Title:
By blood we live
Author:
Adams, John Joseph.
ISBN:
9781597801560
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
San Francisco : Night Shade Books, c2009.
Physical Description:
485 p.[pap]; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introduction / John Joseph Adams -- Snow, glass, apples / Neil Gaiman -- The master of Rampling Gate / Anne Rice -- Under St. Peter's / Harry Turtledove -- Child of an ancient city / Tad Williams -- Lifeblood / Michael A. Burstein -- Endless night / Barbara Roden -- Infestation / Garth Nix -- Life is the teacher / Carrie Vaughn -- The Vechi Barbat / Nancy Kilpatrick -- The beautiful, the damned / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Pinecones / David Wellington -- Do not hasten to bid me adieu / Norman Partridge -- Foxtrot at high noon / Sergei Lukyanenko -- This is now / Michael Marshall Smith -- Blood gothic / Nancy Holder -- Mama gone / Jane Yolen -- Abraham's boys / Joe Hill -- Nunc dimittis / Tanith Lee -- Hunger / Gabriela Lee -- Ode to Edvard Munch / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- Finders keepers / L.A. Banks -- After the Stone Age / Brian Stableford -- Much at stake / Kevin J. Anderson -- House of the Rising Sun / Elizabeth Bear -- A standup dame / Lilith Saintcrow -- Twilight / Kelley Armstrong -- In darkness, angels / Eric Van Lustbader -- Sunrise on running water / Barbara Hambly -- Hit / Bruce McAllister -- Undead again / Ken MacLeod -- Peking man / Robert J. Sawyer -- Necros / Brian Lumley -- Exsanguinations / Catherynne M. Valente -- Lucy, in her splendor / Charles Coleman Finlay -- The wide, carnivorous sky / John Langan -- One for the road / Stephen King -- For further reading / Ross E. Lockhart.
Abstract:
Gathers together the best vampire literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Garth Nix, and Neil Gaiman."From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires harkens back to humanity's darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hunger. And yet, there is an attraction, undeniable, to the vampire archetype, whether the pale, wan European count, impeccably dressed and coldly masculine, yet strangely ambiguous, ready to sink his sharp teeth deep into his victims' necks, draining or converting them, or the vamp, the count's feminine counterpart, villain and victim in one, using her wiles and icy sexuality to corrupt man and woman alike. Gathering together the best vampire literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror" -- from publisher's web site.
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