A collection of eighteen tales of vampirism features the work of Robert Silverberg, Kathe Koja, Thomas Ligotti, Suzy McKee Charnas, Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and others. Reprint. AB. PW. K.
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This consistently engrossing anthology of 18 stories is an extension of Datlow's first collection of vampire tales, Blood Is Not Enough . But for the most part the vampires here are not literal, and can be seen as a metaphor for negative relationships. In the bleak and Kafkaesque "Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, a secret government agency is deliberately draining one of its agents of his identity. Further distortions of normal relations appear in the wry tale "The Slug" by Edward Wagner, in which one university colleague impinges on another's jealousy guarded creative time--with macabre results. A novel form of bloodletting is viewed in "Warm Man" by Robert Silverberg, in which an enigmatic visitor to a small town exercises a sort of psychic vampirism when the residents inexplicably pour out their secrets to him. Those who like their vampires in the traditional mold will take to Rose Blum in "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" by Suzy McKee Charnas. Rose has just died, but is willing to try anything to be able to stick around for a while longer. Ranging from the grotesque to the pleasantly lurid, these tales are of unvaryingly high quality. Readers looking for shock and horror will be gratified; those who want fangs in the neck, however, must settle for tongue in cheek. BOMC alternate.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This collects 18 old and new vampire stories just in time for the witching season.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I've been an editor for over thirty years, first in book publishing, but mostly editing short stories for OMNI Magazine and webzine, EVENT HORIZON, a webzine, and SCIFICTION, the fiction area of SCIFI.COM. I now edit original and reprint anthologies. Born and bred New Yorker, although I travel a lot.
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Interesting work--divergent styles.,
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This review is from: Whisper Of Blood (Paperback)
Not all the stories nestled between the covers of this anthology are what I would have thought of as my style, but I was drawn into them all the same. True Love came closest to actually rattling my bones, but every single one of these stories is awesome to read--not too flowery and they definitely have a tinge of eroticism to them. Go to your local used book store and hopefully you'll be able to grab this fantastic find!
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My daughter and I love vampires and I thought this was short stories about the myth. They are more about the emotional vampires we encounter daily and the stories are still interesting.
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