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Summary: The Ultimate Dracula
Review: I love dracula stories and I have to admit that I loved this book. I liked all the writers style and when I started to read it I could not put it down. I would recomend this book to those who enjoy vampire films and novels!
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Summary: An Interesting Look Into the Vampire Mystique
Review: The books in this series--The Ultimate Dracula, Frankenstein, Werewolf, etc.--are striking for their cover art but disappointing in their story selection. They're eclectic enough--including stories by established writers and little-known authors and varying widely in tone. But none of them really stands out. There must be better collections out there.
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Summary: Nice art, mediocre stories
Review: The books in this series--The Ultimate Dracula, Frankenstein, Werewolf, etc.--are striking for their cover art but disappointing in their story selection. They're eclectic enough--including stories by established writers and little-known authors and varying widely in tone. But none of them really stands out. There must be better collections out there.
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Summary: A Classic of Vampiric Lore
Review: The Master of Rampling Gate by Anne Rice
Richard and Julie inherit Rampling Gate, a mysterious 14th Century manor house theyve never seen, from their father. He instructed Richard tear it down; but the siblings decide a visit is in order.All Draculas Children by Dan Simons
The Dracul family?s decadence has led Transylvania to ruin. A Matter of Style by Ron Dee
Neville was a looser in life and an even bigger looser as a vampire until the ancient one teaches him a valuable lesson. Selection Process by Ed Gorman
Walter Reardon is a Victorian Veteran and ex-con working as a hitman, when he?s assigned a job to set a little girl on fire, his whole life changes. The Vampire in His Closet by Heather Graham
Chris awakens Count Dracula, a vampire, and they discover they have more in common with the others made and trade women. The Tenth Scholar by Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem
Marie Bathory is a pregnant teen, who enrolls in Dracula?s Scholomance hoping to be chosen as The Tenth Scholar, so that she won?t have to live on the street anymore. Nobodys Perfect by Philip Jose Farmer
Rudolph Redeemer is in concert come join his religious blood fest! Dracula 1944 by Edward D. Hoch
Vlad Tepes is a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen! The Contagion by Janet Asimov
A descendant of Count Dracula had himself put into cryonic suspension until a cure for his biochemical dependence could be found. Sugar and Spice And by Karen Robards
Santa Claus brought Peter a new baby sister from Romania, and she?s got fangs! Vampire Dreams by Dick Lochte
Twenty-five year old vampire style Hollywood murder solved! Much At Stake by Kevin J. Anderson
Bela Lugosi takes a morphine-induced trip back in time and meets Vlad the Impaler where both learn important lessons from one another. The Name of Fear by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Vlad the Impaler meets Nosferatu! The Dark Rising by W.R. Philbrick
Dr. James meets the vampire responsible for transmitting the horrible wasting disease in Haiti in 1974. Los Ninos De La Noche by Tim Sullivan
Los Ninos is the Spanish language motion picture version of The Children of the Night. This 1930?s horror film is legendary due the vampire murders that took place during filming. A Little Night Music by Mike Resnick
Vlad and the Impalers are a new band in search of an agent. Mr. Lucrada by John Lutz
Madeline and Gordy?s family move into a Florida condo when their father is transferred. Mr. Lucrada takes a special interest in Madeline. In the Cusp of the Hour by John Gregory Betancourt
Beward of old people hanging out at the mall they?ll leach you! Children of the Night by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Cammie is a vampire hunter who discovers a dark secret about herself as the result of a hunt. The volume also contains a Selected Filmography by Leonard Wolf of Dracula movies. The stories are very diverse from one another creating a riveting spell over the reader!
