Darkness, 1: 3rd in the Blood Opera Sequence
by Tanith Lee
from St Martins Pr
Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence, Book 2)
by Lee Tanith
from Dell
A Bed of Earth (Secret Books of Venus, Book 3)
by Tanith Lee
from Overlook TP
A Bed of Earth is a haunting journey to a parallel version of sixteenth-century Venice, where a fierce territorial rivalry between two noble families unearths a supernatural force from beneath the placid surface of the canals and rotting understructure of the city.
The struggle between the two families for space on the Isle of the Dead, the overcrowded burial ground for generations of Venetian nobility, boils over and a fourteen-year-old girl is forced to pay the ultimate price. As the years pass on, parties complicit in her disappearance begin to suffer the consequences in a series of shocking deaths. A humble apprentice gravedigger is left to sort out the mysteries and subdue the ancient terror that threatens to destroy the entire republic.
Elephantasm
by Tanith Lee
from Dell
Sixteen-year-old Annie Ember lives in grinding poverty in the city...until one day in a mysterious shop she discovers a tiny and ancient ivory elephant. The subsequent murder of her sister's husband leaves Annie homeless, and she is found employment in a country house far away.
Sir Hampton Smolte returned from India with a great fortune--and also a dark obsession with that conquered land. His mansion is fanciful and extraordinary, like a raja's palace set down in green English parkland.
Annie becomes a scullery maid in this strange place full of stuffed animals, eccentric servants, and the even more peculiar Smolte family. Soon she catches the eye of the handsome Rupert, and gradually succumbs to his advances...till one night she learns in disgust and horror just what his lovemaking entails.
Annie's helpless fury then transforms this dream-house into a whirlwind of panic and the impossible...letting in all the avenging power of the jungle, and unlocking Hampton Smolte's darkest secrets.
Best New Horror (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)
by Poppy Z. Brite
from Running Press
Midnight Mass and Other Great Vampire Stories
by Tanith Lee
from Dove Audio
From the horrifying to the humorous, some of today's finest authors share stories about one of mankind's oldest imagined evils, the vampire. The contents of this original audio production include "Bite Me Not, or Fleur de Fur" by Tanith Lee, "Food Chain" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, "Moonlight in Vermont" by Esther Freisner, "Madeleine" by Barbara Hambly, "Victims" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, "Seat Partner" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and "Midnight Mass" by F. Paul Wilson.
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