Covenant with the Vampire: Diaries of the Family Dracul (Vol. 1)
Jeanne Kalogridis
ISBN: 0708988725
Publisher: Ulverscrof
Pub. Date: November 1995

Synopsis:
On the death of his father, Arkady Tsepesh returns to Transylvania from England to take over the family estate. Part of his job is to provide his great uncle, Vlad Dracula, with appetizing visitors lured from abroad. But Tsepesh has a wife, complicating matters. - Synopsis copyright Fiction Digest

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The battle waged in the heart of the Family Dracul continues, as the innocent take up arms against the monster. As his loved ones indulge in forbidden crimes with a legendary passion, Vlad the Impaler's heir, Arkady, cries out to his sons: "Let the curse end with me!" A vampire fights to save his son from becoming one too. He is Arkady Tsepesh whose son, Stefan, has been kidnaped by Dracula and taken to the castle in Transylvania to undergo the blood ritual. Arkady enrolls help and sets out to stop Dracula - Synopsis copyright Fiction Digest

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In the conclusion to her terrifying, meticulously researched trilogy, Jeanne Kalogridis brilliantly melds historical facts about Vlad Tsepesh--Vlad the Impaler, the historical Dracula--and the characters in Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. After the death of his half-brother and his father at the hand of Vlad, Abraham van Helsing faces the ultimate battle with an entity more evil than Vlad himself: the Lord of the Vampires. The retelling of Bram Stoker's classic Dracula, centered on the vampire killer, Abraham Van Helsing, himself the mortal son of a vampire. Also featuring Elisabeth Bathory who bathes in the blood of virgins to maintain her youth. The present novel is the last of a trilogy. - Synopsis copyright Fiction Digest

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With a mesmerizing blend of romance and vampire legend, this splendid love story will hold its audience spellbound. For years, Cailie has been haunted by strange, recurring visions of fierce desire. Obsessed with her fantasies, she will do anything to make them real--even trust the mysterious stranger who seduces her very soul.

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As David Lyle Hardwick and his beautiful human companion, Zero, a wounded woman fleeing a dangerous past, travel the world in search of his enemies, David discovers that he is being transformed into nosferatu, a creature of unspeakable, tormented passions.

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Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil. Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones.

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In the haunting sequel to Bram Stoker's classic Dracula, the dark prince's most famous mistress tells her story. On the brink of becoming one of the Undead, Mina Harker was saved by a stake driven through Dracula's heart. Mina tries to return to the mortal world, but after feeling Dracula's undying passion, can she go back to an ordinary marriage? Original.

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He is irresistibly sexy and might be a rock idol, celebrity model, or hot young movie star. But don't trust what you see or feel when around him. Gerard Arnaud St. Laurue is a thousand-year-old blood drinker. On the next full moon St. Laurue reluctantly must undergo what ancient nosferatu call "The Millennium Rest." His time, for once, is short. He decides to enlist a publisher to immortalize his unlife before going under, but even more importantly, he realizes he has less than a week to find minions to protect his temporary gravesite while he revitalizes under the dark silent earth. St. Laurue finds two potential minions while roaming the shadowy underbelly world of modern Manhattan. One is Fury, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy who longs to belong. The other is a beautiful young woman named Elka, who reminds the vampire of a long lost love. But can St Laurue turn them in time? It's questionable, especially while continuing his long standing feud with his powerful and possessive vampiric father, the Marquis Antoine DeMalberet. Also, with NYPD Detective Solomon Wiese and undercover agents from the Daemonion Council hot on his trail, St Laurue has to employ all his powers to escape certain discovery. When St Laurue's overly protective undead little sister, Brigitte, tries to come to his aid, more complications arise and involve them both in a series of progressively startling twists and turns resulting in a final delicious last page surprise.

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A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps ZoFe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.

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A shockingly sensual re-interpretation of Sheridan LeFanu's notorious chiller. Captivated by the portrait of a beautiful woman, a young man finds himself becoming gradually obsessed with her remarkable story. Little by little, he uncovers the many blasphemies and debaucheries with which the beauteous Laura filled her hours even as a hungry, otherworldly presence began feasting upon her.

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The infamous erotic retelling of the Vampire legend. REDEMPTION - A wonderfully written adaptation of the classic cult figure. Delectable indeed. DIVINITY - Well-written and imaginative, Amarantha Knight gives fresh impetus to this myth, taking us through the sexual and sadistic scenes with details that keep us reading. This author shows superb control. A classic in itself has been added to the shelves.

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It all started with a Halloween party... JULIAN: He seems like a not-so-ordinary guy, but he's really a vampire. And Lorelei holds the key to his traumatic transformation, creating repercussions for the entire vampire community. NICHOLAS: Killed at the teeth of Nicholas, Lorelei's friend Dina comes back. But why? And how can they keep her from dying again? LUCIEN: He's 12,000 years old, with holes in his memory you could shove a velvet-lined coffin through. Still, he holds the key to Julian's profound mysteries and Vivian's more personal ones. LORELEI: When Julian changed, so did Lorelei. But how? What exactly has she become, and what does it mean for her future with Julian?

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In a continuation of The Vampire Apocalypse, this is the story of Nicholas, a seemingly run-of-the-mill vampire, but every once in a while something goes terribly wrong with his victims. Driven by compulsion, he killed Dina, only she didn't die. Or rather, she did... but she didn't *stay* dead... er, for long. But she will... die, that is, only slower and more painful. If you think you're confused, you're not the only one. Nicholas doesn't understand it either. Why has Dina survived, only to be faced with death again as a result of his strange affliction? He turns to Julian for help, but can he face losing Dina... again?

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You travel to the vampire-infested Carpathian Mountains of Romania to help your uncle Andrew prove scientifically that the undead actually exist.

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When Connie starts spreading rumors that there's a Bat Master lurking in the halls, Doug and Skeeter learn a valuable lesson in friendship.

Thirst
Pyotyr Kurtinski
352pp.
ISBN: 0843938269
Status: Out of Print
Publisher: Dorchester
Pub. Date: June 1995

Synopsis:
He has lived--undead in time and space, master of darkness, servant to none. A soulless being cursed by the sunlight, exalted by the night's embrace, he stalks his human prey with little danger of retribution. As old as evil, he has the power to strike as a bloodthirsty man or a vampire bat. And he will attack again, hoping to quench his boundless thirst.

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Los Angeles policeman Jack Drummond travels back to 1972, World War II, and the time of the Crusades to investigate a bizarre series of murders in which the murder weapon was a stake through the heart. Putting a new spin on the vampire legend, bestselling author Katherine Kurtz joins forces with Scott MacMillan to launch a bold new fantasy series. When an L.A. policeman investigates an unusual murder, he's led back in time--to a secret order of vampires and the vampire knights who oppose them.