Editor: Robert Weinberg Publisher: Barnes and Noble Books
Publishing Date: 1995
ISBN-10: 0760702063; ISBN-13: 978-0760702062; 588 pages
Description (from QueerHorror):
In their efforts to wreak original variations on the vampire theme, the writers represented in this collection have imagined ingenious new means of vampire disposal, envisioned vampires interfacing with computers and piloting time machines, and even proposed more than a few reasons why people might want to be a vampire -- or at least have one as a close friend. Not that there aren't a few traditional vampires lurking between these covers.
A Bite to Remember (Argeneau Vampires, Book 5)
Author : Lynsay Sands Publisher : Avon
Publishing Date : June 27, 2006
ISBN-10: 006077407X; ISBN-13: 978-0060774073; 384 pages
Description (from Booklist) :
Vincent Argeneau has had to shut down all his stage productions because a saboteur's actions are escalating, and he fears that someone will be killed. Cast members have been injured and others are quitting, and everyone acting in a New York production has come down with anemia. Bastien Argeneau sends PI Jackie Morrisey and her assistant, Tiny McGraw, to help. Jackie, who previously had a bad relationship with a vampire, has no personal interest in Vincent but realizes that he is in danger. Vincent discovers that Jackie is his lifemate but knows that she has an antipathy toward immortals. When Jackie is captured by the saboteur, she bites her vampire assailant's wrist and accidentally swallows blood, thus beginning the transformation to immortal.
A Candle for D'Artagnan (An Historical Horror Novel, Third in the Atta Olivia Clements Series)
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publishing Date: Tor Books 1989; Reprint edition Tor/Orb May 1994
ISBN-10: 0312890192; ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89019-3; 416 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Olivia Atta Clemens, immortal vampire, Roman noblewoman, beloved of the Count Saint-Germain-has come to Paris seeking only peace. But the year is 1637, and there is no peace to be found in the Court of Louis XIII, where Cardinal Richelieu maneuvers to control the throne. Caught up in the intrigue against her will, Olivia seeks and wins the protection of a young guardsman named d'Artagnan-a man destined to become one of the greatest heroes of all time.
A Dozen Black Roses
Author: Nancy Collins Publisher: White Wolf Publishing Inc.
Publishing Date: November 1997
ISBN-10: 1565048733; ISBN-13: 978-1-56504-873-7; 276 pages
Brief commentary from the author Nancy A. Collins, June 23, 1998 :
When I was asked to write a ''cross-over'' novel between White Wolf's World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade RPG and my punk vampire/vampire-slayer character Sonja Blue, I tried my best to blend the two as seamlessly as possible. (And, if it is any help to my fans, the events chronicled in ''...Roses'' are ''out of continuity'' --like those old comic stories where Superman's robot double married a mermaid in a wheelchair.) In any case, I did my best to make it easy for those readers unfamiliar with my work or the Vampire RPG to pick up the book and (hopefully) get a good read out of it.
A Female Vampire
Author : Katharina Katt Publisher : Double Dragon Publishing
Publishing Date : August 2002
ISBN-10: 1894841689; ISBN-13: 978-1-894841-68-9; 108 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Melody Chalis survives each vampiric night by feeding off of the blood of her lovers until one night when she is confronted by Eric, the elder vampire. She can either join him, or face a horrible death by the sun.
A Flame in Byzantium (Atta Olivia Clemens series # 1)
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Publisher: Tor Books
Publishing date: October 1987
ISBN-10: 0812528042; ISBN-13: 978-0812528046; 470 pages
Description (from back cover) :
A skillful blend of history and fiction, given added spice by the fact that its heroine happens to be a five-hundred-year-old vampire... An excellent historical about a strong and sympathetic woman.
A New Awakening (Vampire Yui Graphic Novel 1)
Author : Narumi Kakinouchi Publisher: Studio Ironcat
Publishing Date : September 18, 2001
ISBN-10: 1929090137; ISBN-13: 978-1929090136; 186 pages
Description:
Yui is related to Miyu by blood in several ways. She is a young vampire that does not know of her heritage and is trying to deal with the bizarre cravings and the strange dizzy spells that attack her every so often. But once she learns of her vampiric self, there is no going back...
