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| Vampires, Wine, and Roses | 
 enlarge | Author: Various
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1518211
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0425157415
EAN: 9780425157411
ASIN: 0425157415
Publication Date: February 1, 1997
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 Not Free SF Reader January 22, 2008
Vampires Wine and Roses is another anthology of similar content to some past efforts - a lot of early public domain pieces, along with some celebrity bits, Woody Allen, Lennie Bruce, Rod Serling, etc. There are some stretches that would beat Mister Fantastic included here too, as part of the theme. Romeo and Juliet? King Arthur? Perhaps the editor had indulged in a bit too much of the middle bit of the title when making the decisions, or just liked them too much.
Also, a lot of poetry and even a song from Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles - no argument with that, given I have that one.
Vampires Wine and Roses : The Master of Rampling Gate - Anne Rice
Vampires Wine and Roses : John Barrington Cowles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Vampires Wine and Roses : Ligeia - Edgar Allan Poe
Vampires Wine and Roses : A Fragment of a Turkish Tale - Lord Byron
Vampires Wine and Roses : The Flowering of the Strange Orchid - H. G. Wells
Vampires Wine and Roses : The Homecoming - Ray Bradbury
Vampires Wine and Roses : Phantoms - Ivan Turgenev
Vampires Wine and Roses : Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson
Vampires Wine and Roses : The Carpathian Castle [short story] - Jules Verne
Vampires Wine and Roses : Count Dracula - Woody Allen
Vampires Wine and Roses : The Horla - Guy de Maupassant
Vampires Wine and Roses : The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains - Alexandre Dumas
Vampires Wine and Roses : The Death of King Arthur [short story] - Thomas Malory
Vampires Wine and Roses : Riddle of the Crypt - Rod Serling
Vampires Wine and Roses : Bewitched - Edith Wharton
Vampires Wine and Roses : The Hound - H. P. Lovecraft
Vampires Wine and Roses : Dracula's Guest [short story] - Bram Stoker
Big bat bait.
3.5 out of 5
Burning down the house as dead dad suggested a better move.
2.5 out of 5
Woman a killer.
3.5 out of 5
Lady loss revisited.
3.5 out of 5
Exhumation surprise.
3 out of 5
Hothouse leech.
3.5 out of 5
I want to feel the wind beneath my wings. Or I'll cry.
3.5 out of 5
Flying apparition draining.
2.5 out of 5
Entrancing female.
3 out of 5
Take eclipse safety precautions.
3.5 out of 5
New being haunting.
3 out of 5
Preferable to have enough help left to not become a vampire woman, thanks.
3 out of 5
Blood shedding maidens.
2 out of 5
Winged dog amulet cult symbol.
3 out of 5
Dracula's guest employs some of the creep local folk tales and legends. The significance of a blue flame from the ground, the howling of wolves, that sort of thing.
Here, a coachman in a coach drawn by midnight black horses, picks up a traveller. He is growing increasingly freaked out all the time.
4 out of 5
 Contents: November 4, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Romeo and Juliet (excerpt)- William Shakespeare
The Master of Rampling Gate; The Ballad of the Sad Rat- Anne Rice
Moon Over Bourbon Street- Sting
John Barrington Cowles- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Thalaba the Destroyer (excerpt)- Robert Southey
Ligeia- Edgar Allan Poe
The Vampire- Rudyard Kipling
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale; The Giaour (excerpt)- Lord Byron
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid- H.G. Wells
The Homecoming- Ray Bradbury
Rokeby (excerpt)- Sir Walter Scott
Phantoms- Ivan Turgenev
Olalla- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Vampire; The Metamorphoses of a Vampire- Baudelaire
The Carpathian Castle (excerpt)- Jules Verne
Vampires- Voltaire
Lamia- John Keats
Count Dracula- Woody Allen
The Vampires Won't Vampire for Me- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Horla- Guy De Maupassant
The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains- Alexandre Dumas
The Divine Pilgrim (excerpt)- Conrad Aiken
The Death of King Arthur (excerpt)- Sir Thomas Malory
The Vampirine Fair- Thomas Hardy
The Riddle of the Crypt- Rod Serling
The Bride of Corinth- Goethe
(untitled)- Lenny Bruce
The Wasteland (excerpt)- T.S. Eliot
Bewitched- Edith Wharton
The Hound- H.P. Lovecraft
Dracula's Guest- Bram Stoker
 Where's the passion? May 19, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're looking for vampiric moments in mostly literary fiction, you may enjoy this book. If you enjoy poetry, the book is about 1/3 poetry. If you're seeking enjoyable, passion-filled stories about vampires, you may be disappointed.
Not a fan of poetry, I concentrated on the stories. Quite a few got bogged down in excessive narrative and/or description. Others are brief excerpts from stories or novels, so there's nothing to satisfy a reader. Some are about vampires in only the loosest sense: one "vampire" is a plant.
I found the offerings by Anne Rice and Alexandre Dumas the most readable, but both are romantic stories, which may not appeal to everyone.
I read vampire stories for passionate characters and situations. This book seemed dry and bland to me.
beautiful book November 3, 2004
i highly recommend this book. unlike most vampire anthologies, this book takes you from the classic, gothic style, to modern day tales. there are many stories in here that are difficult to find and some of the shorter poems and song lyrics are a welcome suprise. this book will make you look at every aspect of vampires in culture, even places you would never expect to find them. i will caution that some of the stories are old and therefore, may be boring, laborous reading for some. if you are a serious fan of vampire literature, this is an affordable must have. i recommend reading... the master of rampling gate, draculas guest, the vampire of the carpathians first. pick this up and the anthology edited be david skal also!
 A pretty good book, with some pretty good stories and poems. November 20, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is great. It moves with random pace. Some stories will keep you hanging like a vampire sucking away your life blood, other stories can bore to death, but you get over it. The poems are also good with some twist. This comes as a highly recommended book for that fanged fan out there. Trust me, you'll love it...
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