Selections from By Blood We Live - Night Shade Books

Next


Selections from
By Blood We Live


CoverVampires. They are the most elegant of monsters—ancient, seductive, doomed, deadly. They lurk in the shadows, at your window, in your dreams. They are beautiful as anything you've ever seen, but their flesh is cold as the grave, and their lips taste of blood.

From Dracula to Twilight; from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to True Blood, many have fallen under their spell. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams brings you 33 of the most haunting vampire stories of the past three decades, from some of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

Charming gentlemen with the manners of a prior age. Savage killing machines who surge screaming from hidden vaults. Cute little girls frozen forever in slender bodies. Long-buried loved ones who scratch at the door, begging to be let in. Nowhere is safe, not mist-shrouded Transylvania or the Italian Riviera or even a sleepy town in Maine. This is a hidden world, an eternal world, where nothing is forbidden . . . as long as you're willing to pay the price.

Edited by John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead), By Blood We Live features over 200,000 words of the very best in vampire fiction. Thirsty? By Blood We Live will satisfy your darkest cravings . . .

Cover Art by David Palumbo


ORDER Ebook
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, October 2009

Distributed by Night Shade Books
1423 33rd Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122

Internet edition
Look for By Blood We Live (ISBN 13: 978-1-59780-156-0)
at better booksellers near you.

www.nightshadebooks.com

Electronic version by Baen Books
http://www.baen.com

ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-156-0
ISBN-10: 1-59780-156-9

By Blood We Live © 2009 by John Joseph Adams
This edition of Selections from By Blood We Live © 2009 by Night Shade Books
"Introduction" and author notes © 2009 John Joseph Adams.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

This Sampler is licensed for individual use only.

Cover art © 2009 by David Palumbo
Cover design by Michael Ellis
Interior layout and design by Ross E. Lockhart

Night Shade Books
1423 33rd Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
http://www.nightshadebooks.com


Other anthologies by John Joseph Adams

Federations
Seeds of Change
The Living Dead
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

Forthcoming Anthologies

Brave New Worlds
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Living Dead 2
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
The Way of the Wizard

Acknowledgment is made for permission
to print the following material:

"House of the Rising Sun" by Elizabeth Bear. © 2005 Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in The Third Alternative. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 
"Lifeblood" by Michael A. Burstein. © 2003 Michael A. Burstein. Originally published in New Voices in Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 
"For Further Reading" by Ross E. Lockhart. © 2009 Ross E. Lockhart. Original to this volume.
 
"Infestation" by Garth Nix. © 2008 Garth Nix. Originally published in The Starry Rift. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 
"Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu" by Norman Partridge. © 1994 Norman Partridge. Originally published in Love in Vein. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 
"Peking Man" by Robert J. Sawyer. © 1996 Robert J. Sawyer. Originally published in Dark Destiny III. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 
"This Is Now" by Michael Marshall Smith. © 2004 Michael Marshall Smith. Originally published online in BBCi Cult Vampire Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 
"After the Stone Age" by Brian Stableford. © 2004 Brian Stableford. Originally published online in BBCi Cult Vampire Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 
"Under St. Peter's" by Harry Turtledove. © 2007 Harry Turtledove. Originally published in The Secret History of Vampires. Reprinted by permission of the author.
 
"Exsanguinations" by Catherynne M. Valente. © 2005 Catherynne M. Valente. Originally published online at www.catherynemvalente.com. Reprinted by permission of the author. 


Next