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BORIS KARLOFF PRESENTS TALES OF THE FRIGHTENED
text by Michael Avallone. Condition: UNREAD 1973 Pyramid Books paperback, second printing. Tiny edgewear with light tanning to interior pages. Small tag removal mark top front cover. Content: Horror stories by Avallone include "Never Kick a Black Cat" - my favorite. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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CAUTIONARY TALES
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon. Condition: Good+, 1980 Warner Books paperback, first printing. Light edgewear with spine crease and light tanning to page edges. Content: Yarbro is one of the premier "vampire, " Science Fiction authors who doesn't write nearly enough these days. Like Tanith Lee, she is "Anne Rice on acid." This book is comprised of short stories that provide a bizarre and haunting journey through inner and outer space - to alien worlds where an aging playwright is in danger of losing his soul to a monstrous organic computer. . . a charming teeny-bopper ghoul solves the problem of hunger in the town morgue. . .a member of the patrol squad is lured by the sucking darkness of evil Scranton's Marsh. . .the frozen steerage passengers on a floundering space ship share a gruesome fate. . .malevolent forces on the other side of death are held at bay by a huge black swan. . . and other strange and wondrous events beguile the reader to the edge of human horror - and beyond. Stories: Everything That Begins with an "M"; Frog Pond; Un Bel Di; Lammas Night; Into My Own; Disturb Not My Slumbering Fair; The Meaning of the Word; The Generalissimo's Butterfly; Allies; Dead in Irons; Swan Song; The Fellini Beggar; and An Indulgence. Try it; you'll like it. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF (Illustrated Novel)
by Stephen King. Color & B&W illustrations by Berni Wrightson. Condition: NEW 1985 Signet Trade Paperback, 6th printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom. Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure. When the moon grows fat, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated... "Cycle of the Werewolf." [1 copy available]
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DOMINION
by Fred Saberhagen. Cover art by Glenn Hastings. Condition: NEW 1982 TOR papaerback, 4th printing. Tanning to inside covers with light tanning to page edges. Content: When two ancient, ruthless beings, locked in a struggle for the ultimate magic Weapon, bring their blood feud to New York, Vlad Tepes races to hide the coveted weapon. [1 copy available]
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DRACULA
by Bram Stoker. Introduction by George Stade. Beautiful C. D. Friedrich painting cover art. Condition: NEW 1981 Bantam Classics paperback edition, 25th printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: This is, of course, the granddaddy of all vampire fiction. You know the story so I won't bore you with my version. Nothing special in this book - just a good, clean, new copy of a great book. [1 copy available]
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THE DRACULA ARCHIVES (Listed as "Non-Fiction")
by Raymond Rudorff. Wilson McLean cover art. Condition: UNREAD, but sure not perfect, 1973 Pocket paperback, no printing given. Light creaes front cover corners with edge wear and rubbings bottom edge. Light "stain" rims white back cover edges. Interior clean & tight but tanning. Content: For decades, readers and film audiences have shuddered at the exploits of history's most famous vampire - Count Dracula. Until now, however, little was known of his past and his progression into the haunted state of the undead. In this book, the remarkable history of the House of Dracula at last comes to light. through the private journals and letters of the people involved, the reader will experience firsthand the chilling drama of an evil being . . . who may still be "alive" today. Reviewer: "This book is an excellent book that will appeal to all lovers of vampire fiction and lore. It is written in the style of a series of diary entries that is quite convincing. One almost wishes to believe that it is a factual account. The book is old now but definitely worth reading. Highly recommended to sit alongside your Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and Anne Rice collection." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE GOLDCAMP VAMPIRE or The Sanguinary Sourdough
by Elizabeth Scarborough. E. T. Steadman cover art. Condition: UNREAD 1987 Bantam paperback, first printing. Light edge wear with tanning to inside covers and light tanning to page edges. Content: Fun and Vampire games in the Klondike with characters as our heroine, Valentine Lovelace (Pelegia Harper), to Dracula, Jack London, and Francis Drake. Yes, a Vampire loose in the Klondike where the nights go on for months and months. A face paced story that is not only smooth and well written but fun and humorous, too. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE GRAILS COVENANT: TO SPEAK IN LIFELESS TONGUES (Book 2 - Vampire The Dark Ages)
