Download or read book Vampires Wine Roses written by John Richard Stephens and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 1997 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a rare story by Anne Rice, a classic chiller by Edith Wharton, and song lyrics by Sting, this eclectic and original collection of vampire stories covers the gamut of genres, from the dark pleasures of Shakespeare to the twilight terrors of Rod Serling.
Download or read book Vampires Wine and Roses written by John Richard Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture written by William Patrick Day and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture looks at how vampire stories—from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi's films to Love at First Bite—have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human. William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, integrate current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.
Download or read book The One Eyed Alien Baby Vampire written by Roderick Naughton and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl has loved astronomy ever since he can remember. He is still waiting to experience some form of phenemenon. One night while sitting in his attic with his telescope pointed toward the sky, Carl finally gets his wish as a meteor shower begins. After an egg-shaped meteorite lands in his yard, Carl rescues the object without any idea that inside is a hungry alien baby who needs a human host. Moments later, the alien breaks out of the meteorite and claws its way into Carls brain where it begins feasting. The alien has no idea where it is or what it is supposed to do there. All it knows is that it needs to feed on blood. As the alien attempts to acclimate to its strange new world and learns to speak, it searches for hosts, leaving destruction in its path. When a detective is assigned to investigate multiple bizarre deaths, he quickly realizes he is not dealing with an ordinary killer. As he is led down a path he never could have imagined, now only time will tell if he will find the elusive little alien or if the alien will find him first. In this horror novel, an alien baby crashes to earth during a meteorite shower and begins a killing spree to survive that attracts the attention of a determined police detective.
Download or read book Vampires Are Us written by Margot Adler and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Drawing Down the Moon offers a "literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating” exploration of the enduring allure of vampires (Whitley Strieber, author of The Hunger). Author and NPR correspondent Margot Adler found herself newly drawn to vampire novels while sitting vigil at her dying husband’s bedside. Intrigued by the way this ever-evolving myth lets us contemplate mortality, she embarked on a years-long journey of reading hundreds vampire novels—from teen to adult, from gothic to modern, from detective to comic. She began to see just how each era creates the vampires it needs. Dracula, an Eastern European monster, was the perfect vehicle for 19th-century England’s fear of outsiders and of disease seeping in through its large ports. In 1960s America, the television show Dark Shadows gave us the morally conflicted vampire struggling against his own predatory nature, who still enthralls us today. From Bram Stoker to Ann Rice; from vampire detective thrillers to lesbian vampire fiction; and from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Twilight and True Blood, Vampires Are Us explores the issues of power, politics, morality, identity, and even the fate of the planet that show up in vampire novels today. Perhaps, Adler suggests, our blood is oil, perhaps our prey is the planet. Perhaps vampires are us.
Download or read book This Thing of Darkness written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written across the disciplines of art history, literature, philosophy, sociology, and theology, the ten essays comprising the collection all insist on multidimensional definitions of evil. Taking its title from a moment in Shakespeare’s Tempest when Prospero acknowledges his responsibility for Caliban, this collection explores the necessarily ambivalent relationship between humanity and evil. To what extent are a given society’s definitions of evil self-serving? Which figures are marginalized in the process of identifying evil? How is humanity itself implicated in the production of evil? Is evil itself something fundamentally human? These questions, indicative of the kinds of issues raised in this collection, seem all the more pressing in light of recent world events. The ten essays were originally presented at the First Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, held in March 2000 in Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.
Download or read book The Vampire Book written by J Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.
Download or read book Vampire written by Hanns Heinz Ewers and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last of three novels featuring Ewers' semi-autobiographical character, Frank Braun. Chronicles Braun's eventual transformation into a vampire.
Download or read book Vampire Academy written by Richelle Mead and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Read the book and watch the original TV series, now streaming on Peacock!** Join the legion of fans who skyrocketed this six-book series to the top of the charts. Start here, with the first book that kicked off the international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series. Love and loyalty run deeper than blood. St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger. . . . Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever. **cover image may vary** “We’re suckers for it.” — Entertainment Weekly
Download or read book The Cloven Rose written by Kelsey Odom and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bianca, a 17 year old has to choose between living her own teenage life, or a life that was planned for her since before her birth. Sometimes we don't always get to choose. With the society breathing down her back to make a decision, and her family and friends forgetting about who she is, the choice may seem clear, but is it? Will Bianca pick the right choice or will others suffer from the consequences of her decision? Either way, a price will be paid, but whose will it be?
Download or read book Blood Roses written by 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 Vampire Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 288 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.
Download or read book Vampire a wild story in scraps and colors written by Joe E Bandel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long awaited sequel to the "Frank Braun trilogy". "Vampire" is the final book of the series written by German author Hanns Heinz Ewers, in an uncensored translation for the first time by Joe Bandel. The first two books in the series are "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "Alraune", also translated by Joe Bandel.
Download or read book Blood Alcohol written by Rachel Carroll and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elend Arcana, a strikingly beautiful woman, walks into a dive bar. But she isn't just a woman, she's a vampire. A vampire with a drinking problem. On this particular evening she crosses paths with Joel Roland, a young accountant journaling at the bar. The two form an instant unexplained connection. One that will ultimately uncover secrets from Elend's past. BLOOD & ALCOHOL begins the story of Elend Arcana and The Sick Rose Vampires, a saga centuries in the making. Features 28 full color illustrations.
Download or read book Vampire Princess written by Hilary Ezell and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever spoken to someone who died and talked to you threw a magic book but were the people that will guide you threw the change they had? This is the beginning of my story on how I save my friends and family as well as my people and become who i am meant to.
Download or read book The Vampire and the Rose written by Yvonne Anthony and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Parasites and Lovers", Jemma Lane altered the course of her life by accidentally releasing a vengeful vampire from a metal trunk. In "The Vampire and the Rose", her daughter, Rose, finds herself in a similar predicament, when the vampire, Paulus, returns to Longville. A surprising friendship develops, which takes a tragic turn when Frederick Dekker, a powerful and ruthless bloodsucker, kidnaps Rose. The thousand-year-old vampire applies seduction as a means to an end, but it backfires when his frozen heart melts under the heat of Rose's reluctant submission.
Download or read book Stories of Illithia The Crystal Rose 2nd Edition written by Olivier Kroes and published by Vior Webmedia. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about a Fairytale Medieval World of Love, Beauty & Magic. ... and the Orb Wizard Rez's journey, to meet the "Old One." This is a story about a Fairytale Medieval World of Love, Beauty & Magic. ... and the Orb Wizard Rez's journey, to meet the "Old One." After dreaming about the lovely Lady Illithia, an Arch Angel who has been sleeping soundly for thousands of years near the world of Illithia's Crystal Core, Rez has been invited to come & meet her, in the centre of "The Old Ripple." Home of the Praefortis. Legendary monsters nearly unrivalled in magical power. Except for a handful of Rose Quartz magic rank Wizards & Witches. One of them, living deep within their dangerous lands. In search, of the most valuable magical item in the world of Illithia - The Crystal Rose. "A Spiritual Exploration in Fantasy Book form." "This 2nd Edition has been completely re-written & improved for more comfortable reading, better story flow & story telling."