A Quick Bite (Argeneau Vampires, Book 1)
Author : Lynsay Sands Publisher : Avon
Publishing Date : October 25, 2005
ISBN-10: 0060773758; ISBN-13: 978-0060773755; 384 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Lissianna has been spending her centuries pining for Mr. Right, not just a quick snack, and this sexy guy she finds in her bed looks like he might be a candidate. But there's another, more pressing issue: her tendency to faint at the sight of blood . . . an especially annoying quirk for a vampire. Of course it doesn't hurt that this man has a delicious-looking neck. What kind of cold-blooded vampire woman could resist a bite of that?
Dr. Gregory Hewitt recovers from the shock of waking up in a stranger's bedroom pretty quickly-once he sees a gorgeous woman about to treat him to a wild night of passion. But is it possible for the good doctor to find true love with a vampire vixen, or will he be just a good meal? That's a question Dr. Greg might be willing to sink his teeth into . . . if he can just get Lissianna to bite.
A Taste for Blood
Author : Diana Lee Publisher : Haworth (T)
Publishing Date : October 2003
ISBN-10: 156023461X; ISBN-13:978-1-56023-461-6; 382 pages
Reader's Review (from Amazon) :
A Taste For Blood is a delicious novel about sensual, emotional, butt kicking female vampires. Lee delivers all the skill and heat of the best old-school vampire tales, but with feminist-lesbian politics and cutting edge sexuality.
Accidental Vampire, The (Argeneau Vampires, Book 7)
Author : Lynsay Sands Publisher : Avon
Publishing Date : December 26, 2007
ISBN-10: 0061229687; ISBN-13: 978-0061229688; 384 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Ever since an accident turned her into a knockout vamp, Elvi Black's been catching her z's in a coffin, staying out of the sun, and giving up garlic. She knows there's more to being undead than what she saw in Dracula, but she can't very well ask her mortal friends about proper biting etiquette. But when her neighbors placed a personal ad for her in the local paper, she never imagined she'd meet Victor Argeneau, a vampire who could have his pick of any woman-dead or alive.
Rich, powerful, and drop-dead gorgeous, Victor's the perfect man for a novice neck-biter like Elvi. He's willing to teach her everything he knows, but he'll have to do it fast. Someone's out to put a stake through her new vamp life, and only Victor can keep her safe-and satisfied-for all eternity.
Russian Alek Dragovich, enforcer for the Undead, is feeling the weight of his years and has yet to find the elusive affaire d'amour that would lighten his burden. Nothing, but nothing, is going well. His position in the Directorate is in jeopardy, and even his mentor Nikolena is threatening to remove her support if Drago doesn't stop employing his unorthodox methods of resolving his cases. Nikolena gives Drago one last chance to redeem himself-to locate and eliminate a high-ranking member of the Brotherhood who is using forbidden methods to ascend the hierarchy. Still, Drago has little interest in Nikolena's schemes until this one becomes personal. When someone tries to kill him...that's personal. That ''someone'' is raven-haired Gypsy Marya Jaks, daughter of a dhampir, offspring of a vampire and his mortal wife. Dhampirs are famous among the Roma for their ability to detect vampires, thereby making them perfect vampire killers.
When Marya learns that Drago has deemed her a threat to the vampire community and has ordered her termination, she strikes back. Drago, the hunter, has become the hunted, but is it Marya who truly wants him dead or Nikolena's mysterious power-hungry vampire? Drago resolves to keep Marya alive until he can learn the truth, and he must summon the strength of will to elevate himself from pawn to player in the deadliest of games. The afterimage of Drago's neon blue eyes has haunted Marya from the first moment she encountered him in her bedroom, but will the image signify her destruction, or a bond so powerful it can overcome a legacy of hatred.
Book 1 in the All Enduring series. Danielle celebrates her thirtieth birthday at Savannah's hottest nightclub. However, the club's owner, Armondés Tresnávé -- mysterious, dark, very sexy -- weaves an erotic spell around Danielle she is powerless to resist. Their night of erotic lovemaking turns deadly when she discovers her sexy lover is a vampire with a secret agenda. A vampire king, Armondés must marry before midnight or suffer an ancient curse. Danielle is the latest "candidate" and time is running out. When Danielle unknowingly passes the required compatibility tests, Armondés realizes Danielle is the one. His seduction climaxes on the stroke of midnight when, in an orgasmic peak, Danielle is transformed into a vampire and his eternal mate. Thrust into a life she didn't ask for and doesn't want, Danielle finds adjusting to life as a vampire is difficult enough, but soon realizes life as a queen has hidden dangers. Someone in the court wants her destroyed to ensure Armondés falls victim to the curse. The traitor didn't count on the lust between Armondés and Danielle turning into a once-in-a-lifetime love. Now, only their passion for each other can save them.or ultimately destroy them.
