Romance : Gothic

Tour guide Nikki DuMonde makes her living taking groups of tourists to see haunted mansions and ghostly graveyards in the Big Easy, but she’s not prepared for a spooky nocturnal visit by one of her employees. In fact, when Andrea Ciello appears at her bedside at four o’clock in the morning begging for help – then disappears – Nikki is more than a little miffed at what she assumes is a joke perpetrated by her coworkers. She vows to let them know that she doesn’t scare so easily at her first opportunity. Then, in the harsh light of day, the police arrive to inform Nikki that Andy died the night before – at the exact time she “appeared” in Nikki’s bedroom. Andy was a recovering drug addict who had apparently died of an overdose. But Nikki is sure that Andy was clean – and, though she can hardly believe it, she suspects the young woman had come to ask Nikki to help bring her killer to justice. No one believes her – until she meets Brent Blackhawk, a paranormal investigator desperately trying to forget his tragic past. Half Irish, half Lakota Sioux – and able to communicate with the dead – Brent is used to living in two worlds, the living and the ghostly. Brent has come to New Orleans to look into the murder of FBI officer Tom Garfield, an above-reproach investigator who was also found dead of an overdose. He’s quick to pick up on the similarities between Garfield’s death and that of Andrea Ciello. When he discovers that Nikki has also been “seeing” Garfield, he’s sure that both he and Andy were victims of the same vicious killer. Brent knows that Nikki somehow holds the key to the mysteries surrounding these brutal deaths. To find the truth about both murders, he must not only convince her that she has a special ability to communicate with ghosts, but he must also get her to cooperate in his investigation. Not surprisingly, Nikki – whose friends have arranged to send her to a shrink – doesn’t welcome Brent’s attempts to explain that he, too, “sees g more...

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A kiss of darkness. A kiss of death. The woods have always been full of whispers in Transylvania, of terrors that go back centuries to the legendary Vlad Dracul himself. Ignoring their professor's grave warning—beware those who would prey upon the innocent—several visiting students travel into the forest...and disappear. Now their professor, Bryan McAllister, believes that a dark cult is at work—and that their next gathering will happen in America. When psychologist Jessica Fraser is approached by Bryan for her assistance, she is hesitant. Something about Bryan unnerves Jessica deeply, yet she cannot ignore the incredible pull she feels toward him. Now, as reluctant allies, they unite to seek the truth. The search takes them from the forested mountains to dimly lit clubs in New Orleans' French Quarter, where perversion goes beyond sexual to life-threatening. And everywhere, whispering on the wind, is the dreaded word...vampyr. more...

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Marc Sanchez leads you on eighteen trips into mayhem, madness, and the macabre. You'll witness murder by Internet, some very personal demons, some excessively assertive non-smokers, a couple of everyday psychos, a dangerous Goth chick or two, an absinthe brewer that is out of this world, a handful of unusual vampire hunters, the harvesting of human endorphins for profit, and a few other surreal and frightful nightmares. Twice nominated for the Literary Pushcart Prize, Sanchez will spin your psyche and introduce you to his rabid muse.RAMSEY CAMPBELL says this collection is 'Raw, dark, and bleak.' more...

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Who is killing all the great vampires of tenth century Paris! In a storm-wracked French Tavern, Franc, one of the undead, encounters a former lover on the run. His bite turned Livia into as vampire long-ago, and now she has just barely escaped with her undead life from the unknown assassins who have slaughtered most of the vampires in Paris. more...

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