The Vampire Megapack: 27 Classic Tales

Hours of serious interpreting look forward to, with stories from a number of the nineteenth and twentieth century's most famous horror and darkish myth authors.

About the Megapacks
Over the previous couple of years, our “Megapack” sequence of e-book anthologies has proved to be one in all our hottest endeavors. (Maybe it is helping that we occasionally provide them as rates to our mailing list!) One query we maintain getting requested is, “Who’s the editor?”
The Megapacks (except the place in particular credited) are a gaggle attempt. all people at Wildside works on them. This contains John Betancourt, Mary Wickizer Burgess, Sam Cooper, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, Robert Reginald. A. E. Warren, and lots of of Wildside’s authors… who frequently recommend tales to incorporate (and not only their own!)

Contents:
• “Mrs. Amworth,” by way of E. F. Benson, initially released in 1920
• “Lost Epiphany,” by way of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, initially seemed in Saint-Germain: Memoirs, 2008
• “Weeping Willow,” by way of T. A. Bradley, initially seemed in Horror In phrases, 2009
• “The larger Thirst,” via Marilyn “Mattie” Brahen, initially seemed in goals of Decadence #2, 1996
• “Clarimonde,” by way of Théophile Gautier, initially seemed in 1836 in l. a. Chronique de Paris (translation by means of Lafcadio Hearn)
• “Waiting for the Hunger,” by way of Nina Kiriki Hoffman, initially seemed in Doom urban, 1986
• “Kvetchula,” by way of Darrell Schweitzer, initially seemed in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s delusion journal, summer season 1997
• “A Vampire,” through Luigi Capuana, initially seemed in 1906 (this model has been edited and the language modernized for this publication)
• “Omega,” by way of Jason Andrew, initially seemed in Horror Carousel #6, 2008
• “Accommodation,” through Michael R. Collings, unique to this anthology
• “The paintings of the Smile,” through John Gregory Betancourt, initially seemed in Weirdbook #30, 1997
• “Renfield’s Syndrome,” by means of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, initially seemed in Apprehensions and different Delusions, 2004
• “The Pimp,” by way of Lawrence Watt-Evans, initially seemed in bizarre stories #315 (Spring 1999)
• “Runaway,” through Darrell Schweitzer, initially seemed in I, Vampire, 1995
• “Sympathy for Vampires,” by way of John Gregory Betancourt, initially seemed in Horrors! 365 frightening tales, 1998
• “The mystery of Kralitz,” through Henry Kuttner, initially seemed in bizarre stories, October 1936
• “The Fourth Horseman,” through Peter Darbyshire, initially seemed in On Spec, summer season 1998
• “Cravat of the Damned,” via Zach Bartlett, initially seemed within the Absent Willow overview, September 2009
• “Help Wanted,” by way of Michael McCarty and Terrie Leigh Relf, initially seemed in a bit support From My Fiends, 2009
• “Siren Song,” via Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, initially seemed in Horror storage #6, 2002
• “An Authenticated Vampire Story,” by way of Franz Hartmann, initially seemed within the Occult evaluate, September 1909
• “Dracula’s New Dress,” by means of Ray Cluley, initially seemed in Fem-Fangs, 2010
• “Dracula’s Guest,” through Bram Stoker, initially seemed in Dracula’s visitor and different bizarre tales (1914)
• “The Bats,” by way of David Anderson, initially seemed in 2011
• “The Room within the Tower,” via E. F. Benson, initially seemed in 1912
• “Four wood Stakes,” through Victor Rowan, initially seemed in bizarre stories, August-Septemer 1936

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Deadlocked (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 12) by Charlaine Harris

By Charlaine Harris

It’s vampire politics as traditional round the city of Bon Temps, yet by no means sooner than have they hit so with regards to Sookie’s heart…

Growing up with telepathic skills, Sookie Stackhouse learned early on there have been issues she’d quite no longer comprehend. And now that she’s an grownup, she additionally realizes that a few issues she understands approximately, she’d quite now not see—like Eric Northman feeding off one other lady. A more youthful one.

There’s something or she’d prefer to say approximately that, yet she has to maintain quiet—Felipe de Castro, the Vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is on the town. It’s the worst attainable time for a human physique to teach up in Eric’s entrance yard—especially the physique of the girl whose blood he simply drank.

Now, it’s as much as Sookie and invoice, the legitimate region 5 investigator, to resolve the homicide. Sookie thinks that, a minimum of this time, the useless girl’s destiny has not anything to do together with her. yet she is incorrect. She has an enemy, one way more devious than she may ever suspect, who’s got down to make Sookie’s global come crashing down.

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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 1) by Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

Listed here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, surprising, and chillingly erotic, it is a novel of spell binding attractiveness and incredible force–a tale of hazard and flight, of affection and loss, of suspense and backbone, and of the intense energy of the senses. it's a novel in basic terms Anne Rice may possibly write.

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Maggie for Hire (Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker, Book 1) by Kate Danley

By Kate Danley

Whilst monsters look on the earth, Maggie MacKay is at the task. not anyone is best at hauling the creepy crawlies again the place they belong. nobody, that's, other than Maggie's dad, who disappeared in the midst of an task with no trace.  Now, an elf named Killian has proven up with a gig. turns out Maggie's uncle teamed up with the forces of darkish to show Earth right into a vampire comfort shop, serving bottomless refills on people.

the one wish for survival lies in monitoring down magical artifacts and a mystery that vanished with Maggie's father.

WARNING: This booklet comprises cussing, brawling, and unladylike habit. continue with caution.