All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7)
Sookie attends an all-important central U.S. vamp summit on the shores of Lake Michigan as a "human geiger counter" for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire queen of a Louisiana weakened by Katrina and who will be tried during the event for murdering her king. Sookie knows the queen is innocent, but she's hardly prepared for other shocking murders, not to mention protests by the Fellowship of the Sun, a right-wing antivampire movement. Her sleuthing skills, along with those of her new telepath friend, Barry the Bellboy, are put to the extreme test.
An Old Friend of the Family (Dracula Series, #1)
Author : Fred Saberhagen Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Publishing Date: January 2006
ISBN-13: 9780765314987; 208 pages
Description (from Barnes):
Kate Southerland has been murdered. But she is not dead. Johnny Southerland has vanished, a severed, bloody finger the only clue.
The Southerlands are trapped in a blood-feud older than history. Their enemy is no mortal madman but the undying mistress of evil enchantment, Morgan Le Fay.
But the Southerlands are not Morgan's true target. She seeks to do battle with their protector, their defender, the only being who can save these mortals.
Angry Angel: Sisters of the Night, The
Author : Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Publisher : Avon Books (Pap Trd)
Publishing Date : April 1999
ISBN-10: 0380789841; ISBN-13: 978-0380789849; 368 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
In Bram Stoker's dark classic Dracula, three ''weird sisters,'' make a brief but unforgettable appearance. The beautiful, mad brides of the vampire lord, their untold histories are at last revealed to us in ''Sisters of the Night,'' Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's brilliant reimagining of a timeless legend. In a distant age of brutal chaos, young Kelene is her family's salvation. An exquisite, golden-haired child just entering womanhood's embrace, she is blessed-and cursed-with a great gift. For most of her fourteen years, God's ''Militant Angels'' have guided her, shielding Kelene, her parents, her brothers and sisters from the horror and devastation visited upon their neighbors by the bloodthirsty Ottoman hordes. But suddenly another has invaded her dreams. This angel who speaks to Kelene in the night is far more elusive and demanding than any who came before-filling her with uncertainty and terrors while tempting her with impure thoughts and unholy desires. He will come to her, he vows, in Kelene's darkest hour. And then she will be his...for eternity.
Bad Blood (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Graphic Novel)
Authors: Andi Watson, Bennett Watson, Joss Whedon, Joe Bennett, Rick Ketcham Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, Inc.
Publishing Date: April 2000
ISBN-10: 1569714452; ISBN-13: 978-1-56971-445-4; 88 pages
Description :
Buffy stakes it all for life on the catwalk--but can she put her Slayer fate on hold? Buffy the next runway supermodel? Believe it! Buffy pursues a potential modeling career only to learn that beauty isn't just skin deep. Selke, the vampire Buffy thought was killed in a mausoleum fire, returns with a vengeance, and convinces a plastic surgeon to find a solution to her ''cosmetic'' complaints. She's back and she's out for blood... literally!
Baronne trépassée, La
Author: (Viscount Pierre Alexis) PONSON DU TERRAIL Publisher: Joëlle Losfeld; Collection : Arcanes
Publishing Date: 15 mai 2003
ISBN-10: 2844121675; ISBN-13: 978-2844121677; 264 pages
Personal Review :
I don't know if this French novel has been translated in English, but it should be. Ponson du Terrail (1829-1871) was a very prolific author, and this particular story reveals the first female vampire in French literature to be more than an assistant to an undead master.
Because Your Vampire Said So (Broken Heart, Oklahoma, Book 3)
Author : Michele Bardsley Publisher : Signet (MM)
Publishing Date : May 6 2008
ISBN-10: 0451223861; ISBN-13: 978-0451223869; 320 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
When you're immortal, being a mom won't kill you- it will only make you stronger. Even though all the non-vamps in Broken Heart, Oklahoma, skipped town, Patsy Donahue has kept her hair salon up and running thanks to the werewolves prowling around. They know how important good grooming is, especially a certain rogue shapeshifter who's as sexy as he is deadly. Now, if only she could put a leash on her wild teenage son, who's up to his neck in danger. The stress would kill Patsy, if she wasn't already undead. But her maternal instinct is still alive and kicking. And no one had better mess with her own flesh and blood...
