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VampGirl's Previous Featured Books: Page One 2001
Salem's Lot : Stephen King Ben Mears, the pivotal character of the book, is a writer returning to the town in which he grew up to write a novel about the old Marston house that terrified him so much as a child. The house has recently been purchased for Mr. Kurt Barlow, a vampire styled on Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', by his employee: Richard T. Straker. When the new owner takes residence in the house the inhabitants of the small town of Salem's Lot begin to be gradually but surely picked away one by one and turned into vampires. Mears and one young boy are the only ones that are aware of what is really happening and decide that they alone must confront the vampire in the house on the hill...
This is a fairly slow paced novel to begin with which builds with an intensity that parallels the creeping conversion of the town's inhabitants to vampirism. This eerie pace culminates in a powerful and exciting ending which, though not among Stephen King's best novels, certainly makes this a compelling read.
Dracula the Undead : Freda Warrington Dracula the Undead" is presented as a sequel to Bram Stoker's "Dracula" following the style and characters of the original novel. It was published by Penguin in 1997 to celebrate the centenary of the original publication of "Dracula". Although I find it strays a little from the intended style toward the end of the novel it is well written and I thoroughly recommend it.
VampGirl's Previous Featured Books: 2002| Page One | The Beast Within
: Ed. Stewart Wieck
Tall, Dark and Gruesome
: Christopher Lee
The Mammoth Book of Dracula : Ed. Stephen Jones
Pandora : Anne Rice |
| Page Two | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires
: Jay Stevenson, Ph.D.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Pop Quiz
: Cynthia Boris
The Queen of the Damned : Anne Rice |
| Page Three | The Vampyre : And Other Tales of the Macabre
: Ed. Robert Morrison & Chris Baldick
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women : Ed. Stephen Jones
The Vampire Encyclopedia : Matthew Bunson |
| Page Four | Lost Souls
: Poppy Z. Brite
The Keep : F. Paul Wilson
Mina's Journal : Kimberley Zagoren |
VampGirl's Previous Featured Books: 2001| Page One | Dracula the Undead : Freda Warrington
Salem's Lot : Stephen King | | Page Two | The Vampyre: A secret history of Lord Byron : Tom Holland
Sunglasses After Dark : Nancy A. Collins
Love in Vein : Ed by Poppy Z. Brite | | Page Three | In Search of Dracula : Raymond T. McNally & Prof. Radu Florescu
Dracula : Bram Stoker
Lord of the Vampires : Jeanne Kalogrides
The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula : Roderick Anscombe | | Page Four | Sins of the Blood : Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Rulers of Darkness : Steven Spruill
Guilty Pleasures : Laurell K. Hamilton |
| Page Five | The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide : Stephen Jones
This Dark Paradise : Wendy Haley
Interview with the Vampire : Anne Rice |
| Page Six | The Vampire Book : J. Gordon Melton
Bad Dreams : Kim Newman
Vampire World I: Blood Brothers : Brian Lumley |
| Page Seven | Sips of Blood : Mary Ann Mitchell
The World on Blood : Jonathan Nasaw
Vampire : The Masquerade : White Wolf Publishing
Ravenloft: Vampire of the Mists : Christie Golden |
| Page Eight | Batman : Bloodstorm : Doug Moench & Kelley Jones
Batman vs Dracula : Red Rain : Doug Moench & Kelley Jones
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| Page Nine | The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories : Ed. Alan Ryan
Piercing The Darkness : Katherine Ramsland
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| Page Ten | Vampire$ : John Steakley
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Obsidian Fate : Diana G.Gallagher
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
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