Many Bloody Returns

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clever...entertaining... Excellent(library Journal) Original Vampire Stories By Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, And More.

from Cakes To Stakes, A Celebration Of Everyone's Favorite Bloodsucking Subculture By A Baker's Dozen Of Favorite Authors. Each Of These Thirteen Original Stories Offers A Fresh And Unique Take On What Birthdays Mean To The Undead. From Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse Attending A Birthday Party For Dracula To Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden Battling Bloodsucking Party Crashers, These Suspenseful, Surprising, Sometimes Dark, Sometimes Humorous Stories Will Ensure Paranormal Fans Will Never Think Of Vampires Or Birthdays Quite The Same Again.

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this Patchwork Anthology Of 13 New Vampire Stories Proves That Heavyweight Contributors Can Give Some Substance To A Relatively Slight Theme. Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse Novels), Kelner (the Laura Fleming Mysteries) And 11 Other Writers With Serious Vamp Credentials Craft Stories Around The Concept Of Birthdays For Bloodsuckers. Most Of The Tales Only Blow Out Candles In Passing, As With P.n. Elrod's Grave-robbed, Which Mixes Pathos And Comedy As Vampire Pi Jack Fleming Busts A Phony Medium Mid-séance, And Tanya Huff's Blood Wrapped, In Which Henry Fitzroy's Search For The Ideal Gift For A Vampire's 40th Mixes With His Pursuit Of A Human Kidnapper. Christopher Golden Takes Birthdays To Heart In His Poignant Coming-of-age Story, The Mournful Cry Of Owls, While Kelley Armstrong Proposes In Twilight That A Vampire's Real Birthday Is The Date Of Transformation From Mortal To Immortal. Fans Of The Many Series Vampires On Parade Here Will Be Undeterred By The Variable Quality Of Their Adventures. (sept.)

"Clever...entertaining... excellent"(Library Journal) original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more.

From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's favorite bloodsucking subculture by a baker's dozen of favorite authors. Each of these thirteen original stories offers a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. From Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse attending a birthday party for Dracula to Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden battling bloodsucking party crashers, these suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous stories will ensure paranormal fans will never think of vampires or birthdays quite the same again.

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