That includes the single vampire brief tale by way of Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and an autobiographical creation through Ingrid Pitt, megastar of the movies The Vampire fans and Countess Dracula, this large assortment brings jointly thirty-four uncanny and erotic stories by means of ladies who've redefined the style of vampire fiction.
From vintage tales of the undead via writers like Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon to the paintings of such acclaimed modern authors as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Pat Cadigan, this terrifying and tantalizing quantity turns the conventions of vampire fiction on their head and within out because it refashions, and revamps, Bram Stoker's urbane count number Dracula in clever, glossy, attractive phrases.
Original and creative, the stories during this anthology supply a large and sundry diversity of undead heroines and doomed heroes, from the tormented sturdy to the unspeakably evil. At huge between them within the gardens of literature's longest evening are Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins's "Vampire King of the Goth Chicks," Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson, and Freda Warrington's age-old fanatics Karl and Charlotte. In all, the search continues—for blood to drink, for souls to thieve, for all times one of the undead.
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He heard voices from outside and peeped back over the cliff. The three Russians were approaching. Like him, they had dismounted. Two of them carried pistols, but Owen knew how primitive their weapons were. The other must have been the one who had fired and would have to reload before he could do so again. Owen squeezed his fingers around the grip of his Dean and Adams revolver and smiled. Five shots without reloading – and only three targets. The men approached the rock fall that had been Owen’s path over the wall.
There must have been over six hundred of them at the beginning. All dead now, probably. Owen slowed his own horse to a canter. The rhythm of the cannon changed – volleys of three now, rather than four. Owen laughed, briefly. There were no guns, not here. Back in the valley they might still be firing, but not here. He slowed his horse even more and the rhythm of hoofbeats changed again, quietening to almost nothing. There had been a point when the cannon had been loud enough to engulf the sound of twenty-four hundred thundering hooves, but not any more.
Her first appointment of the day, direct from stepping off the train, had been inside the Kremlin. In Petersburg, the location of the offices of the Third Section of His Majesty’s Own Chancellery was well known; the ‘building beside the chain bridge’ as it was usually called, the bridge being the one that crossed the Fontanka at the southern end of the Summer Garden. But in Petersburg, the leaders of the Third Section – Count Orlov and General Dubyelt – believed that a secret police force was most effective when it was least secret; that fear was a more effective weapon than surprise.