment of true happiness would cause Angel to lose his soul forever. So he left -- Sunnydale, Buffy, and everything else meaningful to him. "Alive for 244 years, I thought I'd seen everything. Then I came to L.A." City of Angels. Run by powerful forces, agents of pure evil. It's a city hard on its human population. If Angel wants to save himself, he's going to have to save them...somehow. With the help of two unlikely allies -- a half-demon and a ex -- May Queen -- he's going to set up shop.... And keep watch over his city.

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When the Monroe family brings home a small black-and-white bunny they find in the movie theater after seeing Dracula, Chester the cat and Harold the dog are instantly suspicious. After all the vegetables in the Monroe kitchen start turning white, Chester and Harold are certain that Bunnicula is a vegetarian vampire.

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Chester the cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetables on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood.

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Henry Fitzroy had long since learned to survive without killing, learned the skills needed to blend in with the human race. But unless he, Vicki, and Mike could find the key to conquering the magic-raised menace stalking the streets of Toronto, Fitzroy's true identity might soon be exposed and his life might prove forfit to the uncontrollable fears of human kind. And without Henry Fitzroy, mere mortals like Vicki and Mike would not long survive against the ancient force of Chaos that had been lossed upon their world...

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Offering up an irresistible team of terror busters--Vicki, a female private eye who was until recently human; Mike, a Toronto homicide detective who is her ex-partner and current lover; and Henry, a vampire who writes bodice rippers--this book is a masterful blending of contemporary fantasy and the supernatural. Henry calls upon Vicki and Mike to help him lay to rest the angry ghosts who are haunting him and demanding he find their killer and mete out blood vengeance.