Vampire Horror Short Stories

By Blood We Live

Editors: Adams, John Joseph
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 491pp.
Pub. Date: August 15, 2009
Publisher: Night Shade Books

Vampires.

They are the most elegant of monsters — ancient, seductive, doomed, deadly. They lurk in the shadows, at your window, in your dreams. They are beautiful as anything you’ve ever seen, but their flesh is cold as the grave, and their lips taste of blood.

From Dracula to Twilight, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to True Blood, many have fallen under their spell. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams brings you 33 of the most haunting vampire stories of the past three decades, from some of today’s most renowned authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

Charming gentlemen with the manners of a prior age. Savage killing machines who surge screaming from hidden vaults. Cute little girls frozen forever in slender bodies. Long-buried loved ones who scratch at the door, begging to be let in. Nowhere is safe, not mist-shrouded Transylvania or the Italian Riviera or even a sleepy town in Maine. This is a hidden world, an eternal world, where nothing is forbidden . . . as long as you’re willing to pay the price.

By Blood We Live is 245,000 words of the best in vampire fiction.

Thirsty?

By Blood We Live will satisfy your darkest cravings . . .

You can read free stories and excerpts from By Blood We Live and check out the author interviews.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by John Joseph Adams
• Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
• The Master of Rampling Gate by Anne Rice
• Under St. Peter’s by Harry Turtledove
• Child of an Ancient City by Tad Williams
• Lifeblood by Michael A. Burstein
• Endless Night by Barbara Roden
• Infestation by Garth Nix
• Life is the Teacher by Carrie Vaughn
• The Vechi Barbat by Nancy Kilpatrick
• The Beautiful, The Damned by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Pinecones by David Wellington
• Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu by Norman Partridge
• Foxtrot at High Noon by Sergei Lukyanenko
• This is Now by Michael Marshall Smith
• Blood Gothic by Nancy Holder
• Mama Gone by Jane Yolen
• Abraham’s Boys by Joe Hill
• Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee
• Hunger by Gabriela Lee
• Ode to Edvard Munch by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Finders Keepers by L. A. Banks
• After the Stone Age by Brian Stableford
• Much at Stake by Kevin J. Anderson
• House of the Rising Sun by Elizabeth Bear
• A Standup Dame by Lilith Saintcrow
• Twilight by Kelley Armstrong
• In Darkness, Angels by Eric Van Lustbader
• Sunrise on Running Water by Barbara Hambly
• Hit by Bruce McAllister
• Undead Again by Ken MacLeod
• Peking Man by Robert J. Sawyer
• Necros by Brian Lumley
• Exsanguinations by Catherynne M. Valente
• Lucy in Her Splendor by Charles Coleman Finlay
• The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan
• One for the Road by Stephen King
• For Further Reading by Ross Lockhart