Carmilla: the Return
Kyle Marffin
296 pages
ISBN: 1891946021
Publisher: Design Image Group Inc
Pub. Date: March 1998

Synopsis:
Kyle Marffin debuts with a provocative modern day retelling of Sheridan LeFanu's classic 19th century novella, resurrecting the genre's most notorious female vampire - the seductive Countess Carmilla Karnstein. Revealing her unwritten history while replaying the events of the original classic tale, Carmilla relentlessly stalks an unsuspecting victim through glittering city streets to the desolate northwoods, ultimately returning to the dark roots of her haunted Styrian homeland.

Synopsis:
Step into the dark side of the darkwave. Join the children of the night--desperately hoping, dreaming, wishing for it all to be true, to become real: their songs, their books, their films, their role-playing games and all their fashionable flirtations and imagined supernatural power and dark romance. Oh please, be real... A city anxiously embraces the grand opening of Gothique. 'Nightclub Extraordinaire', mecca for the disaffected goth kids and decadent scene-makers. But a dark secret lurks behind Gothique's doors, where the evil is all too real, where a nightmare of bloodshed and something far worse than death is unleashed, where hopeless screams of despair are muffled by the relentless darkwave dance beat. Welcome to Gothique. You'll just die.

Synopsis:
Most teens have trouble finding themselves now and then, but when you're living on a hellmouth, "trouble" is an understatement -- especially if you're Xander Harris. He has never been very popular, and has never had much luck with women, but he is uniquely Xander. After a Sunnydale High field trip to the zoo, Xander becomes obnoxious and aggressive. Giles thinks it's typical adolescent male behavior, but Buffy knows better. And when he finally scores "cool" points by making the Sunnydale High swim team, he's thrown into the middle of something, well...fishy. Still, once Xander is excluded from the Slayer's most recent anti-apocalyptic campaign, he finds himself battling his own private evil -- and saving Sunnydale High from a fate it never imagined.

Synopsis: When a television movie begins filming in Stoneybrook, Kristy is hired to look after Derek Masters, child actor and friend of the Club, who begins receiving threatening letters demanding he quit the project.

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Jonathan Primave usually sleeps during the day and stays awake all night. One day he goes outdoors in the middle of the afternoon, meets a girl named Tobi, and discovers that the life he has been leading is far from normal. Jonathan confronts his parents and learns their terrible secret--they're vampires!

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When the female population of Sunnydale starts strutting its girl power, the push for gender equality seems like a normal expression of '90s feminism. After all, a girl trying out for the football team isn't usually a sign of imminent danger. But when the guys start acting like powerless pawns and a few even turn up dead, Buffy Summers notices that the local womyn's movement has reached a feverish -- and probably unnatural -- pitch. The Slayer is the only one who can see straight during the ultimate battle of the sexes. Her friends -- including Giles -- are spellbound by the malignant muses permeating the school. Even the local vampires are acting strange. Alone in her search for answers, Buffy must figure out who's behind the sinister sisterhood...and close the gender gap before the feminist revolution goes too far.

Synopsis: From out of the night came the living dead with one purpose: destroy Robert Neville, the last man on earth. A mysterious plague has swept the planet leaving in its wake this one survivor. But there is still life of a sort--vampires, the strengthless half-dead who press on Neville from every side. He is almost tempted to join them in I AM LEGEND.

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There hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind. Until they found her.

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Over five thousand years ago a malignant creature was set loose upon the Earth. The plague of akhkharu was unleashed--an eternal curse to humanity. But with immortality came a warning in the form of prophecy. To thwart the prediction, the vampires lay numberless and quiet for centuries. Now after sitting idle for a millennium they start to stir as the prophecy begins to unfold. The key to that prophecy is Devin Merchon. Fighting against her destiny, she finds two allies in Alex Stone and Tom Ells. Together they face an ancient enemy thought only to be legend, but a far more dangerous creature has been awakened. He is an unholy incarnation and the very source of the plague itself. His bloodlust is insatiable and if he obtains Devin it will start in motion an ancient ambition to wipe out civilization and enslave the human race.

Synopsis: VA picks up where McMahan's last book leaves off. Previously we had only seen glimpses of Andrew (the book's anti-hero) through short stories, little more than an introduction. But in VA, we get to explore Andrew's existence eight years after having been brought into the vampiric fold... and never was Lestat half as sharp with his tongue.

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Enter, if you dare, the bloodcurdling world of Transylvania's most infamous gourmet -- Count Dracula. This sidesplitting history sheds light on the little-known details of Drac's infantcy, boyhood school days, cherished belongings, and lively nightlife. You'll be introduced to his friends and ancestors, get a peek inside his fridge and his closet, and get a taste (so to speak) of what eternal life is like for the world's biggest pain in the neck!

