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Blood and Other Cravings: Original Stories of Vampires and Vampirism by Today's Greatest Writers of Dark Fiction
| Author: | Ellen Datlow |
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Tor, 2011 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
When we think of vampires, instantly the image arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism. For this brilliantly original anthology, Ellen Datlow has commissioned stories from many of the most powerfully dark voices in contemporary horror, who conjure tales of vampirism that will chill readers to the marrow.
In addition to the traditional fanged vampires, Datlow presents stories about the leeching of emotion, the draining of the soul, and other dark deeds of predation and exploitation, infestation, and evisceration... tales of life essence, literal or metaphorical, stolen.
Seventeen stories, by such award-winning authors as Elizabeth Bear, Richard Bowes, Kathe Koja, Margo Lanagan, Carol Emshwiller, and Lisa Tuttle will petrify readers. With dark tales by Laird Barron, Barry Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, Kaaron Warren, and other powerful voices, Blood and Other Cravings will redefine the terror of vampires and vampirism.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Ellen Datlow
- All You Can Do Is Breathe - short story by Kaaron Warren
- Needles - short story by Elizabeth Bear
- Baskerville's Midgets - (2009) - short story by Reggie Oliver
- Blood Yesterday, Blood Tomorrow - short story by Richard Bowes
- X for Demetrious - short story by Steve Duffy
- Keeping Corky - short story by Melanie Tem
- Shelf-Life - short story by Lisa Tuttle
- Caius - short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
- Sweet Sorrow - short story by Barbara Roden
- First Breath - short story by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
- Toujours - short story by Kathe Koja
- Miri - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
- Mrs. Jones - (1993) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
- Bread and Water - short story by Michael Cisco
- Mulberry Boys - short story by Margo Lanagan
- The Third Always Beside You - novelette by John Langan
- The Siphon - novelette by Laird Barron
- About the Editor - essay by uncredited
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