Deadly After Dark (The Hot Blood Series) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jeff Gelb (Editor), Michael Garrett (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1994

The fourth sizzling collection in the Hot Blood series, no longer available in retail book stores. Here is terror and passion beyond the last taboo in an all-new collection of erotic horror from today's fright masters--Jack Ketchum, Graham Masterton, Lucy Taylor and more.

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Considered by many to be the very best of the ten-volume Hot Blood series

From the Back Cover

Here are stories from a region just beyond the fearful yet familiar haunts of vampire and succubus, a territory no farther away than our favorite bars, our private bedrooms, and, of course, the most eerie and erogenous zone of all - the moist, secret preserves of our own all-too-human minds.

Let mad desire take you into a macabre harem deep inside the American heartland . . . make love to a woman who'll become anything you want, and then make you pay . . . marvel at a man who's starved for sex, more than he can ever know . . . join a wife-swapping party where the promise is ecstasy and blood seals the barter . . . if you're ready . . . and you know you are.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Pocket; First Edition edition (November 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671870874
• ISBN-13: 978-0671870874
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,331,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars TANTALISING, April 5, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Deadly After Dark (The Hot Blood Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a classic for lovers of dark genre. A fan since the first hot blood release, Deadly after dark carries the trademark of cleverly combining erotica and horror into a collection of short stories. Very readable and recommended.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Salacious, seductive, sensual and spicy!, February 24, 2006

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- Kasia S. (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadly After Dark (The Hot Blood Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

I am a horror book lover yet this is my first time reading short horror stories by different writers in one volume. I was really impressed how well all the writing went together. No story was out of place and ever single one had some shocking, gory or totally out there ending. Of course the spicy part is that this is a collection of short erotic horror stories and man, some of them left me sitting there with my hand over my mouth in disbelief of the crazy story I just read. It appears to me that sex and horror go hand in hand like Hansel and Gretel and they are nearly synonymous with today's great writers of such genre.

Writers contributing to this volume were Lucy Taylor, Edward Lee, Sidney Williams, Graham Watkins, Michael Garrett, Jeff Gelb, Max Allan Collins, A.R. Morlan, Edo van Belkon, Jack Ketchum, Steve Rasnic Tem, Bentley Little, Claudia O'Keefe and my favorite writer of all time Graham Masterton.

I was only familiar with a handful of writers here but I simply loved all the stories. The book also gives a great foreword on the life and evolution of erotic fiction denouncing the myth of shame and making this great guilty pleasure a suitable past time. I mean I got this book at my local Manhattan library (and I bought a few others from the series) so no one should feel bad for reading this naughty stuff, it's simply too good to pass up.

Few pieces were totally gross and sinful; and only Edward Lee and few others could come up with such a bizarre, lewd, fleshly, filthy hot stories such as the ones I just read. If you are familiar with Lee, Ketchum, Little and Taylor you know what this book is about!

I don't want to spoil anything, since many of them are about 20 pages in length, and writing a short story is an art. It takes precise timing and skill that please take my word, if you like horror and you don't mind some steamy, kinky and lascivious writing then this is a fun hot read. Each story had a different take and some had males and some females as main characters, but they were not all they seemed. The good ones sure rotted fast and the bad ones only got worse. I loved this book!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DARK, August 20, 2001

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Jillian "autumnbow" (Walnut Creek, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deadly After Dark (The Hot Blood Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

A VERY DARK AND DIFFERENT EROTICA, I WOULD RECOMEND THE REST OF THE HOT BLOOD SERIES, THEY ARE ALL VERY GOOD. ALSO THE "eros mangerotica" AND ALSO KNOWN AS THE NEW BONDAGE FAIRIES BOOK 2, IS EXCELLENT AND I'M NOT INTO BONDAGE.