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Synopsis
From the pen of Margaret L. Carter..."When I first read
Dracula at the age of twelve, my spontaneous reaction was to wonder how
the vampire saw the events in which he was portrayed as the villain. One of my
first stories, at age thirteen, was a 33-page, single-spaced saga from the
viewpoint of a man in the process of transforming into a vampire. I've always
found the non-human perspective, as well as relationships between human and
non-human persons, fascinating.
"The tales in this collection span the past ten years of my
writing career. Most can be described as romances, and all involve love and
passion in some form. Here you will encounter vampires, elves, ghosts, and at
least one human-monster hybrid. The vampire stories in the first half of the
book belong to an ongoing series based on 'Vanishing Breed,' a story by my
husband in my first anthology, Curse of the Undead (1970). 'Vanishing
Breed' (which also appears in Tomorrow Sucks, edited by Greg Cox, still
in print) postulates that the creatures we know as vampires belong to an alien
species secretly living among us. You can get better acquainted with them in my
novels, Dark Changeling, Sealed in Blood, and Crimson
Dreams, and two novellas, 'Night Flight' and 'Tall, Dark, and Deadly' (which
stars Claude from 'Voice from the Void').
"In the words of Count Dracula, 'Welcome...Enter freely and of your own will!'"
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