Betrayed (House of Night, Book 2)
Authors : PC Cast, Kristin Cast Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publishing Date: October 2, 2007
ISBN-10: 0312360282; ISBN-13: 978-0312360283; 320 pages
Description:
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend…or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.
Bite
Authors : Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davidson, Angela Knight, Vickie Taylor Publisher : Jove Books
Publishing Date : December 28, 2004
ISBN-10: 051513970X; ISBN-13: 978-0515139709; 297 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend…or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.Introduced in the collection Hot Blooded, and on the heels of the wildly successful Master of the Night, Angela Knight has created a fascinating universe of Arthurian Lore and erotic vampirism with these five stories.
Bite Me If You Can (Argeneau Vampires, Book 6)
Author : Lynsay Sands Publisher : Avon
Publishing Date : January 30, 2007
ISBN-10: 0060774126; ISBN-13: 978-0060774127; 384 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
One minute Leigh is walking home in the early hours of the morning, and the next a vampire is sinking his teeth into her neck. Turns out it was a rogue vampire marked for termination, but it does Leigh little good because the damage's already been done. She's become one of them.
Lucian Argeneau, hunter of rogue vampires, has been alive for over two thousand years, and there's very little to excite him anymore. Food has become tasteless, sex is ordinary. Then Leigh drops into his life. Suddenly he finds himself craving coffee... and imagining the sassy brunette atop the black satin sheets on his nice big bed. It's Lucian's job now to enlighten Leigh on the inner workings of being immortal... and tutoring her is igniting a fire in him that hasn't burned in centuries.
But until they stop a renegade bloodsucker from destroying the human race, passion will have to wait!
Bitten, The (Vampire Huntress Legends)
Author : L. A. Banks Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Publishing Date : January 13, 2005
ISBN-10: 0312324081; ISBN-13: 978-0312324087; 448 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
At the start of Banks's fourth Vampire Huntress Legend fantasy, former crime lord/master vampire Carlos Rivera bites his lover, hot hip-hop artist/gifted slayer Damali Richards, and she bites back. This passionate exchange puts Damali's humanity and the fate of the world at risk.
Bitter Blood (The Vampire Legacy #2)
Author : Karen E. Taylor Publisher: Pinnacle
Publishing Date: October 2000
ISBN-10: 0786012420; ISBN-13: 978-0786012428; 352 pages
Description (from Amazon):
This picks up two years after the first book ends. Deirdre gets word that Mitch in a hospital for the insane, and she hops the next flight back to the states to help him. Little does show know that Mitch is being used as bait for Deirdre. It seems that there is a vampire clan that's after Dierdre for killing their master.
Black Blood (The Last Vampire no. 2)
Author : Christopher Pike Publisher : Simon Pulse
Publishing Date : November 1, 1994
ISBN-10: 0671872664; ISBN-13: 978-0671872663; 208 pages
Editorial Review (from Ingram) :
Believing that she and her partner, Ray, are the last remaining vampires, five-thousand-year-old Alisa is stunned when she learns about a series of brutal murders in the United States that can only be the work of their own kind.
Black Feathers: Erotic Dream
Author : Cecilia Tan Publisher : Perennial
Publishing Date : June 1998
ISBN-10: 0060985011; ISBN-13:978-0-06-098501-1; 304 pages
Description :
In this groundbreaking collection Cecilia Tan blurs the very definition of sexuality and redefines the future of erotic fiction, interweaving interweave the supernatural and science fiction with the fantasy of daydream.
Blood and Roses: The Vampire in 19th Century Literature
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to proto-Surrealism and beyond, in a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror. Includes: Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Machen, Le Comte de Lautreamont, Count Stenbock, J-K Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Thophile Gautier, Charles Nodier, J Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Oscar Wilde, Ivan Turgenev, Charlotte Bronte, J.M.Ryder.
Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles)
Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Alfred a. Knopf
Publishing Date: October 2003
ISBN-10: 0965330257; ISBN-13: 978-0965330251; 306 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
This novel begins where Blackwood Farm left off - and tells the story of Lestat's quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair. Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who's come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat's help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona's child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood.
