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The Ultimate Dracula — Anthology

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, The Ultimate Dracula, an anthology.

All © 1991.

The Master of Rampling Gate — Anne O’brien Rice
All Dracula’s Children — Dan Simmons
A Matter of Style — Ron Dee
Selection Process — Ed Gorman
The Vampire in His Closet — Heather Graham
The Tenth Scholar — Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
Nobody’s Perfect — Philip Jose Farmer
Dracula 1944 — Edward D. Hoch
The Contagion — Janet Asimov
Sugar and Spice and . . . — Karen Robards
Vampire Dreams — Dick Lochte
Much at Stake — Kevin J. Anderson
The Name of Fear — Lawrence Watt-Evans
The Dark Rising — W.R. Philbrick
Los Niños de la Noche — Tim Sullivan
A Little Night Music — Mike Resnick
Mr. Lucrada — John Lutz
In the Cusp of the Hour — John Gregory Betancourt
Children of the Night — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Selected Filmography — Leonard Wolf

#vampires #annerice #dansimmons #kevinjanderson

A Shrewdness of Swindlers — DeAnna Knippling

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.A Shrewdness of Swindlers, written by DeAnna Knippling.

DeAnna sent me an ARC to have a read and comment on, with the caveat that she still had some polishing to do.   So yes, there were a few things that still needed some work with the copy i received, but all in all, it was a very enjoyable read.   And then, having sent my notes to Deanna, she then sent me an updated version back with my little moans all sorted out.

What i liked most-est about this book is that instead of the the usual bunch of short stories thrown randomly into a collection, DeAnna has taken time to tie all these stories together with a frame story.   Each short is given its own character to tell it in a magical, story contest in a downstairs backroom of a speakeasy: which just happens to be organised by one of the Fae who we’re told really like to collect human stories.

But one of the story tellers is murdered just before the contest with the suspect most probably being one of the tellers at the table, which makes things more interesting.

Best of all, it’s a good collection of characters and a good collection of stories for you to enjoy, with a prize at the end for the best story.

DeAnna’s Page

#vampires #scifi #fantasy #deannaknippling

I Am Legend — Richard Matheson

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, I Am Legend, written by Richard Matheson.

So i got 23% into this book and i simply cannot take another page of this.

Stupid, alcoholic, smoking, crap eating, sad, miserable idiot getting chased by lots of vampires.   Woohoo!   Yes folks, another dull and boring vampire story, only difference from the norm is that this one is post-apocalyptic as the vampires have wiped out all humans apart from this one pathetic, sad alcoholic.

Seriously, if you had the daylight hours of every day to do whatever you want, go wherever you want, you have the whole world and its contents at your disposal before the vampires came out at night to hunt and all you could think to do was live like this sad twat because you’re a pathetic, miserable alcoholic, then you may as well just throw yourself into the vampire’s grasp and get it over with.   Stop torturing yourself, and most of all, stop torturing us poor readers who have large “To Read” piles to get through.

I have no idea about the rest of the book, but the first quarter of it has no sci-fi whatsoever in it.   How this has managed to get itself into “SF Masterworks” is quite beyond me.   I suppose there always has to be the bottom of pile, hopefully this is it because i’m going to despair if there are any worse books than this in the series.

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Richard’s Page

#sfmasterworks #vampires #postapocalypse #richardmatheson #whataloadofcrap