Library Journal Review: VAMPIRES: THE RECENT UNDEAD

Vampires: The Recent UndeadLibrary Journal: Guran has selected twenty-five vampire stories of the “new millennium” that reflect a diversity of themes. Holly Black’s “The Coldest Girl in Cold Town” provides a bleak look at what it means to trade your humanity for immortality and eternal thirst. On the other hand, Tanya Huff’s heroine, Vicki Nelson, in “No Matter Where You Go” unselfishly follows three desperate teens into a hellish alternate universe. Tanith Lee uses her wonderfully bizarre imagination for an unusual take on the vampire theme in “La Vampiresse.” Nisi Shawl’s “To the Moment” combines the themes of love and the predatory nature of the vampire, while John Langan chills the reader with a horrifying tale of a creature haunting four American soldiers in “The Wide, Carnivorous Sky.” Other noted fantasy authors, including Carrie Vaughn, Jeanne C. Stein, Kelley Armstrong, Nancy Kilpatrick, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, are well represented here. VERDICT: This splendid collection will appeal to readers of the vampire genre as well as fantasy in general.

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