Vampires, Wine & Roses: Chilling Tales of Immortal Pleasure

by John Richard Stephens

Book Overview

Featuring a rare story by Anne Rice, a classic chiller by Edith Wharton, and song lyrics by Sting, this eclectic and original collection of vampire stories covers the gamut of genres, from the dark... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1435108329
• ISBN13: 9781435108325
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Metro Books
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Contents:

Romeo and Juliet (excerpt)- William Shakespeare The Master of Rampling Gate; The Ballad of the Sad Rat- Anne Rice Moon Over Bourbon Street- Sting John Barrington Cowles- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Thalaba the Destroyer (excerpt)- Robert Southey Ligeia- Edgar Allan Poe The Vampire- Rudyard Kipling A Fragment of a Turkish Tale; The Giaour (excerpt)- Lord Byron The Flowering of the Strange Orchid- H.G. Wells The Homecoming- Ray Bradbury Rokeby (excerpt)- Sir Walter Scott Phantoms- Ivan Turgenev Olalla- Robert Louis Stevenson The Vampire; The Metamorphoses of a Vampire- Baudelaire The Carpathian Castle (excerpt)- Jules Verne Vampires- Voltaire Lamia- John Keats Count Dracula- Woody Allen The Vampires Won't Vampire for Me- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Horla- Guy De Maupassant The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains- Alexandre Dumas The Divine Pilgrim (excerpt)- Conrad Aiken The Death of King Arthur (excerpt)- Sir Thomas Malory The Vampirine Fair- Thomas Hardy The Riddle of the Crypt- Rod Serling The Bride of Corinth- Goethe (untitled)- Lenny Bruce The Wasteland (excerpt)- T.S. Eliot Bewitched- Edith Wharton The Hound- H.P. Lovecraft Dracula's Guest- Bram Stoker

beautiful book

i highly recommend this book. unlike most vampire anthologies, this book takes you from the classic, gothic style, to modern day tales. there are many stories in here that are difficult to find and some of the shorter poems and song lyrics are a welcome suprise. this book will make you look at every aspect of vampires in culture, even places you would never expect to find them. i will caution that some of the stories are old and therefore, may be boring, laborous reading for some. if you are a serious fan of vampire literature, this is an affordable must have. i recommend reading... the master of rampling gate, draculas guest, the vampire of the carpathians first. pick this up and the anthology edited be david skal also!

A pretty good book, with some pretty good stories and poems.

The book is great. It moves with random pace. Some stories will keep you hanging like a vampire sucking away your life blood, other stories can bore to death, but you get over it. The poems are also good with some twist. This comes as a highly recommended book for that fanged fan out there. Trust me, you'll love it...