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The Essential World of Darkness (5 Novels in One Book)

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This is a great book!
It reprints the fantastic Vampire Diaries: The Embrace, albeit in B/W and not the blood drop covered original in diary format!

The book is a bit unwieldy to tote around due to it's thick size, but it is a very well bound softcover with the typically heavy lamination that WW uses.

The stories themselves are remarkable. I have NEVER played a White Wolf RPG, but have enjoyed the fiction for quite a while. If you like horror or very well written dark fiction, you may like this volume.

Oh, and on a final note, I LOVE the cover picture! You can't tell from the Amazon item picture, but there is a texture of a jigsaw puzzle as a canvas. I would LOVE to have a poster sized print of it.

Contrary to the "Product Description", the five novels included in this book [one in each of the (then) five areas of the World of Darkness] are:

Vampire Diary: The Embrace - by Mark Rein*Hagen & Robert Weinberg
Shaman Moon: Owl Goingback
Lightning Under Glass: Scott Ciencin
Except You Go Through Shadow - David Niall Wilson
Playing With Fire: Esther M. Friesner

If you play Vampire the Masquerade or are intersted in learning to play, then this is a book you will want to check out. If you play, this book will help you review some of the easier more forgetten rules. If you wanna play, this book will definetly make learning easier