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Summary: A Classic of Vampiric Lore
Review: The Master of Rampling Gate by Anne Rice
Richard and Julie inherit Rampling Gate, a mysterious 14th Century manor house theyve never seen, from their father. He instructed Richard tear it down; but the siblings decide a visit is in order. All Draculas Children by Dan Simons
The Dracul family?s decadence has led Transylvania to ruin. A Matter of Style by Ron Dee
Neville was a looser in life and an even bigger looser as a vampire until the ancient one teaches him a valuable lesson. Selection Process by Ed Gorman
Walter Reardon is a Victorian Veteran and ex-con working as a hitman, when he?s assigned a job to set a little girl on fire, his whole life changes. The Vampire in His Closet by Heather Graham
Chris awakens Count Dracula, a vampire, and they discover they have more in common with the others made and trade women. The Tenth Scholar by Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem
Marie Bathory is a pregnant teen, who enrolls in Dracula?s Scholomance hoping to be chosen as The Tenth Scholar, so that she won?t have to live on the street anymore. Nobodys Perfect by Philip Jose Farmer
Rudolph Redeemer is in concert come join his religious blood fest! Dracula 1944 by Edward D. Hoch
Vlad Tepes is a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen! The Contagion by Janet Asimov
A descendant of Count Dracula had himself put into cryonic suspension until a cure for his biochemical dependence could be found. Sugar and Spice And by Karen Robards
Santa Claus brought Peter a new baby sister from Romania, and she?s got fangs! Vampire Dreams by Dick Lochte
Twenty-five year old vampire style Hollywood murder solved! Much At Stake by Kevin J. Anderson
Bela Lugosi takes a morphine-induced trip back in time and meets Vlad the Impaler where both learn important lessons from one another. The Name of Fear by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Vlad the Impaler meets Nosferatu! The Dark Rising by W.R. Philbrick
Dr. James meets the vampire responsible for transmitting the horrible wasting disease in Haiti in 1974. Los Ninos De La Noche by Tim Sullivan
Los Ninos is the Spanish language motion picture version of The Children of the Night. This 1930?s horror film is legendary due the vampire murders that took place during filming. A Little Night Music by Mike Resnick
Vlad and the Impalers are a new band in search of an agent. Mr. Lucrada by John Lutz
Madeline and Gordy?s family move into a Florida condo when their father is transferred. Mr. Lucrada takes a special interest in Madeline. In the Cusp of the Hour by John Gregory Betancourt
Beward of old people hanging out at the mall they?ll leach you! Children of the Night by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Cammie is a vampire hunter who discovers a dark secret about herself as the result of a hunt. The volume also contains a Selected Filmography by Leonard Wolf of Dracula movies. The stories are very diverse from one another creating a riveting spell over the reader!
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Summary: Too many vampires aren't that scary
Review: These are supposed to be some of the best Vampire stories around. However, I didn't find the quality of these stories to be as good as the stories in The Ultimate Zombie. I enjoyed them and found most to be very solid and entertaining stories. Maybe it is just because of the major flux of vampire stories and novels and movies that I'm just a little tired of them, especially when they don't vary widely from the standard vampire storyline. Try something different, make the story really stand out, that's what I was hoping for more of. At least the stories below gave me that difference. "A Matter of Style" by Ron Dee - Dracula must take other forms in order to find food. "Selection Process" by Ed Gorman - A hitman gets a strange job. "Dracula 1944" by Edward D. Hoch - Dracula plays a part of World War II. "Contagion" by Janet Asimov - Dracula enters a Sci-Fi world out of an Isaac Asimov novel. "Sugar and Spice and ..." by Karen Robards - A brother suspects his baby sister is a vampire.
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Summary: An Interesting Look Into the Vampire Mystique
Review: When I first picked up the Ultimate Dracula, I wasn't sure what it was. I thought another collection on Dracula himself, but I was wrong. Anne Rice's "Master of the Rampling Gate" is a wonderful short story of hers. My other favorite is "The Tenth Scholar", a totally different look at the world of the vampire. If you're looking for some good short fiction, pick up this book. It won't disappoint you.
Rating:
Summary: An Interesting Look Into the Vampire Mystique
Review: When I first picked up the Ultimate Dracula, I wasn't sure what it was. I thought another collection on Dracula himself, but I was wrong. Anne Rice's "Master of the Rampling Gate" is a wonderful short story of hers. My other favorite is "The Tenth Scholar", a totally different look at the world of the vampire. If you're looking for some good short fiction, pick up this book. It won't disappoint you.
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