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The Palace (Saint-Germain, Book 2) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Seeing that 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced approximately dozen novels and diverse brief tales detailing the lifetime of a personality first brought to the interpreting global as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. We first meet him in Paris through the reign of Louis XV while he's, it sounds as if, a prosperous, worldly, charismatic aristocrat, envied and wanted by means of many yet absolutely identified to none. actually, he's a vampire, born within the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BC, became in his late-thirties in 2080 BC and destined to roam the area perpetually, observing and taking part in background and, throughout the writer, giving us an awesome standpoint at the time-tapestry of human civilization. within the Palace, Renaissance Florence presents the historical past for this tale of the cave in of the creative and literary lifetime of the town after the demise of San Germano's pal, Lorenzo the really good, through the increase of the fanatical Savonarola.

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One Grave at a Time (Night Huntress, Book 6) by Jeaniene Frost

By Jeaniene Frost

How Do You ship A Killer to the Grave while He's Already Dead?

Having narrowly prevented an (under)World battle, Cat Crawfield wishes not anything greater than a bit downtime along with her vampire husband, Bones. regrettably, her reward from New Orleans's voodoo queen simply retains on giving - resulting in a private desire that sends them into conflict once more, this time opposed to a villainous spirit.

Centuries in the past, Heinrich Kramer used to be a witch hunter. Now, each All Hallows Eve, he take actual shape to torture blameless girls earlier than burning them alive. This yr, even if, a made up our minds Cat and Bones needs to danger all to ship him again to the opposite facet of eternity - perpetually. yet one flawed step and they'll be digging their very own graves.

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Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles, Book 8) by Anne Rice

By Anne Rice

The Vampire Chronicles proceed with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, during which the good vampire Marius returns.

The golden-haired Marius, actual baby of the Millennia, as soon as mentor to the vampire Lestat, continually and ceaselessly the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, finds in his personal extreme but intimate voice the secrets and techniques of his two-thousand-year existence.

Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, abducted and made a "blood god" by means of the Druids, Marius turns into the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the middle of the supernatural race resides.

We stick to him via his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. via him we see the autumn of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the terrible sack of the everlasting urban itself by the hands of the Visigoths.

Bravely, Marius seeks a brand new civilization in the middle of glittering Constantinople, in simple terms to satisfy with the blood drinker Eudoxia. We see him eventually returning to his loved Italy, the place after the horrors of the Black demise, he's restored via the great thing about the Renaissance. We see him develop into a painter dwelling dangerously but fortunately between mortals, giving his center to the good Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious younger apprentice Armand.

Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden, and to the English citadel of the key scholarly order of the Talamasca, the unconventional reaches its dramatic finale in our personal time, deep within the jungle the place Marius, having informed his lifestyles tale, seeks a few degree of justice from the oldest vampires on this planet.

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The Division of the Damned by Richard Rhys Jones

By Richard Rhys Jones

It used to be a grasp stroke to redress the stability of the war.

What if the 3rd Reich may personal the night?

What in the event that they had a department of Vampires?

And if these Vampires didn't stop?

If they'd plans to overcome the complete world?

Even Heinrich Himmler hadn't considered that.

But in Transylvania somebody had.

And at the iciness Solstice of 1944, the realm will be at their mercy.

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Heart of Venom (Elemental Assassin, Book 9) by Jennifer Estep

By Jennifer Estep

The hotly expected 9th novel within the highly renowned Elemental murderer sequence reveals Gin Blanco on a deadly project to rescue a chum.

When an apprehension from the earlier threatens Gin’s good friend and body-disposer, Sophia, Gin will cease at not anything to guard her, no matter if it ability jogging immediately right into a killer’s capture. in the meantime, the rocky romance among Gin and Owen reaches a turning point—can they reunite and re-light their love? Or will the issues Gin has been pressured to do in her line of labor because the lethal murderer the Spider preserve them aside endlessly? Assuming, that's, she survives lengthy sufficient to discover out…

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Let the Right One In (Devil’s Advocates) by Anne Billson

By Anne Billson

Audiences can't get sufficient of fang fiction. Twilight, actual Blood, Being Human, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blade, Underworld, and the novels of Anne Rice and Darren Shan—against this glut of bloodsuckers, it takes a major movie to make a reputation for itself. Directed by means of Tomas Alfredson and tailored for the display through John Ajvide Lindqvist, The Swedish movie Làt den rätte komma in (2008), recognized to American audiences as enable the best One In, is the main intriguing, subversive, and unique horror construction because the genre's best-known works of the Seventies. Like Twilight, enable the ideal One In is a love tale among a human and a vampire—but that's the place the resemblance ends. Set in a snowy, surburban housing property in Eighties Stockholm, the movie combines supernatural components with social realism. It beneficial properties Oskar, a lonely, bullied baby, and Eli, the lady round the corner. "Oskar, I'm no longer a girl," she tells him, and she's now not kidding—she's a vampire. the 2 forge an severe courting that's instantaneously blameless and stressful. outsiders opposed to the area, this type of outsiders is, primarily, a serial killer. What does Eli wish from Oskar? basic companionship, or whatever else? whereas startlingly unique, permit the precise One In couldn't have existed with out the close to century of vampire cinema that preceded it. Anne Billson studies this heritage and the film's inheritence of (and new twists on) such classics as Nosferatu (1979) and Dracula (1931). She discusses the genre's early fliration with social realism in motion pictures akin to Martin (1977) and close to darkish (1987), besides its model of mythology to the fashionable global, and he or she examines the altering dating among vampires and people, the position of the vampire's assistant, and the long-lasting determine of vampires in pop culture.

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