Category: Vampires

By Greg Cox

The respectable motion picture novelization of the most recent movie within the blockbuster action/horror motion picture sequence, Underworld—coming to theaters in January 2009 from Sony Pictures!

Centuries ago...two ageless and terrifying races—the aristocratic vampires and the feral lycans—are certain by means of a merciless, ancestral dating among grasp and servant, and ceaselessly separated by way of the continued, violent competition among their species. yet unknown to either the Aristocracy and enslaved alike, a clandestine—and forbidden—affair among the lycan servant Lucian and the attractive vampire noblewoman Sonja burns brightly with an unbridled ardour. looking to break out Sonja’s tyrannical father, Viktor, and a destiny during which their love is taken into account an abomination, Lucian dangers the ever present machinations of the court docket and his very lifestyles to forged himself and his loved freed from their bonds...a bold tactic that would finally supply all lycans the braveness to stand up opposed to their oppressive vampire overlords. New alliances are solid at the same time the chains of slavery are broken...and all that Lucian and Sonja carry pricey may be threatened with utter annihilation....

By Darren Shan

The pursuit begins....Darren Shan, the Vampire Prince, leaves Vampire Mountain on a lifestyles or demise challenge. As a part of an elite strength, Darren searches the area for the Vampaneze Lord. however the street forward is lengthy and dangerous-and covered with the our bodies of the damned.

By Nancy Holder

While a previously general, well-adjusted scholar without warning shoots his complete kinfolk lifeless after which commits suicide, Buffy and her gang, acquainted with the baleful effect of the Hellmouth which lies underneath the California city of Sunnydale, commence trying to find the standard suspects - vampires, demons, witches, no matter what. the reality, in spite of the fact that, seems to be more durable than whatever the Hellmouth can throw at them. This time the evil has no supernatural reason. it is the daily stuff - medicines, strain, thwarted love. what is a Slayer to do? firstly, dig a bit deeper...

By Matt Haig

With regards to we all know a relations just like the Radleys. many people grew up round the corner to 1. they seem to be a sleek relatives, averagely content material, averagely dysfunctional, dwelling in a staid and quiet suburban English city. Peter is an overworked healthcare professional whose spouse, Helen, has turn into more and more distant and uncommunicative. Rowan, their teenage son, is being bullied in school, and their anemic daughter, Clara, has lately develop into a vegan. they're usual, that's, keep for one devastating exception: Peter and Helen are vampires and have—for seventeen years—been abstaining via selection from a lifetime of chasing blood within the wish that their kids may perhaps stay general lives.
One evening, Clara unearths herself pushed to dedicate a shocking—and disturbingly satisfying—act of violence, and her mom and dad are pressured to give an explanation for their heritage of shadows and lies. A police research is introduced that uncovers a richness of vampire background heretofore unknown to most people. And while the malevolent and inviting Uncle Will, a training vampire, arrives to throw the police off Clara’s path, he lands up throwing the entire residence into temptation and turmoil and unleashing a bunch of darkish secrets and techniques that threaten the Radleys’ marriage.
The Radleys is a relocating, exciting, and radiant household novel that explores with bold the lengths a mum or dad will visit shield a baby, what it expenditures you to disclaim your identification, the indisputable allure of sin, and the eternal, iridescent bonds of relations love. learn it and ask what we develop into after we develop up, and what we gain—and lose—when we deny our appetites.

By Michael Thomas Ford

200 years after her demise, Jane Austen continues to be surrounded via the literature she loves—but now it's simply because she's the landlord of Flyleaf Books in a sleepy university city in Upstate manhattan. each day she watches her novels fly off the shelves—along with dozens of unauthorized sequels, spin-offs, and diversifications. Jane should be undead, yet her books have taken on a lifetime of their own.

To make concerns worse, the manuscript she complete ahead of being changed into a vampire has been rejected by means of publishers—116 occasions. Jane longs to enable the realm comprehend who she is, but if a unexpected accident thrusts her again into the highlight, she needs to conceal her actual identity—and fend off a dismal guy from her previous whereas juggling sleek suitors. Will the inimitable Jane Austen have the capacity to continue her cool during this comedy of manners, or will she convey every body what a girl with a pointy wit and an excellent sharper set of fangs can do?

By P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast

What if the most well liked man on the earth used to be hiding a anonymous evil, and all he sought after was once you?

