The 23 stories represent the work of well-known authors as well as new writers. Selected and arranged by Therese Szymanski, this collection is thoughtful and entertaining, sometimes witty and touching, often creepy and always arousing. The focus of the collection is "erotic" and it is not surprising that most of the stories fall into two categories: possession by or seduction at the hands of a vampire or a spirit. Nevertheless the stories are neither repetitive nor entirely predictable.
Capture (Vampire Princess Miyu Graphic Novel 6)
Authors : Narumi Kakinouchi, Toshiki Hirano Publisher(s) : Studio Cat Llc / Studio Ironcat
Publishing Date : November 2003
ISBN-10: 1929090609; ISBN-13:978-1-929090-60-0; 212 pages
Description (from rightstuf.com) :
Miyu faces echoes of her past as she trails another Shinma, finding the Shinma's innocent daughter in the way. But Miyu isn't the only hunter following this particular trail... Next, Miyu meets her match against a Shinma that seals away her powers and hides her from her own memories.
Carmilla
Author: J. Sheridan Lefanu, (also known as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
Publisher: Prime Classics Library
Publishing Date: September 5, 2000
ISBN-10: 0809510839; ISBN-13: 978-0809510832; 112 pages
Description (unknown source) :
Before 'Dracula' came 'Carmilla, A Strange Agony'. The exquisite and deadly vampire Carmilla haunts J. Sheridan LeFanu's influential novel. A Gothic tale of blood and terror, 'Carmilla' inspired later classics by Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson, ever shadowed by a love that dare not say its name.
Carmilla : The Return
Author: Kyle Marffin Publisher: Design Image Group Inc.
Publishing Date : March 1998
ISBN-10: 1891946021; ISBN-13:978-1-891946-02-8; 296 pages
Description (unknown source) :
Kyle Marffin debuts with a provocative modern day retelling of Sheridan LeFanu's classic 19th century novella, resurrecting the genre's most notorious female vampire - the seductive Countess Carmilla Karnstein. Revealing her unwritten history while replaying the events of the original classic tale, Carmilla relentlessly stalks an unsuspecting victim through glittering city streets to the desolate northwoods, ultimately returning to the dark roots of her haunted Styrian homeland.
Editorial Review (from Amazon) :
Kyle Marffin's book weaves flashbacks from Carmilla's undead past, glimpsing her unwritten history while replaying the events of the original with a decidedly contemporary twist. starting in her 19th-century Austrian homeland and continuing into a story line set in the 1990s. Like many older vampires, she's a bit lost in the modern world. We get to know her character through its reflection in the women who become obsessed with her--especially the bright and restless Lauren, on whom Carmilla fixates as the one she hopes will join her in an idealized fantasy of vampires in love for centuries. Men will stubbornly intervene, though, to protect their daughters and girlfriends from predators like Carmilla, so eventually things come to a head. This a chilling vampire tale, rooted in the classic vampire tradition, with a generous dose of eroticism.
Castles of Deceit
Author : Ron Peters Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.
Publishing Date: December 2005
ISBN-13: 9781589614390; 244 pages
Description (from Barnes):
The third in the tongue-in-cheek Dun Wheeling PI series, Castles of Deceit combines teenage prostitution, a voluptuous vampiress, White House espionage, and murder into an easy read that's hard to put down. Dun Wheeling is an atypical PI with human traits that will capture your heart with bursts of laughter.
Cathedral of Vampires (Marquis de Sade)
Author: Mary Ann Mitchell Publisher: Leisure Books
Publishing Date: June 2002
ISBN-10: 0843950234; ISBN-13: 978-0843950236; 355 pages
Reader's Review (from Amazon) :
Cecilia, a vampire, has conceived a need for vengeance for Sade's complicity in the death of her child's death. Allied with her are Justin, a half vampire, and Marie, who has reincarnated in the dead body of Justin's mother. Marie is actually Sade's mother-in-law, killed by him, and shares the old master's lust for pain and cruelty. Justin has dedicated his life to helping vampire 'find peace,' a politically correct euphemism for killing them. Standing against this trio of misfits is the count himself, ensconced in his French chateau, debauching and eating the nymphets of the village when he is not throwing gala bondage parties for people he generally seems to dislike. Sade has adapted the local cathedral so that he can lock up vampires behind its walls, hence the title of the novel, and most of the story is about Cecilia's incarceration there and the efforts of Justin to free her and her fellow victims.
What do you call a day when the bacchanal is running late, your sacrifices are getting cold feet, you catch your werecat lover in bed with your high priestess, and the heads of the vampyric families want you hung off of the Acropolis at dawn?
Celeste DeCumpania calls it a Tuesday. Born in a war camp and thought to be an illegitimate child of Julius Caesar, Celeste starts her life knowing that she is equal-if not better-than her male peers, but she knows that men still run the world, and learns to use them to get what she wants.
