His Eternal Kiss: More Tales of Vampire Love
Jeanne Savery, Judith A. Lansdowne, Karla Hocker
288 pages
ISBN: 0758203322
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date: August 1, 2002

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New Englanders have a sense of lineage unmatched in any other region of America. This fondness for ancestry is akin to the logevity of the vampire, whose life (or unlife) is extended by draining the lives and blood of others. The stories in Blood Lines explore the ancient tradition begun with Lord Byron and with Bram Stoker's Dracula, first published in 1897 long after New England's aristocratic bloodlines were established. The stories - all set in New England - are written by master storytellers. Including: NEW HAMPSHIRE "Investigating Jericho"; Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, MASSACHUSSETTS "The Brotherhood of Blood"; Hugh B. Cave, CONNECTICUT "Chastel" Manly Wade Wellman, MAINE "The Doom of the House of Duryea" Earl Pierce Jr., VERMONT "Moonlight in Vermont" Esther Friesner, CONNECTICUT "Secret Societies" Lawrence Schimel, MASSACHUSSETS "Luella Miller" Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, NEW HAMPSHIRE "When the Red Strom Comes" Sarah Smith, CONNECTICUT "The Beautiful, the Damned" Kristine Kathryn Rusch, RHODE ISLAND "The Shunned House" H. P. Lovecraft

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How is it that the peaceful plains of the American heartland could become the playfields of vampires whose existence is extended by draining the lives and blood of others? Is there something in the solid citizens who people the nation's heartlanda that escapes our notice? After reading these tales of horror that embody the fear lying below the surface of our consciousness, one can only wonder. The stories - all set in the vast American Midwest - are written by master storytellers.

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The City. Suggestive of the sophistication and naivete, success and failure, culture and brutality, victim and predator. Does this city ever truly rest? And those who watch from dark places, each night hoping and thirsting? For what? Life? Revenge? Another day? Only the vampires, returned from the dead to drain life from the living, know for sure, and the Streets of Blood are their domain. All the stories in Streets of Blood are set in the greater New York City area. They include: "Softly While You're Sleeping," Evelyn E. Smith; "Lowlifes," Esther M. Friesner; "To Feel Another's Woe," Chet Williamson; "Appetites," Lawrence Schimel; "Following the Way," Alan Ryan; "Seat Partner," Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; "Night Laughter," Ellen Kushner; "The Land of Lost Content," Suzy McKee Charnas

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Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the past. Ghosts of history, of the dead, of wars and lineages, of slights to honor - all hunger vividly. So do a host of superstitions, both petty and grand. One of the strongest superstitions of the south is the myth of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living. The stories in Southern Blood are set in the south from Florida to Texas, North Carolina to Arkansas - and are written by master storytellers.

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"Originally published in separate volumes as: The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories and The Dracula Book of Great Horror Stories." Here, in this omnibus edition, are twenty-seven great vampire and horror stories guarenteed to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and disturb your dreams. Dracula brings together some of the all-time classics of vampire fiction, including Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla," Bram Stoker's "Dracula's Guest," Guy Maupassant's "The Horla," and Victor Roman's "Four Wooden Stakes." Horror is as old as the human race, and Dracula presents a mind-boggling collection of tales of horror and the supernatural by outstanding writers in the field. This is a rich and satisfying collection of the best and most terrifying tales drawn from the vast crypt of vampires and horror literature - and a book to read quietly on a dark winter's night, alone.

The Dracula Book of Great Horror Stories

Synopsis: Contained in the volume above.

Synopsis: Features "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu, "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker, "Le Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Sad Story of a Vampire" by Count Stenbock, "Good Lady Ducayne" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "The Tomb of Sarah" by F.G. Loring, "For the Blood Is the Life" by F. Marion Crawford, "The Room in the Tower" and "Mrs. Amworth" by E.F. Benson, "The Transfer" by Algernon Blackwood, "The Vampire" by Jan Neruda, "Four Wooden Stakes" by Victor Roman, and "An Authenticated Vampire Story" by Dr. Franz Hartmann.

