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Tanith Lee, “La Vampiresse” © 2000. Originally published in Interzone, Number 154, April 2000. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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Susan Sizemore, “Dancing With the Star” © 2008. Originally published in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, ed. Trisha Telep (Constable & Robinson). Reprinted by permission of the author.
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About the Editor
Paula Guran is the editor of Pocket Book’s Juno fantasy imprint and nonfiction editor for Weird Tales. In an earlier life, she produced weekly e-mail newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Bram Stoker Awards, an International Horror Guild Award award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination) and edited Horror Garage magazine (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination). Guran has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications. She’s also done a great deal of other various and sundry work in sf/f/h publishing. Earlier anthologies Guran has edited include Embraces, Best New Paranormal Romance, Best New Romantic Fantasy, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2010, and Zombies: The Recent Dead. The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 and Halloween! are forthcoming this year.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
This Is Now
Sisters
The Screaming
Zen and the Art of Vampirism
La Vampiresse
Dead Man Stalking
The Ghost of Leadville
Waste Land
Gentleman of the Old School
No Matter Where You Go
Outfangthief
Dancing with the Star
A Trick of the Dark
When Gretchen was Human
Conquistador de la Noche
Endless Night
Dahlia Underground
The Belated Burial
Twilight States
To the Moment
Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Vampires Anonymous
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky
Selected Vampire Anthologies: 2000-2010
Publication History
About the Editor
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