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Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a “consistently engrossing anthology” from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expand the boundaries of the concept of vampirism—as she did in her first collection, Blood Is Not Enough—Datlow has assembled eighteen fascinating stories that range from tales of literal vampires to what she calls “metaphorical bloodsuckers,” who can drain another’s life force without ever sinking their teeth into necks.
In “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” by Suzy McKee Charnas, an elderly Jewish woman who’s taken her own life has second thoughts and makes a deal to become a vampire to stay immortal, the only condition being she has to drink blood by request only. An amnesiac operative tries to sort out if a secret government agency is trying to help him regain his memory or is wiping it clean in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s Kafkaesque “Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?” And in Jonathan Carroll’s “The Moose Church,” a tourist in Sardinia is literally scarred by asking questions of death in his dreams . . .
A Whisper of Blood includes contributions by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Silverberg, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilber, Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Melissa Mia Hall, David J. Schow, Jack Womack, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Thomas Tessier, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, K. W. Jeter, Pat Cadigan, and Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth.
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Creators
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Ellen DatlowEditor
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Suzy McKee CharnasAuthor
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Karl Edward WagnerAuthor
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Robert SilverbergAuthor
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Kathe KojaAuthor
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Elizabeth MassieAuthor
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Barry N. MalzbergAuthor
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Rick WilberAuthor
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Jonathan CarrollAuthor
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Thomas LigottiAuthor
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Melissa Mia HallAuthor
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David J. SchowAuthor
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Jack WomackAuthor
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Melissa SnodgrassAuthor
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Thomas TessierAuthor
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Chelsea Quinn YarbroAuthor
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K. W. JeterAuthor
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Pat CadiganAuthor
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Robert HoldstockAuthor
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Garry KilworthAuthor
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Publisher
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Release date
July 9, 2019 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781504058261
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781504058261
- File size: 6251 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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September 30, 1991
This consistently engrossing anthology of 18 stories is an extension of Datlow's first collection of vampire tales, Blood Is Not Enough . But for the most part the vampires here are not literal, and can be seen as a metaphor for negative relationships. In the bleak and Kafkaesque ``Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?'' by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, a secret government agency is deliberately draining one of its agents of his identity. Further distortions of normal relations appear in the wry tale ``The Slug'' by Edward Wagner, in which one university colleague impinges on another's jealousy guarded creative time--with macabre results. A novel form of bloodletting is viewed in ``Warm Man'' by Robert Silverberg, in which an enigmatic visitor to a small town exercises a sort of psychic vampirism when the residents inexplicably pour out their secrets to him. Those who like their vampires in the traditional mold will take to Rose Blum in ``Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep'' by Suzy McKee Charnas. Rose has just died, but is willing to try anything to be able to stick around for a while longer. Ranging from the grotesque to the pleasantly lurid, these tales are of unvaryingly high quality. Readers looking for shock and horror will be gratified; those who want fangs in the neck, however, must settle for tongue in cheek. BOMC alternate.
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