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The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510723846
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women written by Stephen Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five uncanny and erotic tales of vampires written by supernatural fiction’s greatest mistresses of the macabre. "Fashions change, and the urbane vampire created by Byron and cemented in place by Stoker has had to move on . . . Are you, like me, ready for the new dusk?" —Ingrid Pitt, from her Introduction Prepare to arm yourself with garlic, silver bullets, and a stake. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology that every vampire fan—vampiric feminist or not—will want to drink deep from. From the classic stories of Edith Wharton, Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon to modern incarnations by such acclaimed writers as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Angela Slatter, these blood-drinkers and soul-stealers range from the sexual to the sanguinary, from the tormented Good to the unspeakably Evil. Among those memorable Children of the Night you will encounter are Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins' undead heroine Sonja Blue, Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson, and Freda Warrington’s age-old lovers Karl and Charlotte. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and now revised and updated, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women fulfils the bloodlust of the somnambulist horror fan, delivering the ultimate bite.

A Vampire's Tale

Author : Sandy Kulhavy
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Vampire's Tale written by Sandy Kulhavy and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wandering vampire travels the world throughout the centuries, but with a strict moral code: he does not drink near where he stays, nor does he feed on innocent prey. Kyle watches his family members pass on, while he endures immortal life and grapples with feeling damned to hell for all eternity. When Kyle encounters Magda, an innocent woman whose blood he finds undeniably irresistible, Kyle questions his faith, fearing he’s been abandoned by God. A story of redemption, A Vampire’s Tale illustrates the complexities of faith in the face of condemnation. About the Author Sandy Kulhavy has always loved animals. She worked with Morgan horses for a while, and is passionate about dogs, having adopted several shelter dogs. Animals bring such love and joy into Kulhavy’s life, and her dogs are her biggest blessing. Kulhavy enjoys taking pictures of the wildlife where she lives, often seeing turkey, deer, squirrels, and rabbits.

Vittorio, the Vampire

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307575942
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Vittorio, the Vampire written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold. Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue. Against a backdrop of the wonders--both sacred and profane--and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

Vampire King (Adult Fairy Tale, Cinderella #1)

Author : Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Publisher : Joanna Mazurkiewicz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampire King (Adult Fairy Tale, Cinderella #1) written by Joanna Mazurkiewicz and published by Joanna Mazurkiewicz. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a kingdom ruled by a vampire, royal blood doesn’t mean what it used to—and fairy tales don’t always have happy endings. To wrest her inheritance from her evil stepmother, Cindy must marry a respectable man before she turns 25. The upcoming royal ball is the perfect place to find one—with the help of a fairy godmother. Or at least, a drunken prostitute with some magical skills. At the ball, though, King Caspian sets his sights on her. It’s not like Cindy doesn’t know better—but surely no one’s more respectable than a king. So really, what does she have to lose? Everything, as it turns out. Because the king isn’t human at all, but a monster who’s hell-bent on having Cindy in his bed again. If only he can track her down. Scroll up and one-click this steamy, sexy, adult retelling of Cinderella with a vampire twist!

Pandora

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307575888
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Pandora written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together. Look for Anne Rice’s new book, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, coming November 29, 2016.

Interview with the Vampire

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345337662
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1991-09-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

Whisper A Vampires Tale

Author : Ardis Proulx-Chedore
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0981126243
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Whisper A Vampires Tale written by Ardis Proulx-Chedore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people dream of becoming vampires. Live forever, have fun, and be free to do what you please. But for one girl its the worst form of torture in the world. Longing to see the sun again, this is her story.