by David Niall Wilson. Condition: NEW 1997 White Wolf Publishing paperback Content: Reviewer: "Second book of a great trilogy. More background on the awesome character cast, and more of Santos as Montrovant returns to the Templars. [1 copy available]
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THE JOURNAL OF PROFESSOR ABRAHAM VAN HELSING
edited and with critical commentary by Professor Allen C. Kupfer. B& W drawings Keith Birdsong. Condition: UNREAD 2006 TOR paperback edition, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: This book is one heck of a spoof on the vampire & Van Helsing legends. Kupfer asserts that he found this journal, complete with notes from his grandfather, Daniel, in his grandmother's house after she died. The journal begins with Van Helsing's first exposure to vampires, when he attends a lecture given by a Dr. Borescu. Leaving his beloved wife, Rita, in Amsterdam, Van Helsing travels with Borescu back to his native Romania, where the skeptical professor has a face-to-face encounter with a lovely but deadly vampiress known as Malia. After tragedy strikes in Romania, Van Helsing leaves for home by train. When vampires attack the train, it appears that Malia is not going to let Van Helsing go without a fight. He arrives home only to face a great personal tragedy and the realization that he may never be able to escape the vampires. The book is inventive but does require some knowledge of Dracula and vampire legends. [1 copy available]
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THE LAST VAMPIRE
by Kathryn Meyer Griffith. Condition: UNREAD 1992 Zebra Books paperback, first printing. Pale diagonal crease upper cover corner & ever so slightly out of square top book. Interior perfect: clean and tight. Better than it sounds. Content: As the human race dwindles following a series of earthquakes, floods, and fires, Emma, one of the survivors of the chaos, realizes that she is one of the walking dead--the last vampire. Original. A real page-turner. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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LAWS OF THE BLOOD: PARTNERS (Book #2 of Series)
by Susan Sizemore. Dave Dorman cover art. Condition: Gently pre-read 2000 Ace paperback, 4th printing. Pale spine crease only "flaw." Interior clean & tight. Content: Seattle has become a supernatural hunting ground. Enforcer Char MCairn is on the prowl for a young renegade vampire. Vampire hunter Jebel Haven is searching for a missing teenager who may have been abducted by the undead. As they join forces, they catch wind of a strange, dark cult flourishing in the city. [1 copy available]
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THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRES
edited by Stephen Jones. Condition: Good+ 1992 Carroll & Graf Trade Paperback, second printing. Light spine crease and small edgewear with diagonal crease bottom back lower cover corner. Interior clean and tight. Content: Award-winning horror editor Stephen Jones presents thirty-six modern masters of the macabre-among them Harlan Ellison, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Paul McAuley, Peter Tremayne, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Ramsey Campbell-in this collection of the very best in vampire fiction which blends sheer horror with dark humor, deadly tenderness with tingling terror. For the classic vampire, as this volume amply shows, the Blood is the Life. So you'll discover throughout these always scary and diversely crafted pages, from Hugh B. Cave's pulp thriller "Stragella" through to Harold Waldrop's bizarre mix of vampire and Nazis in "Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen" and Christopher Fowler's "The Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Primetime TV Special." In between lie artful chillers by the likes of Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Robert Bloch and John Burke, along with new and original stories by Niel Gaiman with "Cards from a Vampire Tarot," and Kim Newman with "Andy Warhol's Dracula: anno Dracula 1978-79." You can sink your teeth, too, in F. Paul Wilson's fast-paced thriller "Midnight Mass," Manly Wade Wellman's "Chastel," offering bloody intrigue and adventure with Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant; and Les Daniel's "Yellow Fog," which features his enigmatic vampire-hero Don Sebastian de Villanueva. Questions welcome. 553 pages. [1 copy available]
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MONA THE VAMPIRE
