He walked forward a few steps, his eyes traveling from one to the other of them, yet apparently not seeing them. He began to speak abruptly, in an unnatural child-like voice. "The snow, " he murmured, "the snow — the beautiful hands, ...
Featuring such masters of horror and fantasy as Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, and Tanith Lee, this chilling volume contains 33 short stories, all centering around the theme of the dreaded vampire in all his irresistible and fearsome forms.
With her husband Tony she has co written stories for Mike Ashley's Royal Whodunnits and Shakespearean Detectives, and together they run Parlour Voices, a live reading/performance group. “WhileI was finishing my thesis on The Vampire in ...
Including stories about coming-out and cross-dressing, as well as vampire tales, science fiction, parody, and romance, this collection "casts the world in a different light".--The New Republic.
In Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf gathers thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt.
Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.
In Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach explores the rich history of this literary and cultural phenomenon to illuminate how every age embraces the vampire it needs—and gets the vampire it deserves.
A mischievous young vampire and penguin trade places for a day at the zoo.
Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.
With her boss preoccupied researching the Founder Houses in Morganville, student Claire Danvers is left to her own devices when she learns that three vampires have vanished without a trace.
Philippa Pearce : HarperCollins Publishers and Penguin Books Ltd. for " The Dog Got Them " from The Shadow Cage and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce ( Kestrel Children's Books 1977 ) , copyright © Philippa Pearce ...