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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: Oct 2008
Genre: Fiction - Horror - Anthologies
Retail Price: $16.00
Pages: 400
The Horror Writers Association Presents
BLOOD LITE
...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge.
Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a gory twist in 'An Evening with Al Gore'...In an all-new Dresden Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly paranormal doings, there's no such thing as a 'Day Off' for the Chicago P.D.'s wizard detective, Harry Dresden...Sherrilyn Kenyon turns a cubicle-dwelling MBA with no life into a demon-fighting seraph with one hell of an afterlife in 'Where Angels Fear to Tread'...Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold-out seance tour, but behind the scenes, a disgruntled ghost has a bone to pick, in Kelley Armstrong's 'The Ungrateful Dead.' Plus tales guaranteed to get under your skin -- in a good way -- from
Janet Berliner Don D'Ammassa Nancy Holder Nancy KilpatrickJ. A. Konrath and F. Paul Wilson Joe R. Lansdale Will LudwigsenSharyn McCrumb Mark Onspaugh Mike Resnick Steven SavileD. L. Snell Eric James Stone Jeff Strand Lucien Soulban Matt Venne Christopher Welch
So let the blood flow and laughter reign -- because when it comes to facing our deepest, darkest fears, a little humor goes a long way!
Most of the stories in Blood Lite is hard to swallow, pun intended. Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Matt Venne, and Sherrilyn Kenyon are the only authors whose stories are worth reading, or trying to read. I had a difficult time getting through the rest of the stories.