[bksvol-discuss] Fw: Horror June 2009

From: "Amber Wallenstein" <amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:57:57 -0400
Horror June 2009
"Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil 
things in the world will have full sway?"
~ Bram Stoker (1847-1912), Irish writer, Dracula
New and Recently Released!

Jailbait Zombie - by Mario Acevedo
Publisher: Eos
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Pub Date: 03/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061567148
ISBN-10: 0061567140
Ex-soldier Felix Gomez became a vampire during a tour of duty in Iraq; these 
days, he's a private investigator, using his supernatural talents to serve
a vampire organization called the Araneum. Sent to Colorado to destroy a group 
of zombies and their creator, Felix encounters a terminally ill 16-year-old
who wants him to turn her into a vampire. If he doesn't, she'll use her psychic 
powers to make his undead life a living hell. Jailbait Zombie is the 4th
installment of Mario Acevedo's Felix Gomez series, which begins with The 
Nymphos of Rocky Flats. As the titles suggest, these books contain adult themes.
But if you're not deterred by sex and violence, then you'll enjoy Felix's 
hair-raising adventures.

Blood Groove - by Alex Bledsoe
Publisher: Tor
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Pub Date: 04/28/2009
ISBN-13: 9780765321961
ISBN-10: 0765321963
It's Memphis, 1975...but as far as Baron Rudolfo Zginski is concerned, it might 
as well be another planet. Sixty years after some Welsh villagers plunged
a golden crucifix into his heart, the vampire Baron has awakened to find 
himself on the other side of the ocean, lying in a morgue, where the medical 
examiner
has just (unwisely) removed the stake. After dispatching his resurrector, he 
joins up with a gang of teenage vampires, who are street smart but woefully
ignorant of vampiric history. But the Baron's got bigger problems--in 
particular a new street drug that's deadly to vampires. Combining horror, humor,
and mystery, Blood Groove is more Blacula than Dracula, and perfect for readers 
who enjoy scares with an urban flair.

Afraid - by Jack Kilborn
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Pub Date: 04/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780446535939
ISBN-10: 0446535931
It's just another quiet day in tiny Safe Haven, Wisconsin (pop. 907)--until an 
army helicopter crash-lands at the edge of town, releasing a troop of 
government-created
"Red-ops" (technologically enhanced convicts-turned-soldiers) who proceed to 
slaughter the townspeople. It seems like a horrible mistake, but the town's
sheriff isn't so sure. But what--or who--are the Red-ops after? Jack Kilborn is 
the pen name of thriller writer J.A. Konrath, best known for his Lt. Jack
Daniels novels--but this novel eschews the author's trademark humor in favor of 
pure terror. If you like gory, gross-out horror and having to sleep with
the lights on, then you'll want to read this book.

Patient Zero - by Jonathan Maberry
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Pub Date: 03/03/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312382858
ISBN-10: 0312382855
Four days after fatally shooting a suspected terrorist, Baltimore police 
detective Joe Ledger is surprised when he has to kill the man again. But that's
how things go in the top-secret Department of Military Sciences. As a new 
recruit for the DMS, Ledger learns a shocking secret: terrorists have 
manufactured
a disease that turns people into zombies. Now, Ledger and his elite team of 
fighters must stop the terrorist leader El Mujahid, his equally zealous wife
Amirah, and their wealthy Western financial backer, Sebastian Gault. Can they 
succeed before the zombie plague wipes out humanity? Find out in this "fast
and furious read" (Publishers Weekly) by Stoker award-winning author Jonathan 
Maberry.
First Chapter
Vampire Books with Bite
Did Twilight make you gag? Are you sick of angst-ridden vampires who don't like 
human blood and who just want to be like everyone else? Do you miss the
good old days of vampire fiction, when Draculas and Nosferatus flew by night, 
draining their hapless victims of life? Well, if so, you're in luck: the
vampires in these books have fangs and aren't afraid to use them. If you prefer 
vampires to be scary rather than sensitive, check out these toothsome reads.

Fledgling: A Novel - by Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Pub Date: 09/30/2005
ISBN-13: 9781583226902
ISBN-10: 1583226907
As one of the "Ina," Shori is the perfect vampire. She has no need of sleep 
during the day, her dark skin protects her from the sun's lethal rays, and 
despite
being 53, she looks like an 11-year-old girl. But she's hardly invincible: one 
day she awakes in a cave, gravely wounded and unable to remember who she
is--although she does know she's hungry. Embarking on a quest to recover her 
memories and discover who tried to kill her, Shori and her (tasty) new human
host, Wright Hamlin, learn about the mysterious world of the blood-craving Ina 
and their enemies. Publishers Weekly says that Fledgling gives "a tired
genre a much-needed shot in the arm."

Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire - by Michael Mignola 
and Christopher Golden
Publisher: Bantam Books
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Pub Date: 08/28/2007
ISBN-13: 9780553804713
ISBN-10: 0553804715
All is not quiet on the Western Front in this horror mashup of Bram Stoker's 
Dracula and Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier." While lying
wounded in a corpse-filled trench in No Man's Land, Lord Henry Baltimore 
tangles with a giant vampire bat and unwittingly unleashes a plague that 
devastates
Europe. Years later, Baltimore summons three friends--a surgeon, a soldier, and 
a sea captain--to help him put a stop to the vampiric menace. This illustrated
novel, a collaborative effort by novelist Christopher Golden and Hellboy 
creator Mike Mignola is "a new classic of vampire literature" (Booklist).
First Chapter

13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale - by David Wellington
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Pub Date: 05/22/2007
ISBN-13: 9780307381439
ISBN-10: 0307381439
More than 20 years after Special Deputy Jameson Arkeley thwarts a vampire 
rampage, a baffling new wave of killings arises. However, the only survivor of
the previous purge, vampire Justinia Malvern, has been in solitary confinement 
and on life support ever since that fateful night. Arkeley teams up with
Pennsylvania State Trooper Laura Caxton to locate and destroy the new vampires, 
but it's going to take more than a stake through the heart to stop these
violent killers--who don't just bite their victims' necks but tear their heads 
off and dismember the bodies. In addition to his vampire series, horror
writer David Wellington has also written a zombie-themed trilogy, which begins 
with the Manhattan-set Monster Island. But if you want to stick with vampires,
follow 13 Bullets with its sequel, 99 Coffins.
First Chapter

Midnight Mass - by F. Paul Wilson
Publisher: Tor Books
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Pub Date: 11/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780765346346
ISBN-10: 0765346346
New York, New York: if you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere. That's 
what the vampires are finding out, at any rate. Since the collapse of the
Soviet Union, Central Europe's vampires have made the East Coast their base of 
operations and have created their own steady food supply by hiring traitorous
human "cowboys" to round up their fellow citizens like cattle. Now a defrocked 
priest, a nun-turned-vampire-killer, and a rabbi join forces to fight back
in this "creepy, terrifying thriller" (Booklist) by the author of the Repairman 
Jack series.
First Chapter
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