Anno Dracula

Author: Newman, Kim
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 359pp.
Pub. Date: September 1993
Publisher: Carroll and Graf
Original Pub: October 1992 (Hardcover — Simon and Schuster UK)

Anno Dracula

Author: Newman, Kim
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 560pp.
Pub. Date: May 24, 2011
Publisher: Titan Books

Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a Novel

It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula.

Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Genevieve Dieudonne and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders.

Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London.

This brand-new edition of the bestselling novel contains unique bonus material, including a new afterword from Kim Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings to the original novel.

A brilliant, ambitious new novel speculates on Dracula’s survival. Set in Victorian England, this chilling tale wonders, “What if Count Dracula didn’t die via the stake, but managed to become an adviser to the Queen? And what if Jack the Ripper was in reality none other than Bram Stoker’s hero, Jack Seward, killing off vampiric whores?”

Grave Markings

Author: Arnzen, Michael
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 383pp.
Pub. Date: October 1994
Publisher: Dell/Abyss Books

Grave Markings (10th Anniversary Edition)

Author: Arnzen, Michael
Cover Art: Mike Bohatch
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 451pp.
Pub. Date: April 2004
Publisher: Delirium Books

Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel

Mark Michael Kilpatrick draws some killer tattoo art.

Literally.

Skulls and nudes are nothing for this madman. An artist driven to purge traumatic visions of hell from his tainted mind, Kilpatrick expresses himself by permanently working his ink into the skins of unwilling victims.

His tattooed visions are so terrifying they drive the bearer to suicide. His tattooed visions that eventually require only flesh as a canvas.

Fresh, murdered, flesh . . .

The Safety of Unknown Cities

Author: Taylor, Lucy
Available in: Unnatural Acts and Other Stories
Cover Art: Judy Simonian
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 190pp.
Pub. Date: April 1994
Publisher: Masquerade Books

Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in Long Fiction

Lucy Taylor has a rare gift of writing horror stories about sex that are extremely provocative, and yet touched as well as with longing, even wistfulness.

In these nine tales about demons and angels, wrestlers and boxers, and other denizens of a netherworld of erotic terror, she achieves just the right balance of a bleak, unflinching worldview, and characters whose need for fulfillment reveals their underlying humanity.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Best in the Business
• Baubo’s Kiss
• Flamethrower
• Idol
• Knockouts
• Making the Woman
• Rush
• The Safety of Unknown Cities
• Unnatural Acts

Black Sun

Author: Winter, Douglas E.
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Short Story
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: January 1994
Publisher: One Eyed Dog

Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in Short Fiction

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Angels and Visitations: A Miscellany

Author: Gaiman, Neil
Cover Art: Dave McKean
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 166pp.
Pub. Date: November 1994
Publisher: Dreamhaven Books and Art

Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a Collection

A collection of Neil Gaiman’s short fiction; an odd assortment of enigmatic and wonderful tales — including Troll Bridge, Chivalry and Cold Colours — to amuse and delight, illustrated by Charles Vess, P. Craig Russell, Jill Carla Schwarz, Michael Zulli, and Rrandy Broecker.

Table of Contents:

• The Song of the Audience
• Introduction
• Chivalry
• Nicholas Was . . .
• Babycakes
• Troll Bridge
• Vampire Sestina
• Webs
• Six to Six
• Prologue: An Introduction to Mary Gentle’s Scholars and Soldiers
• Foreign Parts
• Cold Colours
• Luther’s Villanelle
• Mouse
• Gumshoe: Punch Book Review of Josiah Thompson’s Gumshoe
• The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds
• Virus
• Looking for the GirlLooking for the Girl
• Post-Mortem on Our Love
• Being an Experiment Upon Strictly Scientific Lines
• We Can Get Them For You Wholesale
• The Mystery of Father Brown
• Murder Mysteries

Love in Vein: Tales of Vampire Erotica

Editor: Brite, Poppy Z. with Martin H. Greenberg
Cover Art: Mel Odom
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 405pp.
Pub. Date: November 1994
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Love in Vein: Tales of Vampire Erotica

Editor: Brite, Poppy Z. with Martin H. Greenberg
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 416pp.
Pub. Date: August 28, 1995
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in an Anthology

A sexy new repackaging of the extremely popular anthology of vampire erotica, edited by acclaimed author Poppy Z. Brite.

The classic horror tale is about fear. But in the last few years a new literature of the macabre has arisen, one that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones even lovers are forbidden to share.

Acclaimed dark fantasy author Poppy Z. Brite has brought together this genre’s most powerful and seductive authors in an original collection of vampiric erotica, a shameless celebration of unspeakable intimacies. It is not for everyone.

But neither is the night.

