Author : Nancy Haddock Publisher : Berkley (TRD)
Publishing Date : April 1 2008
ISBN-10: 042521995X; ISBN-13: 978-0425219959; 304 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
First in a delightfully irreverent new series-and second to none when it comes to beautiful 227-year-old career women.
Being dead isn't all it's cracked up to be. Take it from Francesca Marinelli, trapped underground for over 200 years and rediscovered during the renovation of a Victorian mansion in historic St. Augustine. A tourist attraction herself, she's well suited for a job as an Old Ghost Town Tour guide. Francesca's due for a new lease on afterlife-and with enough sunblock, she can finally live it.
Unfortunately, everything she learned about men is a little dated. And when people in her tour group turn up dead, naturally the police suspect her. After all, she is a vampire. Which is why a crazed vampire-hunting vigilante squad is out to get her as well. Between the dead bodies, the stalkers, and a seriously non-existent love life, she's starting to wish she was dead. Or at least buried, where she was safe.
Lady of the Shroud, The
Author : Bram Stoker Publisher : Wildside Press
Publishing Date : November 2001
ISBN-10: 1587155575; ISBN-13: 978-1-58715-557-4; 280 pages
Reader's Review (from Amazon) :
The basic plot is a wealthy heir falls in love with a woman who may or may not be a vampire.
Lourdes, Queen of the vampires, loved blood. She still does. This lustful creature in modern Los Angeles, is an ancient legacy of horror, emerging from the grave, preying on young boys and girls. Amanda is only ten years old but there have been a strange change in her behavior lately. Her parents hadn't seen her eat for weeks, except once, when she licked a plate full of blood that had dripped from a steak and laughed wildly...
In the popular 1981 horror novel The Hunger (later a cult film starring Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie), Strieber introduced readers to the lovely, seductive vampire Miriam Blaylock. Her story continues in this sequel. Miriam plans to attend various conclaves of the Keepers, as vampires refer to themselves. What none of them anticipates, however, is that their human prey has discovered their existence and, what is worse, has the means to eradicate them.
Last Vampire (Last Vampire Series no. 1)
Author: Christopher Pike Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Publishing Date: 6 Oct 1994
ISBN-10: 0340611588; ISBN-13: 978-0340611586; 192 pages
Description :
From a popular spinner of scary tales for young adult readers comes a wonderfully terrifying new novel about Alisa, a five-thousand-year-old vampire, who is being hunted by an unknown entity. In order to identify her pursuer, she must enter high school and befriend a shy boy who will attract her as no mortal ever has.
Laughing Corpse, The (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Berkley Hardcover
Publishing Date : December 2, 2003
ISBN-10: 0425192008; ISBN-13: 978-0425192009; 320 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it.
The Legendary breathes new life into the vampire saga which was begun with Eternal Night and continued in The Requiem. The Legendary is the pivotal third novel in The Dream Series, set on the eve of the Millennium. It presses the main character, Jason Maura, even further into discovering dark secrets, those which stood between him and whatever lies ahead. Spanning through time and place, from Ireland to Iraq, he searches for answers which have remained, until now... undiscovered.
Lilith's Dream : A Tale of the Vampire Life
Author: Whitley Strieber Publisher: Pocket Star
Publishing Date: October 2003
ISBN-10: 0743451538; ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-5153-6; 400 pages
Description :
Strieber's third, rambunctious novel in the vampire series he began with The Hunger in 1980 and continued in Last Vampire introduces a new female bloodsucker to replace Miriam Blaylock (vanquished in The Last Vampire). She's Lilith (the biblical Lilith, first wife of Adam) and the mother of all vampires, or Keepers, who in turn created humanity, according to Strieber's elaborate vampire mythology. Like Miriam, Lilith is incredibly beautiful, powerful and rapacious. She lacks Miriam's modern sophistication, though, having spent many centuries buried in a cave. The novel begins as she awakens, outside Cairo, and Strieber adds a sprinkling of humor to this dark, emotionally intense series as Lilith fumbles through an array of modern technologies.
Live Girls
Author: Ray Garton Publisher: Futura Pubns.
Publishing Date: 15 Oct 1987
ISBN-10: 0708882390; ISBN-13: 978-0708882399; 320 pages
Description (from on-line bookstore) :
One of the best vampire novels ever written, Ray Garton's ''Live Girls'' is at turns erotic, horrifying, grotesque, and completely unforgettable. There has never been a hardcover edition in the United States, and the paperback is long out of print.
