DYING TO LIVE, a new vampire anthology from Diabolic Publications
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Had enough hunky doe-eyed teen vampires? Overdosed on languid vampire debauchery? Miss the good old days when vampires were vicious self-serving heliophobic carnivores, either on the hunt (seductively or otherwise) or chilling in their dark coffins after a hefty meal? Well, you just might be in luck.
In their cryptic writer’s guidelines, Diabolic Publications advertised for vampire short fiction with the following caveat: “We are looking for dark vampire stories; please do not send any stories about vampires that sparkle! ...We are looking for dark Vampires, of the old fashioned kind! Erotica is acceptable as long as the vampires drink human blood, bite, kill and so forth. We are not looking for love story type vampires…”
So, as you might imagine, this anthology is strictly for those who like their vampires predatory, sans all that recently fashionable glitter and hormonal teen angst.
T.O.C.
Dumaine by Brian D. Mazur
The Tunnel by Jane Domagala
Uncle Frank's Emporium of Oddities by Paul L. Bates
So Vein by Bruce Lockhart 2nd & Suzie Lockhart
Have You Seen Her by Shenoa Carroll-Bradd
From Scratch by Kara Race-Moore
Turning
Halloween by Scarlet Norton-Duperre & S.D. Lords
The Bloofer Lady by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
Birds of a Feather by Jennifer L. Barnes
Twilight Time by Steven Gepp
Party by Paul Merton
Coffin by Sean Eads
Nightfeeds by Tim Jeffreys
Feeding Disorder by Phil Voyd
Hunger by Lin Christie
The Dhampir by Joseph Rubas
The Preacher by James S. Dorr
Vlad by Jacqueline Seewald
Thanks for the Drink by Thomas Alan Sandage
The book contains 360 pages of heart stopping horror—20 tales without the tropes that have recently marginalized the subgenre. The cover—the fanged earth-bespattered face of a young woman by moonlight seemingly beckoning you closer—does the contents proud.
My offering, “Uncle Frank’s Emporium of Oddities,” concerns the 21st century undead travelling a backwater sideshow circuit while unobtrusively seducing their overconfident and misinformed prey. Other tales explore widely varying scenarios, from a disturbed
Available from:
http://www.diabolicpublications.com/books
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dying-to-live-various-authors/1117075184?ean=2940148505280
© Paul L. Bates 2013