When she becomes a vampyre, the world doesn't change much for her. She still knows that she needs men to help her move up and gain power in society. That's when she discovers the power of sex. Not the actual act of sex-which she saves for special occasions-but the sexual tension that makes men (and women) tend to do what they may not have done normally. A coy smile, a fluttering of lashes, body parts touching as she brushes past... Celeste becomes a master of these games, and uses them to gain more powerful allies around her, such as Marco, the Roman soldier turned vampyre, and Vanity, her half-faerie/half werecat bodyguard. Ironically, the more powerful she becomes, the more enemies she obtains, so the more powerful she has to become. It's a vicious cycle that Celeste seems to feed off of. So much so that she raises her status from noblewoman to goddess, and quickly gets a following of human fanatics eager to be at her mercy...
Cercando Carmilla. La leggenda della donna vampira
Perhaps the most complete study about vampires' Styria and Karnstein Myth, Le Fanu's sources and possible models of Carmilla (particularly Barbara von Cilli, the Germanic Messalina...). -- In Italian only
Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series No. 11)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : August 31, 2004
ISBN-10: 0515136816; ISBN-13: 978-0515136814; 560 pages
Reader's Review (from Amazon.co.uk) :
Think Buffy with more gore and sex. Anita, for the uninitiated, is almost like a supernatural police officer, taking on cases that involve, among other things, werewolves, the-undead and all manner of other creepy things. This time around, she is asked to reanimate a corpse that holds the key to a long-ago crime but there are several beings that don't want the past dug up again. Add to the mix a lot of bureaucratic vampire politics and the arrival of a positively psychopathic female vampire and Anita, as usual, is in for an action-packed ride. It's hard to imagine hardcore Blake fans not being entertained by this latest instalment even though it focuses on the more romantic elements of Anita's relationships.
Cherished Blood: Vampire Erotica
Author: Cecilia Tan Publisher: Circlet Press
Publishing Date: October 1997
ISBN-10: 188586518X; ISBN-13: 978-1885865182; 192 pages
Editorial Review (from Ingram) :
Cherished Blood is the third of Circlet Press's top-selling erotic vampire anthologies. Distinguished from the popular works of Anne Rice and other vampire authors, whose vampires such blood instead of having sex, Cherished Blood features vamps whose physical needs go beyond a nightly drink. This is a collection of erotic vampire stories focusing on the vampire as a symbol of sexuality outside of the mainstream. This collection includes gay, lesbian, transgendered, kinky, and bisexual vampires.
Children of the Vampire (Diaries of the Family Dracul #2)
Arkady Tsepesh, the protagonist of Covenant, flees the castle of his great-granduncle, Vlad, Count Dracula, but he can't elude the influence of the vampire bite that has bound him to his sire, as it has the firstborn male of each generation of Tsepeshs for the past four centuries. Meanwhile, Arkady's wife, Mary, who has given her husband up for dead, moves to Amsterdam and marries Doctor Jan Van Helsing. Neither Stefan, her son by Arkady, nor Abraham, whom the Van Helsings have adopted, have reason to suspect they are not blood brothers until the family curse draws Stefan to Vlad's castle in Transylvania. Gratuitous scenes of sex and violence perpetrated by the merciless Vlad and Arkady's hedonistic vampire sister, Zsuzsanna, fail to alleviate the tedium of the narrative, told in diary format through a number of voices.
Chosen: A House of Night Novel (House of Night #3)
Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird's adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey doesn't have a clue how to help her, but she does know that anything she and Stevie Rae discover must be kept secret from everyone else at the House of Night, where trust has become a rare commodity. Speaking of rare: Zoey finds herself in the very unexpected and rare position of having three boyfriends. Mix a little bloodlust into the equation and the situation has the potential to spell social disaster. Just when it seems things couldn't get any tougher, vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. It looks like the People of Faith, and Zoey's horrid step-father in particular, are tired of living side-by-side with vampyres. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely reflects the truth...
Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series no. 3)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Berkley Trade
Publishing Date : January 2, 2007
ISBN-10: 0425201392; ISBN-13: 978-0425201398; 320 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
This novel has the petite necromancer fighting a giant cobra and a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis's master vampire, but she does need him on her side, if not in her bed. Anita's reluctant involvement in the odd goings-on at the supernatural Circus of the Damned introduces her to Richard, the werewolf of her dreams, and Larry, her powerful but nervous partner in zombie-raising.
Sookie Stackhouse is having man trouble. Her vampire boyfriend, Bill, has been distant and inattentive lately. Then he announces that he is going on a business trip, which clearly is more than it seems. After a werewolf tries to abduct Sookie at work, Bill's boss, Eric, tells her that Bill fell under the sway of his--Bill's, that is--ex, a sexy vamp named Lorena, and has been kidnapped. Eric wants Sookie's help in getting Bill back, and despite her hurt over Bill's betrayal, Sookie agrees to go to Jackson, Mississippi, to find her wayward lover. Eric has persuaded Alcide, a dashing werewolf, to get Sookie access to Josephine's, aka Club Dead, the local hangout of Jackson's supernatural element. In between dodging kidnappers, the advances of amorous Eric, and her growing feelings for Alcide, Sookie has to find out who kidnapped Bill and figure out a way to rescue him.