One of the most acclaimed young authors of dark fantasy gathers together an original collection of 20 erotic vampire stories penned by her favorite writers. Not since Anne Rice wrote as Anne Rampling has fantasy been celebrated with such powerful and seductive tales of unspeakable, forbidden, and macabre intimacies.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Poppy Z. Brite
• Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu by Norman Partridge
• Geraldine by Ian McDowell
• In the Greenhouse by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• Cafe Endless: Spring Rain by Nancy Holder
• Empty Vessels by David B. Silva
• The Final Fete of Abba Adi by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Cherry by Christa Faust
• White Chapel by Douglas Clegg
• Delicious Antique Whore by Wilum H. Pugmire
• Triptych di Amore by Thomas F. Monteleone
• Queen of the Night by Gene Wolfe
• The Marriage by Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem
• In This Soul of a Woman by Charles de Lint
• The Alchemy of the Throat by Brian Hodge
• Love Me Forever by Mike Baker
• – And the Horses Hiss at Midnight by A. R. Morlan
• Elixir by Elizabeth Engstrom
• The Gift of Neptune by Danielle Willis
• From Hunger by Wayne Allen Sallee
• A Slow Red Whisper of Sand by Robert Devereaux

Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo

Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
Art: Tim Truman
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Graphic Novel (Collection)
Page Count: 160pp.
Pub. Date: October 1994
Publisher: DC Comics
Original Pub: 1994 (Comic Book — DC Comics)

Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a Graphic Story/Illustrated Narrative

Jonah Hex tracks down Doc “Cross” Williams to avenge the death of his friend and fellow bounty hunter Slow Go Smith only to find that Williams has resurrected Wild Bill Hickok as a zombie under his control and after Bill kills Jonah, Doc will resurrect him as a zombie as well.

Interview with the Vampire

Director: Jordan, Neil
Format: DVD
Type: Horror Film
Run Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: June 6, 2000
Studio: Warner Home Video

Winner of the 1994 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a Film

This creepy adaptation of Anne Rice’s popular novel stars Brad Pitt as Louis, an 18th-century plantation owner who is recruited by the stylish, centuries-old vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise) to join his nocturnal family in an endless search for blood.

Kirsten Dunst, Stephen Rea, Antonio Banderas, and Christian Slater also star; Neil Jordan directs Rice’s script.

A Blood of Killers

Editors: Houarner, Gerard
Cover Art: Dan Verkys
Format: Digital eBook
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 256pp.
Pub. Date: April 16, 2012
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Original Pub: November 2009 (Hardcover — Necro Publications)

Prolific horror author Houarner (The Oz Suite) assembles a disturbing collection of 13 reprints and 12 originals.

Most of the tales highlighting his twisted supernatural assassin, Max (featured in 2001′s The Beast That Was Max), are brief, but “Like Smoke Rising from the Burning Ghats” offers detailed descriptions of a young boy in Calcutta becoming something monstrous, and the novella “Dancing with the Skeletons at the Feast of the Dead” is almost symphonic in its depiction of brutality in a small Mexican village.

The other stories are no less dark: in “Let Me Tell You a Story,” a babysitter manipulates her charges into committing acts of evil, while “The Shape” is a harsh tale of mental illness and abuse. The bleakness might turn off some readers, but fans of intense, psychology-driven horror and sharp writing will be more than satisfied.

Table of Contents:

• Like Smoke Rising From the Burning Ghats (The “birth” of Max)
• A Blood of Killers
• The Hard Kill (original Max, TFUJ)
• Do Nothing Till Your Hear From Me (original Max, TFUJ)
• Let Me Tell You a Story
• Comes Love, Nothing Can Be Done (original Max, TFUJ)
• Assassin of Love (original Max, TFUJ)
• Painted Faces
• Ghost Killer (original Max, TFUJ)
• Dead Man’s Park
• The Soft Package (original Max, TFUJ)
• Hidden Agendas
• The Shape
• The Shadow of his Killer (original Max, TFUJ)
• The Haunted Killing Floor (original Max, TFUJ)
• The Keeper
• She Who Speaks for the Dead
• Through Love’s Sight (original Max, TFUJ)
• You Think You’re a Killer (original Max, TFUJ)
• Nests
• Suspect City
• Ash Man
• The Mule (original Max, TFUJ)
• Say No
• Dancing With the Skeletons at the Feast of the Dead (original Max, TFUJ)
• The Man Who Wouldn’t Die (original Max, TFUJ)
• Afterword

Running with the Pack

Editor: Sedia, Ekaterina
Cover Art: Stephen H. Segal
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 352pp.
Pub. Date: April 19, 2010
Publisher: Prime Books

Remember the werewolves of old stories and films, those bloodthirsty monsters that transformed under the full moon, reminding us of the terrible nature that lives within all of us?

Today’s werewolves are much more suave and even sexy, and they moved from British moors to New York City lofts, shaved, and got jobs.

