But, when one of his most trusted fighters is killed-leaving his half-breed daughter, Beth, unaware of his existence or her fate-Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead-a world of sensuality beyond her wildest dreams. Lover Eternal, Book 2:Two hundred years: that's how long Rhage must bear the curse born of his reckless inconsideration. Sex and violence are all he once pursued; now they are the only things that keep the beast within at bay. He has little hope for finding peace during this existence, until Mary Luce enters his life. Irresistibly drawn to her light, he's pulled into a struggle with his own demons as well as the real enemies who threaten the vampire world and Mary.

    As the original novels appear in English for the first time, American readers are clamoring for a more extensive look at this singular creation. Coffin obliges. This gorgeous retrospective embraces the full scope of Amano's work with the character: in the novels, as inspiration for the animators of the two theatrical films, rare paintings, and illustrations created for release as limited edition prints.

    Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon - the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate.Margorie M. LiuA Dream of Stone & ShadowThere are those who do terrible things in this world, and those who simply watch. Charlie would do neither. Imprisoned, his only release is through his own destruction - or through Aggie Durand. Sweet as a kiss or a rescued child, she is the one dream he does not dare desire. As an agent of Dirk & Steele, she could be his salvation. Today, Charlie's dream is waking.

    Or partly one. Emmaline Troy is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him.Sheltered Emmaline finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents—until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. There, her fear of the Lykae—and their notorious dark desires—ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction to sate her own dark cravings.Yet when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces, will their desire deepen into a love that can bring a proud warrior to his knees and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be?

    In just a few short pages the essential keys to unlock the secrets of Vampirism are revealed to you.Yet over the years since it was first released, many questions have been asked about how to understand and apply what The Vampire Bible revealed.For more information, please log on to:www.vampiretemple.com

    In the wake of my resurrection as a member of the bloodsucking undead, I chose to put my investigative reporting talents to good use as a PI in Chicago; I've got my work cut out for me.Mingling with society's artsy crowd isn't my favorite pastime, but someone's got to navigate their way through the world of big money and bigger egos to find the killer of a young talent who deserved more than to be laid out on a canvas.My snooping has gotten me in occasional trouble with both sides of the law, so I'm used to cops and mobsters using me for target practice. But my thirst for the red stuff is getting out of control. I'm not sure what scares me more: the price on my head, or the darkness gnawing at my gut.And if that desire isn't bad enough, there's the hot-blooded daughter of a client who has big eyes for yours truly--and a jealous boyfriend.

    Subsequent chapters examine current young adult vampires novels from such popular horror authors as Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Christopher Pike, R. L. Stine, Darren Shan, and L. J. Smith, and are divided into three categories based on narrative structure: the process of turning into a vampire, humans and vampires trying to find their way in life, and romantic relationships with a vampire partner. Analysis also addresses vampire conventions (the traditions that exist in each vampire universe), vampires and sexuality, and good and reluctant vampires. The human characters who coexist with vampires in these novels receive the same treatment. Additionally, issues of gender, age, and affectional orientation of human and vampire characters are discussed, as are postmodern constructions of good and evil. Not Your Mother's Vampire contains an exploration of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a television phenomenon, which has sparked an entirely new academic field: Buffy Studies. The vampire characters on Buffy and parallel series, Angel, are explored as are a few main humans (slayers and witches alike). The final chapter of the book is an annotated bibliography of seminal vampire scholarship. As the only in-depth examination of young adult vampire novels in existence, this book is essential for students and scholars of the literature.

    Jonathan Maberry presents the creatures of our worst nightmares - ancient monstrosities from folklore and myth and recent atrocities torn from modern headlines.

    Often known as "Hammer of Witches," the Malleus consists of a demonstration of the existence of witchcraft and a discussion of both the practice of witchcraft and cures for the injuries caused by it, together with a recommended method of exterminating it judicially. It was republished twenty-six times in the early modern period, and remained a standard text on witchcraft for centuries. Yet this key text has never before been available in a reliable modern scholarly edition. This fully annotated edition is based on the first edition of 1486-7 and presents the Latin text together with a full textual apparatus. The extensive introduction discusses the authorship, method of composition, and intellectual background of the work. The second volume provides the only accurate English translation available, together with detailed explanatory notes. This important edition makes this vital text accessible to historians of the period and offers extraordinary insights into the attitudes and prejudices inspired by the fear of witches.

