Suzy McKee Charnas

A vampire in contemporary America, Dr. Edward Weyland discovers it is a world he can manipulate with ease, despite a stoic South African widow who discovers his true identity and an occultist who seeks to acquire his power

The Vampire Tapestry

Walk to End of World

Boobs

Sara Charnas

Caminando Hacia El Fin del Mundo

Motherlines

Two novels explore the world of Holdfast, where women are enslaved to men, and the land of the Riding Women, where men are only a distant threat

Books 1 and 2 of 'The Holdfast Chronicles': 'Walk to the End of the World' and 'Motherlines'

The Slave and The Free

Beauty and the Opera, or The Phantom Beast

Elizabeth Massie

K. W. Jeter

Robert Silverberg

Jonathan Carroll

Kathe Koja

Pat Cadigan

Thomas Ligotti

Rick Wilber

Robert Holdstock

Barry N. Malzberg

Garry Kilworth

Jack Womack

Karl Edward Wagner

David J. Schow

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Thomas Tessier

Melissa Mia Hall

Melissa Snodgrass

This “toothy follow-up to Datlow’s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough” offers “admirably inventive variations on vampirism” (Kirkus Reviews). Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a “consistently engrossing anthology” from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expand the boundaries of the concept of vampirism—as she did in her first collection, Blood Is Not Enough—Datlow has assembled eighteen fascinating stories that range from tales of literal vampires to what she calls “metaphorical bloodsuckers,” who can drain another’s life force without ever sinking their teeth into necks. In “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” by Suzy McKee Charnas, an elderly Jewish woman who’s taken her own life has second thoughts and makes a deal to become a vampire to stay immortal, the only condition being she has to drink blood by request only. An amnesiac operative tries to sort out if a secret government agency is trying to help him regain his memory or is wiping it clean in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s Kafkaesque “Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?” And in Jonathan Carroll’s “The Moose Church,” a tourist in Sardinia is literally scarred by asking questions of death in his dreams . . . A Whisper of Blood includes contributions by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Silverberg, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilber, Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Melissa Mia Hall, David J. Schow, Jack Womack, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Thomas Tessier, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, K. W. Jeter, Pat Cadigan, and Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth.

Stories of Vampirism

A Whisper of Blood

Walk to the End of the World

Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological -- rather than supernatural. He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from labs rather than committing murder. Weyland is a monster who must form an uneasy empathy with his prey in order to survive, and "The Vampire Tapestry" is a story wholly unlike any you've heard before.

Dorothea, a reclusive artist is visited by a dying friend, communicates with ghostly apparitions, and is held hostage by a group of desperate terrorists

Dorothea Dreams

A retrospective collection of frightening, sensuous tales by the author of The Vampire Tapestry and The Ruby Tear presents such classic works as "The Unicorn Tapestry," about a therapist transformed by an encounter with a client who just might be a vampire, as well as "Peregrines," "Boobs," and "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast."

Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms

Armed slaves, led by Alldera the Runner, face their old masters, the men of the Holdfast

The Furies

In the sequel to Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines, the female slaves known as the Free Fems, armed and led by Alldera the Runner, return to face their old masters, the men of the Holdfast. Reprint.

Book Three of 'The Holdfast Chronicles'

Alldera's rape-conceived daughter Sorrell grows up among the Riding Women until her bond with a fellow misfit leads her to a reunion with her mother, who is building a new society in the former men-cities, and her mother's rapists.

The Conqueror's Child

After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty. It starts with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thrall to men whose own power is waning. In continues with Motherlines, where Alldera the Runner is a fugitive among the Riding Women, who live a tribal life of horse-thieving and storytelling, killing the few men who approach their boundaries. The books that finish Alldera's story, The Furies and The Conqueror's Child, are now available. Once you start here, you won't want to stop until you've read the last word of the last book. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Themes of transgression, eroticism, and violence thread through this retrospective collection of short stories and essays. A psychotherapist falls under the spell of her vampire patient in "Unicorn Tapestry" and in "Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast," an evil maestro finds redemption in his lovely pupil, and additional essays "Art Is Long" and "The Stagestruck Vampire" offer autobiographical reflections on the art of writing. Combining lush prose with a biting wit, this terrifying collection will appeal to fans of fantasy, romance, horror, and character-driven suspense.

And Other Phantasms

Stagestruck Vampires

Amy is drawn into a dangerous and disturbing fantasy world in Central Park, created as an escape from an abusive father by Kevin Malone, a bully from Amy's neighborhood.

The Kingdom of Kevin Malone

When Valentine starts noticing odd things vanishing from New York City, she unknowingly summons a wizard from Sorcery Hall who enlists her help in his fight against a dreaded monster of darkness.

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