Lost Souls
Author : Poppy Z. Brite Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Publishing Date : 24 Feb 1994
ISBN-10: 0140173927; ISBN-13: 978-0140173925; 368 pages
Description (from the Publisher) :
At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, looking for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not. Ann, longing for love, and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself. Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds - Molochai, Twig, and the seductive Zillah, whose eyes are as green as limes are on their own lost journey, slaking their ancient thirst for blood, looking for supple young flesh. They find it in Nothing and Ann, leading them on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Over miles of dark highway, Ghost pursues, his powers guiding him on a journey to reach his destiny, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Nothing from himself...
Love Bite
Author: Sherry Gottlieb Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Publishing date: 18 Aug 1994
ISBN-10: 0751510904; ISBN-13: 978-0751510904; 320 pages
Description :
Trailing a serial killer, called The Westside Vampire, who kills men while sending them into sexual ecstasy, Jace Levy, homicide detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, succumbs to his own unnatural desires.
Love Bites (Argeneau Vampires, Book 2)
Author : Lynsay Sands Publisher : Love Spell
Publishing Date : January 2004
ISBN-10: 0505525534; ISBN-13: 978-0505525536; 373 pages
Description (from Pub. Weekly) :
The allure of vampires lies in their strength and seeming invulnerability, but Etienne Argeneau, this book's bloodsucking hero, is curiously incompetent when it comes to dispatching a crazed mortal named Pudge who's intent on lopping his head off. Twice, Pudge manages to injure Etienne to the point where he ends up in the morgue under coroner Rachel Garrett's care. But when Rachel gets in the way of attempt number three, Etienne rescues her in the only way he knows how-by turning her into a vampire.
Love in Vein (Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica)
Editor: Poppy Z. Brite Publisher: HarperCollins
Publishing Date: October 1995
ISBN-10: 0061054909; ISBN-13: 978-0061054907; 416 pages
Description (from Amazon Review) :
An original collection of twenty stories celebrates the intimate and seductive fantasies of vampiric erotica. It combines vampire lore with erotic seduction, in a dark celebration in which the main characters are overcome by their needs for fulfillment. Not since Anne Rice wrote as Anne Rampling has fantasy been celebrated with such powerful and seductive tales of unspeakable, forbidden, and macabre intimacies. Contains stories by Mike Baker, Douglas Clegg, Robert Devereaux, Elizabeth Engstrom, Christa Faust, Brian Hodge, Nancy Holder, Kathe Koja, Charles de Lint, Ian McDowell, Barry N Malzberg, Thomas F Monteleone, A R Morlan, Norman Partridge, Wilum H Pugmire, Wayne Allen Sallee, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, David B Silva, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, Danielle Willis, Gene Wolfe.
Love in Vein II : Eighteen More Tales of Vampiric Erotica
Editors: Poppy Z. Brite and Martin Harry Greenberg Publisher: Eos
Publishing Date: December 19, 1997
ISBN-10: 006105657X; ISBN-13: 978-0061056574; 544 pages
Description :
Collected here are sumptuous stories that prove that the dark desires are everywhere, from the New Orleans Goth scene to the punk bars of Amsterdam, from the dark side of glistening Las Vegas to the secret lovers who dwell in Lugosi's tomb. Poppy Brite has brought together her favorite writers in an orgy of eighteen original vampire stories that unearth the most unspeakable intimacies. Contains stories by Janet Berliner, Jean-Daniel Breque, Pat Califia, Christopher Fowler, Randy Fox, Neil Gaiman, George Guthridge, Brian Hodge, Caitlin R Kiernan, Roberta Lannes, Richard Laymon, Thom Metzger, O'Neil De Noux, Stephen M Rainey, Thomas S Roche, Nicholas Royle, David J Schow, Lucy Taylor, David Niall Wilson.
