Download or read book The Vampire Sextette written by Marvin Kaye and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vampire Sextette written by Marvin Kaye and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vampire Archives written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps—has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include: Arthur Conan Doyle • Ray Bradbury • Ambrose Bierce • H. P. Lovecraft • Harlan Ellison • Roger Zelazny • Robert Bloch • Clive Barker
Download or read book Vampire Sextet written by Rosary Hartel O'Neill, PH D and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These outrageous comedies peep us into the world of the beautiful, the gifted, the manic vampires. We'll see them shining in all their sartorial splendor, despite their shredded hearts beating twice as fast as ours, their comic passions that can never be fulfilled. The characters in O'Neill's comedies are humans, who for a time became insanely fashionable, charmers whom you'd follow into battle, stars whose face alone dropped you to your knees. Servers carried them triple chocolate cake and café au lait pralines, and swore they knew them. Movies stole them from their families, not knowing they were part of an endangered species. The ancestral dead compel O'Neill, a native of New Orleans and sometime resident of Paris. These cold, yet passionate harvesters of sorrow, particularly the mystical half-living of New Orleans, populate her comedies. They try not to die, seeking justice but scaring others as they get it, luring the naïve in the streets of New Orleans to the chambers of hell. Some say O'Neill's undead have 5 layers of teeth; when one falls out, another replaces it, and the teeth are constantly growing. Cemeteries and suicide oak trees are the veins of bloated graveyards. Daily death tours whisper of Vampires, Voodoo Queens, and macabre ghosts. Vampires, to O'Neill, are the devil, the fallen angel, the pride-filled man. To her, there is something virulent, violent, aggressive, and simultaneously hilarious about them. In her stories, the heroine or hero must confront unbelievable evil (slay the dragon, if you will) to make some shift in character, to find love. O'Neill adores fairytales, happy endings, farces, and bigger-than-life, beautiful, brave characters. She likes to chuckle and scream with hilarity and that's why she writes about vampires. You can't live in New Orleans without feeling the grief and humor in the city's huge out-flung oak trees, flooding rains that gouge neighborhoods and turn cemeteries into lakes, transform streets into gullies of dirt. Her vampires, like alligators, pop up from nowhere in Louisiana swamps. In her comedies, you will laugh and scream as you come to see the peril and the brevity of life. And the vampires will get you, if you don't watch out.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Vampire written by S. T. Joshi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive work covering the full range of topics relating to vampires, including literature, film and television, and folklore. Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture is a comprehensive encyclopedia relating to all phases of vampirism—in literature, film, and television; in folklore; and in world culture. Although previous encyclopedias have attempted to chart this terrain, no prior work contains the depth of information, the breadth of scope, and the up-to-date coverage of this volume. With contributions from many leading critics of horror and supernatural literature and media, the encyclopedia offers entries on leading authors of vampire literature (Bram Stoker, Anne Rice, Stephenie Meyer), on important individual literary works (Dracula and Interview with the Vampire), on celebrated vampire films (the many different adaptations of Dracula, the Twilight series, Love at First Bite), and on television shows (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel). It also covers other significant topics pertaining to vampires, such as vampires in world folklore, humorous vampire films, and vampire lifestyle.
Download or read book Evolution written by Luis Royo and published by NBM. This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest collection of graphic art by the best-selling artist of Secrets, Malefic, III Millennium and others. More beguiling fantasy painting plus the beginning of an elaboration on the front cover of Malefic.
Download or read book The Dragon Quintet written by Orson Scott Card and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand-new contributions to the hoard of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors. Orson Scott Card's "In the Dragon's House" is a gothic yarn about the mysterious dragon that lives in the wiring of an old house, noticed by a young boy who shares its body in dreams and feels its true size and power. Mercedes Lackey's "Joust" tells the story of a slave boy who is chosen to care for a warrior's dragon--a dragon whose secrets may be the key to his freedom. Tanith Lee's "Love in a Time of Dragons" is a fable is imbued with her signature atmosphere--Old World, moody, erotic--as a kitchen maid goes a-questing with a handsome champion to slay the local drakkor. Elizabeth Moon's "Judgment" tells the tale of a young man forced by lies to flee his village . . . into an adventure of dwarfs and dragonspawn. Michael Swanwick's "King Dragon" invokes a truly sinister and repellent creature--a being with the soul of a beast and the body of a machine--part metal, part devil . . . all merciless.