text & illustrations by Sonia Holleyman. Colorful & zany illustrations. Condition: UNREAD 1991 Delacorte Press hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), first thus, first printing. DJ top edge shows shelfwear. Content: It's such fun being a vampire for Mona and her cat, Fang, that they rush about causing havoc at home and at school. But when evening falls, eve vampires get scared. . . especially if they are crossing a graveyard where real vampires live. Too cute! [1 copy available]
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THE ULTIMATE WEREWOLF (Anthology))
edited by Byron Preiss. Condition: Good only 1991 Dell Trade Paperback, 7th printing. Edgewear with "repaired ding" front cover near fore edge, last 4-5 pages shows pale stain bottom edge. Content: Wonderful werewolf stories by the great Harlan Ellison, Craig Shaw Gardner, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Silverberg, Kevin Anderson, Kim Antieau, A. C. Crispin, Mel Gilden, Nina Hoffman, Stuart Kaminsky, Brad Linaweaver, Robert Randisi, Robert Weinberg, and others. Intro by Ellison. Also includes selected Filmography by Leonard Wolf. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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VAMPIRE: BLOOD RELATIONS (The World of Darkness)
by Doug Murray. J. Chandlee Stowe cover art. Condition: Good only, 1996 HarperPrism/White Wolf Publishing paperback, first edition, first printing. Pale hinge and spine crease with small edgewear. Odd pale yellow "spot" top frist 5 pages. Content: The Blood Club. Welcome to New York's hottest new night spot, where wannabe vampires mix and mingle (unknowingly, of course) with the real thing. Kine and Kindred both come here - the kine to play and the Kindred to prey. [1 copy available]
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THE VAMPIRE IN LEGEND AND FACT (Non-Ficton)
by Basil Copper. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1990 Carol Publishing Trade Paperback, second printing. Light edge wear. Content: In the pages of this fascinating book appear Bram Stoker and his famous creation, Count Dracula; Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigating a Sussex vampire; and that celebrated creature, E. F. Benson's Mrs. Amworth. Here too will be found analyses of classic silent films such as Nosferatu, and discussions of key words of the sound film, including Dreyer's Vampyr and the most famous production of all, Tod Browning's Dracula. Medical Vampirism has seen the dark shadow of such latter-day monsters as Fritz Hoarman and John George Haigh, both of whom drank human blood while committing their atrocious crimes. These are only a few of the aspects of the vampire touched on in this study. [1 copy available]
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VAMPIRES (Monster Chronicles)
by Stephen Krensky. Color photos & movie stills plus B&W drawings. Condition: NEW 2007 Lerner soft cover, first printing. Content: With its high-interest subject and conversational tone, this title in the new Monster Chronicles series is a candidate for reluctant as well as strong readers. Veteran writer Krensky introduces vampire habits and history, based on folklore and legends across cultures. Later chapters address historical reports of vampire attacks, famous fictional vampires, real-life suspects, and vampires' enduring popularity. Some readers will find Krensky's glibness a little off-putting, and because he plays up the spine-tingling effects with comments implying vampires are real and on the loose, the book may be a problematic choice for school projects. However, the topic, the strong visuals (including lots of movie stills), and the casual voice will attract plenty of readers. [1 copy available]
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THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (VHS movie)
directed by Roy Ward Baker. Movie stills back cover. Condition: 1993 Orion release of the 1970 film, in EP mode, 89 minutes running time. The tape itself is in excellent condition having been viewed only once, but the top corners of the box show a bit of shelf wear. Content: Reviewer: "This movie is generally considered to be the best of the Hammer Films "Carmilla Trilogy" and the most faithful to J. Sheridan LeFanu's original story. Here, a frankly lesbian Carmilla Karnstein spends most of the film seducing and drinking the blood of several lovely young ladies in eighteenth century Austria. Like most Hammer productions this film relies heavily on stylism, and because the film is largely a straightforward retelling of LeFanu's tale, the storyline never sags. The sexual element is very much in evidence, serving as the underpinning of this film. There are a fair number of bare breasts and nubile bodies upon which Carmilla feeds, and the dialogue (much of it lifted from LeFanu) is classically Victorian and tastefully erotic. Considered one of the best of the genre." This edition of the movie contains two scenes that have been previously deleted from other releases. The first scene is in the prologue with the decapitation of the vampire woman. The second scene is at the climax with several cuts reinstated between Peter Cushing and the demise of Carmilla. With these scenes finally added and a reproduction at standard play, this video is a must for any serious Hammer horror film fan. The film stars Ingrid Pitt, George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Peter Cushing, Dawn Addams, Madeline Smith, and Ferdy Mayne. [1 copy available]