Lunatic Cafe, The (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 4)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : September 24, 2002
ISBN-10: 051513452X; ISBN-13: 978-0515134520; 384 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
The zombie-raising business gets slow in December, so Anita Blake is starting to see some oddball cases. She's got a neatly typed list of eight missing lycanthropes given to her by Marcus, the leader of the local werewolf pack, who wants her to find them. The trouble is, Anita's occasionally furry boyfriend Richard is locked in a power struggle with Marcus. Jean-Claude, master vampire of the city and Anita's other love interest, is getting jealous as well. To top it off, Anita has to solve some horrific murders and keep her bounty-hunting friend Edward from killing Richard and Jean-Claude. Hamilton alternates between funny and fearsome in this larky series about a monster hunter with a few dark secrets.
Lure of the Vampire, The: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy
This book explores the curiosity and fascination surrounding the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires. Over one hundred years after Bram Stoker's influential novel was published, an interest in vampires is still prevalent in popular culture. This is suggested by the recent popularity of such television shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it's spin-off, Angel. Milly Williamson examines this phenomena and looks at the issues of gender pertaining to both vampires and their followers, the modern portrayal of vampires, the nature of identity and identification, and the fans themselves.
Madonna of the Dark: A Vampire Novel
Author : Elaine Moore Publisher : Authorlink
Publishing Date : August 1999 (1st edition)
ISBN-10: 1928704026; ISBN-13: 978-1-928704-02-7; 280 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Across three continents and three centuries, undying love is a bittersweet perfume enshrouding Victoria MacKay. Compelled to love the vampire, Johann Nikolai Valfrey, Victoria emerges from their evil union a being too glorious for mankind. 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. She is alternately led and pursued by these forces halfway round the world through great changes in history and three hundred years of dark desire.
Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, The
Editor: Stephen Jones, with an introduction by Ingrid Pitt
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Publishing Date: November 2001
ISBN-10: 0786709189; ISBN-13: 978-0-7867-0918-2; 624 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
This toothsome anthology opens with Anne Rice's only vampire short story, ''The Master of Rampling Gate'', a traditional romantic piece from 1986; other selections meet, or surpass, this fine beginning. One of the best original tales is ''Outfangthief'', a stylish debut from Gala Blau, about lost children, a topic also brilliantly explored by Roberta Lannes's ''Turkish Delight''. Melanie Tem's ''Lunch at Charon's'' and Nancy Kilpatrick's ''La Diente'' feature biting social commentary. ''Forever Amen'', by Elizabeth Massie, provides a magical time-traveling twist. Outstanding reprints include ''Jack'', by Connie Willis, exploring WWII; ''Aftermath'', by Janet Berliner, a dark biblical piece; Kathryn Ptacek's ''Butternut and Blood'', a Civil War horror; and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's elegant Saint-Germain tale, ''A Question of Patronage''. But the most exciting reprint has to be Mary Elizabeth Braddon's ''Good Lady Ducayne'', an 1896 novella published a year before Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Mark of the Vampire Queen, The (Vampire Queen, Book 2)
Author : Joey W. Hill Publisher : Berkley Trade
Publishing Date : February 5, 2008
ISBN-10: 0425219321; ISBN-13: 978-0425219324; 384 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Full servant. With his new title, Jacob must attend to Lady Lyssa's every need, venturing into a world of passion darker than he's ever known. As a vampire hunter he wasn't prepared to embrace a world where humans are sexual commodities, but he has adapted. Now he finds the integrity of his soul challenged as he serves his Mistress's needs as fully as he services her desires.
He loves her, though other servants warn against giving her his soul. Everyone knows that Vampires have no regard for humans, so why would a Vampiress bother treating a mere sex toy with respect? But Jacob knows a human servant is far more than that. His Mistress needs a warrior, a friend and a lover. A man who will serve her in all ways, even if he has to betray the priceless treasure of her love.
Marked (House of Night, Book 1)
Authors : PC Cast, Kristin Cast Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Publishing Date : May 1, 2007
ISBN-10: 0312360266; ISBN-13: 978-0312360269; 320 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
In 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampyres not only exist but are also tolerated by humans. Those whom the creatures "mark" as special enter the House of Night school where they will either become vampyres themselves, or, if their body rejects the change, die. To Zoey, being marked is truly a blessing, though she's scared at first. She has never fit into the human world and has always felt she is destined for something else. Her grandmother, a descendant of the Cherokee, has always supported her emotionally, and it is she who takes the girl to her new school. But even there the teen stands apart from the others. Her mark from the Goddess Nyx is a special one, showing that her powers are very strong for one so young. At the House of Night, Zoey finds true friendship, loyalty, and romance as well as mistrust and deception. She realizes that all is not right in the vampyre world and that the problems she thought she left behind exist there as well. Readers will identify with many of the characters, especially the protagonist.
