Vampires: The Recent Undead )

The undead are more alive today than ever. Immortal? Indeed! Nothing has sunk its teeth into 21st century popular culture as pervasively as the vampire. The fangsters have the freedom to fly across all genres and all mediums - there's even apps for vamps. Whether roaming into romance, haunting horror, sneaking into science fiction, capering into humor, meandering through mystery - no icon is more versatile than the vampire. Slake your insatiable thirst with the best sanguinary stories of the new millennium: terrifying or tender, deadly or delicious, bad-ass or beneficent, classic or cutting-edge.

Contents
La Vampiresse • (1999) • by Tanith Lee
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown • (2009) • by Holly Black
This Is Now • (2004) • by Michael Marshall Smith
Sisters • [Ottawa and the Valley] • (2002) • by Charles de Lint
The Screaming • (2004) • by J. A. Konrath
Zen and the Art of Vampirism • [Women of the Otherworld Short Fiction] • (2009) • by Kelley Armstrong
Dead Man Stalking • (2008) • by Rachel Caine
The Ghost of Leadville • (2009) • by Jeanne C. Stein
Waste Land • (2002) • by Stephen Dedman
A Gentleman of the Old School • [Count of Saint-Germain] • (2005) • by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
No Matter Where You Go • (2010) • by Tanya Huff
Outfangthief • by Conrad Williams
Dancing with the Star • (2008) • by Susan Sizemore
A Trick of the Dark • (2004) • by Tina Rath
When Gretchen Was Human • (2001) • by Mary A. Turzillo [as by Mary Turzillo ]
Conquistador de la Noche • [Kitty] • (2009) • by Carrie Vaughn
Endless Night • (2008) • by Barbara Roden
Dahlia Underground • (2010) • by Charlaine Harris
The Belated Burial • (2009) • by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Twilight States • (2005) • by Albert E. Cowdrey
To the Moment • by Nisi Shawl
Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977 • [Anno Dracula] • (2000) • by Kim Newman
Vampires in the Lemon Grove • (2007) • by Karen Russell
Vampires Anonymous • by Nancy Kilpatrick
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky • (2009) • by John Langan

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