Name: Many Bloody Returns
ISBN: 9780441015221

Charlaine Harris

Toni L. P. Kelner

A collection of vampire tales includes Charlaine Harris's heroine Sookie Stackhouse in "Dracula's Night," Jim Butcher's wizard hero Harry Dresden in "It's My Birthday Too," and other stories by Tanya Huff, P.N. Elrod, Christopher Golden, and Bill Crider.

Many Bloody Returns

Melinda Hamrick

Sarah Sammis

Table of Contents:

"Dracula Night" by Charlaine Harris ****
"The Mournful Cry of Owls" by Christopher Golden *
"I Was a Teenage Vampire" by Bill Crider ***
"Twilight" by Kelly Armstrong ****
"It's My Birthday, Too" by Jim Butcher **
"Grave-Robbed" by P. N. Elrod *****
"The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" by Rachel Caine **
"The Witch and the Wicked" by Jeanne C. Stein
"Blood Wrapped" by Tanya Huff
"The Wish" by Carolyn Haines
"Fire and Ice and Linguini for Two" by Tate Hallaway
"Vampire Hours" by Elaine Viets
"How Stella Got Her Grave Back" by Toni L. P. Kelner

Thirteen new and original vampire tales of Birthdays with Bite! Charlaine Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse novels) and Toni L.P. Kelner (the Laura Fleming mysteries) have gathered together another 11 writers with serious vamp credentials to provide a baker's dozen tales. Meet Sookie Stackhouse, who, as the only non-vampire at a 'Dracula's birthday ball' soon finds that's she's the one on the menu, and Harry Dresden, who drops by a role-playing game to find himself dealing with deadly party crashers. In P.N. Elrod's 'Grave-Robbed', which mixes pathos and comedy, vampire PI Jack Fleming busts a phony medium mid-séance. Tanya Huff's 'Blood Wrapped' has Henry Fitzroy searching for the ideal gift for a vampire's 40th mixing with his pursuit of a human kidnapper. And Christopher Golden takes birthdays to heart in his poignant coming-of-age story 'The Mournful Cry of Owls'.

Yulande Lindsay

With a few exceptions (Charlaine Harris, I'm looking at you!) I really enjoyed the stories in this anthology. I discovered a few new authors that I'm going to explore and rediscovered some (Love me some Jim Butcher and Harry Dresden!). Recommended.

Jo H

Rating for The Witch and the Wicked by Jeanne C. Stein only. Book 1.5 in the The Becoming series. 

The story was a quick fun read but had no relevance whatsoever to the main series. I suppose further shorties in the series will rectify that.

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