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The book's protagonist discovers (at age 33) he is the son of the being upon whom so many tales are based, but this creature is even more powerful and frightening than the myths have made him to be. Ignore the stereotypical shtick cover, Shirley's updated Dracula possesses (or is possessed by) a sexual organ with eyes and inhabited by its own predatory spirit as well as an appreciation of the contemporary submachine gun.

THE PROPHECY HAS BEGUN.Interstate 5 of Seattle, Washington is held up by some unusual traffic. The cause of the traffic surges into the city, setting the course for a hidden agenda that only Professor Abelard Ekkehardt, Dr. Allan Desportan, and his team of scientists and outcasts must uncover. For the prophecy has begun and they have come.Includes a bonus story, One Mission: A Spy Short Story.

Fallout is the fourth in the Vampire War series. A few months following the conclusion of the previous installment, Dark Nation, the DSA task force has reclaimed the White House and a portion of Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, the new Vampire Master has taken over the city of New Orleans and its outlying areas. They've set up operations in an old school with a plan to destroy Washington and the surviving members of the task force with a nuclear weapon. With more research, the tsak force discovers a possible method for finally ending the war and eliminating the vampire threat forever.

They won't let you die... so they can torture you forever.Five visceral stories from the creator of The BulletProof Ghost. A conflict between innocence and hunger inside a skulking beast.A renown scientist relives fond memories of a lost love while fleeing a ravenous ghoul.The Dreadful saga begins; a woman returns to her Alaskan hometown only to be hurled into a fight for survival between a professional werewolf hunter and an entire pack of demonic canids. The Dreadful series continues into a blood soaked, frozen vampiric horror.A dimension between worlds harbors beings that infect your mind then feed on your fears. They tear you apart, put you back together and will never let you go. In this reality, Jen desperately searches for her lost brother, but can she over come her fears made flesh? Can she keep her sanity in the face of the Nightmare People?

A love worth dying for...twice?Anne Williams is a seer—the rarest, most dangerous kind of magician—gifted with the ability to divine the past, present and future. Anne spent her life hiding her true nature to protect her from those who would abuse her prophetic powers, but with an impending apocalypse on the horizon Anne can't afford to stay in the shadows. Anne steps up the plate to help magiciankind, but someone tries to take her out of the game—permanently. Wounded and with nowhere else to go, Anne finds shelter with chronicler Simon St. Jerome, but with one touch he plunges Anne into a tangled web of secrets and lies. Simon spent centuries concealing his past while recording the history of magician society, but nothing can hide the truth from a seer. As his soul mate, Anne is determined to discover every secret he's buried—including the tale of how she died once before in a failed attempt to spend eternity with her immortal lover.As danger closes in around them, Anne and Simon must overcome the scars of their pasts, or risk never seeing their futures.

The Cities of Dead: the highly anticipated third book in Alys Arden’s spellbinding The Casquette Girls series. Old World witches collide with the French Quarter’s strangest denizens, setting off events that could tear the fabric of the Natural and Supernatural worlds, and only the most elusive, mischievous Voodoo lwa hold the key to stopping it.As Adele struggles with her losses, Nicco’s secrets draw her closer, but Isaac questions Nicco’s motives and refuses to let go without a fight. While the coven works to make the streets safe from the Ghost Drinkers, Nicco’s family of vampires is ready to break the Saint-Germain curse at all costs and settle a centuries-old feud. To save her loved ones and her cherished city, Adele must unearth New Orleans’s best-kept Voodoo secret and piece together fragments of history from sixteenth-century Spain—even if it means discovering secrets she never wanted to know. If she fails, she may lose her magic forever.

RV parks are his hunting grounds.Horrific murders are happening in RV parks throughout the Pacific Northwest. The victims all have two large punctures on their necks, and their bodies are completely drained of blood. Someone is going to a lot of trouble to make it look as though a vampire is behind the killings, one with fangs like marlinspikes.Former homicide detective Dan Crocetti has a personal interest in the murders--he's been traveling in his motor coach and staying in RV parks since he retired. His unofficial investigation leads him to the Roma, more commonly known as gypsies, who are terrified by the murders. "It is the work of a nosferatu," an old Roma woman warns him. "A vampire."Crocetti doesn't believe in vampires. At first.

When chaos erupts in the small coastal town of Hawthorne, Massachusetts, former vampire-turned-mage Peter Octavian and earthwitch Keomany Shaw arrive to investigate. Years ago, Octavian helped expose the secret existence of vampires to the world, dismantling the Vatican's sorcery corps in order to save his fellow shadows from destruction. But without the Vatican sorcerers, the magical barriers they spent centuries constructing to keep the forces of darkness out of our world are beginning to fail, and things are slipping through. Now an ancient god of chaos is awakening in Hawthorne, its influence spreading...and it's Octavian's fault. If he can't stop it, the blood of all humankind will be on his hands.

Dacey Sinnett is a young cabaret musician living in 19th century France. During the day, he entertains as a sidewalk magician in Montmartre, using his natural telepathic ability to enhance his illusions. Raised in poverty, he dreams of a vibrant life full of riches and fame. Although he's used his powers, talents, and good looks to his advantage, he has barely managed to carve a small niche for himself.His best friend, cabaret dancer, Kalet Belrose also dreams of finer things. However, as they begin to grow closer, she suggests that it's far more practical to accept their lower status in society and find happiness in simplicity. Dacey fears she may be right until he meets Marcus von Rottal, a handsome aristocrat, that promises him a chance at having all of his wildest dreams come true.Dacey is quickly swept up into a world of thievery, murder, debauchery, and vampirism. He eventually learns that you really should be careful what you wish for and seeks to find a greater purpose. But has he ventured past the point of redemption?

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award<BR><BR>One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists<BR><BR>From the acclaimed author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and Peaces There's something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of Silver women--Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived in the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since their father converted it to a bed-and-breakfast. The Silver women have always had a strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches across time and space, and when Lily, Miranda's mother, passes away suddenly while on a trip abroad, Miranda begins suffering strange ailments. An eating disorder starves her. She begins hearing voices. When she brings a friend home, Dover's hostility toward outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver house, and the lives of everyone inside are irrevocably changed. At once an unforgettable mystery and a meditation on race, nationality, and family legacies, White is for Witching is a boldly original, terrifying, and elegant novel by a prodigious talent.

The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series <BR> <BR>“A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune<BR><BR>Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.