‘Tis the season to make you shiver Gooseflesh crawl and knock-knees quiver. Here lies a list that will deliver Some spooky kooky vampire tales. Besides the classic Bram Stoker’s Dracula You’ll find new horrors quite spectacular. Your library is the
‘Tis the season to make you shiver
Gooseflesh crawl and knock-knees quiver.
Here lies a list that will deliver
Some spooky kooky vampire tales.
Besides the classic Bram Stoker’s Dracula
You’ll find new horrors quite spectacular.
Your library is the supernacular
For spooky kooky vampire tales.
Happy Halloween and happy reading!
Abraham Lincoln,
Vampire Hunter
By Seth Grahame-Smith
Adult Fiction Gr
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. By the same author, also look for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in which the feisty Elizabeth Bennet is trying to wipe out Meryton’s zombie menace. And for more classics with a bite try Katie MacAlister’s Dark Ones series with her latest: Zen and the Art of Vampires and Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang.
Undead and Unfinished: The Burden of Proof
By Mary Jance Davidson
Adult Fiction Da
In this latest and ninth tale in the life of Betsy Taylor, Vampire Queen, Betsy is having a tough time getting through the Book of the Dead until the Devil strikes a bargain. She offers Betsy a chance to finish the cursed (literally!) thing, and finally discover all its mysteries. There’s just one catch… Betsy and her half-sister Laura must go to Hell long enough for Laura to embrace her dark heritage (after a rebellious youth of charity work) and finally make nice with her mother, aka Lucifer. Davidson begins her series with the delightful Undead and Unwed. For more in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer style genre look for the Jaz Parks series by Jennifer Rardin starting with Once Bitten, Twice Shy, the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton starting with Guilty Pleasures or the Guild Hunter series starring Elena Devreaux by Nalini Singh starting with Angel’s Blood.
The Passage
By Justin Cronin
Adult Fiction Cr
A security breach at a secret U.S. Government facillity unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that trheatens to destroy the world. Only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellefonte can stop it. You don’t have to be a fan of vampire fiction to be enthralled by this remarkable storyteller with gorgeous writing. This grand mash-up of literary and supernatural makes a stunning beginning to the planned trilogy. Science fiction writer David Weber introduces vampires in his latest: Out of the Dark. Can the vampires come to the rescue when an invading force of alien carnivorous Shongari aim to annihilate the human race? For other vampire sagas in the fantasy genre try A Taint in the Blood: a Novel of the Shadowspawn by S.M. Stirling or Stay the Night, A Novel of the Darkyn by Lynn Viehl.
Sunshine
By Robin McKinley
Young Adult Fiction McK
This charming stand alone coming-of-magical-age venture features deft characterizations and clever juxtapositions of reality and the supernatural. Baker Rae “Sunshine” Seddon meets Count Dracula’s hunky Byronic cousin in this romp through the darkling streets of a spooky post-Voodoo Wars world. For a lighter touch of teen undead try The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks. And for teen vampire series try L.J. Smith’s Night World series, Melissa De La Cruz’s Blue Bloods series, P.C. Cast’s House of Night novels or the Drake Chronicles by Alyxandra Harvey.
The Vampire Bride
By Gena Showalter
Adult Fiction Sh
In the author’s mythical world of immortals, magic and dark seduction under the sea, Layel, vampire king and master seducer that no woman can deny, exists only for vengeance since his beloved was killed by a dragon horde. Then he meets Delila, the beautiful Amazon. For other vampy vampires in the romance genre try Primal Needs by Susan Sizemore, Darkness Revealed by Alexandra Ivy, Bloodline by Maggie Shayne or Deadly Desire by Keri Arthur.
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published
Edited by Otto Penzler
813.08738 Va
Here is an astounding and enjoyable set of 86 vampire tales, poems and true stories. Slassics such as Le Fanu’s Carmilla, Poe’s Ligeia and Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest are nicely interspersed with lesser-known older and newer works. Neil Gaiman’s introduction and Daniel Seitler’s 00-plus-page bibliography of vampire fiction round out the anthology. You may also be interested in The Vampire Book by Sally Regan, an illustrated guide to vampires that describes their creation, appearance, lore, habits, hunters and more.
Let the Right One In
DVD Adult Fiction
Swedish film subtitled in English
In this new Swedish film subtitled in English 12 year old Oscar, a fragile and bullied boy, finds love and revenge when he meets Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl that he befriends. Oscar doesn’t know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders begin throwing suspicions on the vampires, Eli much choose to flee with her family or stay and help Oscar the only way she knows how. For more vampire movies try Twilight, Underworld, Blade Trinity, or Van Helsing.
Bite Me, A Love Story
By Christopher Moore
Adult Fiction Mo
In this hilarious love story Abby Normal, a San Francisco goth girl and her brainiac boyfriend Stephen “Foo Dog” Wong pursue a vampire cat and his minions, but things become more complicated with the arrival of three ancient vampires intent on getting some payback. Christopher Moore’s first vampire tale from 2007 is titled You Suck: A Love Story.
• Carolyn Larson, head librarian at Lihu‘e Public Library, brings you the buzz on new, popular and good books available at your neighborhood library. Book annotations are culled from online publishers’ descriptions and published reviews.