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I want to suck your blood...So the vampire said...LC and the Critter Kids know their substitute teacher is a vampire. He wears a black cape, has fangs, and hates the sunlight. Can they save all of Critterville from being turned into vampires...or will the Critter Kids be turned into bloodsuckers first? -Publisher

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Willow is back in Sunnydale, but she's terrified: She knows her powers will be needed soon, but she's afraid that if she uses them, it's back to being the Big Bad. She can feel something strange happening, but the other Scoobies don't seem to notice. Everybody's dealing with their own issues -- Buffy's got a new crush, Dawn and Buffy have been bickering, and Xander's intent on getting Willow to use her magicks again. Willow's instincts are right on. A wolf in sheep's clothing has set off a series of freakish events: rivers running with blood, flash storms, and the arrival of an unbelievable supernatural being. The apocalypse has begun. While the world falls to pieces around them, the Scoobies -- including Giles, back from England -- have to decide what is most important to them. There's one last hope: a secret spell with dangerous side effects. But is Willow ready to use her powers?

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She is a creature of the night. Beautiful. Seductive. Immortal. Her kiss brings the mercy of death to wounded soldiers at Gettysberg. Her courage defies the darkest schemes of the queen of the vampires. Her soul struggles for paece in a war that is brewing with angels and warlocks. But her heart is all too human - and one man holds the key. His name is Calder Holbrook, a mortal man who has unlocked her deepest desires. And Maeve Tremayne is a vampire who has never experienced such all-consuming hunger. For love. For passion...

Synopsis:
As senator's aide Neely Wallace becomes closer to charming and reclusive millionaire Aidan Tremayne, she discovers the dark secret that Aidan has been living with for centuries: that he is a vampire.

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From his first passionate encounters with love and death in the dark days of the fourteenth century to his dazzling fame as a master of illusion in modern-day Las Vegas, Valerian could never escape the joys and anguish of human desire. It was his fate from the beginning.... Shattered by the loss of his one true love, the enchanting Brenna, Valerian surrendered his soul to the haunting solitude of endless night. Now, once every century, his beloved Brenna returns in human form: a lusty tavern maid, a singer in seventeenth century London, a courageous woamn of the Old West. And with each new life, she reawakens the lost tenderness in his heart, the most human part of his soul.... But this time, as the new millenium draws near, Valerian vows never to lose her again. No matter what the sacrifice.

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Now Miller introduces a passionate new heroine: Kristina, the daughter of beloved characters Maeve Tremayne and Calder Holbrook. Her smoldering beauty befits a child of vampires, but Kristina does not posess their dark, seductive gifts. Within her stirs a power that goes beyond the blood of life, beyond nature Herself, allowing Kristina to move objects by will alone - across her parlor or across the globe in the very blink of an eye. But she has not completely escaped her cursed bloodline - for Kristina's ethereal beauty is indeed timeless. Outwardly she remains young, when in truth she has seen the passing of more than a century. The one time she dared give her heart to a mortal man, she suffered the torment of his mortality, and vowed never to love again... until now.

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An evil stalks the clubs and seedy hotels of San Francisco's shadowy underworld. It preys on the unfortunate, the outcasts, the misfits. It is an evil born of the eternal bloodlust of one of the undead, the infamous nobleman known to the ages as...the Marquis de Sade. He and his unholy offspring feed upon those who wont be missed, giving full vent to their dark desires and a thirst for blood that can never be sated. Yet while the Marquis amuses himself with the lives of his victims, with their pain and their torture, other vampires to their new lives of eternal night. And as the Marquis will soon learn, hatred and vengeance can be eternal as well undead can barely imagine.

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The Marquis de Sade. The very name conjures images of decadence, torture, and dark desires. But even the worst rumors of his evil deeds are mere shades of the truth, for the world doesn't know what the marquis became - they don't suspect he is one of the undead. And that he lives among us still. His tastes remain the same, only more pronounced. And his desire for blood has become a hunger.

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The debauchery and brutal perversions of the Marquis de Sade were notorious in his own lifetime. But even death could not stop his twisted passions, his search for pain and pleasure. Death only gave the Marquis more power. He lives to this day, a master vampire, preying on humans to quench his thirst, to appease his lust. For centuries Sade has thrived in the darkest netherworldsa of New York and Paris, but now he has traveled to a different city, to seek new flesh and fresh blood. He has come to Nwe Orleans, legendary city of excess and abandon. But he will soon discover that he is not the only creature of the night in this town. For New Orleans is also the home of voodoo - and of the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau. Could her powers prove even mightier than Sade's?

