Vampire Detectives
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I'm claiming this paperback from the latest round of the Vampire Bookbox. Can't resist a themed anthology!
Later: Enjoyable collection here. Some of the stories were familiar to me - Tanya Huff's "This Town Ain't Big Enough", for example, which I first read in Blood Bank, about vampires duking it out over territory - and others featured characters that I'd encountered in other books, such as P. N. Elrod's Prohibition-era detective Jack Fleming, from The Vampire Files. Here, Fleming gets involved in a mysterious attempted murder, one that comes close to making him one of the victims.
Others were new to me, and ranged from some very chilling and dark tales to more light-hearted ones, with a liberal sprinkling of noir. I especially enjoyed Douglas Borton's "Fangs", a somewhat-traditional vampire-hunt with some nice twists; "Night Tidings" by Gary Alan Ruse, in which a priest seeks the help of a local vampire to hunt down a killer - really nice buildup of the relationship here; "The Count's Mailbox" by William Sanders, an amusing collection of letters to the Count about his attempts to get his memoirs published; "The Secret" by Barbara Paul, in which a vampire's grave is transported - along with the entire castle - to a new tourist site, where the locals actually handle the vampire with surprising sympathy... Oh, and Richard Laymon's "Phil the Vampire," a darkly amusing twist on the concept of vampire groupies.
Later: Enjoyable collection here. Some of the stories were familiar to me - Tanya Huff's "This Town Ain't Big Enough", for example, which I first read in Blood Bank, about vampires duking it out over territory - and others featured characters that I'd encountered in other books, such as P. N. Elrod's Prohibition-era detective Jack Fleming, from The Vampire Files. Here, Fleming gets involved in a mysterious attempted murder, one that comes close to making him one of the victims.
Others were new to me, and ranged from some very chilling and dark tales to more light-hearted ones, with a liberal sprinkling of noir. I especially enjoyed Douglas Borton's "Fangs", a somewhat-traditional vampire-hunt with some nice twists; "Night Tidings" by Gary Alan Ruse, in which a priest seeks the help of a local vampire to hunt down a killer - really nice buildup of the relationship here; "The Count's Mailbox" by William Sanders, an amusing collection of letters to the Count about his attempts to get his memoirs published; "The Secret" by Barbara Paul, in which a vampire's grave is transported - along with the entire castle - to a new tourist site, where the locals actually handle the vampire with surprising sympathy... Oh, and Richard Laymon's "Phil the Vampire," a darkly amusing twist on the concept of vampire groupies.
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GoryDetails
at LFL - Cross St. #31 in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Thursday, October 8, 2020
GoryDetails at LFL - Cross St. #31 in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Thursday, October 8, 2020
Released 3 yrs ago (10/8/2020 UTC) at LFL - Cross St. #31 in Nashua, New Hampshire USA
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Guidelines for safely visiting and stocking Little Free Libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the LFL site here.I left this book in the Little Free Library on this lovely day; hope someone enjoys it!
[See other recent releases in NH here.]
*** Released for the 2020 Spooktacular October challenge. ***
*** Released for the 2020 Keep Them Moving challenge. ***
