Download or read book The Vampires of Derbyshire written by Cass Grix and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Bennet's ties to two vampire hunters cannot save her from the vampires of Derbyshire. Mr. Darcy meets the ladies of Longbourn and is taken aback to hear their last name is Bennet. It is a name hated by his family and by one Mr. George Wickham. Mr. Bennet, with the aid of his brother-in-law Mr. Gardiner, killed Mr. Darcy's father leaving two young vampires with a thirst for vengeance. Though Mr. Bennet, upon learning of Mr. Darcy's presence, warns his wife to keep the girls away from Netherfield Park, Elizabeth becomes a pawn in the wicked game of revenge unleashed by the vampire visitors to Hertfordshire. Blood, lust, and deadly circumstances break the strongest of family bonds and Mr. Bennet must rely upon one of the eternally damned to save his favorite daughter.

Download or read book The Vampire s Visit written by David A. Poulsen and published by Key Porter. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Vampire's Visit, " Salt and Pepper's visit to London, England takes an unexpected turn when they notice that garlic hangs at every window in their home away from home ... except theirs! Sure enough, a teenage vampire turns up and asks for their help. When they refuse, Christine's little brother Hal disappears in an event that soon embroils the dynamic duo in a full-fledged vampire gang war!

Download or read book Before the Count written by Margo Collins and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Count offers a corrective to the history of the literary vampire presenting a collection of other vampire tales written before Dracula. Some of the poems, plays, and stories included here are indeed melodramatic and perhaps even histrionic, but they offer important insight into the development of the vampire mythos in England from its literary beginning until the publication of Bram Stoker's novel. In so doing, it offers both scholars and students the opportunity to study the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary vampire in a more complete context. Included in this edition are excerpts from the early British newspaper accounts of vampires, the English translation of Dom Augustin Calment's book, and Lord Byron's "Fragment" in order to illustrate the genesis of John Polidori's The Vampyre a well as J. R. Planch's 1820 revision of the French play Le Vampire by Peirre Carmouche, Charles Nodier, and Achilles de Jouffroy, itself a revision of Polidori's story; Johann Wolfgang Goethe's The Bride of Corinth, Dion Boucicault's The Phantom, George Blink's The Vampire Bride and Rudyard Kipling's The Vampire.

Download or read book The Vampires of Suburbia written by Jason Fite and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-03-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BASED ON REAL EVENTSThe suburbs of west London, early 1980s. Schoolboy Nick Adams falls under the spell of the charismatic Jaden, leader of a group of self-styled vampires known as The Underground.Fifteen years later, Nick is approaching thirty, disillusioned with his superficially perfect existence and increasingly obsessed with recapturing the lost idealism and glory of his youth. On the surface he still appears to be a healthy, well-adjusted consumer citizen, underneath he is aware that his bloodlust is once again becoming irresistible.As his life and his sanity rapidly collapse, he relives the events which led to the brutal killing of his friend's parents-murders in which his involvement was never suspected.Desperate to exorcise the memories which torment him, Nick seeks out the other members of The Underground. Delving ever deeper into the past, his grasp upon the present becomes perilously tenuous as he gets ever closer to discovering the sinister truth about the vampires of suburbia.

Download or read book Rules for Vampires written by Alex Foulkes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nevermoor series meets Hotel Transylvania in this “delightful and spooky” (Booklist) debut middle grade adventure set in a world of talking spiders, living forests, and haunted castles about a vampire girl who wants to fit in but first must defeat an evil ghost. After one hundred years of being a vampire, it’s time for Eleonora to have her Birthnight. Since Leo’s last rite of passage, her Grimwalk, ended with her losing her right leg and a good deal of her confidence, she’s hoping to redeem herself in the eyes of her mother, the fearsome Lady Sieglinde. All Leo has to do is hunt down and kill her first prey, and she already has the perfect plan. After all, who will miss an orphan from the bleak St. Frieda’s Home for Unfortunate Children? But an accidental fire causes more death and destruction than Leo bargained for. Instead of killing one carefully selected victim, she’s created several ghosts from the orphanage residents. And one sinister specter, the Orphanmaster, is poised to terrorize the living residents in a nearby town. To stop him and try to undo some of the mess she’s made, Leo must team up with the orphan ghost Minna. Will Leo have the chance to prove herself as a vampire before her Birthnight is over, or will she discover that there are no winners in the battle of undead versus undead?

Download or read book Blood of the Rose written by Kate Pearce and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reunited after a year's separation, Rosalind Llewellyn, a member of an ancient Vampire-slaying family sworn to protect the Crown, and Christopher Ellis, her former enemy, find their last chance at happiness threatened by the rise of Anne Boleyn. Original.

Download or read book A Conspiracy of Vampires written by Izen Lumak and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1536, and England's most notorious king is dyingHenry VIII, life leaking from his broken body, has a choice:Die, leaving the country he loves at risk of bloody civil war once more in the absence of a strong leaderorSacrifice his soul to stave off inevitable death, preserving the fragile peace of England until Elizabeth is old enough to take her father's crown but condemning himself to a tormented existence, far from the God he has served his whole lifeStepping into the unholy darkness, Henry discovers a dangerous supernatural world that has been turning around him for his entire reign.But there's no going back now- Henry must learn to survive in this new immortal body, or fall victim to the enemies he never knew he had...