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Princeton University librarians Simon Penn and Frederika Vanderveen have rescued an ancient document from dark, destructive forces. But to reveal its dread prophecy they must decipher a dead vampire's diaries, locked away in Switzerland. Stalking the pair across Europe is the high prince of the night, and soon--if he can regain the scrolls--the first of a terrifying new breed who will consume humanity. Sequel to The Book of Common Dread.

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Vincent DeVilbiss is a 500-year-old vampire in a modern world. At Princeton University he faces the direst challenge of his long life: an ancient scroll which, when translated, could destroy him. Vincent must seize the scroll and dispose of it--but standing in his way is his enemy, researcher Simon Penn.

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The Emperor Norton and his canine courtiers Bummer and Lazarus are the first to encounter the vampire invading San Francisco; the second is Jody Stroud. She swiftly figures out what's happened to her and recruits aspiring writer and grocery store shelf stocker C. Thomas Flood as her personal assistant (and boyfriend). Hunters and hunted both, they cope with Jody's condition and search for the vampire who has done this to Jody and is framing her for the deaths of his prey. Possibly the only readable vampire book published during the ongoing frenzy, Christopher Moore's witty novel zips along on crisp, funny dialogue and catty takes on women's magazines, Macy's Department Store, trendy clubs, other vampire novels, and this modern world.

Synopsis:
The blood brothers of the title are identical 11-year-old twins, who were turned into vampires after being caught in the cross fire during a battle between good and evil. Now, they are trying to fight the urge to "turn to the blood." They find an ally in Tucker Burton, who lives near the woods where the twins are hiding. Repulsed yet fascinated, Tucker is slowly drawn into the boys' dark world, and he risks his life to help them. If readers aren't discouraged by the prologue, which introduces characters and themes beyond the ken of most of the intended audience, they will find this a fast-paced, involving thriller, with plenty of action-packed scenes and exciting dialogue. Morgan leaves a bit too much unresolved, but she deserves to be commended for resisting the urge to tack on a happy ending. - Lauren Peterson

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A FASCINATING SEARCH - Libby was curious. How did Tom earn his living? Where did he go in his jeep after dark? She'd lived with him for years, yet did not know. Now he was out of town and she was going to solve the mystery. Carefully, she broke into his precious private files. But nothing prepared her for its ghastly contents. Like notes on blood slurpers. And bat bites.... And vampires. Vampires? Was Tom mad? Or were there such creatures? Libby vowed to find out. And lived to regret it.... A TERRIFYING FIND - Tom had a secret. The scent of the hunt excited him.And the triumph of a kill thrilled him. With his crossbow by his side, he stalked his prey. Usually to an abandoned house. Or an old barn. And when the moon was high and their bloodlust rose, he struck. He knew the secrets of the undead. And he loved Libby too much to let her find out the bloody truth about the deadly dark....

Synopsis:
A teenager succumbs to a disease that turns people into vampires, a disease most of her relatives have fallen prey to. An ancient vampire spends his days helping other vampires withstand the curse of their own lives, instruct the newly changed into the ways of their kind, protects some humans from themselves, and generally tries to keep peace among all. A magnate in the terminal stage of a fatal and cruel disease becomes convinced vampires do exist, and hires someone to find them, in his last attempt to escape death. A pair of doctors, long-time lovers, get in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

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Welcome to New York's hottest new night spot, where wannabe vampires mix and mingle (unknowingly, of course) with the real thing. Kine and Kindred both come here - the kine to play and the Kindred to prey. Val is Kindred, searching the downtown scene for thrills. Mariana is also Kindred, an artist whose talent is dying even as her body enjoys immortality. They meet at the Blood Club, and a spark is struck between them. What they don't know is that their meeting was arranged; and that they are playing out a Destiny that reaches back to the war against the Nazis, and forward to the apocalyptic struggle against the Beast itself...

Synopsis:
This is not just another Dracula story. Jon Muth tells the tale of the imfamous vampire through the writings of the characters Dracula encounters, in their diaries, logbooks, and telegrams. There is also standard prose, as in a regular book, and snatches of dialogue in script format. But the best reason to own a copy is Muth's beautiful watercolour renderings of the story. There is page after page of the watercolours telling the story, with no interruption with print or word balloons as in a regular graphic novel. This allows the reader the opportunity of filling in the story himself, partially making up what the action is.

Synopsis:
No one seemed able to accept the implications of the grisly murders in fashionable nineteenth-century Georgetown. Yet there were the two neat puncture wounds, clearly visible on each victim's throat.... Even beautiful Letitia had trouble understanding it... and Letitia was a vampire. Until the discovery of that first ravaged corpse, she had believed herself alone, the only vampire in Washington to enjoy the odd vices of the grave....