Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed on + 1568 more book reviews
I can't really add anything to the well-written blurb from the dust cover except this----Don't read these after dark if you are alone in the house!
It was a dark and stormy nightÂwell, maybe not, but dark energy must have been churning the day editor Marvin Kaye and SFBC Editor-in-Chief Ellen Asher put their heads together to create this SFBC original. First, They agreed, it had to contain six novellas written exclusively for us by top authors in vampire literature. Next, it had to be rife with real vampires--the old fashioned, befanged-and-blood-sucking kind. Last, it had to connect with the irresistible eros of the myth. And so The Vampire Sextette was born.
Here you'll find stories that range from the nostalgic to the contemporary, the poignant to the savage, the romantic to the carnal--each taking you beyond the veil of death to pierce the swirling depths of dark desire.
Welcome to ÂThe Other Side of Midnight, as Kim Newman casts Orson Wells, an undead private eye and a teenage Slayer in a Hollywood mystery with all the luster and decadence of cinema itself. Meet ÂSheen, a Goth rocker who transforms the life of a working class lad in Brian Stableford's tale of love, loss, music and past lives. Awaken to ÂSome Velvet Morning, as Nancy Collins puts leather-punk vampire-cum-slayer Sonya Blue on the trail of an ancient witch who bathes in blood. And discover why ÂThe Isle is Full of Noises in Tanith Lee's tale of a writer, an island and a vampire unlike any you have ever encountered.
These toothsome tales, plus S.P. Somtow's ÂVanilla Blood and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's ÂIn the Face of Death, will put you in the mood for a very bloody maryÂwith a clove of garlic on the side!
It was a dark and stormy nightÂwell, maybe not, but dark energy must have been churning the day editor Marvin Kaye and SFBC Editor-in-Chief Ellen Asher put their heads together to create this SFBC original. First, They agreed, it had to contain six novellas written exclusively for us by top authors in vampire literature. Next, it had to be rife with real vampires--the old fashioned, befanged-and-blood-sucking kind. Last, it had to connect with the irresistible eros of the myth. And so The Vampire Sextette was born.
Here you'll find stories that range from the nostalgic to the contemporary, the poignant to the savage, the romantic to the carnal--each taking you beyond the veil of death to pierce the swirling depths of dark desire.
Welcome to ÂThe Other Side of Midnight, as Kim Newman casts Orson Wells, an undead private eye and a teenage Slayer in a Hollywood mystery with all the luster and decadence of cinema itself. Meet ÂSheen, a Goth rocker who transforms the life of a working class lad in Brian Stableford's tale of love, loss, music and past lives. Awaken to ÂSome Velvet Morning, as Nancy Collins puts leather-punk vampire-cum-slayer Sonya Blue on the trail of an ancient witch who bathes in blood. And discover why ÂThe Isle is Full of Noises in Tanith Lee's tale of a writer, an island and a vampire unlike any you have ever encountered.
These toothsome tales, plus S.P. Somtow's ÂVanilla Blood and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's ÂIn the Face of Death, will put you in the mood for a very bloody maryÂwith a clove of garlic on the side!
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