Countess Dracula: The Life and Times of Elisabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess
Author : Tony Thorne Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publishing Date : February 1998
ISBN-10: 0747536414; ISBN-13:978-0-7475-3641-3; 285 pages
Editorial Review (from Amazon) :
This is the story of Elisabeth Bathory, a 17th-century Transylvanian countess. She was tried as a vampire and became an inspiration for depraved murderers up to the present day. Based on research conducted at archives in Eastern Europe, this account includes both the recorded truth and the legend that has grown up around her. Tony Thorne is the author of the "Bloomsbury Dictionary of Slang".
Cowboy and the Vampire : A Very Unusual Romance, The
Authors: Clark Hays, Kathleen McFALL Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Publishing Date: May 1999
ISBN-10: 1567184510; ISBN-13:978-1-56718-451-8; 336 pages
Editorial Review (from Booklist) :
Wyoming cowboy Tucker falls in love with the least likely person: Lizzie Vaughan, a reporter from New York who disrupts his life by writing an article about him, pegging him as the last living cowboy. While researching a new story on vampires, Lizzie becomes frightened, and returns to Wyoming and the waiting arms of Tucker. But the vampires, convinced that she is their queen, track her down, kidnap her, and bring her back to New York. Tucker, with his faithful dog, Rex, in tow, heads to New York ready to face whatever vampire terrors await him for the sake of his true love, Lizzie. But he arrives too late. Julius, the head vampire, has already turned Lizzie into one of his creatures. But love prevails, and Lizzie and Tucker must find a way to stay together... and stay out of the sun.
Cravings
Authors : Laurell K. Hamilton, MaryJanice Davidson, Eileen Wilks, Rebecca York Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : June 29, 2004
ISBN-10: 0515138150; ISBN-13: 978-0515138153; 368 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Four novellas focus on feminine desire. Hamilton, the reigning queen of vampiric romance, offers a new Anita Blake tale, "Beyond the Ardeur." Anita is attending a friend's wedding when Nathaniel, her pomme de sang (i.e., the outlet for her intense desire, or "ardeur"), makes known in no uncertain terms that he wants to take the relationship to the next level. Anita's subsequent actions take her to a place she has hitherto carefully avoided. In MaryJanice Davidson's "Dead Girls Don't Dance," vampire Andrea Mercer is literally dug up by an old crush, Daniel Harris, and during a trip to Minnesota to see the vampire queen, her desire for him reignites. Succubus Molly Brown discovers a gorgeous, naked man in the woods and decides to help him recover his memory in Eileen Wilks' "Originally Human," and in "Burning Moon," Rebecca York brings a werewolf seeking vengeance for his mate's death to a psychic's door.
Creatures of Forever (The Last Vampire, no 6)
Author: Christopher Pike Publisher: Pocket Books
Publishing Date: September 1996
ISBN-10: 0671550527; ISBN-13: 978-0-671-55052-3; 181 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Alisa's daughter is a monster and must be killed. Only when it is too late does Alisa discover that Kalika has done everything for love. Now Alisa must kill the source of true evil and rescue the child, the source of true goodness...
Crusader's Torch (Atta Olivia Clemens series, No 2)
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Publisher: Tor Books
Publishing date: November 15, 1989
ISBN-10: 0812501780; ISBN-13: 978-0812501780; 480 pages
Description (from the Chelsea Quinn Yarbro site):
''Caught up in the hysteria of the Crusades, Olivia seeks to leave Tyre and return to Rome; this proves to be far more difficult than she had expected.''
Currents of Life (Vampire Yui Vol. 2)
Author : Narumi Kakinouchi Publisher : Studio Ironcat
Publishing Date : January 2004
ISBN-10: 1929090226; ISBN-13: 978-1-929090-22-8; 196 pages
Description (from rightstuf.com) :
Like her fellow vampiress Miyu, Yui must discover her place in the world. Now a full vampire, she must struggle with her human morals and her new vampire instincts. Can she bring herself to drink the life-giving blood of humans? And how does she differ from the wandering Shinma that also prey on lonely souls in turmoil? Read as Yui slowly discovers her new self!
Cursed, The (Vampire Huntress Legends)
Author : L. A. Banks Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Publishing Date: June 3, 2008
ISBN-10: 0312947720; ISBN-13: 978-0312947729; 480 pages
Description:
The first seal has been broken and Armageddon has begun. Lilith and her husband, the Unnamed One, are caught unawares while awaiting the birth of their angel-hybrid heir. Installed as Vampire Council chairwoman, Lilith calls on vampires, witches and warlocks (including Machiavelli, Jezebel, Genghis Khan and Medusa) to combat the forces of the Covenant, the Guardians, the Neterus and both Neteru Councils. She attacks her enemies Damali and Carlos Rivera where it hurts the most: their libidos. Soon the battle involves a Valkyrie, the Ark of the Covenant and bootleg music downloads. This end of days scenario is a wild amalgam of Christianity, vampire lore, world myth, functional morality, street philosophy and hot sex.
