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The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women is pretty much what it claims to be. Stephen Jones is one of the better anthologists in the horror business and here he provides a handy selection of the never-before-read and the specially written, as well as an introduction and a story by one of the queens of cinematic vampirism, Ingrid Pitt. Vampirism has always been a productive metaphor for seduction or rape, for being taken out of one's own self and put in a new realm of passionate desire--Anne Rice's "The Master of Rampling Gate", her only published short story, is not so much predictable as classic in its use of the haunted mansion and the woman freed from repression. It has also often stood for the glamour of outsider status and the strange subcultures that go with that--both Christa Faust and Caitlin Kiernan make luscious Gothery out of old standbys. Quite a few of the writers here are ones we do not associate with these themes--Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Connie Willis. What is fascinating about this anthology is that vampirism is a myth so many fine writers inhabit so naturally, whether it is a habit with them or not. Few anthologies are essential--this one is definitively so. --Roz Kaveney
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'Fashions change, and the urbane vampire created by Byron and cemented in place by Stoker has had to move on... Are you, like me, ready for the new dusk?' -Ingrid Pitt
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