Download or read book Dracula s Guest written by Michael Sims and published by Bloomsbury UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their blood thirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Michael Sims brings together the very best vampire stories of the Victorian era-from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, and even Japan - into a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait and Sheridan Le Fanu's Camilla to Guy de Maupassant's The Horla and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Good Lady Ducayne. Sims also includes a nineteenth century tour of Translayvanian superstitions, and rounds out the collection with Stoker's own Dracula's Guest - a chapter ommitted from his landmark novel. Vampires captivated the Victorians, as Sims reveals in his insightful introduction- In 1867, Karl Marx described capitalism as 'dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour', while in 1888 a London newspaper invoked vampires in trying to explain Jack the Ripper's predations. At a time when vampires have been re-created in a modern context, Dracula's Guest will remind readers, young, old and inbetween of why the undead won't let go of our imagination.

Download or read book Book of the Vampire written by Nigel Suckling and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK's leading authority examines the myth and legend surrounding vampires. Using Bram Stoker's Dracula as a starting point - the folklore and the legend that Stoker drew on - there follows a discussion of Vlad the Impaler, Elizabeth Bathory, Bluebeard and the significance of bloodlust in ancient and medieval times.

Download or read book From Demons to Dracula written by Matthew Beresford and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In blood-soaked lore handed down the centuries, the vampire is a monster of endless fascination: from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this seductive lover of blood haunts popular culture and inhabits our darkest imaginings. The cultural history of the vampire is a rich and varied tale that is now ably documented in From Demons to Dracula, a compelling study of the vampire myth that reveals why this creature of the undead fascinates us so. Beresford’s chronicle roams from the mountains of Eastern Europe to the foggy streets of Victorian England to Hollywood, as he investigates the portrayal of the vampire in history, literature, and art. Opening with the original Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, and his status as a national hero in Romania, he endeavors to winnow out truths from the complex legend and folklore. From Demons to Dracula tracks the evolution of the vampire as an icon and supernatural creature, drawing on classical Greek and Roman myths, witch trials and medieval plagues, Gothic literature, and even contemporary works such as Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian. Beresford also looks at the widespread impact of screen vampires from television shows, classic movies starring Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, and more recent films such as Underworld and Blade. Whether as a demon of the underworld or a light-fearing hunter of humans, the vampire has endured through the centuries, the book reveals, as powerfully symbolic figure for human concerns with life, death, and the afterlife. A wide-ranging and engrossing chronicle, From Demons to Dracula casts this blood-thirsty nightstalker as a remarkably complex and telling totem of our nightmares, real and imagined.

Download or read book Emma and the Vampires written by Wayne Josephson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What better place than pale England to hide a secret society of gentlemen vampires? In this hilarious retelling of Jane Austen's Emma, screenwriter Wayne Josephson casts Mr. Knightley as one of the most handsome and noble of the gentlemen village vampires. Blithely unaware of their presence, Emma, who imagines she has a special gift for matchmaking, attempts to arrange the affairs of her social circle with delightfully disastrous results. But when her dear friend Harriet Smith declares her love for Mr. Knightley, Emma realizes she's the one who wants to stay up all night with him. Fortunately, Mr. Knightley has been hiding a secret deep within his unbeating heart—his (literal) undying love for her... A brilliant mash-up of Jane Austen and the undead.

Download or read book Tales of the Vampires written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vampires written by John Polidori and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seductive and mysterious, VAMPIRES have the power to fascinate and horrify us. This anthology brings together some of the most beguiling and terrifying vampires from literary history.

Download or read book Vittorio the Vampire written by Anne Rice and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Order of the Blood written by Page Zaplendam and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a vampire's abilities and defects never fully develop, taking on the head of England's biggest vampire sect could be a bad idea. Ever since he was turned, John Grissom, bacteriologist, has worked to find a cure for the disease. A powerful peer of the realm approaches him about research into the immunological properties of vampire blood, but Grissom discovers a far more gruesome scheme at play. He, his newly acquired assistant Henrietta, and the Prussian Van Helsing, a veteran vampire hunter in the employ of the Foreign Service, must seek out the elusive vampire lord before he succeeds in dramatically influencing the outcome of the war.

Download or read book The Vampire in Folklore History Literature Film and Television written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.

Download or read book Stories Beyond Belief 2 written by Sarah Ruth Scott and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the following stories have been written in Scotland and Sweden. My research for the Harrington curse took place in Aberlady near North Berwick, Scotland. My latest work, Eight Skulls of Teversham, was written partly in Inverness, taking in the atmosphere of the misty hills of Scotlands highlandssuch a beautiful sight to behold. Double exposure was also created with a location of Scotland in mind, taking me back to my ancestors, the Scott clan, and the famous Sir Walter Scott. The stories created in Sweden were cracked porcelain, which covered a wide area of mental and physical abuse. This fictitious book was based on factual events and concerned itself with the life of Ruth Ashley, a psychiatric nurse. I am convinced that a ghost called Sarah influenced my writing, something called automatic writing. For the Love of Charlotte was written in the United States of America, and I must confess greatly influenced by the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in 2001. Again the writing was influenced by ghosts. It is my dream that sooner or later, someone will read this work and consider writing a screenplay for television or movie. Now wouldnt that be good? Teversham is actually in Cambridgeshire, but for the story, there is one on the Scottish border, both a town and a village where the eight skulls existed. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be mistaken for the small village that is in Cambridgeshire.