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This out-of-the-ordinary vampire anthology features 34 vampire writings from (mostly) literary writers: William Shakespeare (an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet), Anne Rice (a rare story), Sting (a song), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Southey, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron, H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Sir Walter Scott, Ivan Turgenev, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baudelaire, Jules Verne, Voltaire, John Keats, Woody Allen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, Conrad Aiken, Sir Thomas Malory, Thomas Hardy, Rod Serling, Goethe, Lenny Bruce, T. S. Eliot, Edith Wharton, H. P. Lovecraft, and Bram Stoker. John Richard Stephens's interesting introduction discusses the history of vampires in print from Sophocles to Karl Marx to Virginia Woolf.

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Few creatures fascinate us as much as vampires. Throughout history, myths and legends of immortal, undead beings who feed on human blood have surfaced in widely separated cultures. These creatures of the night resonate in our collective consciousness. Why are we so drawn to them? Perhaps its their savage power, or the fact that they exist outside our mortal laws. They are cruel and beautiful, and we love them even as they take our lives. Yet for all their power, they are cursed. And we love this too. We feel their loneliness, their unique angst, and they become almost human to us. Here, in this exceptional anthology, are twelve original stories told from the point of view of the vampires. Experience their hunger and hopes first-hand as they invite you into their undead existence.

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The Darkest Thirst (put together by an unnamed editorial committee) is an anthology of 16 original vampire tales. They're organized under five subheadings. The first, Dark Histories, are stories set in the past, ranging from a pregnant vampire at the time of the Norman Conquest to a World War II story about soldiers in the Balkan Mountains. Edo van Belkom, a 1998 Bram Stoker winner, contributes a well-researched tale that asks "What if?" about Rasputin and his famous resistance to being murdered. The second, Obsessions, contains a clever cyberspace tale in which TepesAllure and Raven meet each other in a chat room. The best in the collection is "Waiting for the 400" by Kyle Marffin, author of Carmilla: The Return. In this classic noir love story set in the 1950s, a sultry gal with dark red hair and a sleeveless dress to match gets off the train from Chicago and walks right into the heart of the man who runs the rural depot in northern Wisconsin. The outcome of their encounter is ambiguous, lingering in the reader's mind like an old blues song. The third, The Hunted, features three action tales about vampires and those who pursue them. The fourth, Redemption, offers a heady dose of Catholicism, as nuns and priests both test and find faith in their encounters with the undead. The fifth, Arts & Letters, has two tales about the aesthetic dimension of the vampire experience. Robert Devereaux's "Nocturne A Tre in B-Double-Sharp Minor" is a beautifully imagined variation on the erotic possibilities of a conductor's talent, and Deborah Markus's "For the Love of Vampires" finishes off the anthology with a witty, self-referential meditation on what authors who write about vampires really want. Some of the stories are a bit predictable--black velvet cloaks, fog-shrouded mountain passes, the blood hunger burning in the veins--but the prose is rarely off-key. The Darkest Thirst is a classy and satisfying anthology.

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They lurk among the shadows in grimy city alleys, they reveal themselves amidst humanity's own man-made horrors, they rise from the darkness in fog shrouded forests, they may even hide in the house right next door, sitting there beside us, mirroring our strangest dreams and our most terrifying nightmares, weaving their dark magic of sin and lust and delicious violence, just waiting to embrace us with their kiss of madness...their kiss of dark desire...their kiss of death.

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These three spooky love stories include Anne Stuart's Dark Journey--Cloaked in the form of a stranger, he lived a lie with the one woman he couldn't deny himself. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Catching Dreams--He existed only in her dreams, until she found him in the flesh, and herself in a nightmare. And Maggie Shayne's Beyond Twilight--He was a vengeful vampire hunter--fated for a forbidden love to last an eternity. Original.