Vampires, Wine, and Roses [Mass Market Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1997

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.

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This out-of-the-ordinary vampire anthology features 34 vampire writings from (mostly) literary writers: William Shakespeare (an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet), Anne Rice (a rare story), Sting (a song), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Southey, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron, H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Sir Walter Scott, Ivan Turgenev, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baudelaire, Jules Verne, Voltaire, John Keats, Woody Allen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, Conrad Aiken, Sir Thomas Malory, Thomas Hardy, Rod Serling, Goethe, Lenny Bruce, T. S. Eliot, Edith Wharton, H. P. Lovecraft, and Bram Stoker. John Richard Stephens's interesting introduction discusses the history of vampires in print from Sophocles to Karl Marx to Virginia Woolf.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (February 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425157415
• ISBN-13: 978-0425157411
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,533,563 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contents:, November 3, 2006

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Lilia - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vampires, Wine, and Roses (Mass Market Paperback)

Romeo and Juliet (excerpt)- William Shakespeare

The Master of Rampling Gate; The Ballad of the Sad Rat- Anne Rice

Moon Over Bourbon Street- Sting

John Barrington Cowles- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Thalaba the Destroyer (excerpt)- Robert Southey

Ligeia- Edgar Allan Poe

The Vampire- Rudyard Kipling

A Fragment of a Turkish Tale; The Giaour (excerpt)- Lord Byron

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid- H.G. Wells

The Homecoming- Ray Bradbury

Rokeby (excerpt)- Sir Walter Scott

Phantoms- Ivan Turgenev

Olalla- Robert Louis Stevenson

The Vampire; The Metamorphoses of a Vampire- Baudelaire

The Carpathian Castle (excerpt)- Jules Verne

Vampires- Voltaire

Lamia- John Keats

Count Dracula- Woody Allen

The Vampires Won't Vampire for Me- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Horla- Guy De Maupassant

The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains- Alexandre Dumas

The Divine Pilgrim (excerpt)- Conrad Aiken

The Death of King Arthur (excerpt)- Sir Thomas Malory

The Vampirine Fair- Thomas Hardy

The Riddle of the Crypt- Rod Serling

The Bride of Corinth- Goethe

(untitled)- Lenny Bruce

The Wasteland (excerpt)- T.S. Eliot

Bewitched- Edith Wharton

The Hound- H.P. Lovecraft

Dracula's Guest- Bram Stoker

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A pretty good book, with some pretty good stories and poems., November 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Vampires, Wine, and Roses (Mass Market Paperback)

The book is great. It moves with random pace. Some stories will keep you hanging like a vampire sucking away your life blood, other stories can bore to death, but you get over it. The poems are also good with some twist. This comes as a highly recommended book for that fanged fan out there. Trust me, you'll love it...

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the passion?, May 19, 2005

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E. Quon (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vampires, Wine, and Roses (Mass Market Paperback)

If you're looking for vampiric moments in mostly literary fiction, you may enjoy this book. If you enjoy poetry, the book is about 1/3 poetry. If you're seeking enjoyable, passion-filled stories about vampires, you may be disappointed.

Not a fan of poetry, I concentrated on the stories. Quite a few got bogged down in excessive narrative and/or description. Others are brief excerpts from stories or novels, so there's nothing to satisfy a reader. Some are about vampires in only the loosest sense: one "vampire" is a plant.

I found the offerings by Anne Rice and Alexandre Dumas the most readable, but both are romantic stories, which may not appeal to everyone.

I read vampire stories for passionate characters and situations. This book seemed dry and bland to me.