Tina Rath

This anthology turned out to be a mixed bag of tales featuring different versions of vampires, though some were better than the others. Featuring the only vampire short story by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and an autobiographical introduction by Ingrid Pitt, star of the films The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this Mammoth collection brings together thirty-four uncanny and erotic tales by women who have redefined the genre of vampire fiction. The quest continues—for blood to drink, for souls to steal, for life among the undead.

Contents:

Introduction: My Life Among The Undead by Ingrid Pitt

The Master Of Rampling Gate by Anne Rice

Homewrecker by Poppy Z. Brite

When Gretchen Was Human by Mary A. Turzillo

The Vengeaful Spirit of Lake Nepeakea by Tanya Huff

La Diente by Nancy Kilpatrick

Miss Massingberd and the Vampire by Tina Rath

The Raven Bound by Freda Warrington

Vampire King of the Goth Chicks by Nancy A. Collins

Just His Type by Storm Constantine

Prince Of Flowers by Elizabeth Hand

Service Rendered by Louise Cooper

Aftermath by Janet Berliner

One Among Millions by Yvonne Navarro

Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

Sangre by Lisa Tuttle

A Question of Patronage by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Hisako San by Ingrid Pitt

Butternut and Blood by Kathryn Ptacek

Sleeping Cities by Wendy Webb

The Haunted House by E. Nesbit

Turkish Delight by Roberta Lannes

Venus Rising on Water by Tanith Lee

Year Zero by Gemma Files

Good Lady Ducayne by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Lunch At Charon's by Melanie Tem

Forever, Amen by Elizabeth Massie

Night Laughter by Ellen Kushner

Bootleg by Christa Faust

Outfangthief by Gala Blau

My Brother's Keeper by Pat Cadigan

So Runs The World Away by Caitlin R. Kiernan

A North Light by Gwyneth Jones

Jack by Connie Willis

Les maîtres modernes du macabre bring the dead to life in this specially re-vamped edition of the classic compilation every horror fan will want to sink their teeth into.

From an award-winning editor who knows the genre backwards, here is the very best in vampire fiction: from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from the dark origins of fairy tales to a modern reinterpretation of the King of the Undead himself, Count Dracula.

This revised edition features over a dozen new stories, including Tina Rath's A Trick of the Dark and Kim Newman's Andy Warhol's Dracula, as well as classic novellas such as Hugh B. Cave's Stragella and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Investigating Jericho. There are contributions by Nancy Kilpatrick, Christopher Fowler, Paul Mcauley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tina Rath, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison and Kim Newman.

Great collection of stories by a variety of authors. There are shorter stories that are very good, but the novellas made the book for me. There were only two stories that didn't interest me and I skipped. That's not bad for such a large book, and believe me, it lives up to its name, it is big!

- Human Remains - Clive Barker

- Necros - Brian Lumley

- The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady - Brian M. Stableford

- A Place to Stay - Michael Marshall Smith

- The Brood - Ramsey Campbell

- Root Cellar - Nancy Kilpatrick

- Hungarian Rhapsody - Robert Bloch

- The Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Prime-Time TV Special - Christopher Fowler

- Vampire - Richard Christian Matheson

- Stragella - Hugh B. Cave

- A Week in the Unlife - David J. Schow

- The House at Evening - Frances Garfield

- Vampyrhhic Outcast - Simon Clark

- The Labyrinth - R. Chetwynd-Hayes

- Beyond Any Measure - Karl Edward Wagner

- Doctor Porthos - Basil Copper

- Straight to hell - Paul McAuley

- It Only Comes Out at Night - Dennis Etchison

- Investigating Jericho - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

- Dracula's Chair - Peter Tremayne

- A Taste for Blood - Sydney J. Bounds

- The Better Half - Melanie Tem

- The Devil's Tritone - John Burke

- Chastel - Manly Wade Wellman

- der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen - Howard Waldrop

- Red as Blood - Tanith Lee

- Laird of Dunain - Graham Masterton

- A Trick of the Dark - Tina Rath

- Midnight Mass - F. Paul Wilson

- Blood Gothic - Nancy Holder

- Yellow Fog - Les Daniels

- Fifteen Cards from a Vampire Tarot - Neil Gaiman

- Vintage Domestic - Steve Rasnic Tem

- Try a Dull Knife - Harlan Ellison

- Andy Warhol's Dracula - Kim Newman