Micah (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 13)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : February 28, 2006
ISBN-10: 0515140872; ISBN-13: 978-0515140873; 288 pages
Description (from Pub. Weekly) :
Filling in for a colleague, Anita travels to Philadelphia to reanimate a deceased federal witness, accompanied by Micah, her wereleopard lover. The jaunt serves as a chance for them to share some rare one-on-one time-without any of her five other lovers around-which Anita fears is not necessarily a good thing. Even worse, since her magic energy has grown unexpectedly strong, she suspects this won't be your run-of-th e-mill reincarnation.
Midnight Alley (The Morganville Vampires, Book 3)
Author : Rachel Caine Publisher: NAL Jam
Publishing Date: October 2, 2007
ISBN-10: 0451222385; ISBN-13: 978-0451222381; 256 pages
Description:
Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning.
Midnight Garden: A Vampire Collection
Author : KR McGee Publisher : Dark Path Productions
Publishing Date : March 2002
ISBN-10: 0971876401; ISBN-13: 978-0-9718764-0-8; 75 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
''...He awoke gasping and clutched at his throat where she'd bitten him. The sensation of swimming up out murky depths, fighting to reach the surface for a breath of air, overwhelmed him as his mind gained a better grasp on consciousness. He gradually became aware that he was interred in complete blackness. A confining blackness in which he could see nothing. He'd been buried alive...'' Enter the Midnight Garden and let KR McGee take you on a breathtaking journey through the dark world of vampires, bloodlust, erotica, and personal power. This collection of vignettes (short scenes) is all at once beautiful, raw and very haunting.
Midnight, the ancient evil sanctuary of vampires and their human slaves that was burned to the ground centuries ago, has risen from the ashes to open its dark doors once more. And it's up to Turquoise Draka, famed human vampire hunter of the Bruja guild, to stop Midnight's founder and vampire most malevolent, Jeshikah. But once inside Midnight's walls, Turquoise discovers that instead of Jeshikah, the surprisingly benign vampire Jaguar is at the helm. Acting as a human slave, Turquoise tries to discern Jaguar's mysteriously kind motives as she works at planning Jeshikah's assassination. Meanwhile, her acting servitude is playing havoc with her memories, as she begins to recall the bleak days when she used to be a human slave herself, the time before her training as an elite Bruja warrior. With bitter memories of beatings and humiliations battling with her present suicidal assignment, Turquoise must do everything in her power to keep from blowing her cover and losing her sanity.
Midnight's Daughter (Dorina Basarab, Dhampir, Book 1)
Author : Karen Chance Publisher : Onyx (MM)
Publishing Date : Oct 7 2008
ISBN-10: 0451412621; ISBN-13: 978-0451412621; 384 pages
Description :
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir-half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. So far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing. Now Dory's vampire father has come back into her life. Her uncle Dracula (yes, the Dracula) infamous even among vampires for his cruelty and murderous ways, has escaped his prison. And her father wants Dory to work with the gorgeous master vampire Louis-Cesare to put him back there. Vampires and dhampirs are mortal enemies, and Dory prefers to work alone. But Dracula is the only thing on earth that truly scares her, and when Dory has to go up against him, she'll take all the help she can get...
Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 10)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : September 24, 2002
ISBN-10: 0515133876; ISBN-13: 978-0515133875; 656 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Wounded in battle at a bondage club while trying to save one of the were-leopards she is protecting, Anita Blake, vampire hunter, wakes up naked in bed with a couple of strange men and discovers that the wounds she suffered in the rescue may be turning her into a werewolf herself.
Nature (Vampire Princess Miyu Graphic Novel 5)
Author : Narumi Kakinouchi Publisher : Studio Ironcat
Publishing Date : Mar 10 2004
ISBN-10: 1929090846; ISBN-13: 978-1929090846; 192 pages
Description (from rightstuf.com) :
Vampire Yui reappears in Miyu's life, but all is not well with young Yui. Then the ice spirit Reiha's interference causes more problems than it solves. In truth, Reiha cannot stay out of Miyu's business, intruding time and again, much to Miyu's growing anger. How long with this go on?
