Award-winning horror editor Stephen Jones presents thirty-six modern masters of the macabreamong them Harlan Ellison, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Paul McAuley, Peter Tremayne, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Ramsey Campbellin this collection of the very best in vampire fiction which blends sheer horror with dark humor, deadly tenderness with tingling terror. For the classic vampire, as this volume amply shows, the Blood is the Life. So you'll discover throughout these always scary and diversely crafted pages, from Hugh B. Cave's pulp thriller "Stragella" through to Harold Waldrop's bizarre mix of vampire and Nazis in "Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen" and Christopher Fowler's "The Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Primetime TV Special. " In between lie artful chillers by the likes of Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Robert Bloch and John Burke, along with new and original stories by Niel Gaiman with "Cards from a Vampire Tarot," and Kim Newman with "Andy Warhol's Dracula: anno Dracula 197879. " You can sink your teeth, too, in F. Paul Wilson's fast-paced thriller "Midnight Mass," Manly Wade Wellman's "Chastel," offering bloody intrigue and adventure with Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant; and Les Daniel's "Yellow Fog," which features his enigmatic vampire-hero Don Sebastian de Villanueva.
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Stephen Jones is an award-winning editor and one of Britain's most acclaimed horror anthologists. His Mammoth Book of Best New Horror won the 2002 British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. He lives in London.
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By The Owler
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A pretty decent spread of vampire fiction; some contemporary, some 'classic', some subtle, some in-yer-face.
It is a meaty tome (27 stories, 2 poems = 553 pages), but well worth ploughing through. Like all collections, some stories will shake you harder than others. For me, the tales by F.Paul Wilson (Midnight Mass), Kim Newman (Red Reign), Les Daniels (Yellow Fog) and Howard Waldrop (Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen) are well worth shelling out for on their own.
If you like vampire stories, I think you will find something to your taste in here. Pretty good value, too.
It is a meaty tome (27 stories, 2 poems = 553 pages), but well worth ploughing through. Like all collections, some stories will shake you harder than others. For me, the tales by F.Paul Wilson (Midnight Mass), Kim Newman (Red Reign), Les Daniels (Yellow Fog) and Howard Waldrop (Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen) are well worth shelling out for on their own.
If you like vampire stories, I think you will find something to your taste in here. Pretty good value, too.
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Ranging from over 100 hundred years ago up to the early nineties, the stories selected are those from the top writers of the horror genre. They are all based loosely on Vampirism, more about situations where blood or the lifeforce is taken, more than the dark cloak and fangs type vampire, and none of the more modern version of he sympathetic erotic vampires. A great quick sample of learning about the many kinds of stories told around this theme, by great writers though. I greatly enjoyed it - and it only cost me a penny on top of postage so all good!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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With such a number of stories at this price, no fan of the genre could really complain. Of course, the quality varies, and the need to provide "something for everyone" means that very few people are going to enjoy it all, anyone who enjoys reading about vampires will get a lot of pleasure for a good price.
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This is a really splendid anthology, a mixture of quirky classics and cutting edge new stuff. Some of it raises a bit of a laugh (unintentional or not) some of it raises the hairs... Read more
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Classic vampire tales; both alluring and haunting.
This collection contains some of the best known writers in the genre: Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allen Poe, Richard Christian Matheson, Graham... Read more
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