But as the tales of these writers will show you, they remained no less wild and passionate, and they still tug at the part of our being where a wild animal used to be.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Ekaterina Sedia
• Wild Ride by Carrie Vaughn
• Side Effects May Include by Steve Duffy
• Comparison of Efficacy Rates for Seven Antipathetics as Employed Against Lycanthropes by Marie Brennan
• Beautiful Gelreesh by Jeffrey Ford
• Skin in the Game by Samantha Henderson
• Blended by C. E. Murphy
• Locked Doors by Stephanie Burgis
• Werelove by Laura Anne Gilman
• In Sheep’s Clothing by Molly Tanzer
• Royal Bloodlines by Mike Resnick
• Dire Wolf by Genevieve Valentine
• Take Back the Night by Lawrence Schimel
• Mongrel by Maria Snyder
• Deadfall by Karen Everson
• Red Riding Hood’s Child by N. K. Jemisin
• Are You A Vampire or A Goblin? by Geoffrey Goodwin
• The Pack and the Pickup Artist by Mike Brotherton
• The Garden, the Moon, the Wall by Amanda Downum
• Blamed For Trying To Live by Jesse Bullington
• The Barony At Rodal by Peter Bell
• Inside Out by Erzbet Yellowboy
• Gestella by Susan Palwick

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy

Editor: Datlow, Ellen
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 560pp.
Pub. Date: July 5, 2011
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

In this thrilling collection of original stories, some of today’s hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief.

In Jim Butcher’s “Curses”, Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs’ “Fairy Gifts,” a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr’s “Guns for the Dead,” the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black’s “Noble Rot,” a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own.

Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection is sure to have readers coming back for more.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Ellen Datlow
• Curses by Jim Butcher
• How the Pooka Came to New York City by Delia Sherman
• On the Slide by Richard Bowes
• The Duke of Riverside by Ellen Kushner
• Oblivion by Calvin Klein by Christopher Fowler
• Fairy Gifts by Patricia Briggs
• Picking Up the Pieces by Pat Cadigan
• Underbridge by Peter S. Beagle
• Priced to Sell by Naomi Novik
• The Bricks of Gelecek by Matthew Kressel
• Weston Walks by Kit Reed
• The Projected Girl by Lavie Tidhar
• The Way Station by Nathan Ballingrud
• Guns for the Dead by Melissa Marr
• And Go Like This by John Crowley
• Noble Rot by Holly Black
• Daddy Longlegs of the Evening by Jeffrey Ford
• The Skinny Girl by Lucius Shepard
• The Colliers’ Venus (1893) by Caitlin Kiernan
• King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree by Elizabeth Bear

Stories from the Plague Years

Author: Marano, Michael
Cover and Interior Art: Gabrielle Faust
Format: Limited Hardcover Edition
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 400pp.
Pub. Date: January 14, 2011
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications

Stories from the Plague Years is the first fiction collection from award-winning fantasy author Michael Marano.

Nine tales are arranged in a haunting symphony that guides readers through a tour of the darkest landscapes of human existence. Here, fury and hate grow so strong, they cannot be held within one man’s body, and manifest themselves to devastating effect. Cities contain second, unseen cities populated by the vengeful ghosts of those who died too soon. Countries fall to famine and war.

But these are also the tales of love lasting beyond death, love existing beyond all hope, and friendships never forgotten. Included are the widely praised stories “Winter Requiem,” “The Siege,” and the controversial “Burden,” as well as two original novellas.

Marano, acclaimed for his evocative voice, paints lush portraits both terrifying and tender, injecting even the darkest of fantasies with a punk rock sensibility and a touch of the humane. With Stories from the Plague Years, he presents snapshots of a time when our world collided with evil, sickness, and self-destruction and left behind lasting scars on those who dared to survive.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Michael Marano and the Forbidden by John Shirley

Days of Rage

• Displacement (Original)
• Little Round Head
• Changeling

Prayers for Dead Cities

• Siege
• Burden

Two for Marian

• And the Damage Done
• Exit Wound

Winter Tales

• Winter Requiem
• Shibboleth

(Original)

• Afterword and Story Notes

A Book of Horrors

Editor: Jones, Stephen
Artist: Les Edwards
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 400pp.
Pub. Date: September 29, 2011
Publisher: Quercus/Jo Fletcher

A Book of Horrors

Editor: Jones, Stephen
Artist: Les Edwards
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 448pp.
Pub. Date: September 18, 2012
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Nominated for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology

Open this book at your own peril!

That is because this volume is exactly what it says on the cover — A Book of Horrors contains all-original stories by some of the most successful and exciting names in modern horror fiction.

For the first time in many years, here is an original anthology of horror and dark fantasy in all its many and magnificent guises — from classic pulp-style tales of Dark and Stormy Nights, through more contemporary and psychological terrors, to the type of cutting-edge fiction that only the very best horror fiction can deliver.