Damned, The (Vampire Huntress Legends)
Author : L. A. Banks Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Publishing Date: January 2, 2007
ISBN-10: 0312934432; ISBN-13: 978-0312934439; 544 pages
Description (from Amazon):
All hell breaks loose-literally-in the complex sixth installment of Banks's scorchingly hot-blooded vampire series (after 2005's The Forbidden). Banks gets down with her multicultural cast, as deeply concerned with their relationships as she is with their sacred mission: to vanquish evil and keep hell in hell and not messing with earth folks. The intimacy issues of her African-American diva heroine, Damali, with Carlos, a former vamp, can be as involving as the multilayered plot. At times, though, Damali's brooding over Carlos slows the pace. Thankfully, the action picks up once Carlos sets out to retrieve The Book of the Damned before the big war kicks off to free the lost souls who've escaped from hell, thanks to the evil Lilith, to infect humans and turn them into demons. The stunning climax shows that trying to shut hell's gates can be righteous.
Dangerous Girls: The Rich Girl/The Dare/The Prom Queen (Fear Street Collector's Edition #4)
Destiny Weller and her twin sister Livvy are beautiful, smart, and popular. But a summer at Camp Blue Moon changes their lives forever. When they return home from camp, Destiny and Livvy exhibit an inhuman craving to drink blood by night, compelled to satisfy their overpowering thirst. Have they turned into vampires? Can they keep their terrifying secret from their family and friends? Can they evade the vampire hunters who are determined to destroy them? Destiny desperately wants to find a way to stop the horror. Livvy is intoxicated by her new powers. Will Destiny regain her life -- only to lose her sister forever?
Dangerous Girls #2: The Taste of Night (Dangerous Girls)
Author : R.L. Stine Publisher : HarperTeen
Publishing Date : July 26, 2005
ISBN-10: 006059618X; ISBN-13: 978-0060596187; 288 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
This sequel to Dangerous Girls (HarperCollins, 2003) continues the adventures of fraternal twins Destiny, the responsible one, and Livvy, the wild one. A vampire had bitten both of them in the first book, but Destiny, unlike Livvy, refused to allow herself to be fully transformed. Their scientist father continues to try to find a cure as Livvy and Ross, an old crush of Destiny's whom Livvy has turned, live it up with their fellow vampires. They all hang out at nightclubs and attack and often kill unsuspecting teens, including Destiny's current boyfriend. Livvy loves her immortality, but things change when vampires start getting killed, including Ross. Is it the twins' father, a vampire hunter who has discovered their lair, or is it someone else? Livvy suspects Destiny and plots to get revenge.
Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 14)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : March 27, 2007
ISBN-10: 0515142816; ISBN-13: 978-0515142815; 576 pages
Description (from Booklist) :
Anita Blake is back and more embroiled in supernatural politics than ever. She is in the market for a new pomme de sang to feed the otherworldly passion known as the ardeur that she and her lovers are subject to, but she has a more pressing problem on her hands when she discovers she might be pregnant. Anita can't imagine how a baby would fit in with her vampiric lifestyle, nor does she know which of her lovers is the father, though she suspects either possessive werewolf Richard or sensual wereleopard Nathaniel. To make matters worse, vampire masters are converging on the city for a massive meeting, and Anita is wary of her role in the gathering.
Dark Ages: Lasombra
Author: David Niall Wilson Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
Publishing Date: April 2003
ISBN-10: 1588468208; ISBN-13:978-1-58846-820-8; 269 pages
Description (exact words from the author) :
I wrote a novel for White Wolf DARK AGES: Lasombra that is basically about a femal vampire named Luciat.
If the vampire is both scary and seductive, the lesbian vampire, who lives at the farthest fringes of society, is doubly so. The appeal of this quintessential bad girl is unmistakable and irresistible: the hypnotic eyes, fetishy garb and make-up, lips that can kiss or open to reveal gleaming fangs that lovingly pierce flesh. These are some of the weapons she employs to lure and enslave her victims, willing and otherwise. Edited by noted vampire aficionado Pam Keesey, Dark Angels showcases the lesbian vampire in all her glory.
Sexual and seductive, violently jealous, the lesbian vampire enthralls every lesbian she meets -- and anyone else who happens to catch a glimpse of folklore's quintessential bad girl. In fact, the lesbian vampire is so terrifying and seductively wicked, so powerfully ancient and alluring, that even vampire buffs have tried to keep her under wraps -- enter Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories. This unique anthology includes classics such as "The Vampire" from Sardia: A Love Story (1891) by Cora Linn Daniels; "The Bloody Countess" by Alejandra Pizarnik, and many more. Dark Angels features a bit of gender twist as well, with both male and female authors writing from a lesbian point of view. Keesey's introduction and bibliography also make Dark Angels appropriate for scholars in women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, popular cultural studies, or comparative literature.
Dark Desire: A Vampire Novel
Author : Elaine Moore Publisher : ibooks
Publishing Date : March 2004
ISBN-10: 0743479068; ISBN-13:978-0-7434-7906-6; 288 pages
Description (from Amazon.co.uk) :
Victoria MacKay is seduced by the vampire Johann Nikolai in 16th century Scotland. When she emerges from their evil union, the clash of her vampire nature and the unbridled gifts of her Celtic bloodline make Victoria more than human, and more intimately bound to the living than the undead. For three centuries she is pursued across Europe, Africa and America by Nikolai, and through her adventures witnesses great changes in history while learning the great lessons of undying love and DARK DESIRE.
