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behind these villainous deeds. Dr. Praisegood's investigation also reveals that, like their human counterparts, some vampires are good and others are evil. This story is told through witty conversations reminiscent of romance/regency novels. |
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(See #322 for a short story featuring Dr. Praisegood.) |
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Element(s): Category Romance, Mystery. |
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9. Baker, Nancy. The Night Inside. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994. Hardcover. (Paperback, retitled Kiss of the Vampire, New York: Fawcett, 1995.) |
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In modern-day Toronto, the vampire Dimitri Rozokov, ill and weak from the long sleep of the undead, is captured by a group of gangsters specializing in snuff movies. To feed their captive, they kidnap Ardeth Alexander, a young graduate student. She soon realizes that her captors are more beastly than the crazed being who needs her blood. |
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Element(s): SF/F, Romance. |
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10. Baker, Scott. Ancestral Hungers. New York: Tor, 1996. Hardcover. |
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Herpetologist David Bathory knows the myths of his ancestors from the Dracul and Bathory families, but he dismisses it all as superstition. Then his life takes a sudden, bizarre turn. On a trek across country he meets Dara, whose presence causes a transformation of his being. He accumulates incredible powers and uses them to confront an unknown evil. Then he learns he is a dhampire child of a vampire who will become one of the undead himself some day unless his mother's Naga blood (another source of magic and power) can save him. |
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11.. Dhampire. New York: Pocket Books, 1982. |
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The dhampire are children of vampires. They even have certain powers over the undead. This story has been expanded and published as Ancestral Hungers (see entry #10). |
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12. Beath, Warren Newton. Bloodletter. New York: Tor, 1996. Paperback. (Hardcover. Tor, 1994.) |
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Novelist Stephen Albright is convinced that the vampiric creature of his popular Bloodletter series has come to life in the form of the serial killer Diver Dan. Beverly Hills psychologist Eva LaPorte tries to help |
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