Brought together from around the world by World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones, one of Britain’s most acclaimed and experienced anthologists of horror fiction, here are many of the authors who have helped shaped the genre in all of its forms, along with terrifying tales of unease by a new generation of storytellers devoted to the Dark Side.

But be warned: once you begin to delve within these pages, your imagination and senses will be assaulted by terrors both grim and gruesome, literary and lethal, that will stay with you long after you have closed its covers and tried to put aside the images and situations which have wormed their way deep within your mind.

Don’t blame us for the bad dreams or cold sweats that these tales will induce. We did tell you — this is A Book of Horrors, and once you open it there is no way that these scarifying stories will ever be forgotten . . . no matter how much you wish that the nightmares will just go away!

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Whatever Happened To Horror? by Stephen Jones
• The Little Green God of Agony by Stephen King
• Charcloth, Firesteel and Flint by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Ghosts With Teeth by Peter Crowther
• The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter by Angela Slatter
• Roots and All by Brian Hodge
• Tell Me I’ll See You Again by Dennis Etchison
• The Music Of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Getting It Wrong by Ramsey Campbell
• Alice Through The Plastic Sheet by Robert Shearman
• The Man In The Ditch by Lisa Tuttle
• A Child’s Problem by Reggie Oliver
• Sad, Dark Thing by Michael Marshall Smith
• Near Zennor by Elizabeth Hand
• Last Words by Richard Christian Matheson

Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire

Editors: Guran, Paula
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 360pp.
Pub. Date: June 6, 2012
Publisher: Prime Books

Legends and myths of all cultures tell of those possessing captivating allure we are powerless to resist.

Sirens, demon lovers, femme fatales, and others compel our love, drawing us into realms of forbidden desire and uncontrollable passion. These seductions are not always supernatural, nor even sexual.

We can be haunted by unrequited desire, ensnared by our own minds, or swept away by another’s madness.

Obsession overwhelms, takes us to irrational extremes, involves us in dangerous liaisons and fatal attractions . . . obsession consumes. Enticing, compulsively readable tales from nineteen masterful storytellers.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Paula Guran
• Medusa’s Child by Kim Antieau
• Hot Eyes, Cold Eyes by Lawrence Block
• Hymenoptera by Michael Blumlein
• She’s Not There by Pat Cadigan
• My Lady of the Hearth by Storm Constantine
• Calypso in Berlin by Elizabeth Hand
• Lady Madonna by Nancy Holder
• In the Cold, Dark Time by Joe R. Lansdale
• Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee
• The Girl with Hungry Eyes by Fritz Leiber
• Tallulah by Charles de Lint
• The Snake Woman’s Lover by Catherine Lundoff
• Land of the Lost by Stewart O’Nan
• The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Hound Lover by Laura Resnick
• Barbara by John Shirley
• An Apiary of White Bees by Lee Thomas
• Close to You by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Light That Passes Through You by Conrad Williams

Witches: Wicked, Wild and Wonderful

Editor: Guran, Paula
Cover Art: Shutterstock/Bliznetsov
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 384pp.
Pub. Date: March 13, 2012
Publisher: Prime Books

A bewitching brew of stories sure to enchant.

Surrounded by the aura of magic, witches have captured our imaginations for millennia and fascinate us now more than ever.

No longer confined to the image of a hexing old crone, witches can be kindly healers and protectors, tough modern urban heroines, holders of forbidden knowledge, sweetly domestic spellcasters, darkly domineering, sexy enchantresses, ancient sorceresses, modern Wiccans, empowered or persecuted, possessors of supernatural abilities that can be used for good or evil — or perhaps only perceived as such.

Welcome to the world of witchery in many guises: wicked, wild, and wonderful. Includes two original, never-published stories.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Paula Guran
• Walpurgis Afternoon by Delia Sherman
• Nightside by Mercedes Lackey
• The Cold Blacksmith by Elizabeth Bear
• Basement Magic by Ellen Klages
• Mirage and Magia by Tanith Lee
• Lessons with Miss Gray by Theodora Goss
• The World Is Cruel, My Daughter by Cory Skerry
• Ill Met in Ulthar by T. A. Pratt (original)
• The Witch’s Headstone by Neil Gaiman
• Boris Chernevsky’s Hands by Jane Yolen
• Bloodlines by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Way Wind by Andre Norton
• Poor Little Saturday by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Only Way to Fly by Nancy Holder
• Skin Deep by Richard Parks
• The Robbery by Cynthia Ward
• Marlboros and Magic by Linda Robertson (original)
• Magic Carpets by Leslie What
• The Ground Whereon She Stands by Lean Bobet
• Afterward by Don Webb
• April in Paris by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Goosle by Margo Lanagan
• Catskin by Kelly Link
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgement