Halloween & Day of the Dead: Vampires & Co. (Witches, Werewolves, etc.)

Made into a classic sci-fi film.

Part of the well-respected Gale Publishing literary criticism series, this volume contains a wealth of information on Bram Stoker and his famous novel.

Found in the Juvenile Collection, this is another story of the vampire bunny.

From the Southern Vampire Series, the basis of the HBO series TRUE BLOOD. Our library currently owns a few titles in the book series.

Offers critical analysis of Bram Stoker's novel.

"Stalled in his writing career and feeling overwhelmed by his charismatic, successful boss Sir Henry Irving, Bram Stoker returns to London in the summer of 1888 determined to turn his life around.

Late one night Stoker decides to take a stroll through the streets of Whitechapel, an impoverished district of London known for its many prostitutes as well as the citizenry crowding its shadowy alleys. Amid the shadows, he spies a seemingly familiar figure, a man resembling a quack American "doctor" of his acquaintance. But before Stoker can be certain, the man disappears.

Little does he know that just a few steps away, the crime spree of the century has begun: a vicious killer has claimed his first victim, a local prostitute. And Stoker somehow becomes the prime suspect. To clear his name, he enlists some of his illustrious friends, including Walt Whitman, Lady Jane Wilde (mother of Oscar), and the million-copy-selling Victorian novelist Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine. When they discover that the murder weapon is a Gurkha knife owned by Stoker and recently stolen from his home, there can be no doubt that the elusive American doctor—Francis Tumblety—is the very same man terrorizing and taunting London as Jack the Ripper. "

This CD is a musical adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel.

"To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula..."

The book that started it all! Check Countess (online catalogue) for other title's in Rice's Vampire Chronicles.

Completely revamped, fully revised and expanded edition (2nd edition). The 1994 edition is available in the circulating collection.

An example of a "Penny Dreadful" in Victorian times (because it was sold for a penny a chapter), this edition of VARNEY THE VAMPIRE (originally published in the mid-1800s) includes a "critical introduction about the Penny Dreadful Press and the lore of the Mid 19th Century Vampire Over 200 notes explaining references, historical information, and corrections to the text A variety of 19th century essays explaining the horrors and dangers of (gasp!) reading Penny Dreadfuls Contemporary critical essays on James Malcolm Rymer and his most famous Penny Dreadfuls: Varney the Vampire and Sweeney Todd Four additional early Penny Dreadfuls detailing insanity, family cannibalism, torture gone wrong, and other bed time stories A reader's guide Reproductions of the original woodcut illustrations."

Then she opened her mouth to scream—and recognised me. It was what I’d been waiting for. She froze. She looked into my eyes. She said, “It’s you.” Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you—and a diet with lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely. Jake’s depression has carried him to the point where he is actually contemplating suicide—even if it means terminating a legend thousands of years old. It would seem to be easy enough for him to end everything. But for very different reasons there are two dangerous groups pursuing him who will stop at nothing to keep him alive. Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legend—mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first century—a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human. One of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years.

Authors represented in this anthology include Stephen King, Rubyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Jane Yolen, Marie de France, Ovid, and Saki.

Check Countess for books that offer critical analysis of THE CRUCIBLE, such as TWENTIETH CENTURY INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CRUCIBLE: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS edited by John H. Ferres.

In two volumes.

You may also be interested in SON OF A WITCH by Gregory Maquire.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book 2012 Notable Children's Books—ALSC NCSS—Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012 School Library Journal Best Books of 2011 SLJ’s 100 Magnificent Children’s Books of 2011 Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2011 The riveting, true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children into a witch hunt that took over a dozen people’s lives and ruined hundreds more unfolds in chilling detail in this young adult book by award-winning author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer.

Check Countess (online catalogue) for other titles in Rice's Lasher series.

A particular favorite of "The Count" (aka the author of this LibGuide).