Dark Dreams
Authors : Dominique Adair, Margaret L. Carter, Kit Tunstall Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Incorporated
Publishing Date: September 2003
ISBN-13: 9781843603931; 300 pages
Description (from Barnes):
Heart of Midnight by Kit Tunstall
Quintus Midnight rescues Catriona from a brothel after her relatives sell her. He offers her sanctuary at Midnight Manor, and more than that, he offers her his heart. For him, Catriona's blindness is a blessing, because she can't see the scars that mar his face. But when she learns what Quintus is and wants to be like him, he's faced with a difficult decision: keep her as she is and risk losing her forever, or heal her and risk losing her forever.
Last Kiss by Dominique Adair
For centuries Alexei Romanov has been searching for her, for the Russian gypsy he'd fallen in love with the first time their eyes had met. Three times he'd found her over the years and three times he'd lost her, death having taken her away when he'd been unable to protect her.
Now at last, thirty years since her last incarnation, he has found her once again. This time Alexei is determined to never let the fates separate them again, and to claim her for all eternity.
Night Flight by Margaret Carter
When the vampiress Gillian goes into heat for the first time, her mentor chooses a breeding mate for her that she finds repulsive. She flees into the night to Paul, a man who is both her friend and co-worker. But when the need to mate becomes painful, can Gillian be satisfied by the lust of a mere human?
Dark Reunion (Vampire Diaries, No 4)
Author: L. J. Smith Publisher: Harper Prism
Publishing Date: April 1999
ISBN-10: 0061059927; ISBN-13:978-0-06-105992-6; 311 pages
Editorial Review (from Ingram) :
In this fourth and final installment, Elena rises from the dead to recreate a powerful vampire trio. Summoned by Elena, Stefan has to fight the most terrifying evil he's ever faced. But unexpectedly his brother Damon (once an enemy) now joins Stefan to battle this new horror with strength, cunning, and deadly charm.
Byron is a vampire killer, himself as old as time. Then came the haunting music, and the intoxicating scent of female flesh. Antonietta is an ageless beauty, arousing men's darkest desires. Her newest prey is her greatest obsession. Byron and Antonietta are perfect for each other. But who is the hunter - and who is the hunted?
Darker Passions: Carmilla, The
Author: Amarantha Knight Publisher: Rhinoceros Publications
Publishing Date : November 1997
ISBN-10: 1563335786; ISBN-13: 978-1563335785; 368 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
A shockingly sensual reinterpretation of Sheridan LeFanu's notorious chiller. Captivated by the portrait of a beautiful woman, a young man finds himself becoming gradually obsessed with her remarkable story. Little by little, he uncovers the many blasphemies and debaucheries with which the beauteous Laura filled her hourseven as a hungry, otherworldly presence began feasting upon her.
Darkest Heart (A Sonya Blue Novel)
Author : Nancy A Collins Publisher : White Wolf, Inc.
Publishing Date : 2000
ISBN-10: 1565048458; ISBN-13:978-0-7434-7906-6; 183 pages
Reader's Review (from Amazon) :
A complex tale of a female vampire that seems to have a split personality. Sonja Blue's ''inner demon'' is a vampire that is ruthless and demands human blood and great sacrifice. This personality takes control, and Sonja dreams the events in nightmares that she discovers are real. Yet Sonja the vampire is also a vampire hunter, and wants to rid the world of these dark hearted villains, which would ultimately mean she also must die after the last vampire does. She dares not have close attachments to any mortal, for when the fiend inside her gets free, the man or woman Sonja has learned to care for will be attacked, and then lust, and desire addict them to the vampire's blood. It is their blood that heals her and their only release is death, and they are so caught up in the hunger for her they do not mind. Now Sonja is the target of a vampire hunter named Jack Estes, and an ancient vampire with the darkest heart. Jack is human, he would destroy Sonja, therefore, and she must convince him of her nature -- and will have to reveal its duplicity, which keeps him in danger at all times.
Darkest Thirst : A Vampire Anthology, The
Editor: Thomas J. Strauch Publisher: Design Image Group Inc.
Publishing Date: March 1998
ISBN-10: 1891946005; ISBN-13:978-1-891946-00-4; 247 pages
Editorial Review (from Amazon) :
The Darkest Thirst (put together by an unnamed editorial committee) is an anthology of sixteen 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. 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'', a classic noir love story set in the 1950s by Kyle Marffin, author of ''Carmilla: The Return''. 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.
Darkling (Sisters of the Moon, Book 3)
Author : Yasmine Galenorn Publisher : Berkley
Publishing Date : January 2, 2008
ISBN-10: 0425218937; ISBN-13: 978-0425218938; 304 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
The D'Artigo sisters, Camille, Delilah, and Menolly, are half-human, half- Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. When humans begin to go missing, then turn up as newly born vampires, Menolly "an acrobat extraordinaire turned vampire" must face the demons haunting her memories.
