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Are the misfortunes that seem to follow Harriet merely coincidence? Or is she really afflicted with the curse of the vampire? Ernessa is an enigmatic, moody presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. Around her swirl dark rumors, suspicions, and secrets as well as a series of ominous disasters. And at the center of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it: Is Ernessa really a vampire?

Or has the narrator trapped herself in the fevered world of her own imagining? Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness? Pursued by this undead entity, Andre and his mother barely escape with their lives. Decades later, Andre—now Andy—Palatazin is a homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department, and spends his days dealing with the quotidian terrors of a large metropolis.

His life takes a darker turn when the demonic forces he first encountered in Krajeck arrive in L. With the unobtrusive ease of a natural storyteller, the author propels a wide assortment of vividly created characters through an apocalyptic scenario that combines gritty urban realism with a powerful portrait of supernatural forces at large in the modern world.

The result is a genuine classic of the genre, a novel that is as fresh and absorbing today as it was more than thirty years ago. Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on folklore—who just happens to be Jewish—to shed some light on the mysterious happenings.

And unbeknownst to anyone, there is another visitor on his way—a man who awoke from a nightmare and immediately set out to meet his destiny. An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival,The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.

You do it because somebody has to. You do it no matter what it does to you. Some jobs just suck. Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.

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Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy to his friends is biding his time night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts for a minute. But then the vampires found her. Now, chained and imprisoned in a once-beautiful decaying mansion, alone but for the vampire, Constantine, shackled next to her, Sunshine realizes that she must call on her own hidden strength if she is to survive.

But Constantine is not what she expected of a vampire, and soon Sunshine discovers that it is he who needs her, more than either of them know. Brilliant, blood-chilling, and unputdownable, The Strain is a nightmare of the first order. Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS.

This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and condensation. The story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. In Necroscope, Harry is startled to discover that he is not the only person with unusual mental powers—Britain and the Soviet Union both maintain super-secret, psychically-powered espionage organizations.

In Missing Mile, North Carolina, in search of supple young flesh and thirsting for blood, three beautiful vampires—Molochai, Twig, and Zillah—follow vampires Nothing and Ann on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.

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Elena Gilbert is a high school golden girl, used to getting what she wants. And who she wants. She could never know the real reason Stefan is struggling to resist her: And wherever Damon goes, trouble always follows. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife-between desire and danger.

Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite. Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from labs rather than committing murder. Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making her one of them. Rose and Lissa must navigate through this dangerous world, confront the temptation of forbidden romance, and never once let their guard down, lest the Strigoi make Lissa one of them forever.

But when his most trusted fighter is killed—orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate—Wrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful female into another world. His tales of the Brotherhood and blood frighten her. To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history…. The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out.

It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself-to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world?

Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed-and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends?

The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization.

The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.

But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night. American and Swedish readers of vampire fiction will be thrilled! The story has continued to reach new viewers in a London Musical and the book remains a vampire favorite among its readers. Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.

It is a novel only Anne Rice could write. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.

Dracula is an Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. A-B , Last Name: Titles Appear On 2 lists Each. A Hidden Fire Elemental Mysteries, 1. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Companions of the Night. Halfway to the Grave. The Best Fantasy Books. Best Fantasy Books 2. Best Fantasy Books HQ. The Fate of Madame Cabanel. The House of the Vampire. The Light at the End.

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Van Helsing stakes her in her coffin and, when Arthur takes one final look at Lucy's body, he sees her body free of corruption and finally at peace. Now both Van Helsing and Arthur agree to work together to destroy Dracula: Meanwhile, Mina is called away from home by a message telling her to meet Arthur at an address in Karlstadt — the same address Arthur and Van Helsing are told the coffin was bound for — and Dracula is waiting for her.

