The voice came from the night all around him, in his head and out of it.What do you want?' it repeated.He wondered if he dared to turn and look, realised he did not.'Well? You come here every night, i...
That's brain tissue. How can you-? Claire shut her mouth, fast. Never mind. I don't think I wanna know.Truly, I think that's best. Please take it. He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin...
Of course, everyone's going to freak out when you show up at school.Freak out? Why?Because you're so much hotter now than when you left. She shrugged. It's true. Must be a vampire thing.Simon looked b...
Now Sunny, don’t get mad, but … Rayne begins, her voice trembling. I shoot her an angry glare. But WHAT, Rayne? I, uh, think you’ve accidentally been turned into a vampire.
It's daylight. Shouldn't you have burned to a crisp, or something? Don't you have to crawl into a coffin? Where do you keep it stashed, anyway?I've never owned a coffin, he admitted, unable to hold ba...
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked...
I've won Satan's lottery.
I'm gonna kill him, Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like filtered through the pillow.Stake him right in the heart, shove garlic up his ass, and-and-And what? (Michael)When did you get h...
I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.
I was dying, I realized vaguely. There was no getting out of that. The vampire author would be drained dry by a vampire. It was almost a poetic way to go.
He lifted her hand to his mouth. The touch of his lips was soft on her scraped palm, the tiny licks of his tongue so light she could barely feel them. Wait. He was licking her?You can't lick me, she s...
But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you an orphan. If you choose to take my life as a payment for theirs, you will be within your ri...
Vampires, contrary to popular belief, don't incinerate when exposed to sunlight. If that were true, there would be a heck of a lot more stories about spontaneous combustion around the world. They are,...
As I looked down at him, as I saw his yellow hair pressed against my coat, I had a vision of him from long ago, that tall, stately gentleman in the swirling black cape, with his head thrown back, his...
Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.
You know, being bitten by a vampire one week before prom really sucks. No pun intended.
We want you to tell us about vampires.Simon grinned. What do you want to know? Scariest is Eli in Let the Right One In, cheesiest is late-era Lestat, most underrated is David Bowie in The Hunger. Sexi...
Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.
So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true pla...
So crosses don't do anything against your kind? Sean asked.No, Arland said. There is no mystical force repelling us.Then why?We're forbidden to kill a creature in a moment of prayer or invocation of t...