Download or read book Three Vampire Tales written by Anne Williams and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three classic works of vampire literature come together for the first time in one volume. Complementing the complete texts are background essays as well as additional selections by the three authors and others. Because the vampire novel has proven so influential in film, an extensive filmography is included.
Download or read book Stories of Vampires written by Louie Stowell and published by Usborne Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these three stories, young heroes and heroines meet pale and mysterious strangers. But whom should they trust? And will they survive the night?
Download or read book Tale of the Thunderbolt written by E.E. Knight and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Resistance attempts to overthrow their vampiric alien masters, elite Cat force member David Valentine embarks on a terrifying journey in search of a long-lost weapon that will guarantee their victory-and the end of the Kurian Order's domination of Earth.
Download or read book Three Tales of Vampires written by John Hennessy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise collection of the first three books in the Tale of Vampires Series by John Hennessy. 1: Murderous Little Darlings Young vampire siblings Marcus, Rocco and Juliana go on a murderous and bloody rampage of self-discovery. Are they vampires or not? And is anyone safe from their ghoulish games? 2: The Blood and the Raven A sinister watering hole is not all it is supposed to be, but any attempts to leave prove too dangerous as the vampire's web closes in. Is the story real, or just a legend? What will to those who don't believe? 3: Innocent While She Sleeps. A vampire wrestles with her conscience, whilst another seeks to kill the one who made her into a creature of the undead.
Download or read book Tales of the Vampires written by Joss Whedon and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the Vampires presents stories ranging from medieval times to the Depression to today, all intricately woven around Joss Whedon's central story about a group of young Watchers in training. Not to be missed is Buffy's rematch with Dracula and Angel's ongoing battle with his own demons. Wrapped in a haunting cover by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, these diverse tales flesh out the history and the world of Joss Whedon's unforgettable creations and fill the void left by the Buffy TV show better than any other writers ever could.
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women written by Stephen Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five uncanny and erotic tales of vampires written by supernatural fiction’s greatest mistresses of the macabre. "Fashions change, and the urbane vampire created by Byron and cemented in place by Stoker has had to move on . . . Are you, like me, ready for the new dusk?" —Ingrid Pitt, from her Introduction Prepare to arm yourself with garlic, silver bullets, and a stake. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology that every vampire fan—vampiric feminist or not—will want to drink deep from. From the classic stories of Edith Wharton, Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon to modern incarnations by such acclaimed writers as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, CaitlÃn R. Kiernan, and Angela Slatter, these blood-drinkers and soul-stealers range from the sexual to the sanguinary, from the tormented Good to the unspeakably Evil. Among those memorable Children of the Night you will encounter are Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins' undead heroine Sonja Blue, Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson, and Freda Warrington’s age-old lovers Karl and Charlotte. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and now revised and updated, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women fulfils the bloodlust of the somnambulist horror fan, delivering the ultimate bite.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Vampires written by Katie Macalister and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time isn’t always on a vampire’s side.... Iolanthe Tennyson has had a very bad year—due in part to the very bad men in her life. So she’s accepted her cousin’s invitation to spend the summer in Austria to indulge her photography hobby. Rumors of a haunted forest there draw Iolanthe into the dark woods—and into the eighteenth century.... Nikola Czerny is a cursed man, forced by his half brothers to live forever as a Dark One. But his miserable existence takes an intriguing turn when a strange, babbling woman is thrown in his path. Iolanthe claims to know Nikola’s daughter—three hundred years in the future. She also knows what fate—in the form of his murderous half brothers—has in store for him. If only she knew the consequences of changing the past to save one good, impossibly sexy vampire...