Drake Bathory-Kereshtur, a Hungarian-born journalist who has lived in the United States, returns to his native Hungary, only to be the target for recruitment among a patriotic group that wants to restore the glory--and the horror--of the Hungarian aristocracy. As a descendent of the Countess Elizabeth Bathory, he is heir to all that is wonderful and terrible about his country and his family's past. Codrescu brilliantly explores Drake's anguish, as he realizes the truth behind his gruesome family history. But more importantly, Codrescu also creates a convincing and historically accurate picture of a sadistic woman obsessed with youth, vigor, beauty, and blood -- a woman with enough power to order the deaths of 650 virgins so that she could bathe in their blood.
Blood Countess, Erzebet Bathory of Hungary: A Gothic Horror Poem of Violence and Rage; With Bathory, a Play for Single Performer, The
Author : Robert Peters Publisher : Cherry Valley Editions
Publishing Date : June 1987
ISBN-10: 0916156818; ISBN-13: 978-0916156817; 67 pages
Reader's Review :
For theatre lovers it is a very peculiar reading.
Blood Debt (Fifth and final instalment in the 'Blood' series)
Author : Tanya Huff Publisher: DAW
Publishing Date : September 25, 2007
ISBN-10: 075640505X; ISBN-13: 978-0756405052; 336 pages
Description :
Offering up an irresistible team of terror busters: Vicki, a female private eye who was until recently human; Mike, a Toronto homicide detective who is her ex-partner and current lover; and Henry, a vampire who writes bodice rippers. This book is a masterful blending of contemporary fantasy and the supernatural. Henry calls upon Vicki and Mike to help him lay to rest the angry ghosts who are haunting him and demanding he find their killer and mete out blood vengeance.
Blood Enemy (Underworld, Book 2)
Author : Greg Cox Publisher : Pocket Star
Publishing Date : November 30, 2004
ISBN-10: 0743480724; ISBN-13: 978-0743480727; 320 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Before Underworld, The War Raged On.... For untold centuries, a secret conflict has been waged between two immortal rivals:
The vampires -- ageless aristocrats with a sensual appetite for blood and luxury. Among their ranks are the Death Dealers,an elite corps of the undead sworn to the destruction of their ancestral enemies....
The werewolves -- feral warriors capable of transforming into hellish beasts of unearthly power and ferocity. Once the faithful servants of the vampires, the savage lycans now fight toothand claw against their former masters.
Throughout history, the clandestine war has been fought in the shadows of the mortal world. And the seeds of this destructive conflict were sown long ago, when a courageous lycan daredto lose his heart to a beautiful vampire princess.
Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism
Editor : Ellen Datlow Publisher : GRAFTON BOOKS
Publishing Date : 1990
ISBN-10: 0586208526; ISBN-13: 978-0586208526; 416 pages
Editorial Review (from Pub. Weekly) :
Datlow, the fiction editor of Omni , has put together an excellent collection whose premise is that some vampires have a taste for sustenance a bit less substantial than bloodone might call it the "life force." The two poems and 15 stories, all but seven of which are original to his collection, concern these subtler, less stylized, dangerous creatures. Dan Simmons's novella, "Carrion Comfort," depicts vampires as youthful but ancient decadents playing life-and-death games with mere mortals for amusement. Fritz Leiber's "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" tells of a beautiful woman whose nighttime pick-ups are found dead the next day, and of the down-and-out photographer who falls under her spell. The standout of the book, however, is Scott Baker's "Varicose Worms," an amazingly inventive tale of a psychiatrist who leads an underground life and is also a shamanimmensely powerful, manipulative, corrupt. When he is challenged by unseen adversaries the story takes bizarre and thrilling turns. There are also excellent stories by Sharon Farber, Gahan Wilson, Pat Cadigan and Tanith Lee.
Blood Is the Life : Vampires in Literature, The
Editors : Leonard G. Heldreth and Mary Pharr Publisher : Bowling Green State University
Publishing Date : November 1999
ISBN-10: 0879728043; ISBN-13:978-0-87972-804-5; 275 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
While many readers may be familiar with leading figures like Dracula and Lestat, few are aware of the range and variety of the vampire legacy that stretches from the early nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth--and beyond. The essays in this volume use a humanistic viewpoint to explore the evolution and significance of the vampire in literature from the Romantic era to the millennium.
