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The Vampire Megapack: 27 Modern and Classic Vampire Stories

Wildside Press

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The Vampire Megapack collection 27 tales of vampires! Authors represented included Bram Stoker, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Darrell Schweitzer, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and many more. The complete contents are:

"Mrs. Amworth," by E. F. Benson
"Lost Epiphany," by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
"Weeping Willow," by T. A. Bradley
"The Greater Thirst," by Marilyn “Mattie” Brahen
"Clarimonde," by Theophile Gautier
"Waiting for the Hunger,” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
"Kvetchula," by Darrell Schweitzer
"A Vampire," by Luigi Capuana
"Omega," by Jason Andrew
"Accommodation," by Michael R. Collings
"The Art of the Smile," by John Gregory Betancourt
"Renfield’s Syndrome," by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
"The Pimp," by Lawrence Watt-Evans
"Runaway," by Darrell Schweitzer
"Sympathy for Vampires," by John Gregory Betancourt
"The Secret of Kralitz," by Henry Kuttner
"The Fourth Horseman," by Peter Darbyshire
"Cravat of the Damned," by Zach Bartlett
"Help Wanted," by Michael McCarty and Terrie Leigh Relf
"Siren Song," by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
"An Authenticated Vampire Story," by Franz Hartmann
"Dracula’s New Dress," by Ray Cluley
"Dracula’s Guest," by Bram Stoker
"The Bats," by David Anderson
"The Room in the Tower," by E. F. Benson

And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Megapack" to see other volumes in this series, from westerns to science fiction to ghost stories to mysteries...and many more!

Meeting (Magic Next Door)

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When Maya Andersen and her family moved to Spores Ferry, Oregon, they didn't know there'd be magic right next door. Their new neighbors in the Janus House Apartments all have unusual powers, and the basement is a Grand Central Station to other worlds. Maya and her alien companion, Rimi, are learning how to live together and how to keep their secret-which becomes a lot harder as they help the Janus Housers track down the Krithi, the race who snatched Rimi from her home planet in an attempt to rule the universe.

Past the Size of Dreaming

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Her first book introduced Matilda Black and Edmund Reynolds, whose unique abilities and challenges united them-and brought them to a wonderful old "haunted house" that sheltered Edmund and his friends when they were young. Now, that House calls them to reach out to those friends-and reunite them to defeat a powerful, dangerous magic.

"Her ingenious plotting explores memory, the nature of recollection and personal growth." (Kirkus Reviews)

"A lasting addition to the urban fantasy canon." (Booklist)

"Chronicles the destinies of young men and women as they try to come to terms with the magic that flows through the world around them...sensuous prose and gentle humor add a graceful charm to this fantasy adventure." (Library Journal)
Algis Budrys said it best: "Most writers show and tell. Nina Hoffman sings." Past the Size of Dreaming is the wonderfully inventive continuation of A Red Heart of Memories. Readers rejoin the wandering witches Matt (Matilda) Black and Edmund Reynolds as they revisit and heal the painful past. For those who've not yet read the first book, Hoffman reintroduces them with "Matt Black smiled. She had found Edmund three months earlier in a pioneer graveyard, and she had stayed with him ever since." Matt "spent most of her time talking with things instead of people" because "anything shaped by humankind might have a story to tell her." Edmund and Matt have found two of Edmund's childhood friends, Nathan the ghost and Suki (Susan), the girl Edmund rescued from an abusive father. They seek the others, Julio, Deirdre, and the twins, Terry and Tasha. To defeat the demon-controlling master wizard who once abducted Julio and is still controlling Galen, his apprentice, they must pool their magical resources. --Nona Vero
Fall of Light

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Opal LaZelle is a special effects make-up artist, transforming actors into fantastical and grotesque creatures. Unknown to the casts and crews of the films she works on, Opal is gifted in the art of magic—and she applies more than make-up when altering an actor’s features.

Her latest job requires turning Corvus Weather into a dark god of the forest. But when Corvus’s performance becomes too convincing—on set and off—Opal realizes he’s not acting. Something has taken possession of Corvus. Something sinister tied to the town’s past, with the ability to absorb the very essence of life. Something Opal doesn’t have enough power to confront, much less drive from the man she has fallen in love with.
A Red Heart of Memories

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From Bram Stoker Award winner and Nebula and World Fantasy Awards finalist Nina Kiriki Hoffman comes a novel of two young people who live outside ordinary reality-and who are about to discover life's extraordinary possibilities...

"A constant pleasure to read. Hoffman's best and most complete novel to date."-Locus

"Hoffman reworks a familiar outline with fresh remarkable ideas and considerable flair."-Kirkus Reviews

"An engaging tale, told with great skill, full of fascinating characters."-The Davis Enterprise
She doesn't write multivolume fantasy epics--what Nina Kiriki Hoffman does write are haunting, character-driven short stories and novels. Matt (Matilda) Black, one of the two main characters in A Red Heart of Memories, appeared in two previous Hoffman novellas: Unmasking and Home for Christmas. Matt is a wanderer with the power to speak to inanimate objects and watch other people's thoughts and dreams. She meets a wandering witch, Edmund Reynolds. "Mostly I just wander from one place to the next," said Edmund, "waiting to be needed for something, then trying to figure out what it is." Spirit tells Edmund he can help Matt, even if she doesn't want him hanging around, and Matt finds that she can help Edmund in return.

Hoffman's fantasy is very much in the spirit of Jonathan Carroll's The Marriage of Sticks and Peter S. Beagle's Tamsin. She's written for children and her books are suitable for young adult readers, but don't be fooled. They're sophisticated, well-crafted stories written in a distinctive, uncynical voice and filled with magical reality.

In 1994, Hoffman won the Bram Stoker First Novel Award for The Thread That Binds the Bones, and both The Silent Strength of Stones (1995) and A Red Heart of Memories were nominated for the World Fantasy Award. As of 2001, Hoffman had been nominated for Nebula Awards four times. --Nona Vero

Spirits That Walk in Shadow

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Kim and Jaimie are freshman roommates, but their college experience is anything but typical. This is Jaimie’s first time in the "real world," away from her large, complicated family and their magics and traditions. It’s Kim’s chance to escape her high school reputation. But Jaimie quickly realizes what Kim can’t see—it’s more than just a "reputation." Kim is being pursued by something that feeds on her emotions. And, just like that, reality reshapes itself, as the two girls—along with Jaimie’s three cousins—try to capture and rout the viri, or soul demon, who is tracking Kim. This utterly original novel combines humor, darkness, and hope, and will spellbind readers.

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FantasyMundo, Spain - May 12, 2009
Ursula K. Le Guin gana su sexto premio Nebula con PoderesEl premio a la mejor novela corta fue a parar a Catherine Asaro, por 'Spacetime Pool', y el mejor relato largo para John Kessel, por 'Pride and Prometheus'. El mejor relato correspondió a 'Trophy Wives', de Nina Kiriki Hoffman.