Download or read book Vampires Never Get Old written by Zoraida Córdova and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction’s leading voices fill this bestselling anthology—including V.E. Schwab's First Kill, now a major Netflix adaptation! "Boundary-pushing... Stories that stake a new claim on old tropes." —Publishers Weekly, starred review In this delicious new collection, you’ll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out—and going out for their first kill—and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night. Welcome to the evolution of the vampire—and a revolution on the page. Vampires Never Get Old includes stories by authors both bestselling and acclaimed, including Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle Clayton, Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker, Tessa Gratton, Heidi Heilig, Julie Murphy, Mark Oshiro, Rebecca Roanhorse, Laura Ruby, Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, and Kayla Whaley. An Imprint Book "Vampire fans, sink your teeth into this satisfying collection." —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book The Wounded King written by Philippe Boulle and published by Macabre Ink. This book was released on 2024-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GRAVE SECRETS REVEALED Regina Blake is reunited with her mother at last, but it may be too late to save either of them. Amid the glories of Hapsburg Vienna, the two women are subject to the wiles of the Tremere warlocks with only the vampires Victoria Ash and Beckett as dubious allies. A return to London only makes matters worse, as an undead prince dips into madness and threatens to take the Empire with him. Can Regina hope even to survive, much less prevail?
Download or read book The Vampire s Mate written by Zara Novak and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war is rising in the vampire world, and a new enemy emerges from the darkness, threatening to wipe vampires from the earth forever. All Kat can do is try to survive, but she already made the most crucial mistake: she fell in love with a vampire, and now it could cost her life.Ansel and Kat are summoned to help the Belmont vampires with the troubles that plague their family. A new breed of vampire hunters have risen, and the dark magic possessing them poses a serious threat to the vampires around the Castle Belmont. As the groups come together, new friendships and relationships are formed, and love and romance blossom in the strangest places. The vampires need to secure the prophecy to save their kind, but new enemies appear at every turn, threatening to end them once and for all.Kat's sister, Ruth, finds herself trapped in the Red Keep and her mind is only focused on one thing: escape. She forms a friendship with a fellow runaway and soon finds that there is more to the mysterious man than she first realized. A strange power lurks behind his curious yellow eyes, which stirs up unusual emotions inside of her.Love and lust spiral out of control as alpha vampires fight to protect their destined mates, and the fate of the next generation is left hanging in the balance...*The Vampire's Mate is Book 3 in the Tales of Vampires series and continues characters and stories found in the first two books. It can be read on its own, but is part of a larger story and best enjoyed with the other books.Note: Tales of Vampires is HOT! Beware of smoldering alpha males, curvy heroines, explosive action sequences and bedroom scenes that are hot enough to melt your e-reader!!!
Download or read book Southern Blood written by Lawrence Schimel and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.
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 Goldilocks and the Three Vampires written by Laurie S. Sutton and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this graphic adaptation of the fairy tale, Goldilocks is an explorer who searches the world for artifacts and treasures--but when she stumbles on the home of three vampires she has to use all of her skills to navigate the tomb's traps and get out into the sunlight alive.
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 Chronicles of the Undead written by A. F. Stewart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Secrets. Three generations of one family share their intimacies with the world of the vampire. Inside the personal journals of the Harrington family a dark and dangerous odyssey unfolds. Three members of this tormented family, Samuel, his son Edmund, and Edmund's daughter Charlotte, struggle during the 18th and 19th century in London, England, as the lives of this family intersects with supernatural forces. Two intriguing vampires befriend, manipulate and play with all three souls, altering their lives forever. Their fears, private confidences, and weaknesses are revealed on the pages as one selfish act ends in horrific tragedy, with far-reaching consequences. Find out who succumbs to the seduction and danger of the vampire, and who grapples to combat the evil influence that permeates their lives. Content may not be suitable for children.
Download or read book Vampires in the Lemon Grove written by Karen Russell and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories features a pair of centuries-old vampires whose relationship is tested by a sudden fear of flying, a dejected teen who communicates with the universe, and a massage therapist who heals a tattooed veteran by manipulating the imageson his body.
Download or read book The Night Eternal written by Guillermo del Toro and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nail-biting vampire thriller from the world-famous director of Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy.