Blood Kiss: Vampire Erotica (First book in Circlet's Erotic Vampire Series)
Editor: Cecilia Tan Publisher: Circlet Pr
Publishing Date: October 1994
ISBN-10: 1885865007; ISBN-13:978-1-885865-00-7; 140 pages
Description (from the Publisher) :
Come explore the sensual side of night ... The series focuses on sexy stories, on vampires who lust for more than just blood. In Blood Kiss we have vamps who can change their gender to hunt (or to...), who seduce their prey and each other. Table of Contents: The Perfect Form by Pat Salah; Cinammon Roses by Renee M. Charles; The Hunger by Warren Lapine; Wanting by Amelia G.; Predator by Raven Kaldera; Brass Ring by Gary Bowen; Loved to Death by Dave Smeds.
Vampires have lived among Mankind for countless millenia, hiding in the darkness, hunting, feeding and killing Mortals. They live lives of utter secrecy, scattered far apart, always aware that the surging tide of Humanity could crush them if they became truly aware of their presence. For Eleisha, a young vampire who has remained hidden since the 19th Century, things are about to change.
Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
Publishing Date : May 27, 2008
ISBN-10: 0425222195; ISBN-13: 978-0425222195; 352 pages
Description (from Pub. Weekly) :
Anita serves her vampire sweetie Jean-Claude, Master of the City of St. Louis, obsessed with feeding him and her own need to leech off of others' sexual pleasure or ardeur while retaining her rep as vampire executioner, U.S. marshal and necromancer. She's also accompanying her bed-buddy Jason Schuyler to visit his dying estranged father in North Carolina. After arriving, Jason's mistaken for his rich cousin Keith Summerland, who's ditched his bride-to-be to run off with the wife of a vampire Master, giving Anita a case to solve between wild orgies with were-animals.
Blood Of My Blood (Vampire Legacy, #4)
Author : Karen E. Taylor Publisher : Pinnacle
Publishing Date : October 1, 2000
ISBN-10: 078601153X; ISBN-13: 978-0786011537; 352 pages
Description :
Most of the series thus far is set in modern New York City, although parts of "Blood of My Blood" happen in New Orleans. The story is narrated at first by a woman who you discover is Lily, not quite a human, and not quite a vampire. the child Deirdre was pregnant with when she became a vampire. Lily has been cared for by the descendents of the woman who found and freed her from her premature grave. After the loss of her current caretaker Lilly is hellbent on gaining the revenge she has wanted for over a century from the mother who left her for dead.
Blood Red: A Vampire's Love Story
Author : J. C. Brinson-Untiet Publisher: PublishAmerica
Publishing Date: April 2004
ISBN-10: 1413708218; ISBN-13: 978-1413708219; 280 pages
Description:
This is the story of a spirited Irish lass named Kathleen O'Brien who lives in a village full of dark intrigue. Death seems to come on a dark wing. When she is but 13 her family, fearing for her life, sends her to Dublin to Saint Bridgett's Convent, hoping to keep her safe. But Kathleen, being a girl of spirit, takes it upon herself to return after securing a position as a governess with a newly arrived English couple. Kathleen arrives in all her splendor. She has a plan: to marry the local handsome prince with or without his permission. After her arrival, the lady of the house and two daughters are found slain; then another murder takes place shortly thereafter. Is it true? Do vampires roam the hills? When Kathleen's mother and a visiting Scotland Yard detective are taken hostage, Kathleen must turn to the handsome prince and his family for help. But are the rumors true? Are the prince and his family vampires?
Blood Red Dawn (The Vampire Legacy, #7)
Author : Karen E. Taylor Publisher: Pinnacle
Publishing Date: October 1, 2004
ISBN-10: 0786014725; ISBN-13: 978-0786014729; 304 pages
Description (from Amazon's Review):
Following Deirdre Griffin from the traumatic illness in the prequel novel "Resurrection: The Vampire Legacy" in which her memory was slowly erased by a terrible poison, she had reunited with the man who just refused to stay dead, Max. She accepts his elaborate lies that they are married, but a grain of doubt nags at her. Back home, her beloved Mitch receieves the stunning news that she is pregnant and evolving into a being that has never before existed, thanks to an unwitting and unexpected betrayal by someone they both love. The entire cast of beloved characters come together to take on the Others and reclaim Deirdre before she is killed.
Blood Relations (World of Darkness: Vampire)
Author : Doug Murray Publisher : Harper Mass Market Paperbacks
Publishing Date : April 1996
ISBN-10: 0-06-105674-X; ISBN-13: 978-0-06-105674-1; 296 pages
Description :
Meeting at a New York club where vampire imitators become the victims of actual vampires, thrill-seeking vampire Val and fading vampire artist Mariana are aware of their instant mutual attraction but do not suspect that their meeting was arranged.