    Her boyfriend has to discover it the hard way, alas. Like the other two vampire stories included in the book, both of which feature vampire babies, "Sheena" is a love story, which shares the life-enhancing attributes common to all love stories. Here are ten tales of the fantastic, the horrific, and the gothic, including: "Rose, Crowned with Thorns," "Rent," "Tenebrio," "Behind the Wheel," "Innocent Blood," "Emptiness," "The Woman in the Mirror," "Regression," "Heartbreaker," and "Sheena." Great reading by a great writer!

    SINS OF THE FATHER It began with blood, death and a cryptic missive to the police carved with eerieprecision into the flesh of a victim's body. What it became was a deadly game ofcat-and-mouse between an elusive nightstalker and the determined hunters set tohis trail. Paranormal investigator January Blackburn knew instinctively that theywere dealing with no ordinary killer-and that the stalker's reign of terror on thevelvety night streets of Chicago had only just begun. As death followed unspeakabledeath, Blackburn became ever more enmeshed in an investigation that would testthe very limits of her psychic skills, while Scarletti, her new and frustratinglyeccentric partner, worked at testing the farthest limits of her patience But despitehis contemptuous nature, Dorian Scarletti had knowledge of an underworld beyondmortal understanding, knowledge gleamed over centuries during which he'dmastered his own fantastic powers. And unless he and Blackburn worked togetherto find the key to the killer's twisted logic, the ancient force of chaos which hadbeen loosened on their world would continue to consume the city one unsuspectingsoul at a time... THE HYDE EFFECT A body slashed to pieces. A handful of wolf hairs. A murderer who possessesanimal savagery as well as cunning human intelligence. These are Blackburn andScarletti's only clues to the latest wholesale slaughter going on in the busyindustrial backstreets of Boston by night. Their investigation of theincreasinglyviolent crimes leads them to Dante's, a downtown nightclub that caters towerewolves, and its owner, the ever-enigmatic Legion. But Legion and his peopleare crying innocent even as the rest of the city cries wolf. And as the bodies beginto pile up and the city slides into a state of mass panic, Blackburn and Scarlettifind themselves infiltrating an underworld full of beasts and men, where it'sdifficult to tell one from the other.

    When the security of the sanctuary is breached, she must place her trust in one of the creatures freed by perpetual darkness.

    Intense vampire eyes...watching from the woods... Powerful, summoning eyes... Joanna didn't know why she felt called into the wilderness. Packing a few things, she headed to her favorite destination, her remote cabin in the east Texas piney woods to enjoy an impromptu vacation, relaxing by the lake. Nearby, a mysterious stranger watched...waited...and planned his ultimate conquest... Colin, the handsome centenarian vampire knew from the moment he first laid eyes on the lithe young beauty he'd found the perfect mate. The time had come to claim his chosen one...but he didn't anticipate her feisty nature, and the dangers he'd face in his pursuit. Stubborn and strong, Joanna refused to be taken against her will, yet once bitten, Colin's hypnotic power permeated her being, causing a love/hate bond that brought about near disaster for both of them. In the book Colin's Conquest, Joanna's struggle to escape her destiny delivers her moments of amazing passion, yet also brings terrifying punishment. The world of the undead is full of surprises, and even the powerful Colin doesn't realize until almost too late that he isn't the only member of the ancient blood seeker society who plans to take her as his bride...

    She’s the great-granddaughter of the woman Jack originally planned to possess and kill, a victim he is obsessed with claiming, and Simon discovers that it will not be the Prince of Darkness who decides his fate. It is Tessa herself who will either be his salvation or the death of him.

    The best warriors from each Werewolf family do battle for the right to serve the woman who holds the greatest power in the world. Two champions defeat all others and nearly kill each other for the chance to bond with Altah. To reward their fierce devotion, she agrees to an unprecedented union with two guardians.Fangs flashing, their massive chests heaving with the frenzy of battle, Kyros and Rex claim their reward. Their bodies entwined and hearts forever mated, the Vampire and Werewolves find pleasure beyond their dreams. To the rest of the world, Altah's word is law, but in the bedroom Kyros and Rex dominate. No one, not even the Ruler of Vampires, can tame true alpha Werewolves.

