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Book Synopsis Classic Tales of Vampires and Shapeshifters by : Belinda Gallagher
Download or read book Classic Tales of Vampires and Shapeshifters written by Belinda Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the myth of the vampire has intrigued mortal minds. A creature so loathsome, but at the same time so alluring, has inspired literature throughout the ages. This collection contains stories and extracts by established masters of horror such as Bram Stoker, M.R. James and Sheridan Le Fanu.
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women by : Stephen Jones
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 584 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, CaitlÃn 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.
Book Synopsis Classic Vampire Stories by : Leslie Shepard
Download or read book Classic Vampire Stories written by Leslie Shepard and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vampires: Classic Tales by : Mike Ashley
Download or read book Vampires: Classic Tales written by Mike Ashley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a 200-year-old tradition, this original collection features a deft combination of vintage vampire tales with more contemporary stories. Anthologist Mike Ashley introduces a dozen fantasies that weave together dark, psychological elements with well-recognized vampire themes. His notes trace the development of vampire fiction, illustrating the genre's life beyond the well-known conventions established by Bram Stoker's Dracula. Selections range from Lord Byron's contribution to the legendary storytelling session that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Nancy Holder's "Blood Gothic," a modern perspective on the corrupting influence of the romantic vampire image. Additional contributors include Alexandre Dumas, Karl von Wachsmann, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Julian Osgood Field, R. Murray Gilchrist, Dick Donovan, Brian Stableford, Sidney Bertram, and Ernst Raupach.
Book Synopsis Southern Blood by : Lawrence Schimel
Download or read book Southern Blood written by Lawrence Schimel and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.
Book Synopsis Vampire King (Adult Fairy Tale, Cinderella #1) by : Joanna Mazurkiewicz
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!
Book Synopsis Children of the Night by : David Stuart Davies
Download or read book Children of the Night written by David Stuart Davies and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. This book presents vampire stories, some familiar, some less so.
Book Synopsis Vampires Never Get Old by : Zoraida Córdova
Download or read book Vampires Never Get Old written by Zoraida Córdova and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction’s leading voices fill this bestselling anthology—including V.E. Schwab's First Kill, now a major Netflix adaptation! "Boundary-pushing... Stories that stake a new claim on old tropes." —Publishers Weekly, starred review In this delicious new collection, you’ll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out—and going out for their first kill—and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night. Welcome to the evolution of the vampire—and a revolution on the page. Vampires Never Get Old includes stories by authors both bestselling and acclaimed, including Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle Clayton, Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker, Tessa Gratton, Heidi Heilig, Julie Murphy, Mark Oshiro, Rebecca Roanhorse, Laura Ruby, Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, and Kayla Whaley. An Imprint Book "Vampire fans, sink your teeth into this satisfying collection." —Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Vampires by : Stephen Jones
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Vampires written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in this specially re-vamped edition of the classic compilation every horror fan will want to sink their teeth into. From an award-winning editor who knows the genre backwards, here is the very best in vampire fiction: from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from the dark origins of fairy tales to a modern reinterpretation of the King of the Undead himself, Count Dracula. This revised edition features over a dozen new stories, including Tina Rath's A Trick of the Dark and Kim Newman's Andy Warhol's Dracula, as well as classic novellas such as Hugh B. Cave's Stragella and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Investigating Jericho. There are contributions by Nancy Kilpatrick, Christopher Fowler, Paul Mcauley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tina Rath, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison and Kim Newman.
Book Synopsis The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849 by : Joseph Le Fanu
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)
Download or read book The Vampires written by The Dark Lords and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vampires" is a collection of classic tales about those aristocratic predators who haunt dreams and lust for blood from beyond the grave. It includes stories from Dracula creator Bram Stoker and literary greats M. R. James and Henry Kuttner, the first classic vampire story every published, and other gripping stories such as these: * A legendary vampire hunter gives a lecture on his deadly prey. * Knights encounter a chilling character at their Carpathian estate. * A sophisticated fiend preys upon a beauitful, feral boy. * A beautiful countess seduces her prey from an ancient tomb. * Walpurgis Night brings death and terror for Dracula's guest. * A diabolical Count terrorizes villagers from beyond the grave. * An Old World vampire invades Hollywood in the 1930s. The anthology is introduced by the Dark Lords, who give some background on each tale and their endarkened perspective on the vampire mythos. They also introduce the "Temple of Vampires" -- quite possibly their most diabolical project to date! Evil reading and darkest dreams, The Dark Lords
Book Synopsis Classic Vampire Tales by : Bram Stoker
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 308 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
Book Synopsis The Vampire Archives by : Otto Penzler
Download or read book The Vampire Archives written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps—has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include: Arthur Conan Doyle • Ray Bradbury • Ambrose Bierce • H. P. Lovecraft • Harlan Ellison • Roger Zelazny • Robert Bloch • Clive Barker
Book Synopsis Blood by Gaslight by : R. T. Van Pelt
Download or read book Blood by Gaslight written by R. T. Van Pelt and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light a candle, lock the doors, and grab a cross as "Blood by Gaslight" brings you ten chilling stories of the undead guaranteed to freeze the blood in your veins. A powerful collection of classic vampire stories, "Blood by Gaslight" contains haunting tales of bloodlust from some of the finest writers of the Victorian age, including John Polidori, whose story "The Vampyre" set the model for the modern vampire.
Book Synopsis Famous Vampire Stories by : Tom Baker (Ed )
Download or read book Famous Vampire Stories written by Tom Baker (Ed ) and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come thrill with us through the unhallowed halls of the sepulchral and distorted LIVING DEAD, as we thrill-ride through fifteen classic vampire tales certain to get your blood chilling in your veins Ranging from classic novellas such as Le Fanu's ""Carmilla,"" to the spectral excursions of famed horrorologist H.P. Lovecraft, this unsightly tome recounts even true-life vampiric lore as well as the literary classics of chilling fright. So come on! Your casket is waiting, the coach is stamping int he castle courtyard, and the children of the night are making their music! For, as Bela might say, ""The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield! The blood is the life!"" Stories by Lovecraft, Byron, Le Fanu, Conan Doyle, and more!
Book Synopsis Three Vampire Tales by : Anne Williams
Download or read book Three Vampire Tales written by Anne Williams and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three classic works of vampire literature come together for the first time in one volume. Complementing the complete texts are background essays as well as additional selections by the three authors and others. Because the vampire novel has proven so influential in film, an extensive filmography is included.
Book Synopsis Vampires and Vampirism by : Dudley Wright
Download or read book Vampires and Vampirism written by Dudley Wright and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