Cliff's Descent

Author : Dianne Duvall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781666149197
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Cliff's Descent written by Dianne Duvall and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Depraved Blood: A Young Bloodsuckers Vampire Tale

Author : PJ Dominicis
Publisher : PJ Dominicis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Depraved Blood: A Young Bloodsuckers Vampire Tale written by PJ Dominicis and published by PJ Dominicis. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Jeremy is ready to end it all after homophobic bullying and violence. His seventeen-year-old sister, Janis, is stressed and binge eating to cope with loneliness. And then there's Paul, who is middle-aged, broke and hopeless—with nothing left to lose. Will the ageless, pansexual vampires, Sethos and Constantinos, save them or sentence their souls to eternal damnation? Raw and moody, told with an unabashed, mature voice that breaks through the insipid twilight with taboo depravity. "Dark, witty, subversive… It’s like “Twilight” with balls and a brain… Reminiscent of the early work of Poppy Z Brite… Makes me want to become an Emo vampire! Sure to appeal to the nonconformist bohemian in all of us." —Shane McFlicker, LGBT Blogger "The story takes you on somewhat of an emotional roller coaster…The author is imaginative, and that’s good at a time when books can be carbon copies of each other. I love the fact that this story deviates from the norm...Whether you love it or hate it though, it is a book that will spark emotion and opinion!" —Teresa D, VampireRomanceBooks.com "...I got offended and it takes a lot to offend me...I cannot get some of these images out of my head and they make me want to curl up in my bed and WEEP." —Char, shadowsireview.blogspot.co.uk

The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849

Author : Joseph Le Fanu
Publisher : Bottletree Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1933747358
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849 written by Joseph Le Fanu and published by Bottletree Books LLC. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this International Book Awards anthology finalist, the best vampire short stories from the first half of the 19th century are unearthed from long forgotten journals and magazines. They are collected for the first time in this groundbreaking book on the origins of vampire lore. Watch the book trailer: www.AndrewBarger.com/bestvampirestories1800.html The cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language is the first half of the 19th century. Andrew Barger combed forgotten journals and mysterious texts to collect the very best vintage vampire stories from this crucial period in vampire literature. In doing so, Andrew found the second and third vampire stories originally published in the English language, neither printed since their first publication nearly 200 years ago. Also included is the first vampire story originally written in English by John Polidori after a dare with Lord Byron and Mary Shelley. The book contains the first vampire story by an American who was a graduate of Columbia Law School. The book further includes the first vampire stories by an Englishman and German, including the only vampire stories by such renowned authors as Alexander Dumas, Théophile Gautier and Joseph le Fanu. As readers have come to expect from Andrew, he has added his scholarly touch to this collection by including story backgrounds, author photos and a foreword titled "With Teeth." The ground-breaking stories are: 1819 The Vampyre - John Polidori (1795-1821) 1823 Wake Not the Dead - Ernst Raupach 1848 The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains - Alexander Dumas (1802-1870) 1839 Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - Joseph Sheridan le Fanu (1814-1873) 1826 Pepopukin in Corsica - Arthur Young (1741-1820) 1819 The Black Vampyre: A Legend of Saint Domingo - Robert Sands (1799-1832) 1836 Clarimonde - Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)

The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140124454
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-10-03 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrifying and definitive collection of Vampire stories from the masters of literary horror They're lurking under the cover of darkness…and between the covers of this book. Here, in all their horror and all their glory, are the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring. Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered for the kill and for the chill, brought frighteningly to life by Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and other masters of the macabre. Careful—they are all crafty enough to steal their way into your imagination and steal away your hopes for a restful sleep.

Classic Vampire Tales

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8184959214
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Classic Vampire Tales written by Bram Stoker and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the Immortal Stories of Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu MR James, John William Polidori, Ernst Raupach and others Always thrilling and at times deeply moving, Classic Vampire Tales presents 10 stories from true masters of the genre. Dracula’s Guest Wake Not the Dead The Vampyre Carmilla An Episode of Cathedral History Good Lady Ducayne The Room in the Tower For the Blood is the Life The True Story of a Vampire Clarimonde

The Vampire Book

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756664446
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires have always fascinated and frightened, and now their reach goes beyond horror-flick fans. Teens the world over have fallen under the spell of these mysterious, blood-sucking, and oh-so-alluring beings! From Buffy to Twilight, vampire fans have gotten smarter and savvier, and this is the book for them. Learn how vampires live, how they avoid capture, and why they're so darn attractive. Also trace the history of vampire lore--in literature, movies, and on television--from the woods of Transylvania to the modern-day high school. Chock full of info and insight, each gorgeous page will draw in readers of every age, with innovative styling, never-before-seen imagery, and deliciously wicked design. Perhaps this enticing tome is best read while wearing a garlic necklace . . .