    As Bruce McClelland notes in his Preface to the volume, in the folklore of the Slavs, the vampire plays a specific role in a broader system of folk belief. Where in the West, the vampire is utterly monstrous, the symbol of pure evil and darkness that is nevertheless romaniticized and eroticized, its moral status is more nuanced and ambiguous in the Slavic conception. Yet the ancient Slavic folkloric vampire represents the historical basis of the pop cultural vampire about which movies, television shows, and video games are still being profitably made. Some of the materials here are enormously useful because they reveal historical stages in the conception of the vampire that are quite different from what most would know about the vampire who are familiar only with the Western literary tradition. This corrective aspect of Perkowski's Vampires, which exposes a tradition directly linked to Balkan or at any rate Slavic folklore that follows a path that is quite independent of the 19th-century literary/metaphoric notions of the vampire, has had a difficult time getting traction in popular consciousness in the West, which suggests an entrenchment of the Romantic and Gothic traditions, and a concomitant resistance to correction by legitimate ethnographic research.

    Beneath a mansion in the outskirts, a powerful treasure is buried. A secret treasure. One that Dyne, a three-hundred year old vampiress will stop at nothing to claim. With her vampiric army in tow, Dyne steps foot on the Birchlock Estate with Hannah, the small child she stole away from a torn family. But in Hope's Covenant, Tranas Anvaar arrives to bring justice to the vampiress-to make her pay for the lives she's destroyed. Once a peaceful man, Tranas now chases her across the world in an attempt to avenge his wife and daughter. But their meeting in Hope's Covenant is no accident. An ancient evil has brought them together. An evil that is trying to resurrect something long forgotten-something of true horror. Dyne and Tranas, immortal enemies, soon learn that they are merely pawns in a much larger game.

    Now, the inhabitants of the city of Baltimore must live side-by-side with creatures they've never before encountered, except in their nightmares. Jack Murphy: Sub-human, blood-sucking freak? Or just a guy who's had the bad luck to be transformed into a creature of the night by forces no one understands? Either way, he's not taking the easy way out--no leisurely strolls beneath the noonday sun for him. If he's going down, it will be fighting the brutal regime that's taken over his city, and if he has to go undercover as a "male escort" to do it, then so be it. Except his lover, Laura, doesn't care for Jack's new career choice. Their bond is strong, and when they hit the sheets, they spark a heat-wave to match the one that holds the city in its scorching grip. But the gigolo thing? And the mean streak Jack's developed lately? The combination is enough to shake anyone's trust. Telling Laura the truth about his job would put her life at risk. Telling her why his job makes him so crazy...that would put Jack's pride at risk. And blood-sucking freak or not, he's still a man, after all.

    As she is pulled into their clandestine world, she learns more about her history and the reason behind her horrible nightmares.Master vampyre Cianán searches for the one woman who could take his immortality to the next level—godhood. But, when he finds his Chosen One, his progeny Grantlund stumbles onto the Master’s plan . . . again. As if losing his first sacrifice to the bastard wasn’t enough, the Fates were to torment him with a second time.

    Sera would rather admit she's a vampire than join her friend at such a place, but she doesn't, and she finds herself surrounded by ravenous women and drop-dead gorgeous men. One in particular steals her attention... Valentino was literally created to make fantasies come true. He's used to the eager women who flood into Captive Fantasy every night to take what he offers, but when he meets the shy Sera, he knows he has his work cut out for him. Something about her strikes a chord deep inside, and he soon realizes he wants more than just a breathy thank you for a "job" well done. Valentino awakens a side of Sera she's kept locked away for nearly three centuries, and now she must confront her past, her present and her future. Doing so won't be so bad with Valentino by her side, but will he want her once he realizes what she really is? Or will his secret be the one thing they cannot overcome?

    S Thompson fears that his dead body will be picked apart in the California desert by vultures. Instead, Rooster drags Thompson into a strange quest to save his hippy girlfriend that seems to have been turned into a vampire. This adventure draws Thompson into a conflict with the legendary lord of the vampires, Dracula.

    Francis. Bri's blood is the only hope he has. If she saves him, she can no longer hide what she is--a hybrid--part vampire, part witch. Forces will come against her; it's only a matter of time. Not even the fierce vampire protector her father assigns can stop the fulfillment of The Legend.

    Contributions from Christopher Fowler, Clive Barker, Mark Chadbourn, Michael Marshall Smith, John Connolly, Peter Crowther, Juliet E. McKenna, and many more.

    What becomes obvious from the scope of the fifteen essays in this collection is that vampires have infiltrated just about every area of popular culture and consciousness. In fact, the way that vampires are depicted in all types of media is often a telling signifier of the fears and expectations of a culture or community and the way that it perceives itself; and others. The volume's essays offer a fascinating insight into both vampires themselves and the cultures that envisage them.