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Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampires
Anne Rice
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Current:
9.7 |
Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with Pandora, but the second of her New
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The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles)
Anne Rice
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Current:
9.6 |
It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of he
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The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II)
Anne Rice
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Current:
9.5 |
After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in more]
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Lifeblood (The Vampire Files, No 2)
P. N. Elrod
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Current:
9.5 |
The critically acclaimed saga of blood and passion as only vampire Jack Fleming could tell it... Read more
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The Sub : A Study in Witchcraft
Thomas M. Disch
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Current:
9.5 |
All is not remotely well in the unusual town of Leech Lake, Minnesota. Substitute teacher Diana Turney has lost her job, and is finally beginning to recall long-lost memories of being molested by her father, Wes. To make matters worse, Wes'
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A Chill in the Blood (Vampire Files)
P. N. Elrod, P. N. Elerod
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Current:
9.4 |
Gangland Chicago, 1937. Jack Fleming, vampire PI, doesn't care for the Mob. He was killed once by a Mob boss, see, and he's seen too many shot down since. Ambitious gangsters are like roaches--there always seem to be more coming out of the
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Violin
Anne Rice
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Current:
9.4 |
If neatness counts for you, don't count on Anne Rice's musical-ghost novel Violin. It is an eruption of the author's personal demons, as messy as the monster bursting from that poor fellow's chest in the movie Alien. Like Rice
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The House
Bentley Little
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Current:
9.2 |
If you haven't had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Bentley Little, then The House will give you the perfect opportunity to get to know this fine sorcerer of horror. Haunted houses are an endless source of fascination for writers of the m
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I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
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Current:
9.2 |
One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as scienc
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Bloodsucking Fiends : A Love Story
Christopher Moore
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Current:
9.2 |
Here's something different: a vampire novel that's light, funny, and not at all hackneyed. Between scenes of punks bowling frozen turkeys on the graveyard shift in a supermarket, or snapping turtles loose in a loft and gnawing on designer s
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Psychic Warrior
David A. Morehouse
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Current:
9.2 |
The thrilling and incredible true story of a man who stood by his convictions and blew the lid off a top-secret project and discovered a new universe of life and thought. --This text refers to the more]
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The Witches of Eileanan
Kate Forsyth
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Current:
9.2 |
In the Celtic land of Eileanan, witches and magic have been outlawed, and those caught for practicing witchcraft are put to death! It is a land ruled by an evil Queen, where sea-dwelling Fairgean stir, and children vanish in the night. But
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The Dark Sleep (Vampire Files)
P. N. Elrod
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Current:
9.1 |
Jack Fleming is one hell of a lucky guy for a dead man. As Elrod's eighth entry in the Chandleresque Vampire Files series opens, Fleming's got some mob money that nobody's missing; h
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Black Light
Elizabeth Hand
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Current:
9.0 |
Although Charlotte Moylan thinks she lives a rather ordinary and oftentimes dull life, the reality is far different. Her father is best known as the famous TV personality Uncle Cosmo, and her mother is a 20-year veteran of the daytime drama
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Judgement of Tears : Anno Dracula 1959
Kim Newman
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Current:
9.0 |
July 1959: The occasion is the marriage of Vlad Tepes, Count Dracula. The world's vampire elite have gathered in Rome for the union. Vlad's past wives have included Hungarian princesses, baronesses from California, and even Queen Victoria;
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The Heart of a Witch
Judith Hawkes
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Current:
9.0 |
In the small town of Green Hollow, New York, the Lockley Arms hotel stands as the meeting place for a coven of witches. When the hotel's owners perish in a mysterious car accident, the coven's leader searches for suitable replacements, for
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
Stephen King
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Current:
8.9 |
In the fall of 1978 (between The Stand and The Dead Zone), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on "Themes in Supernatu
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Blood Read : The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
Joan Gordon
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Current:
8.9 |
Over the past century the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations--from Bram Stoker's original Dracula to Anne Rice's VAMPIRE CHRONICLES. BLOOD READ examines a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both w
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Everett F. Bleiler
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Current:
8.8 |
This is a lively and opinionated historical essay on supernatural literature written during 1924 through 1927. Indispensable to horror fans (even for those uninterested in H. P. Lovecraf
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Our Vampires, Ourselves
Nina Auerbach
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Current:
8.8 |
"My central idea: that vampirism springs not only from paranoia, xenophobia, or immortal longings, but from generosity and shared enthusiasm. This strange taste cannot be separated from the expansive impulses that make us human."
