Vampire Reviews: Part II
Top 10 Vampire Reviews: Part II
: Twilight, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2, New Moon: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1, New Moon: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2, The Vampire Files, Volume 2, Vampires, Wine, and Roses, Vampire Stories, The Summoner, Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
| Author | Stephenie Meyer |
| ISBN | 0316015849 |
Actual rating: 1.5 stars. Believe it or not, there are actually a few books that are worse than Twilight.
Ok, funny story. I was sitting on my couch with my husband last night finishing up Twilight. I slammed the book shut and began rubbing my temples. Then, my husband goes, "So you finally...
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
| Author | Seth Grahame-Smith |
| ISBN | 0446563080 |
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only...
Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2
| Author | Young Kim |
| ISBN | 0316133191 |
Having uncovered the dark secret of her enigmatic classmate, Edward Cullen, Bella Swan embraces her feelings for him, trusting Edward to keep her safe despite the risks. When a rival clan of vampires makes its way into Forks, though, the danger to Bella has never been more real. Will she make the ultimate...
| Author | Young Kim |
| ISBN | 0316217182 |
Here is what I have to say about this. Regardless of whatever my feelings are on the matter or what I say, clearly the cow is going to be milked no matter what else is going on.
If this still has the super lame font bs going on and horrendous balloon placement again I promise I will only give this a cursory...
| Author | Young Kim |
| ISBN | 0316231886 |
[Tuesday, July 2, 2013] OMG, the cover is gorgeous! I knew Edward would be on the other side behind Jacob... Because Bella wasn't looking at Jacob, she was looking through him...
[Monday, November 25, 2013] It's going to be released in July 29, 2014! Too far away!!
[Wednesday,...
The Vampire Files, Volume 2
| Author | P.N. Elrod |
| ISBN | 0441014275 |
Even the dead have to work for a living. In the wake of my resurrection as a member of the bloodsucking undead, I chose to put my investigative reporting talents to good use as a PI in Chicago; I've got my work cut out for me.
Mingling with society's artsy crowd isn't my favorite pastime, but someone's...
Vampires, Wine, and Roses
| Author | John Richard Stephens |
| ISBN | 0425157415 |
This is one of my "placeholder" reviews - which means that I have this book on my "to be read" anthology shelf (probably inherited from my sister's holdings, as I'm not a big vampire fan but can't pass up an anthology) but haven't read it yet, but I did just read a story that appears in it (probably online)...
At once glamorous and loathsome, vampires are among the most memorable figures in the literature and film of the horror genre. These undead beings, possessed of supernatural powers of metamorphosis and hypnotism, stalk the night for the blood of the living. They have fascinated and terrified generations...
| Author | Gail Z. Martin |
| ISBN | 1844164683 |
The comfortable world of Martris Drayke, second son of King Bricen of Margolan, is shattered when his older half-brother, Jared, and Jared’s dark mage, Foor Arontala, kill the king and seize the throne. Tris is the only surviving member of the royal family aside from Jared the traitor. Tris flees...
Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
| Author | David J. Skal |
| ISBN | 0571211585 |
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by...
Edward Gorey's Dracula: A Toy Theatre
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0525115889 |
Based on Edward Gorey's set and costume designs for his award-winning Broadway production of Dracula, these die-cut, scored, and perforated foldups and foldouts include: 3 pop-up 16 x 12" stage sets Cast of 8 (15 figures in all) Stage Furniture 4-page booklet with exceptionally simple assembly instructions,...
| Author | Faith Hunter |
| ISBN | 0451462807 |
First in a brand new series from the author of the Rogue Mage novels
Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind—a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she’s been hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires...
| Author | J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
| ISBN | 0809510839 |
Bloody relevant to read!
BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS...
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.
This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula....
| Author | MaryJanice Davidson |
It'a been a helluva week for Betsy Taylor. First, she loses her job. Then, to top things off, she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites (besides waking up in the morgue dressed in a pink suit and cheap shoes courtesy of her stepmother) is that she can't seem to stay dead. Every night she rises with...
| Author | Carrie Vaughn |
| ISBN | 0765368692 |
Low Midnight spins out of the series on the wave of popularity surrounding Kitty's most popular supporting character, Cormac Bennett, a two-minded assassin of the paranormal who specializes in killing lycanthropes.
In his first solo adventure, Cormac, struggling with a foreign consciousness...
| Author | Carrie Vaughn |
| ISBN | 0575098686 |
Kitty Norville is back and in more trouble than ever. Her recent run-in with werewolves traumatised by the horrors of war has made her start wondering how long the US government might have been covertly using werewolves in combat. Have any famous names in our own history actually been supernatural?...
| Author | Gaston Leroux |
| ISBN | 0060809248 |
First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time...
| Author | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| ISBN | 1250099080 |
Welcome to Mexico City… An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires…
Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life.
Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, must feast on the young to survive and Domingo looks...
| Author | Angela Sommer-Bodenburg |
| ISBN | 3499212803 |
So, I dug up my 1987 beat up copy and I'm rereading it. I had forgotten how cute this was. I want to have a vampire show up at my window and befriend me! It seems that 25 years have passed and I still have the same dream I did at 8. Sadly, it hasn't come true yet.
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