At the beginning of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling apartment of evening sequence, Zoey’s buddies have her again back and Stevie Rae and the purple fledglings aren’t Neferet’s secrets and techniques any more. yet an unforeseen hazard has emerged. Neferet guards her strong new consort, Kalona, and nobody on the apartment of evening turns out to appreciate the danger he poses. Kalona seems wonderful, and he has the home of evening lower than his spell. A prior lifestyles holds the most important to breaking his swiftly spreading effect, yet what if this previous lifestyles exhibits Zoey secrets and techniques she doesn’t are looking to listen and truths she can’t face?

On the run and holed up in Tulsa’s Prohibition-era tunnels, Zoey and her gang needs to find a technique to care for whatever that will convey all of them down. in the meantime, Zoey has a number of different little difficulties. The pink fledglings have wiped clean up good – they’ve even controlled to make the darkish, creepy tunnels think extra like domestic – yet are they truly as pleasant as they appear? at the boyfriend entrance, Zoey has an opportunity to make issues correct with super-hot ex-, Erik, yet she can’t cease brooding about Stark, the archer who died in her fingers after one unforgettable evening, and he or she is pushed to aim to save lots of him from Neferet’s sinister impact in any respect bills. Will an individual think the ability evil has to conceal between us?

By Erik Butler

For the final 300 years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties approximately cultural continuity. notwithstanding typically represented as a parasitic aggressor from with out, the vampire is actually a local of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to cite Baudelaire, a distorted snapshot of social transformation. as the vampire grows powerful every time and anywhere traditions weaken, its representations have improved with each political, financial, and technological revolution from the eighteenth century on. this present day, within the age of globalization, vampire fictions are extra virulent than ever, and the monster enjoys looking grounds as significant because the overseas market.

Metamorphoses of the Vampire explains why representations of vampirism begun within the eighteenth century, flourished within the 19th, and got here to eclipse approximately all different kinds of monstrosity within the early 20th century. some of the works via French and German authors mentioned right here have by no means been awarded to scholars and students within the English-speaking global. whereas there are lots of first-class reports that study Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, modern vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, in the past no paintings has tried to account for the unifying good judgment that underlies the vampire's many and sometimes it sounds as if contradictory types.

By F. Paul Wilson

“Something is murdering my men.”

Thus reads the message got from a Nazi commander stationed in a small fortress excessive within the distant Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one sufferer according to evening, leaving the cold and mutilated corpses in the back of to terrify its destiny victims.

When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to unravel the matter, the lads find something that's either robust and terrifying. Panicked, the Nazis usher in an area specialist on folklore--who simply occurs to be Jewish--to shed a few mild at the mysterious happenings. And unbeknownst to someone, there's one other customer on his way--a guy who woke up from a nightmare and instantly got down to meet his destiny.

The conflict has started: On one part, the final word evil created via guy, and at the other...the unthinkable, unstoppable, unknowing terror that guy has unavoidably awakened

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By Pearl Cleage

Wide-spread faces and locations meet clean twists and turns during this spell binding novel from acclaimed writer Pearl Cleage.

Atlanta's West finish district has consistently been a haven and residential to a coterie of certain characters--artists and thinkers, dreamers and doers. parents right here be aware of one another's names, continue their doorways unlocked, and glance out for his or her acquaintances. somebody making plans to promote medications, vandalize, or rob a bit previous woman should still consider carefully sooner than hitting this a part of city. And Blue Hamilton, West End's unofficial mayor and longtime protector, will see to it that you simply do. Blue wears many hats right here, together with cherished husband to Regina, expensive nephew to Abbey, and doting father to Sweetie and one other toddler at the way.

Blue is additionally the fellow you pay your respects to if you're trying to organize store during this city enclave--just ask Serena Mayflower, whom Blue sees striding down Ralph David Abernathy side road donning skin-tight black leather-based pants, thigh-high boots, and brilliant crimson lipstick. This tall, narrow, ethereally appealing girl and her 4 both awesome sisters make up the Too superb 5, a quintet of foreign supermodels who've arrived on the town for an Essence journal photograph shoot.

But Blue's intestine tells him that there's extra to those Mayflower mademoiselles than their affection for complete moons and Bloody Marys. With assistance from his liked Regina and their shut neighbors and family members in West finish, Blue vows to discover the women's mystery intentions--and end up as soon as and for all that there's no higher strength in the world than the facility of love.

A enthralling slice of not-so-everyday lifestyles, brimming with depraved wit and spiced with a couple of supernatural surprises, simply Wanna Testify showcases Pearl Cleage's masterly storytelling at its soulful and gratifying finest.

From the Hardcover version.

By J. R. Ward