The Monster Book

Author : Christopher Golden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671042599
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Monster Book written by Christopher Golden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An official guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer describes the mythology and influences behind the monsters, ghouls, and characters through interviews with the creators and details of the episodes.

Blood Read

Author : Joan Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216288
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Blood Read written by Joan Gordon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age. Scholars and writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan examine how today's vampire has evolved from that of the last century, consider the vampire as a metaphor for consumption within the context of social concerns, and discuss the vampire figure in terms of contemporary literary theory. In addition, three writers of vampire fiction—Suzy McKee Charnas (author of the now-classic Vampire Tapestry), Brian Stableford (writer of the lively and erudite novels Empire of Fear and Young Blood), and Jewelle Gomez (creator of the dazzling Gilda stories)—discuss their own uses of the vampire, focusing on race and gender politics, eroticism, and the nature of evil. The first book to examine a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars, Blood Read offers a variety of styles that will keep readers thoroughly engaged, inviting them to participate in a dialogue between fiction and analysis that shows the vampire to be a cultural necessity of our age. For, contrary to legends in which Dracula has no reflection, we can see reflections of ourselves in the vampire as it stands before us cloaked not in black but in metaphor.

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

Author : Dina Khapaeva
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472122622
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture written by Dina Khapaeva and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity. Dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry. “Corpse chic” and “skull style” have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book breaks new ground by viewing these phenomena as aspects of a single movement and documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. This book links the mounting demand for images of violent death with dramatic changes in death-related social rituals. It offers a conceptual framework that connects observations of fictional worlds—including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, and the Harry Potter series—with real-world sociocultural practices, analyzing the aesthetic, intellectual, and historical underpinnings of the cult of death. It also places the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement in shaping the current antihumanist atmosphere. This timely, thought-provoking book will appeal to scholars of culture, film, literature, anthropology, and American and Russian studies, as well as general readers seeking to understand a defining phenomenon of our age.

The Origins of the Literary Vampire

Author : Heide Crawford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442266759
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Literary Vampire written by Heide Crawford and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long and distinguished tradition of the literary vampire began in Germany during the Age of Enlightenment. German literature was the first to adapt the vampire figure from central European folklore and superstition and give it literary form. Despite these German origins, scholarly attention devoted to literary vampires has consistently focused on a select set of sources: British and French literature, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and the phenomenon of the vampire superstition in general. While there have been many illuminating studies of pre-literary vampires and vampires that have already been firmly established as literary figures, the story of the crucial moment of transition from folkloric figure to literary subject has not yet been told. In The Origins of the Literary Vampire Heide Crawford redirects scholarly attention to the body of German poetry and prose where vampire folklore becomes vampire literature. This book focuses on the adaptation of the vampire superstition from central European folklore by German poets in the 18th and early 19th centuries for an audience that had become increasingly interested in superstition and occult phenomena in an Age of Enlightenment. In addition to establishing that the origins of the literary vampire in 18th and 19th century German poetry and prose were informed by the stories and reports of vampires from Central Europe, Crawford argues that the German poets who adapted this figure from superstition for their creative work immediately molded it into a metaphor for contemporary cultural anxieties and fears—a connection that would inspire horror literature in general and the traits of the literary vampire in particular for the 19th century and beyond. Contemporary culture has exhibited a marked fascination with eroticized and politicized applications of the vampire. This volume traces these erotic motifs, common political motifs and others to the first vampire poems that were written by German poets. Consequently, this book answers three central questions: What were the origins of the literary vampire; how was the vampire of folklore and superstition adapted for literature; and how did German poets contribute to the development of the vampire and Gothic horror literature? By answering these and other questions, The Origins of the Literary Vampire explains how the literary vampire became the ubiquitous horror figure it is today.