From Publishers Weekly
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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From Library Journal
This collects 18 old and new vampire stories just in time for the witching season.
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