Darkness, The (Vampire Huntress Legends)
Author : L. A. Banks Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition
Publishing Date: February 5, 2008
ISBN-10: 0312368747; ISBN-13: 978-0312368746; 512 pages
Description:
After the battle at Masada, the Neteru team returns to San Diego believing forty-thousand demons had been eradicated and that Lilith's spawn has been killed. But somehow the treacherous little creature got away. Just as had been prophesized at the dawn of the Armageddon, the anti-Christ has been born and will soon rise to power.
Rewarded for her creation, Lilith is given the daylight bite and power to make Councilmen day-walkers. Having Fallon Nuit and Sebastian able to withstand sunlight is a huge problem, especially when they are adding new master vampires at recordbreaking levels. Meanwhile the dark realms are healing and adding to what had previously been wiped out-feeding off the dark energy of the newly created anti-christ who is only waiting to emerge.
Daughter of Darkness
Author: Steven G. Spruill Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publishing Date: August 1999
ISBN-10: 0312970811; ISBN-13: 978-0312970819; 323 pages
Editorial Review (from Library Journal) :
This sequel to Rulers of Darkness (LJ 7/95) focuses on Jenn Hrluska, a young resident physician in Washington, D.C., who is a 'hemophaege'? An immortal being with human strength who must subsist on human blood. Jenn's father, Zane, from whom she inherited the gene that allowed her transformation from human to hemophaege, turned her into this vampiric being.
Daughters of Darkness (Night World)
Author: Lisa Jane Smith Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Publishing Date: March 19, 1997
ISBN-10: 034068982X; ISBN-13: 978-0340689820; 224 pages
Editorial Review (from the Publisher- Hardcover) :
There's something strange about the new girls in town. Briar Creek, Oregon, has never seen anything like the supernatural grace of Rowan, Kestrel, and Jade, three sisters who move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Mary-Lynnette Carter. Mark is obsessed with Jade... but she and her sisters have a secret. And when Mark and Mary-Lynnette follow them into the woods one night, they are plunged into a nightmare beyond their imagination. Because the sisters are fugitives from the Night World, and their brother Ash is hot on the trail behind them. He's ruthless, gorgeous, and he has orders to bring the girls back at all costs. And when he sees Mary-Lynette, he decides to take her too...
In the fascinating, scholarly introduction to these 10 tales, editor Keesey examines the role of women, especially lesbians, in vampire lore. She traces her own interest to the 1970s--"the golden age of lesbian vampire movies"--and pursues her quarry throughout literature, postulating that its origin might lie in traditions as old as the Bible. Discovering traditional characteristics of the female vampire, she concludes that the lesbian may be the skeleton-in-the-closet of vampire lore.
This collection includes works by Jewelle Gomez, Kathryn Forrest, and Robbi Sommers--which, as editor Keesey points out, are hard to find elsewhere. Before Dracula, much vampire lore in fact centered around female vampires, and Keesey is bringing to light some of that tradition. By combining the ideas of women as vampires and women as seductive lesbians, Keesey doubles the force of images that have historically crystallized society's fear of powerful women. This book will be particularly at home in collections of feminist fiction, folklore, and popular culture; the explicit eroticism may limit its use in popular fiction collections.
Dawn Song
Author : Michael Marano Publisher : Tor Books
Publishing Date : September 1999
ASIN: 0812545478; ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-4547-0; 400 pages
Description (unknown source) :
Dawn Song is a darkly erotic exploration of supernatural evil in very human circumstances. Lawrence is an invisible bookstore clerk in Boston, drawn through no choice of his own into the greatest conflict of all -- a struggle for dominance between two of the most powerful devils in Hell. As the media frenzy of the Gulf War buildup enthralls the city, Lawrence feels the presence of something ethereal and beautiful that has come to Boston, as he has, in search of fulfillment and love everlasting. If he only knew what it was.... As the sun set, the Succubus woke...
Daylight
Author: Elizabeth Knox Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publishing Date: April 2003
ISBN-10: 0345457951; ISBN-13: 978-0345457950; Hardcover 368 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Brian ''Bad'' Phelan, a New Zealand policeman and bomb disposal expert, likes to live dangerously. Bad is an expert climber and caver and, while on vacation on the French/Italian border, he helps bring a body out of a rocky, wave-swept cove. Curiously, the dead woman bears striking similarities to a young woman he met years ago, shortly before she disappeared in a flooded French cave. Haunted by the strange connection, Bad is compelled to investigate. In following a series of increasingly eerie leads, Bad learns the story of the Blessed Martine Raimondi, a World War II resistance heroine and martyred nun. He also meets Eve Moskelute, the beautiful widow of a celebrated French artist; Daniel Octave, a Canadian Jesuit who investigates miracles; and most surprisingly, Dawn Moskelute, Eve's twin sister, who just may be a vampire.