Blood Rose
Author : Sharon Page Publisher : Aphrodisia
Publishing Date : August 1, 2007
ISBN-10: 0758215444; ISBN-13: 978-0758215444; 304 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Serena Lark's erotic dreams of vampires are so vivid, so intense...could she be one? Drake Swift and Lord Sommersby, two daring vampire hunters, might know the truth about her past--and her future. The trio searches the dark streets of London for answers. She cannot say no when Sommersby and Drake introduce her to another existence entirely, one in which only extraordinary sensual pleasure matters--and Serena opens herself up to compelling desire...
Blood Secrets (The Vampire Legacy, #1)
Author : Karen E. Taylor Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Publishing Date: September 2000
ISBN-13: 9780786012435
Description (from Barnes):
This first installment of Taylor's chilling vampire series introduces readers to Deirdre Griffin, a sophisticated New York City vampiress determined to find the ruthless vampire who is framing her for his crimes.
Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Tales
Editor : Bianca de Moss Publisher : Alyson Books
Publishing Date : June 1, 2006
ISBN-10: 1555838839; ISBN-13: 978-1555838836; 280 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Sexy stories of Sapphic bloodsuckers! The always-alluring mystique of vampires adds a touch of the forbidden to this spine-tingling collection of blood-tinged lesbian erotica. Bianca de Moss is an avid practitioner of the occult and has lived in New Orleans for over 20 years. During her time in New Orleans, de Moss spent many dark nights in the historic cemeteries tracing headstones and holding lesbian erotic rituals. This is her first collection of lesbian erotic fiction.
Blood the Last Vampire 2002
Authors : Benkyo Tamaoki, Mamoru Oshii Publisher : Viz Communications; Graphic Novel edition
Publishing Date : November 2002
ISBN-10: 1569317798; ISBN-13: 978-1-56931-779-2; 200 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
This graphic novel is based on Blood : The Last Vampire, once the fastest-selling title in the history of Manga Entertainment. Benkyo Tamaoki updates this Vietnam War-era anime story to present-day Japan. The immortal Saya returns -- still clad in her trademark sailor suit and armed with an ancient Samurai sword -- to continue her holy war against the vampiric Chiropterans. Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer in tone but with graphic violence, this book is recommended for mature readers.
Blood Thirst : 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
Editor: Leonard Wolf Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publishing Date: October 28, 1999
ISBN-10: 0195132505; ISBN-13: 978-0195132502; 384 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Leonard Wolf gathers thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt. From Lafcadio Hearn, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, Edith Wharton, August Derleth, and Ray Bradbury to such contemporary masters as Anne Rice, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, and Woody Allen, and in settings as diverse as rural New England and outer space, this collection offers readers a blood-curling compendium of the best vampire fiction since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Organized into six categories--The Classic Adventure Tale, The Psychic Vampire, The Science Fiction Vampire, The Non-Human Vampire, The Comic Vampire, and The Heroic Vampire--the collection illustrates how the vampire's ability to draw into itself such a richness of symbolic meanings may account for the enduring appeal of the literature written about it. Here, then, is the definitive collection for aficionados and novices alike to sink their teeth into.
Bloodsong; A Novel
Author : Karen Marie Christa Minns Publisher : Odd Girls Press
Publishing Date : November 1997
ISBN-10: 1887237089; ISBN-13:978-1-887237-08-6; 224 pages
Reader's Review (from queerhorror.com) :
"Lesbian vampire story. This may be a follow up to the story Virago".
Bloodsucking Fiends : A Love Story
Author: Christopher Moore Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Publishing Date: March 18, 2008
ISBN-10: 1416558497; ISBN-13: 978-1416558491; 304 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, lndiana, (Tommy to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all that changes when a beautiful, undead redhead walks through the door ... and proceeds to rock Tommy's life -- and afterlife -- in ways he never imagined possible.
Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 5)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : September 26, 2002
ISBN-10: 0515134465; ISBN-13: 978-0515134469; 384 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
When Anita Blake's boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she's expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she's understandably annoyed. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Missouri, to do the deed, the job gets more interesting. A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area, and Anita must call on Jean-Claude, her powerful fanged suitor, for help.
