The undead are more alive today than ever. Immortal? Indeed! Nothing has sunk its teeth into 21st century popular culture as pervasively as the vampire. The fangsters have the freedom to fly across all genres and all mediums - there's even apps for vamps. Whether roaming into romance, haunting horror, sneaking into science fiction, capering into humor, meandering through mystery - no icon is more versatile than the vampire. Slake your insatiable thirst with the best sanguinary stories of the new millennium: terrifying or tender, deadly or delicious, bad-ass or beneficent, classic or cutting-edge. Contents La Vampiresse • (1999) • by Tanith Lee The Coldest Girl in Coldtown • (2009) • by Holly Black This Is Now • (2004) • by Michael Marshall Smith Sisters • [Ottawa and the Valley] • (2002) • by Charles de Lint The Screaming • (2004) • by J. A. Konrath Zen and the Art of Vampirism • [Women of the Otherworld Short Fiction] • (2009) • by Kelley Armstrong Dead Man Stalking • (2008) • by Rachel Caine The Ghost of Leadville • (2009) • by Jeanne C. Stein Waste Land • (2002) • by Stephen Dedman A Gentleman of the Old School • [Count of Saint-Germain] • (2005) • by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro No Matter Where You Go • (2010) • by Tanya Huff Outfangthief • by Conrad Williams Dancing with the Star • (2008) • by Susan Sizemore A Trick of the Dark • (2004) • by Tina Rath When Gretchen Was Human • (2001) • by Mary A. Turzillo [as by Mary Turzillo ] Conquistador de la Noche • [Kitty] • (2009) • by Carrie Vaughn Endless Night • (2008) • by Barbara Roden Dahlia Underground • (2010) • by Charlaine Harris The Belated Burial • (2009) • by Caitlín R. Kiernan Twilight States • (2005) • by Albert E. Cowdrey To the Moment • by Nisi Shawl Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977 • [Anno Dracula] • (2000) • by Kim Newman Vampires in the Lemon Grove • (2007) • by Karen Russell Vampires Anonymous • by Nancy Kilpatrick The Wide, Carnivorous Sky • (2009) • by John Langan ©2011 Paula Guran (P)2011 Audible, Inc.