Download or read book The Ghost Quartet written by Marvin Kaye and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of four original ghost tales includes Orson Scott Card's "Hamlet's Father," Marvin Kaye's "The Haunted Single Malt," Tanith Lee's "Strindberg's Ghost," and Brian Lumley's "A Place of Waiting."
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 12 written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Fantasy Award-winning anthology series reaches its twelfth spectacular volume. Collecting around a quarter of a million words by some of the biggest names and rising stars of the genre, this latest annual showcase of all things dark and deadly includes stories and novellas by Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Terry Lamsley, Tim Lebbon, Paul J. McAuley, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith and Hollywood director Mick Garris. Also featuring the most comprehensive overview of the year, a fascinating necrology and a list of useful contacts, this is the one book that all lovers of the supematural and psychological terror will want on their shelves.
Download or read book Silenced Sextet written by Carrie MacMillan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993-05-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrie MacMillan, Lorraine McMullen, and Elizabeth Waterston have uncovered information about the lives and works of six such writers. Rosanna Leprohon, May Agnes Fleming, Margaret Murray Robertson, Susan Frances Harrison, Margaret Marshall Saunders, and Joanna E. Wood were once-popular novelists who are now for the most part ignored, with virtually all of their works out of print. MacMillan, McMullen, and Waterston show that these six writers deserve modern recognition not only for their literary accomplishments but also for what they reveal, through their work and their lives, about the condition of the woman writer in nineteenth-century Canada. The writings of these six women from varied backgrounds reflect their different experiences of life in the late nineteenth century. In this study a biographical profile of each author, set in the contemporary social context, is provided, as well as an analysis of career development, emphasising publishing history and critical response. As each case history unfolds, the broader picture emerges of an era when many ideas of personal and public life were changing.
Download or read book Sheena and Other Gothic Tales written by Brian Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheena is a vampire from Leeds who works in a call center, and has a dark secret that even she doesn't know about. Her boyfriend has to discover it the hard way, alas. Like the other two vampire stories included in the book, both of which feature vampire babies, "Sheena" is a love story, which shares the life-enhancing attributes common to all love stories. Here are ten tales of the fantastic, the horrific, and the gothic, including: "Rose, Crowned with Thorns," "Rent," "Tenebrio," "Behind the Wheel," "Innocent Blood," "Emptiness," "The Woman in the Mirror," "Regression," "Heartbreaker," and "Sheena." Great reading by a great writer!
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror has been recognized as the world's foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Now, with one story from each year in which it has been published, from 1989 to 2008, representing the work of dozens of authors, many of them acknowledged as the foremost practitioners of the genre, multi-award-winning editor Stephen Jones looks back on two decades of superb writing to bring readers the ultimate horror fiction anthology. With names such as Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Michael Marshall Smith, Paul J. McAuley and Lisa Tuttle, this collection represents a true landmark in horror fiction publishing. Praise for Stephen Jones: 'Horror's last maverick.' - Christopher Fowler 'Stephen Jones . . . has a better sense of the genre than almost anyone in this country.'- Lisa Tuttle, The Times Books 'The best horror anthologist in the business is, of course, Stephen Jones.' - Roz Kavaney, Time Out 'Edited by Stephen Jones, a member of that tiny band of anthologists whose work is so reliably good that you automatically reach out and grab hold of any new volume spotted if you are wise.'- Gahan Wilson, Realms of Fantasy 'One of the genre's most enthusiastic cheerleaders.' - Publishers Weekly 'Horror readers owe Stephen Jones a lot.' - Rue Morgue 'Edited by the prolific and reliable Stephen Jones.' - SFX Magazine 'Jones performs his usual exemplary job.' - Starlog (UK) 'A new horror anthology from Stephen Jones is always an event' - Dennis Etchison
Download or read book The A to Z of Fantasy Literature written by Brian Stableford and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
Download or read book Forbidden Planets written by Marvin Kaye and published by Book-Of-The-Month Club. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six novellas on the common theme of travel to planets that have been declared, for various reasons, off limits to terrans.
Download or read book The Fair Folk written by Marvin Kaye and published by Ace. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From blithe fairies to sinister fey, this collection features six tales by such luminaries as Tanith Lee, Patricia A. McKillip, and a joint effort by Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder. Winner of the 2006 World Fantasy Award.
Download or read book The Celluloid Vampires written by Michael J. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror written by Stephen Jones and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