The next morning, Arthur and Van Helsing find Mina in a strange state. They leave for the address they were given, an undertaker's, but find the coffin missing. When they decide to set off again to inspect an old graveyard they suspect might be the coffin's new resting place, Arthur tries to give Mina a cross to wear, but it burns her, revealing that she is infected by vampirism and is slowly turning into a vampire herself.

During the night, Van Helsing and Arthur guard Mina's windows outside against a return of Dracula, but Dracula nonetheless appears inside the house and bites her. She is saved when Arthur agrees to give her an emergency blood transfusion administered by Van Helsing. When Arthur asks Gerda to fetch some wine, she tells him that Mina had forbidden her to go down to the cellar. Upon hearing this, Van Helsing realizes the coffin's location: He bolts downstairs to find it but Dracula is not in the coffin and instead escapes into the night with Mina, intent on making her a new bride.

After planting a cross inside Dracula's coffin, Van Helsing realises that Dracula now has only his castle to hide in. A chase then begins as Dracula rushes to return to his castle near Klausenberg before sunrise. He attempts to bury Mina alive outside the crypts but is interrupted by the arrival of Van Helsing and Arthur. Chasing Dracula inside the castle, Van Helsing struggles with the vampire before eventually tearing open the library curtains to let in the sunlight and, forming a cross from two candlesticks, he forces the Count into it.

Dracula crumbles into dust as Van Helsing looks on. Mina recovers, and the cross-shaped scar fades from her hand, indicating that she has been saved, whilst Dracula's ashes blow away in the wind, leaving only his clothes and ring behind. The filming of Dracula's destruction included a shot in which Dracula appears to peel away his decaying skin.

This was accomplished by putting a layer of red makeup on Lee's face, and then covering his entire face with a thin coating of mortician's wax, which was then made up to conform to his normal skin tone. When he raked his fingers across the wax, it revealed the "raw" marks underneath. This startling sequence was cut out, but was restored for the Blu-ray release, using footage from a badly damaged Japanese print. At the end of the film, Dracula is destroyed on an inlaid Zodiac wheel on the floor, which has several quotes in Latin and Greek.

The inner circle in Greek has a quote from Homer's Odyssey Book Dracula was a critical and commercial success upon its release and was well received by critics and fans of Stoker's works. The website's critical consensus states: The trade journal reviews from were very positive. The James Bernard score is monumentally sinister and the Jack Asher photography full of foreboding atmosphere. Harrison's Reports was particularly enthusiastic, "Of all the "Dracula" horror pictures thus far produced, this one, made in Britain and photographed in Technicolor, tops them all.

Its shock impact is, in fact, so great that it may well be considered as one of the best horror films ever made. What makes this picture superior is the expert treatment that takes full advantage of the story's shock values.

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Vincent Canby in Motion Picture Daily said, "Hammer Films, the same British production unit which last year restored Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to its rightful place in the screen's chamber of horrors, has now even more successfully brought back the granddaddy of all vampires, Count Dracula. It's chillingly realistic in detail and at times as gory as the law allows. The physical production is first rate, including the settings, costumes, Eastman Color photography and special effects.

The film was released in the U. For many years historians pointed to the fact that an even longer, more explicit, version of the film played in Japanese and European cinemas in Efforts to locate the legendary "Japanese version" of Dracula had been fruitless. The recovered reels include the last 36 minutes of the film and includes two extended scenes, one of which is the discovery of a near complete version of the film's iconic disintegration scene. Some experts rightly note that there is still footage missing from the disintegration scene as evidenced by stills and the memories of those who had seen the sequence decades before.

The announcement mentioned a HD telecine transfer of all four reels with a view for a future UK release. On 29 December , Hammer announced that the restored film would be released on a three-disc, double play Blu-ray Disc set in the UK on 18 March This release contains the BFI restoration along with the high-definition Hammer restoration which includes footage which was previously believed to be lost. After the success of Dracula , Hammer went on to produce eight sequels , six of which feature Lee reprising the titular role, and four of which feature Cushing reprising the role of Van Helsing.

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