Download or read book Vampire by Gaslight written by Jackie Cassada and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From decadent dinner parties to foggy cobblestone streets, the world of the 19th century remains a place of superstition and mystery, where ancient legends mix with modern penny dreadfuls, and the most scientific minds still explore the spirit realm. Here the Kindred, long since banished to mere folklore, find themselves newly crowned celebrities, expressions of forbidden passion to a cultured world poised on the brink of a great transition. Vampire by Gaslight is the new historical setting for Mind's Eye Theatre, based on Victorian Age: Vampire. Presented herein is all the material you need to play a vampire of this refined and distant era--the clans, their allies and enemies, as well as a wealth of information about the mortal world at the height of the Victorian Era...and how the Kindred have come to claim it as their own.
Download or read book Victorian Age Vampire written by Justin Achilli and published by White Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vampire Nation written by Toma Longinović and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Lights of Prague written by Nicole Jarvis and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of VE Schwab and The Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague. In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters - a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil: pijavica, bloodthirsty and soulless vampiric creatures. Despite this, Domek find solace in his moments spent in the company of his friend, the clever and beautiful Lady Ora Fischer - a widow with secrets of her own. When Domek finds himself stalked by the spirit of the White Lady - a ghost who haunts the baroque halls of Prague castle – he stumbles across the sentient essence of a will-o'-the-wisp captured in a mysterious container. Now, as it's bearer, Domek wields its power, but the wisp, known for leading travellers to their deaths, will not be so easily controlled. After discovering a conspiracy amongst the pijavice that could see them unleash terror on the daylight world, Domek finds himself in a race against those who aim to twist alchemical science for their own dangerous gain.
Download or read book Dracula s Guest written by Michael Sims and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 473 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 bloodthirsty 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 "Carmilla" to Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla" and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne." Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and rounds out the collection with Stoker's own "Dracula's Guest"-a chapter omitted from his landmark novel. Vampires captivated the Victorians, as Sims reveals in his insightful introduction: In 1867, Karl Marx described capitalism as "dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor"; 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 in between of why the undead won't let go of our imagination. Readers of Dracula's Guest may also enjoy Michael Sims' most recent collection, The Dead Witness: A Connossieur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories.
Download or read book The Southern Book Club s Guide to Slaying Vampires written by Grady Hendrix and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good.”—Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this New York Times best-selling horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town. Bonus features: • Reading group guide for book clubs • Hand-drawn map of Mt. Pleasant • Annotated true-crime reading list by Grady Hendrix • And more! Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families. One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in years. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind—and Patricia has already invited him in. Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia’s life and try to take everything she took for granted—including the book club—but she won’t surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong.
Download or read book Victorian Age Vampire Companion written by Anne Sullivan Braidwood and published by . This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Old Friend of the Family written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Emile Corday, aka Dracula, is summoned to the aid of the Sutherland family, descendants of his great love, Mina Harker. Corday finds himself facing a rebellious faction of American vampires out to see him and anyone he cares for annihilated. Leading his adversaries is the evil and alluring enchantress Morgan Le Fay. Corday, the Sutherland family, and policeman Joe Koegh will cross paths again in Saberhagen’s Dracula series.
Download or read book Buffy the Vampire Slayer 25 written by Jeremy Lambert and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The BIGGEST Buffy story of the century STARTS HERE. * The truth about Buffy, the Scooby Gang and their very existence is revealed in this jaw dropping anniversary issue. * But what is their connection to SPOILER and how does it connect to SPOILER? * Every answer only leads to more questions...and straight to the Big(gest) Bad you never saw coming. * But where does Giles and the rest of Team Slayer stand? * Whichever she chooses, the world(s) as Buffy knows it will never be the same again- and neither will the Scooby Gang...
