Cathedral of Vampires

Cathedral of Vampires
Author: Mary Ann Mitchell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2002-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780843950236

The notorious Marquis de Sade continues on as a vampire, his perverse desires still unquenched after two centuries. His offspring--vampires of his own making--have desires of their own, the strongest of which is revenge. An eternally young woman and her half-vampire companion will stop at nothing to find Sade and put an end to his master vampire's reign. (June) Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A Bloody Habit

A Bloody Habit
Author: Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2020-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1621642062

It is 1900, the dawn of a new century. Even as the old Queen's health fails, Victorian Britain stands monumental and strong upon a mountain of technological, scientific, and intellectual progress. For John Kemp, a straight-forward, unimaginative London lawyer, life seems reassuringly predictable yet forward-leaning, that is, until a foray into the recently published sensationalist novel Dracula, united with a chance meeting with an eccentric Dominican friar, catapults him into a bizarre, violent, and unsettling series of events. As London is transfixed with terror at a bloody trail of murder and destruction, Kemp finds himself in its midst, besieged on all sides—in his friendships, as those close to him fall prey to vicious assault by an unknown assassin; in his deep attraction to an unconventional American heiress; and in his own professional respectability, for who can trust a lawyer who sees things which, by all sane reason, cannot exist? Can his mundane, sensible life—and his skeptical mind—withstand vampires? Can this everyday Englishman survive his encounter with perhaps an even more sinister threat—the white-robed Papists who claim to be vampire slayers?

Vittorio, the Vampire

Vittorio, the Vampire
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307575942

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold. Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue. Against a backdrop of the wonders--both sacred and profane--and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

Empire of the Vampire

Empire of the Vampire
Author: Jay Kristoff
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 794
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 125024529X

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff comes Empire of the Vampire, the first illustrated volume of an astonishing new dark fantasy saga. From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hand sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight, Mere man shall end this endless night. It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains. Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity’s last remaining hope: The Holy Grail.

The Vampire De Sade

The Vampire De Sade
Author: Mary Ann Mitchell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780843954173

This continuation of the Marquis de Sade saga pits its vampire hero against Marie Laveau, the infamous voodoo queen of New Orleans.

The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories

The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
Author: Various
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 641
Release: 1989-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0140124454

The terrifying and definitive collection of Vampire stories from the masters of literary horror They're lurking under the cover of darkness…and between the covers of this book. Here, in all their horror and all their glory, are the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring. Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered for the kill and for the chill, brought frighteningly to life by Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and other masters of the macabre. Careful—they are all crafty enough to steal their way into your imagination and steal away your hopes for a restful sleep.

Sips of Blood

Sips of Blood
Author: Mary Ann Mitchell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780843945553

The Marquis de Sade still lives as one of the undead, and rumors of his evil deeds don't begin to describe what the Marquis has become. His tastes remain the same, but his desire for blood has become a hunger. The first three books in Mitchell's series about the undead de Sade are reissued.

The Cathedral & the Bazaar

The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Author: Eric S. Raymond
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001-02-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 059655396X

Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry, from Sun Microsystems to IBM to Intel.The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them."The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 1999 and 2000. Raymond's clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001.

Pandora

Pandora
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307575888

Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together. Look for Anne Rice’s new book, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, coming November 29, 2016.

Sword and Blood

Sword and Blood
Author: Sarah Marques
Publisher: Vampire Musketeers
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781607013310

Vampires are overrunning the country and one has claimed Athos of the three musketeers, but Athos retains some of his humanity and it is up to him and the rest of the musketeers to fight the vampire scourge.