Bloody Countess: The Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory, The
Author : Valentine Penrose; Alexander Trocchi (Translator)
Publisher : Creation Pub Group
Publishing Date : September 2000
ISBN-10: 1840680563; ISBN-13:978-1-84068-056-0; 102 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
The true story of a 17th century Hungarian Countess who bathed in the blood of girls... Descended from one of the most ancient aristocratic families of Europe, Erzsébet Báthory bore the psychotic aberrations of centuries of intermarriage. From adolescence she indulged in sadistic lesbian fantasies, where only the spilling of a woman's blood could satisfy her urges. By middle age, she had regressed to a mirror-fixated state of pathalogical necro-sadism involving witchcraft, torture, blood-drinking, cannibalism and, inevitably wholescale slaughter. These years witnessed a reign of cruelty, unsurpassed in the annals of mass' murder, with the Countess' depredations on the virgin girls of the Carpathians leading to some 650 deaths. Her many castles were equipped with chambers where she would hideously torture and mutilate her victims, becoming a murder factory where hundreds of girls were killed and processed for the ultimate, youth-giving ritual: the bath of blood. The Bloody Countess is Valentine Penrose's disturbing case history of a female psychopath, a chillingly lyrical account beautifully translated by Alexander Trocchi, which has an unequalled power to evoke the decadent melancholy of doomed, delinquent aristocracy in a dark age of superstition.
Blue Moon (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 8)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : September 24, 2002
ISBN-10: 0515134457; ISBN-13: 978-0515134452; 432 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancé, Richard, a powerful werewolf who heads up the local pack. Anita shares some of their magic, and her own power over the dead keeps growing. And when Richard calls Anita Blake at three in the morning, she knows it won't be good news. It seems Richard had gotten himself thrown in jail on a rape charge. But Anita knows that though he is a monster, Richard's no rapist. And it's up to her to prove his innocence--before the blue moon creates even bigger problems for Richard...
Bright Light City: An Elvis Novel
Author : Michael Hodjera Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publishing Date: May 2006
ISBN-13: 9780595394593; 309 pages
Description (from Barnes):
A visitor from beyond the solar system is planet shopping. A member of a dying species, he is looking for new real estate to annex. He finds it on planet earth.
A genius at economics, he devises a plan to take over the planet without a single shot being fired. By masterfully manipulating a political and economic climate characterized by relaxed standards and minimal oversight, he surreptitiously succeeds in building a vast financial empire that transcends national boundaries and grows to encompass the balance of the world's vulnerable energy resources. Now he is only a couple of acquisitions away from checkmate in a game that must spell doom for humanity.
At ground zero the task of preventing the total annihilation of the human species falls to two unlikely people--an entertainer and a recovering vampiress. The entertainer is none other than the King himself, Elvis Presley who, contrary to common belief, is alive and well and currently living incognito on the Big Island of Hawaii. The vampire is his sultry and mysterious longtime girlfriend, Desdemona. Together they are headed for a showdown with a formidable, soulless menace in the city that never sleeps. And the stakes could scarcely be higher...
Burning Blood Chronicles : Vampires, The
Author : Julie Anne Smythe Publisher : PublishAmerica
Publishing Date : October 2003
ISBN-10: 1413704565; ISBN-13: 978-1-4137-0456-3; 164 pages
Description (from Alibris. com) :
Welcome to the world of blood and lust, the world of vampires. This is a story of the greatest, most feared creatures of the imagination. Only there is a slight difference. The dust has been shaken off of vampire lore and the monsters created are creatures worth fearing. No longer will the well-known weaknesses plague vampires. A monster is only as powerful as its weaknesses. To remove a vampire's common weaknesses makes them virtually indestructible. Enter Jul Lee, Rynth, Martara, Shylene and Ernoth, the vampires. They are powerful and weak vampires, lustful and possessive, all with a serious taste for blood. Fear and serve the vampire god, Flaros, in all his power and majesty. Beware darkness of vampires that makes one long for the untouchable immortality being one of the undead offers. For Flaros has greater plans for his vampires... and for the mortals they tread among.
Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 7)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : September 24, 2002
ISBN-10: 0515134473; ISBN-13: 978-0515134476; 400 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Anita agrees to help track down a possible psychic firestarter. She's also policing the local werewolf pack, though she's split up with their alpha, Richard. Then Jean-Claude, the vampire Master of the City and her lover, needs her help to confront a visiting delegation of the vampires' ruling council. They wonder how he got the power to destroy a council member and believe him dangerous to the hierarchy.
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