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VAMPIRES: THE OCCULT TRUTH
by Konstantinos. Condition: NEW 2004 Llewellyn Trade Paprback, 13th printing. No, this isn't fiction - but . . . Content: Feeling drained? Perhaps you are the unwitting victim of a psychic vampire. Want to know more? In this his second book, Konstantinos explores the folklore surrounding the blood-drinking vampire and, more importantly, exposes the threat of 20th century vampires which feed on psychic energy. I found this amalgam of stories from the past with Konstantinos' experiences in the present appealing to both the folklorist and the occultist sides of my curiosity. Konstantinos' theories will be considered controversial by many, but I don't feel that they can be summarily dismissed. Includes information about historic vampires, namely Vlad Tepes, Elizabeth Bathory, Gilles de Rais, Fritz Haarmann, and John George Haigh. [1 copy available]
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VAMPIRES: RESTLESS CREATURES OF THE NIGHT
by Jean Marigny. Wonderful B&W and color artwork illustrates. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1994 Discoveries/Harry Abrams soft cover, no printing given. Tiny edgewear and it appears the first several pages have been examined, most likely in the book store. Barely noticeable, but there. Content: Reviewer: "This small, well organized, and beautifully illustrated book is an unexpectedly thorough and complete reference on vampire lore in Western culture. Succinctly written and carefully researched, it presents an entertaining and informative account on the mythical and religious origins of vampires, citing innumerable traditional, historical and literary sources, from the earliest civilizations to the present day. It also includes a discussion on the evolution and permanence of vampires in our culture through literature and films, featuring an exhaustive filmography of the most often dramatized of all fictional characters. For those interested in pursuing a deeper study of the subject, the bibliographical reference titled Further Reading and the List of Illustrations, both located in the back of the book, will prove to be invaluable resources." [1 copy available]
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The Mammoth Book of VAMPIRE STORIES BY WOMEN
edited by Stephen Jones. Introduced by Ingrid Pitt. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 2001 Carroll & Graf hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no edition given. 2 small "splash" marks fore edges - pale but there. Content: Terrifying tales of the undead by: Ane Rice, Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Poppy Brite, Pat Cardigan, Storm Constantine, Ellen Kushner, Tanya Huff, Jane Yolen, Wendy Webb and others. [1 copy available]
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WHEN WILL YOU RAGE?: A Werefolk: The Apocalypse Anthology
edited by Stewart Wieck. B&W illustrations. Condition: Gently pre-read 1994 White Wolf paperback, no printing given. Edge wear with spine crease. Interior clean & tight. Content: Reviewer: "When Will You Rage is a book for both werewolf and RPG fans, requiring no knowledge of the Werewolf: The Apocalypse, as a lexicon at the end of the book is provided. This is a collection of 19 different stories related to the Garou, werewolves who fight to protect nature from the forces of the Wyrm. Includes one full-page illustation per chapter." Stories by Ron Spenser, Jeff Rebner, John Bridges, Dan Smith, et al. [1 copy available]
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WOLF MOON
by Charles de Lint. Dean Morrisey cover art. Condition: UNREAD 1988 Signet paperback, first printing. Content: "Could a lonely werewolf find a home and happiness at the Inn of the Yellow Tinker?" Fleeing from those who would destroy him for his shapeshifting nature, Kern Kindregan finds a home and security with the gentle folk of a wayside inn until a harper with malice in his song and hatred for "werewolves" in his heart shatters Kern's fragile peace. [1 copy available]
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