This blend of history and dark fantasy feasts upon vampire lore, reinventing the manner in which real-life monsters were transformed into pop culture icons by two of Ireland's great writers. Dubliners Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker travel to Transylvania where they race to save the women they love from the Countess Elizabeth Bathory. After the blood bath, Le Fanu and Stoker pose as doctors John Seward and Abraham Van Helsing to confront Vlad the Impaler and Count Dracula himself. Together for the first time, this immortal cast offers a highly erotic exploration of the vampire's eternal allure.
Sarah Kelley works at a strip club in Sin City and has noticed that everyone seems to be acting strangely lately. She has a plan to leave town as soon as she has enough money to get out. Lord Vincent and his VIPs come into her club. Vincent requests a private dance from the naive bartender. Sarah is reluctant, but the payday would get her out of town. She accepts the offer from her sleazy boss to dance for Vincent and makes such a good impression Vincent wants to see her again. Sarah's gut tells her to run, but the 10k payday would get her far away from Sin City. The night does not go well, and Vincent bites Sarah, attempting to turn her into a vampire. Sarah makes a run for it. She is alone, afraid and changing, but has no idea what is going on as her body turns on her. Sarah makes her way to a small southern town where she meets Samantha, the daughter of Alpha Edward. Sarah and Samantha bond quickly. Samantha offers her a place to stay with her and her widowed father. Sarah knows something is wrong with her but does not know she is slowly becoming a vampire. Alpha Edward allows Sarah to stay with him, but he becomes furious when Sarah starts turning into a vampire. Alpha Edward will not let Sarah leave, making her his personal servant so he can keep an eye on her and her new bloodthirst. Alpha Edward is a cruel man, but something about Sarah softens him. He tries to push her to her limits but finds her sweet demeanor and honesty refreshing. Soon the two begin to see something in each other. As the two explore the unlikely love between a newbie vampire and an Alpha, Lord Vincent shows up to claim Sarah, but Alpha Edward is not about to let a vampire come between him and the woman who has stolen his heart.
The Virgin Vampire leads you on an emotional rollercoaster ride filled with adventure and love. Chan Balum is an ancient vampire, made when the Mayans ruled Guatemala. In 600 CE, he was a priest who sacrificed men to his pagan gods. Determined to find the perfect sacrifice, one that will bring the gods back to Tikal, and his power back to him, he is in Seattle hunting for that perfect sacrifice. Each victim is tried and each one fails the test. Then one night, he meets Targ Erikson. The tall blonde Norseman seems like a perfect sacrifice. He glamours him, takes him back to his home and seduces him. Then he turns Erikson into a vampire. Enrique Valdavar, called Rickie, is a shifter, and gay. He falls in love with Erickson who can’t accept he’s a vampire, or that he’s fallen in love with a man. Will Targ Erickson ever be able to accept his new identity as a gay vampire in love with a shifter?
This special edition from the editors of LIFE Magazine examines our long fascination with vampires; shows how vampire bats live and thrive; opens the book of 'Dracula' and revisits some of history's greatest cinematic portrayals of vampires.
Hammer Vampire Women, whose subject is the biography and filmography of all the actresses who took part in the Hammer films about Dracula and Vampires, is a work divided into three volumes. Each volume is the assembly of various topics available on the web, especially from Wikipedia. The next obvious question is: why buy this book? The answer: because it means you avoid having to carry out long and tedious internet searches. (20 different topics grouped in one book). All topics are assembled in an organic and chronological way and are enriched by numerous images, these not available on Wikipedia, in order to make the work in its conception unique and unrepeatable, which turns into something new and original. In the form of an eBook, the text is enriched by numerous links to external resources and each actress is linked to films that concern her available on the web. Contents of the book: Hammer Vampire Women: Judy Matheson, Julie Ege, Kate O'Mara, Kathleen Byron, Katya Wyeth, Kirsten Lindholm, Lai Ling, Lalla Ward, Lally Bowers, Linda Cunningham, Linda Hayden, Lisa Collings, Lois Daine, Luan Peters, Lynne Frederick, Madeleine Collinson, Madeline Smith, Malaika Martin, Margo Both, Marion Mathie.
Collected here for the first time are 34 strange and erotic tales of vampires, created by some of supernatural fiction's greatest mistresses of the macabre. From the classic stories of Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern incarnations by such acclaimed writers as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, Caitlin R. Kiernan and Pat Cadigan, these blood-drinkers and soul-stealers range from the sexual to the sanguinary, from the tormented good to the unspeakably evil. Among these children of the night you will encounter Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins' undead heroine Sonja Blue, Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson and Freda Warrington's age-old lovers Karl and Charlotte. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology from which every vampire fan will want to drink deeply.
This e-only volume expands and updates the original 4-volume Encyclopedia of Women in Today′s World (2011), offering a wide range of new entries and new multimedia content. The entries reflect such developments as the Arab Spring that brought women′s issues in the Islamic world into sharp relief, the domination of female athletes among medal winners at the London 2012 Olympics, nine more women joining the ranks of democratically elected heads of state, and much more. The 475 articles in this e-only update (accompanied by photos and video clips) supplement the themes established in the original edition, providing a vibrant collection of entries dealing with contemporary women′s issues around the world.
Drake Vohjol is a centuries-old vampire with a single mission: grow his blood-for-sale business. He’s not interested in becoming a patron to a fledgling human woman who needs help developing mysterious skills. Unfortunately for him, he’s a vampire of his word, so when he is accidentally assigned to become patron to one of those Chosen humans, he grudgingly does as is required, not expecting Kartina Gomez, a stunning, innocent young woman who, skills or no, he wants in his bed. Except the rules are clear: the relationship between patron and Chosen must remain strictly professional. For this Viking-turned-vampire, raiding and pillaging wasn’t half as challenging as keeping his hands—and fangs—away from Kartina. Vampire's Ghost is a standalone novel in the Immortal Keeper vampire world.
The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D. takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the bloodthirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.
