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The Night Inside || Lost Souls The Vampire Tapestry || Midnight Blue Anno-Dracula || Vampire$ Blood Games || Daughters of Darkness by Nancy Baker Meet Ardeth Alexander, a stodgy grad student, and Dimitri Rozokov, Russian aristocrat and vampire. They come from vastly different worlds. Thrown together by circumstance and a mutual captor, they find survival and some comfort in trading stories, outlooks, and a little more. What comes of their unlikely meeting makes for an exiting, frightening, and sometimes touching story where not all of the monsters are supernatural. Highly Recommended
by Poppy Z. Brite Somewhere between New Orleans and the suburbs of Baltimore lies a strange, sleepy town called Missing Mile. It is home to Ghost and Steve, musicians, dreamers and poets. It is also the place of pilgramage to Nothing, who has left the safe life of suburbia to find himself and the musicians who call themselves Lost Souls?, but finds more than he bargained for. Hitch-hike on the highway where dreams and nightmares meet and let a new generation of vampires bewitch you and show you that what you wish for could be the death of you. Not that you'd mind. Highest Recommendation
by Suzy McKee Charnas A predator must be many things in this harsh world. He must be fast, strong, keen of senses and tireless in the pursuit of his prey. Dr. Edward Weyland is all of these things and more, but even the most successful predators miss their mark. Even the best make mistakes. Take a fascinating journey into the world of predator and prey and see what happens when the hunter becomes hunted by his erstwhile prey. Recommended
by Nancy A. Collins This is a compilation of three books: Sunglasses After Dark, In The Blood, and Paint It Black by Bram Stoker Award winner Nancy Collins, which will take you into the hidden world of the Pretenders, supernatural creatures both beguiling and deadly. They have always moved among us, seen but not recognized as they hunted the unwary or the unlucky. Brutalized, raped and discarded for dead by her careless sire, an American heiress becomes Sonja Blue. She is an anomoly amongst the Vampires who hunts her own kind, others among the Pretenders, and the occasional human as she wages a war of survival and revenge. Highly Recommended
by Kim Newman A brilliant alternate Victorian London, where Van Helsing's desperate band failed in their dreadful work and Count Dracula not only survived, but married the widowed Queen Victoria. The wealthy and well-placed vie for favor and for the kiss of un-life...the only way to advance in the newly un-dead society. But they are not the only ones. Even the poor and miserable are turning in droves, trying to escape the grinding poverty of Whitechapel. But being un-dead is no cure, and it makes the working girls of the district a target for the dreaded Silver Knife, Jack the Ripper. Recommended
by John Steakley Team Crow is a very special task force. They are hunters of the most dangerous game. Not man, but vampires. Headed by Jack Crow, this extraordinary band of noble miscreants track down nests of vampires and destroy them for fun and profit (well, maybe not fun). Paid by both the Vatican and the people of the towns and cities who call on them for help, Team Crow has a good life when they're between jobs. But the fun and games become a struggle for survival when the vampires turn the tables and start hunting Crow. Highly Recommended
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro In Nero's Rome, there is a noble foriegner who is well respected for his wealth, his talents, and his generous nature. He is from the far-off land of Daci, but he is no Dacian. He is Ragoczy Sanct' Germain, whose name means Sacred Freedom. But can this mysterious foreigner conceal his deadly secret in a city that burns with the paranoia and intrigue that rise to compete with the debauchery and excess that both the Ceasar and his people demand? Recommended
edited by Pam Keesey This is a unique collection of feminist and lesbian vampire stories. From the quirky, humorous Dracula Retold to the surreal Minimax, these stories are rich in their variety and viewpoint, showing you a side of the vampire you might have only dreamed of before. Sassy, sexy, sometimes poignant, but always riveting, this is a collection that might not let you set it down until you've had the very last drop. Recommended 
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