Sensuous and heavenly, Daylight combines Elizabeth Knox's greatest gifts: her wildly imaginative storytelling and her clear eye for atmosphere and place. Daylight is set in one of the most beautiful regions on Earth, from the unspoiled beauty of the Cinque Terre to the antiquities of Avignon, yet much of the action takes place in a world the tourist never sees, a world of caves and secret passages, of hidden cloisters and the rooms behind doors in the vaulted tunnels of medieval streets. It is in this ''world beneath the world'' that Bad Phelan finds himself face to face with history and myth, with phantoms whose hearts are still beating, and hungry, and able to break.
Dead and Dateless: A Novel of Vampire Love
Author : Kimberly Raye Publisher : Ballantine Books
Publishing Date : Jan 30 2007
ISBN-10: 034549217X; ISBN-13: 978-0345492173; 352 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
The sassiest vampire in all of Manhattan, Lil Marchette, is the owner of Dead End Dating-a matchmaking service for hip, intelligent singles like herself. After only three months, business is booming, and she can finally pay her bills (or, more important, feed a hungry cosmetics addiction). But when one of her clients turns up dead (as in never coming back), Lil is named as the prime suspect.
Murder? Sure, she's a vampire, but she can't even work up her nerve when it comes to blood-sucking. Hacking somebody to pieces is so out of the question.
To make matters worse, Lil must also contend with a pack of werewolves who ask-no, demand-that she find each one a tall, dark, and handsome mate before the next full moon. Plus, the to-die-for-if-I wasn't-already-dead Ty Bonner, a lusciously sexy lover but totally unsuitable eternity mate, is never far from her midnight fantasies. But Lil has no time for such thoughts. She must prove her innocence and focus on pairing off the dead and the furry-and maybe stake a claim to her own tasty true love.
In this collection of four novellas she brings her beloved Wyndham werewolves (featured in her acclaimed novel Derek's Bane) together with the vampires ruled by Betsy Taylor.
Dead Girls
Author: Richard Calder Publisher: St Martins Press Inc (M/M)
Publishing Date: Dec 28 1995
ISBN-10: 0312957173; ISBN-13: 978-0312957179; 218 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Primavera, a former human and now a biologically altered, metal vampire Dead Girl, and Ignatz Zwakh, a boy who loves her, search for a way to halt the spread of viruses before humankind is entirely destroyed. This is a formidable task, though, because forces both aboveboard and underground have their own very sinister reasons for allowing the destruction to continue. The first volume of a trilogy.
Dead Girls' Dance, The (The Morganville Vampires, Book 2)
Author : Rachel Caine Publisher: NAL Jam
Publishing Date: April 3, 2007
ISBN-10: 0451220897; ISBN-13: 978-0451220899; 256 pages
Description:
Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.
Three all-new paranormal stories of lust, laughter, and love from the New York Times bestselling author, including an original novella featuring Undead queen Betsy Taylor, and stories in which the worlds of the Wyndham Werewolves and Undead Queens collided.
Dead Roses for a Blue Lady (First Sonja Blue short fiction collection.)
Author: Nancy A Collins Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
Publishing Date: October 20, 2003
ISBN-10: 1588468445; ISBN-13: 978-1588468444; 199 pages
Description (from the Publisher) :
This collection features several new, never before published stories plus other classic stories that were revised especially for this edition. This edition also includes an exclusive interview with Nancy Collins entitled ''Nancy Collins on Sonja Blue'' conducted by Stanley Wiater which focuses exclusively on the Sonja Blue charcter and her development. The artwork for this edition was specially created by the award-winning artist Stephen R. Bissette.
Dead Sexy: Two Tales of Vampire Erotica
Author : Kim Corum Publisher : New Tradition Books
Publishing Date : July 17, 2006
ISBN-10: 193242055X; ISBN-13: 978-1932420555; 164 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Inside this volume are two-one dark and one light. Dead Sexy: Two Tales of Vampire Erotica is two vampire erotica novellas, one light, one dark. The dark. Breathe: Lola is on a hunt for the Hugo, the vampire who made her and then left. As she searches for her lost love, she recalls the events that led up to his departure. -- .and the light. I Married a Vampire: Keri thought dating was tough but now she realizes that being married is even harder, especially since she married a vampire. But it's not all bad.
Dead to the World (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 4)
Sookie finds that her bad luck has taken a new turn for the worse. Sookie's love interest, Bill the vampire, runs off to Peru to do research. In his place, Sookie is stuck with Eric, Bill's boss (and head vamp for the district), who appears out of thin air buck naked with no memory of who he is or what he does. Coincidentally, Sookie's brother Jason goes missing. Less coincidentally, but more ominously, a coven of witches (who also happen to be shape-shifters and vampire blood addicts) comes rolling into the nearest big city, looking for trouble.
Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6)
Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic waitress of Bon Temps, La., is off to (pre-hurricane) New Orleans to close out her dead cousin Hadley's apartment. Hadley's death six weeks earlier had been unexpected, since, as a vampire, she was already dead. Still, she'd led a lively existence as the main squeeze of the Queen of Louisiana, an omnisexual vampire, whose political marriage to the King of Arkansas occurred the night before Hadley's demise. Sookie and Amelia Broadway, Hadley's landlady and a pretty cool witch, immediately discover a mess of trouble left behind in Hadley's closet, and Sookie's soon neck-deep in even more.