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The Literature of Terror, Vol. 1: The Gothic Tradition
David Punter
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Current:
8.7 |
This two-volume set (the other half is Volume 2: The Modern Gothic) by David Punter is more than simply a history of the gothic form in American and British literature. It's an ambitious attempt t
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Gothic Horror : A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond
Clive Bloom
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Current:
8.7 |
Clive Bloom is an English professor who's written and edited several books on popular literature and pop culture (e.g., Twentieth-Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age). In this new t
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Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror : Compiled by Stephen Jones
Clive Barker, Stephen Jones (Compiler)
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Current:
8.5 |
This splashy, high-concept book with glossy pages (designed to accompany a BBC-TV series) is not so much an encyclopedia, as a color scrapbook of Clive Barker's horror obsessions. After an introduction in which Barker examines such question
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Nightmare on Main Street : Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic
Mark Edmundson
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Current:
8.5 |
If you observe American pop culture, you'll recognize the questions Mark Edmundson raises in Nightmare on Main Street: Why are the 1990s seeing a resurgence of the gothic? Why do tabloid stories about people such as O. J. Simpson and
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The Ultimate Unauthorized Stephen King Trivia Challenge : Hundreds of Brainteasing Questions on Minute Details and Little-Known Facts About the World'
Robert W. Bly
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Current:
8.5 |
The perfect book to complement anyone's King Collection, The Ultimate Unauthorized Stephen King Trivia Challenge contains hundreds of unnerving questions and trivia to tense your brain, rattle your nerves, and keep you awake all night long.
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The Return of the Repressed : Gothic Horror from the Castle of Otranto to Alien (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
Valdine Clemens
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Current:
8.4 |
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothi
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St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers (1st Ed)
David Pringle
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Current:
8.4 |
In his preface to this encyclopedic reference, Dennis Etchison is typically eloquent in defending horror literature, the power of which "derives from its predilection for addressing the fundamental questions of life and death, the drama tha
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The Shape of Fear : Horror and the Fin De Siecle Culture of Decadence
Susan Jennifer Navarette
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Current:
8.3 |
Like a number of other writers, Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison are inclined to use the word gothic more or less interchangeably with horror. In their well-written introduction to this anthology of critical essays they
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A Dark Night's Dreaming : Contemporary American Horror Fiction (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Tony Magistrale
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Current:
8.3 |
Like a number of other writers, Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison are inclined to use the word gothic more or less interchangeably with horror. In their well-written introduction to this anthology of critical essays they
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God Is a Bullet
Boston Teran, Teran Boston
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Current:
8.2 |
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Last Call
Tim Powers
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Current:
8.1 |
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The Bell Witch : An American Haunting : Being the Eye Witness Account of Richard Powell Concerning the Bell Witch Haunting of Robertson County, Tennes
Richard Powell, Brent Monahan
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8.1 |
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Like Water for Chocolate : A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies
Laura Esquivel
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Current:
8.0 |
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Futility: Or The Wreck of the Titan 100th Anniversary edition
Morgan Robertson, Lee Reeve (Preface)
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Current:
8.0 |
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Bloodcircle (The Vampire Files, No 3)
P. N. Elrod
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Current:
8.0 |
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Like Water for Chocolate : A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Laura Esquivel
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Current:
7.8 |
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Stephen King Country : The Illustrated Guide to the Sites and Sights That Inspired the Modern Master of Horror
George W. Beahm
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Current:
7.8 |
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The Vampire Lectures
Laurence A. Rickels
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Current:
7.7 |
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Blood Thirst : 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
Leonard Wolf(Introduction)
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Current:
7.7 |
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Rational Fears : American Horror in the 1950s
Mark Jancovich
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Current:
7.6 |
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Art in the Blood (Vampire Files, No 4)
P. N. Elrod
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Current:
7.6 |
Being a vampire isn't as glamorous as it sounds . . . Jack Fleming, Anerican journalist, was bitten by the wrong girl--and Jack joined the living dead. Eccentric detective Charles Escott helps Jack solve any strange cases that happen along
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The Politics of Everyday Fear
Brian Massumi
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Current:
7.5 |
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothi
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Blood & Roses : The Vampire in 19th Century Literature (Creature Classics Ser.))
Adele O. Gladwell
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Current:
7.5 |
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothi
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Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King
Stephen King
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Current:
7.5 |
Like a number of other writers, Tony Magistrale and Michael A. Morrison are inclined to use the word gothic more or less interchangeably with horror. In their well-written introduction to this anthology of critical essays they
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Fire in the Blood (Vampire Files, No 5)
P. N. Elrod
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Current:
7.4 |
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Lovecraft : A Study in the Fantastic
Maurice Levy, S. T. Joshi (Translator)
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Current:
7.4 |
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Fantasy and Horror : A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, Tv, Radio, and the Internet
Neil Barron, Marshall B. Tymn
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7.3 |
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Northern Dreamers : Interviews With Famous Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers (Out of This World)
Edo Van Belkom
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Current:
7.3 |
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The Vampire Lectures
Laurence A. Rickels
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Current:
7.2 |
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Horror and the Holy : Wisdom-Teachings of the Monster Tale
Kirk J. Schneider
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Current:
7.2 |
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