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• Blood Lines: Vampire Stories from New England (American Vampire Series)

  
  New Englanders have a sense of lineage unmatched in any other region of America. To this day those whose ancestors were the first Europeans to settle here tend to regard families whose first ancestors arrived as early as 200 years ago as newcomers. This New England fondness for lineage is akin to the longevity of the vampire, whose life (or unlife) is extended by draining the lives and blood of others. The stories in Blood Lines explore the ancient mysteries of vampirism, along with the rich literary tradition begun with Lord Byron and with Bram Stoker's Dracula, first published in 1897 long after the aristocratic blood lines were established. The stories include: "One for the Road," Stephen King; "Investigating Jericho," Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; "The Brotherhood of Blood," Hugh B. Cave; "Chastel," Manly Wade Wellman; "The Doom of the House of Duryea," Earl Peirce, Jr.; "Moonlight in Vermont," Esther Friesner; "Secret Societies," Lawrence Schimel; "When the Red Storm Comes," Sarah Smith; "The Beautiful, the Damned," Kristine Kathryn Rusch; "The Shunned House," H. P. Lovecraft
  
   

• Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South (American Vampire Series)

  
  Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the past. Ghosts of history, of the dead, of wars and lineages, of slights to honor - all linger vividly. One reason for this is the importance of religion in the South. The belief in, and fear of, God gives rise in the South to a host of superstitions, both petty and grand; one of the strongest is the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living. All the stories in Southern Blood are set in the South, from Florida to Texas, North Carolina to Arkansas. They include: "The Cursed Damuzel, Manly Wade Wellman; "Blood Kin," Delia Sherman; "She Only Goes Out at Night," William Tenn; "The Silver Coffin," Robert Barbour John; "The Flame," Fred Chappel; "Blessed by His Dying Tongue," Tracy A. Knight; "Claim-Jumpin' Woman Got a Stake in My Heart," Esther Friesner; "Like a Pilgrim to the Shrine," Brian Hodge; "God-Less Man," James Kisner; "Carpetbagger," Susan Schwartz; "The Smell of Magnolias," Lawrence Schimel; "Carrion Comfort," Don Simmons
  
   

• Fields of Blood (The American Vampire series) (American Vampire Series)

  
  How is it that the bountiful plains of the American heartland could become the playing fields of vampires whose life (or un-life) is extended by draining the lives and blood of others? Is there something in the solid citizens who people the nation's heartlands that escapes our notice? After reading these tales of horror that embody the fear lying just below the surface of our consciousness, one can only wonder. All of the stories in Fields of Blood are set in the vast American Midwest, those states from Ohio to Kansas, from Missouri to North Dakota. They include: *"Undercover," Nancy Holder *"The Time of the Bleeding Pumpkins," A. R. Morlan *"Masquerade," Henry Kuttner *"There Will Always Be Meat," Jennifer Stevenson *"Plague," John Lutz *"Too Short a Death," Peter Crowther *"Purr of a Cat," Hugh B. Cave *"Death on the Mississippi," Wendi Lee and Terry Beatty *"A 12-Step Program (for the Corporeally Challenged)," Tina L. Jens *"A Night at the (Horse) Opera," P. N. Elrod *"Harvest Moon," Mark A. Garland *"The Tenacity of the Dead," John Helfers
  
   

• Tarot Fantastic

  Martin Harry Greenberg, Lawrence Schimel

  
  A collection of tales encompasses the signs of the tarot deck and includes the story of a woman who gets more than she had bargained for when she turns to a street tarot reader for help in finding her missing brother. Original.
  
   

• Vampire Stories From the American South