[Otherworld Stories #7.2 -Twilight 01] • By Blood We Live

From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity's darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hunger. And yet, there is an attraction, undeniable, to the vampire archetype, whether the pale European count, impeccably dressed and coldly masculine, yet strangely ambiguous, ready to sink his sharp teeth deep into his victims' necks, draining or converting them, or the vamp, the count's feminine counterpart, villain and victim in one, using her wiles and icy sexuality to corrupt man and woman alike...

Edited by John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead), By Blood We Live gathers together the best vampire literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Joe Hill, Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Ken Macleod, Harry Turtledove, Carrie Vaughn, and Tad Williams.

Contents

1 • Introduction (By Blood We Live) • essay by John Joseph Adams

3 • Snow, Glass, Apples • (1995) • shortstory by Neil Gaiman

13 • The Master of Rampling Gate • (1984) • novelette by Anne Rice

33 • Under St. Peter's • (2007) • novelette by Harry Turtledove

45 • Child of an Ancient City • (1988) • novelette by Tad Williams

75 • Lifeblood • (2003) • novelette by Michael A. Burstein

88 • Endless Night • (2008) • shortstory by Barbara Roden

106 • Infestation • (2008) • novelette by Garth Nix

120 • Life Is the Teacher • [Kitty] • (2008) • shortfiction by Carrie Vaughn

134 • The Vechi Barbat • (2007) • shortstory by Nancy Kilpatrick

148 • The Beautiful, The Damned • (1995) • shortfiction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

161 • Pinecones • (2006) • shortfiction by David Wellington

165 • Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu • (1994) • novelette by Norman Partridge

180 • Foxtrot at High Noon • shortfiction by Sergei Lukyanenko

189 • This Is Now • (2004) • shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith

199 • Blood Gothic • (1985) • shortstory by Nancy Holder

204 • Mama Gone • (1991) • shortstory by Jane Yolen

209 • Abraham's Boys • (2004) • shortstory by Joe Hill

224 • Nunc Dimittis • (1983) • novelette by Tanith Lee

240 • Hunger • (2007) • shortfiction by Gabriela Lee

250 • Ode to Edvard Munch • (2006) • shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan

256 • Finders Keepers • (2008) • shortfiction by L. A. Banks

275 • After the Stone Age • (2004) • shortfiction by Brian Stableford

286 • Much at Stake • (1991) • shortstory by Kevin J. Anderson

297 • House of the Rising Sun • (2005) • shortstory by Elizabeth Bear (aka The House of the Rising Sun)

302 • A Standup Dame • (2008) • shortstory by Lilith Saintcrow (aka A Stand-Up Dame)

316 • Twilight • [Women of the Otherworld Short Fiction] • (2007) • novelette by Kelley Armstrong

333 • In Darkness, Angels • (1983) • novelette by Eric Van Lustbader

355 • Sunrise on Running Water • (2007) • novelette by Barbara Hambly

372 • Hit • (2008) • shortstory by Bruce McAllister

385 • Undead Again • (2005) • shortstory by Ken MacLeod

388 • Peking Man • (1996) • shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer

396 • Necros • (1986) • shortstory by Brian Lumley

409 • Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire by Anna S. Oppenhagen-Petrescu • (2005) • shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente

415 • Lucy, In Her Splendor • (2003) • shortstory by Charles Coleman Finlay

426 • The Wide, Carnivorous Sky • (2009) • shortfiction by John Langan

464 • One for the Road • (1977) • shortstory by Stephen King

477 • For Further Reading (By Blood We Live) • essay by Ross E. Lockhart