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Many Bloody Returns

Vampire Files seriesbook 11.4Next:My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon(2007) →

Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.

Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again.

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In New York Timesbestselling author Charlaine Harris's "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is the only human at the annual commemoration of Dracula's birth. But this year, the Prince of Darkness actually shows up-and finds Sookie to be a tasty-looking present.

New York Timesbestselling author Jim Butcher's crime-solving wizard Harry Dresden, of the Dresden Files novels, heads to a role-playing party to give his vampire brother a birthday present in "It's My Birthday Too," only to discover there are some bloodthirsty party crashers who don't share their brotherly love.

In "Twilight," Cassandra DuCharme, who appeared in New York Timesbestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Dime Store Magic, knows she has to kill to live as a vampire another year-but finds herself disturbingly disinterested in the hunt.

Plus ten more bloody good birthday stories that take the cake.

Contents

xi * Preface: A Few Words (Many Bloody Returns) * (2007) * essay by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner

1 * Dracula Night * [Sookie Stackhouse 4.3] * shortstory by Charlaine Harris

21 * The Mournful Cry of Owls * novelette by Christopher Golden

50 * I Was a Teenage Vampire * novelette by Bill Crider

73 * Twilight * [Women of the Otherworld Short Fiction 7.2] * novelette by Kelley Armstrong

100 * It's My Birthday, Too * [The Dresden Files 9.2] * novella by Jim Butcher

146 * Grave-Robbed * [Vampire Files] * novelette by P. N. Elrod

176 * The First Day of the Rest of Your Life * [The Morganville Vampires: Extras 2.5] * novelette by Rachel Caine

201 * The Witch and the Wicked * novelette by Jeanne C. Stein

230 * Blood Wrapped * [Henry Fitzroy] * novelette by Tanya Huff

254 * The Wish * shortstory by Carolyn Haines

265 * Fire Ice and Linguini for Two * [Garnet Lacey 2.5] * novelette by Lyda Morehouse [as by Tate Hallaway ]

290 * Vampire Hours * novelette by Elaine Viets

318 * How Stella Got Her Grave Back * novelette by Toni L. P. Kelner

Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
medium · 355 pages

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