Neverafter
Author : Richard David Gerwolds Publisher: Publish America
Publishing Date: March 2003
ISBN-13: 9781592864539; 165 pages
Description (from Barnes):
Two young lovers, Jesse and Melissa, are caught in a world of twisted desire after Jesse unwittingly drinks the blood of an ancient vampiress, Cassandra. Jesse, out of love for Melissa, returns to her only to lose control of his newfound hunger, killing her in the process. The subsequent choice that he makes turns both of their lives into a living-death nightmare from which the only escape is death itself.
News from the Edge : Vampires of Vermont
Author: Mark Sumner Publisher: Ace Books
Publishing Date: July 1999
ISBN-10: 0441006280; ISBN-13: 978-0-441-00628-1; 198 pages
Description :
Ace reporter Savvy McKinnon is interviewing an alleged vampire when the supposed immortal bites her on the arm and drops dead. Now Savvy's feeling tired and sensitive to the sun. And when the "vampire's" body mysteriously disappears, Savvy has to find out the truth before she becomes a tabloid headline.
Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women
Edited by Victoria A. Brownworth Publisher: Seal Pr Feminist Pub
Publishing Date: February 1996
ISBN-10: 1878067710; ISBN-13: 978-1-878067-71-5; 259 pages
Description :
Based largely on the murderous late-medieval figures Elizabeth of Bathory and Vlad the Impaler--both infamous for sucking or drinking their victims' blood--vampires seem to have become twentieth-century icons. Despite the plethora of vampire yarns and studies, Brownworth's is the first collection of vampire stories all by women. Particularly interesting are Toni Brown's ''Immunity'', set against a background of Afrocentric supernatural folklore, Judith M. Redding's ''Unexpurgated Notes from a Homicide Case File'', in which detective Teresa Dash considers the unusual case notes about four young black urbanites, Meredith Suzanne Baird's ''They Have No Faces'', which returns us to the original turf of the vampire in Eastern Europe, as does Judith Katz's chillingly funny and grotesque ''Anita, Polish Vampire, Holds Forth at the Jewish Cafe of the Dead'', in which the first Jewish vampire entertains a fascinated visiting scholar. Wonderfully broad-ranging, this anthology will find an appreciative audience among both vampire aficionados and just plain adventurous readers.
Night Players
Author: Patricia D. Cacek Publisher: Design Image Group Inc.
Publishing Date: October 2001
ISBN-10: 1891946110; ISBN-13: 978-1-891946-11-0; 342 pages
Description :
Meet Allison Garrett, the unluckiest gal who ever became a vampire, with an irreverently sharp tongue to go along with her sharp teeth. Meet her sidekick, Mica, a Bible-thumping street corner preacher. Both of them are on the run from the catty coven of L.A. strip-club vampire vixens they narrowly escaped from in P.D. Cacek's Stoker Award nominated debut novel Night Prayers. Hiding out in Las Vegas, Allison's now a night-shift showgirl, while Mica tries in vain to bring the good book to gamblers, crooks and hookers. And everything's as idyllic as it can be for a preacher and a vampire setting up house in sin city. Till the evil vampire that cruelly turned Allison shows up along with his bloodthirsty minions, and it'll take more than a gambler's luck to save Allison and Mica this time!
One moment thirty-seven-year-old Allison is crying in her tequila in a country-western joint; the next, she's a vampire. This is a light and funny vampire novel in the tradition of Nancy Collins's Sonja Blue stories. There's lots of bizarre inhabitants of southern California nightlife, which the main character must deal with as a newly made undead-vampire.
Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder (Night World)
Author : L.J. Smith Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publishing Date: June 3, 2008
ISBN-10: 1416974504; ISBN-13: 978-1416974505; 752 pages
Description:
Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. In Secret Vampire, Poppy thought the summer would last forever. Then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now Poppy's only hope for survival is James, her friend and secret love. A vampire in the Night World, James can make Poppy immortal. But first they both must risk everything to go against the laws of Night World. Fugitives from Night World, three vampire sisters leave their isolated home to live among humans in Daughters of Darkness. Their brother, Ash, is sent to bring the girls back, but he falls in love with their beautiful friend. Two witch cousins fight over their high school crush. It's a battle between black magic and white magic in Spellbinder.
