It includes:* Details about a mage's deadliest foes;* Dozens of mystic creatures from the Dark Side;* Storyteller hints, cosmology, and more.

    If there's anything I love, it's drawing dark portraits of whatever I want, spilling my brain on a page. The only condition: "They're vampires." Ever since I saw Katheryn Bigelow's film Near Dark (one of only two or three in the theater... five times), I've wanted to illustrate the work from Vampire: The Masquerade and what you see before you. White Wolf Game Studio gave me the chance to do it. I don't know if I or they expected the tremendous response that we received from all of you who are hip to the alternative, sensual, modern primitive, tattooed, gypsy white-trash aspects of the images created here, but we're thankful you did respond. A lot of influences played a part in this work: sex (I love to do the erotic ones), love, pain, frustration, strength, and of course the CD Vulgar Display of Power writhing in the background."This is a collection of artwork by Tim Bradstreet for Vampire: The Masquerade. It showcases ten full-page black-and-white portraits of different vampire characters that will be familiar to owners of other books. These are printed on individual card sheets, stored within a folded envelope that includes a biography of the artist.

    

    Among them are the vampires, who call themselves the Kindred because they are a breed set apart form man. But these vampires are not just mad beasts or solitary hunters. Completely hidden from human eyes by a plan the Kindred call the Masquerade is an entire society of vampires. The disputes and alliances that have formed this society have also built powerful nations and drug great men to their graves.No place in the world of vampires is quite like San Francisco. It's a melting pot set outside the always arcane and dangerous dynamics of Kindred politics. But because of San Francisco's position as neutral territory, countless plots and mad plans are dreamt in and executed from The City. Herein are the beginnings and players for some of those unspeakable schemes. The Beast Within contains stories of the Kindred in the World of Darkness by S P Somtow, Lois Tilton, Matthew Costello, Lawrence Watt-Evans and nine other authors including several authors who have contributed to the development of the World of Darkness.This anthology contains: The Scarlet Letters by Scott H. Urban; Interesting Times by Matt Forbeck; The Voice of the Hummingbird by S. P. Somtow; Power by Don Bassingthwaite; Darkening the Light by Bill Bridges; Dancing with the Devil by Keith "Doc" Herber; The Art of Dying by Lawrence Watt-Evans; Descent by Sam Chupp; Expendable by Lois Tilton; Homecoming: Affairs of the Heart by James A. Moore; Masquerade by Kevin Andrew Murphy; Undercover by Matthew J. Costello;Prisons by Shane Hensley