Deja Vu (Vampire Princess Miyu Graphic Novel 3)
Authors : Narumi Kakinouchi, Toshihiro Hirano Publisher : Studio Ironcat
Publishing Date : April 22 2003
ISBN-10: 1929090196; ISBN-13: 978-1929090198; 212 pages
Description from rightstuf.com:
Carlua and Lemures of the Western Shinma have never taken kindly to Miyu's meddling in Larva's life. But all previous failures have only served to fan the flames of their hatred, and they now return in a castle built of their victims in order to once again try to reclaim their beloved Larva. Carlua has even brought some help this time, a dainty young miss named Lilith, her sister. Lilith can go places Carlua cannot, and she's right on Miyu's tail everyday, taunting her and daring her to make a mistake, waiting for a weak moment to strike and bring Larva back home...
Dhampir (The Noble Dead #1)
Authors : Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee Publisher : Roc
Publishing Date : January 2003
ISBN-10: 0451459067; ISBN-13: 978-0-451-45906-0; 384 pages
Editorial Review (from Booklist) :
Magiere and her half-elf partner, Leesil, have the cleverest con in the land. Magiere claims to be a vampire hunter, while Leesil impersonates a vampire, and in a spectacular show of theatrics, she 'kills' him--for a hefty sum, of course. But Magiere's modus hits closer to home than she thinks, for when she faces down a real vampire, she wins. Now fighting her natural calling, Magiere arrives with Leesil in the town of Miiska, where they intend to make an honest living as tavern owners. Unbeknownst to the pair, a group of vampires, led by the nefarious Rashed, resides in Miiska. When Welstiel Massing, a mysterious older man, confronts Magiere, claiming she is 'the one', and she has an almost-deadly encounter with Rashed, Magiere discovers her true nature: she is a dhampir, a part-human, part-vampire warrior whose purpose is to battle vampires.
Author : Narumi Kakinouchi Publisher : Studio Ironcat
Publishing Date : February 2004
ISBN-10: 1929090838; ISBN-13: 978-1-929090-83-9; 216 pages
Description (from Walmart.com) :
The western Shinma have returned yet again. Their undying desire to remove that which they hate most from the world forever drives them forth. Destroy Miyu. Ranka and Reiha all return during this tumultuous time, and a new guardian comes on to the stage. This new guardian is very powerful, and seems to regard all the other tiers as nothing more than children. Will Miyu have to face this new force as well?
Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire (Broken Heart, Oklahoma, Book 2)
Broken Heart, Oklahoma, is now a center for paranormal activity of the vampire kind after a PTA meeting was disrupted by a sick vampire who turned every parent into one of his own kind. Single mother Eva LeRoy is one of the new vampires, and her teenage daughter is adjusting. It helps that the whole town is vampire friendly, except for the renegade group that is trying to kill them. Eva is still testing her new powers when Lorcan, the vampire who transformed her, starts coming around. She knows that he was sick with the taint and has forgiven him, but he has yet to forgive himself. Eva is drawn to Lorcan and relies on him to help keep her spirits up as her idea of normalcy is destroyed and her daughter's boyfriend turns out to be a vampire hunter.
Dracula Was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania
Author : Raymond T. McNally Publisher : McGraw-Hill; Revised edition
Publishing Date : June 1987
ISBN-10: 0070456712; ISBN-13: 978-0070456716; Hardcover 254 pages
Reader's Reviews - condensed (from Amazon) :
One crucial element is a little out of whack with this book: it is almost 250 pages long, yet only the first 92 are dedicated to the Bathory tale, and only about 50% of that is about Elizabeth. Nonetheless, McNally did a great job of presenting and backing up all of his facts with historical documents that were uncovered in the early 80s in the archives in Budapest. He discounts all of the false legends regarding Elizabeth, including one that says she showered in young girls blood, bathed in, and drank it to remain youthful. Elizabeth tortured and killed servants merely because she enjoyed the act.
Drames de la mort, Les
Author : Paul Henri Corentin Féval also known as Paul Féval Publisher : Adamant Media Corporation
Publishing Date : May 8, 2002
ISBN-10: 0543816818; ISBN-13: 978-0543816818; 392 pages
Description (personnal) :
The vampire Countess Addhema preys on Parisian nobility. Other vampire countesses are also mentioned. Two novels reunited, one story following the other. 'La chambre des amours' and 'La vampire'.
Dust Waltz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Graphic Novel)
Authors : Daniel Brereton, Randy Green, Laura Allred, Rick Ketcham Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Publishing Date : October 1998
ISBN-10: 1569713421; ISBN-13:978-1-56971-342-6; 80 pages
Reader's Review (from Amazon) :
Badness is coming to Sunnydale in the person of two vampire sisters. Lilith and Lamia aren't just vampires; they are vampires so old that everything pretty much happened after them. Each of the sisters is bringing a champion to town to fight to the death in a special ritual. Known as the Dust Waltz, it involves ritual murder, drinking of blood, opening the Hellmouth for a demon and, as usual, ending the world as we know it. Based on the popular television series.
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