Erotica Vampirica: Sensual Vampire Stories [Paperback]

Cecilia Tan (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Circlet Press (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885865082
• ISBN-13: 978-1885865083
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,556,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write about my passions, which include baseball, erotica, gourmet food, martial arts, and travel. I write fantasy, science fiction, erotic fiction, paranormal romance, and anything else that stimulates my imagination.

In the erotica field, I've been published everywhere from Ms. magazine to Penthouse, and I'm in many, many anthologies and the Best American Erotica series. Susie Bright called me "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." Erotic books I've authored include Black Feathers, White Flames, The Velderet, Mind Games, The Hot Streak, and The Siren and the Sword (Magic University, Book One). I've also edited many anthologies including Women of the Bite, Cowboy Lover, Sex In The System, Wicked Pleasures, SM Visions, for many different publishers, and many many books and ebooks for the independent publishing house I founded, Circlet Press. Those include Best Fantastic Erotica, Erotic Fantastic, Like an Animal, Like Crimson Droplets, and many others, both for Kindle and in paperback.

In science fiction/fantasy I have been published in Asimov's magazine, Strange Horizons, Absolute Magnitude, and many other places.

In baseball, I am the editor of the Maple Street Press YANKEES ANNUAL, author of The 50 Greatest Yankee Games, co-author of 50 Greatest Red Sox Games, the co-editor of THE FENWAY PROJECT, and co-editor of '75: The Red Sox Team That Saved Baseball. I write features for Yankees magazine and other publications. I have a web site of baseball essays, called Why I Like Baseball, at http://whyilikebaseball.com.

You can find out way more about me and my obsessions at www.ceciliatan.com

Customer Reviews

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A modern classic is back in print, December 4, 2005

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Cecilia Tan (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Erotica Vampirica (Paperback)

For a long time there were two kinds of vampire books. The angst-ridden romantic kind where the sex was either sublimated or took place "off-camera," and the bloody, gory horrific kind, where if there was any sex it was there to shock or horrify the reader. In the mid-1990s I began editing a series of erotic vampire anthologies where I tried to actually get at what we erotic about the vampire. I gave my authors a few rules, one of which was "no murder." Okay, maybe a tad of murder here and there--these aRE vampires after all--but not the murder of a sex partner, and not as the point of the story. "Erotica Vampirica" was the second volume of the erotic vampire series (preceded by Blood Kiss, and followed by Cherished Blood, and A Taste of Midnight). The book sold out fairly quickly and the small press that had done it did not have the dough to put it back in print, so now Blue Moon Books has done it. This is the original book pages replicated between a new (if dull) cover. If you like this book, you will also like "BLood Surrender," which is not a reprint, but is all new stories. And a reprint of "A Taste of Midnight" with several new stories added to it will also be out from Blue Moon Books in 2006.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, September 28, 2002

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Cameron Pietrafeso (Thornton, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Erotica Vampirica: Sensual Vampire Stories (Paperback)

Many stories in this collection are just ... or disturbing for the sake of being so. Several didn't even really have any plot to speak of. There were a few gems, some whose basic plot had potential to graduate to full books, but many lacked originality or taste. If I simply want erotica without much story I can frankly read ... forums. C. Tan should have read some more L.K. Hamilton's work and only let shorts that had somewhere close to that level of plot in to this collection (as I said there were a couple that really had potential). All in all, if you can find it cheap enough it would be worth it just for the few shorts that make the rest of the muck bearable. And don't forget that in short story collections you can always just skip 10 pages or so and read a totally new and unconnected story, as I often had to (something very unusual for me).

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Erotica Vampirica: a Valiant Sophomore Effort, January 7, 2001

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"x-navynuke" (St James, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Erotica Vampirica: Sensual Vampire Stories (Paperback)

Erotica Vampirica is a better collection of stories than contained in Blood Kiss, also edited by Ms Tan. She has done a better job in this book at providing books that are both sensual and have a story to them.

Mist Kisses by Renee M. Charles is far and away the best story in the anthology, but there are worthy contributions by other authors that round out a much better collection this time around.

I would recommend this to anyone who owns Blood Kiss as it may renew your faith in Ms Tan's ability as an editor. Additionally, it is a well written collection of stories, so anyone with even a passing interest in erotic vampire stories would enjoy this book.