Download or read book The Black Vampyre written by Uriah Derick D'Arcy and published by Leamington Books. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WARNING! Contains moderate bloody violence against slavers and plantation owners!This pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic terror to radical outrage on the subject of slavery, reaching a blood-soaked conclusion dripping with 'biting' polemic vilifying the bankers who caused the economic recession of that same year.An anti-capitalist horror fable from 200 years ago, The Black Vampyre vilified the worst financial predation the capitalist world would ever see, decades before Karl Marx ― the enslavement of Africans in the New World.One dead man said no! And this is his story.The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo tells the affrighting tale of a slave who is resurrected as a vampire after being killed by his owner; the slave seeks revenge by stealing the owner's son and marrying the owner's wife. The anonymous writer D'Arcy sets the story against the conditions that led to the Haitian Revolution.First published in chapbook form in New York in 1819, this emancipatory tale from literary New York in the 1810s arguably dates the birth of horror as know it!This edition features a new introduction as well as extensive notes and a guide to literary allusions.
Download or read book Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1991-09-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
Download or read book Vampire Voles written by Garry Kilworth and published by Corgi Childrens. This book was released on 2002 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Muggidrear is crawling with vampires! Mongagu Sylver, weasel detective, decides to go to the source of the problem - Slattland, across the sea. He is determined to stake the problem for once and for all! Followed by Welkin's police chief Falshed, now demoted to a plain-pelt detective, Monty and his companions run into all sorts of scrapes in this hilarious new adventure that follows on from the action in GASLIGHT GEEZERS but can be read totally separately as a stand-alone novel.
Download or read book Cthulhu by Gaslight written by William A. Barton and published by Chaosium. This book was released on 1988-10-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cthulhu and his minions, in the 1890s sharing the globe with the mighty British Empire, had duties to an empire of their own: a dark and cruel design against the ownership of the world and the dreams of humanity. Even in the peaceful fields of rural England only intelligent and energetic intervention could keep the shadows at bay. "Cthulhu by Gaslight" includes a lengthy roleplaying adventure, "The Yorkshire Horrors" in which the investigators join forces with the world's most famous consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes! Extensive background essays provide period skills, social classes, world politics, biographies and timelines for the 1890s, maps and London location notes (including the best stores of the time), travel, criminals and police, Cockney slang, cost of living, royalty and titles, club life in London, the occult in the 1890s, prices, and clothing. A lengthy essay considers time-travel rationales for moving investigators of another time into the 1890s.
Download or read book Night Song written by Rich Larson and published by SQP. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it the constant craving for the crimson essence that drives them? The tragic splendour of an eternal youth spent in endless night? Or is it the blood sport of raw power that makes these women so beautifully dangerous? Who can truly know? To observe these deadly beauties from a safe distance, a new gallery of full colour paintings has been assembled.
Download or read book The Vampire Stories of R Chetwynd Hayes written by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Stephen Jones collects fifteen blood-sucking tales written by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, Britain's reigning prince of chill -- including a brand-new story featuring his psychic detective Frances St. Clare (who can also be found in the upcoming F&B Mystery anthology Dark Detectives.) With an original introduction by Brian Lumley, and an exclusive interview with the author.
Download or read book Laws of the Night written by Jason Carl and published by White Wolf Games Studio. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a new night. Clans. Bloodlines. Chracter creation. Systems. Storytelling. Antagonists. Udated and revised, all in one place. The rules have changed. Laws of the night is a complete pocket guide for plating and storytelling Masquerade. Designed for wuick reference and in-game use, it collects under one cover everything you need to start playing.
Download or read book Vampire Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in “The American’s Tale” to the bloodsucking wife in “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,” he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women. As the bestselling Twilight series has dominated bookstores, it’s the perfect time to offer the first-ever compilation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s vampire tales. Get ready to sink your teeth into this heart-stopping anthology. Each of these twelve short stories has been pulled from obscurity and hand selected for this collection. Conan Doyle’s famous friendship with vampire king Bram Stoker is thought to have influenced these many blood-sucking tales, including “The Captain of the Pole Star,” about a medical student on an arctic voyage haunted by a heat-draining Eskimo vampire and “The Three Gables,” in which vampirism is cunningly used as a metaphor for capitalism. Featuring an introduction by world-renowned vampire expert, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, this is a must-have anthology for all vampire lovers, and for any Arthur Conan Doyle enthusiast.