Nocturne
Author : Elaine Bergstrom Publisher : Ace
Publishing Date : October 2003
ISBN-10: 0441011098; ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01109-4; 384 pages
Reader's Review (from allreaders.com) :
The Austras are a family of vampires who live among mortals yet stay true to their own heritage. They only number thirty because it is rare to find a mortal woman who can be turned and give birth to children who are vampires. Such women are cherished and when it comes to the family's attention that Irene is one such woman, the vampires keep a watch on her so that when conditions are favorable, a meeting can be arranged.
Nouvelles histoires de vampires
Editor : Roger Vadim Publisher : Robert Laffont - Collection 'Le Livre de poche' #3331
Publishing Date : 1972
ASIN: B0000DOH3D; 320 pages Original Title : I vampiri tra noi
Original Publisher : Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Ornella Volta (editor), Milan, Italy, 1960
Description (from book) :
Stories from : Polidori, Hoffmann, Nodier, Poe, Gogol, Gauthier, O'Brian, Ducasse, Mérimée, de Maupassant, Capuana, Conan Doyle, Luca, Durell .
Obsidian Butterfly (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 9)
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton Publisher : Jove
Publishing Date : September 24, 2002
ISBN-10: 0515134503; ISBN-13: 978-0515134506; 608 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico. Edward, Anita's mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita's preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes. Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she's tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.
One With the Night
Author : Susan Squires Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition
Publishing Date : April 3, 2007
ISBN-10: 0312941021; ISBN-13: 978-0312941024; 352 pages
Description (from Amazon) :
Jane Blundell's keen intellect and wit have always set her apart from her marriage-minded peers. But such differences are nothing compared to the change that comes upon her when she is infected by a blood sample in her father's laboratory. Suddenly, her veins resonate with a terrifying, exhilarating power. Dr. Blundell takes Jane to the Scottish highlands where she collides with the only man who can understand her hunger-and slake her unending desire...
Callan Kilkenny has returned to England from Marrakech, still filled with self-loathing at the deeds he committed in the name of a beautiful, depraved vampire. Now that he has tracked down Dr. Blundell in hopes of a cure he has also found a kindred spirit in Jane. Her passion and her blood calls to Callan, fueling a carnal need that shocks them both with its intensity. But others have come in search of the cure, too...for reasons that are sinister and deadly. And to save Jane and the rest of their kind, Callan must risk everything-even his last chance at redemption...
Origins (Vampire Princess Miyu Graphic Novel 1)
Author : Narumi Kakinouchi Publisher : Studio Ironcat
Publishing Date : January 29, 2003
ISBN-10: 1929090161; ISBN-13: 978-1929090167; 216 pages
Description (from rightstuf.com) :
Miyu has always had to deal with her human past. 14 tender years as a carefree young girl have made their way deep into her psyche, ensuring that her days as a guardian are never totally at rest. Miyu and Larva have been together now for so long, but she still misses her days of childhood freedom. How did Larva and Miyu come to be together? What are Miyu's memories of and why does Larva seem to be in those as well?
Out of the House of Life (Count Saint-Germain Series)
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Publisher: Orb Books
Publishing date: November 15, 1994
ISBN-10: 0312890265; ISBN-13: 978-0312890261; 464 pages
Review :
This book takes us back and forth, by means of St. Germain's letters to Madelaine de Montalia, between his life in ancient Egypt and Madelaine's archeological digs in the 19th century at the ancient House of Life. Madelaine is handicapped by her very youthful appearance and the fact that she is pursuing a man's career in a male-dominated culture.
Out of the Shadows
Author: Linda Lael Miller Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Publishing Date: April 2002
ISBN-10: 042518207X; ISBN-13: 978-0-425-18207-9; 465 pages
Description :
Here, for the first time in one volume, are two complete novels in Linda Lael Miller's acclaimed New York Times bestselling world of vampires and mortals, lovers and legends. 'Forever and the Night' introduces readers to Aidan Tremayne, a vampire damned to a bloodthirsty immortality against his will...and Neely Wallace, a mortal woman who arouses a forbidden temptation that could destroy them both. 'For All Eternity' is the passionate story of Aidan's twin sister, Maeve Tremayne, a beautiful vampire who haunts the battlefields of Gettysburg like an angel of death... She enjoys being a vampire and she falls in love with a mortal, but she turned him into a vampire with the help of another vampire who had watched over her twin Aidan.
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