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Element(s): Category Romance. |
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123. Hill, William. Dawn of the Vampire. New York: Pinnacle, 1991. Paperback. |
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South Holston Lake, bordering Tennessee and Virginia, holds dark secrets. An old town and cemetery lie beneath its waters. When two divers decide to explore the site, one ends up with his throat torn out and all blood drained from his body. The other becomes possessed by Viktor Von Damme, a vampire who has discovered the secret of walking in daylight. Now that he is free he plans to release others like himself from their watery graves. But Von Damme has a rival vampire group to contend with as well as the tenacity of Troy Bane, a reporter who gathers a group of friends to help him find an answer to the nightmare that has engulfed the area. |
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124.. Vampire's Kiss. New York: Pinnacle, 1994. Paperback. |
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David, a popular writer of horror fiction, lives as a recluse because of a rare blood disease, porphyria. His skin is pale and his eyes reddened. An evil and beautiful vampire, Monique, tells him he has begun the ''transformation.'' David fights his attraction to her and turns to his minister for help. The power of religious beliefs is treated respectfully in this novel. |
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125. Holland, Tom. Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron. New York: Pocket Books, 1996. Hardcover. |
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The noted poet Lord Byron recounts to a frightened young woman the harrowing events that led to his becoming a vampire of tremendous power, a true Lord of the Dead. While traveling through nineteenth-century Greece, he was befriended by a centuries-old Turk who lured him into the vampire life and then seemingly murdered the one woman Byron had ever loved, the beautiful slave Haidée. |
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126. Huff, Tanya. Vicki Nelson series. |
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Vicki Nelson is a former Toronto homicide detective turned private investigator. She left the police force because of a deteriorating eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. In a series of adventures all with supernatural or science fiction elements she teams up with former lover and Toronto police detective Mike Carlucci as well as the vampire and |
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