Search Worlds Without End

A sexy new repackaging of the extremely popular anthology of vampire erotica, edited by acclaimed author Poppy Z. Brite.

The classic horror tale is about fear. But in the last few years a new literature of the macabre has arisen, one that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones even lovers are forbidden to share.

Acclaimed dark fantasy author Poppy Z. Brite has brought together this genre's most powerful and seductive authors in an original collection of vampiric erotica, a shameless celebration of unspeakable intimacies. It is not for everyone.

But neither is the night.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (1994) - essay by Poppy Z. Brite
• Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu - (1994) - novelette by Norman Partridge
• Geraldine - (1994) - novelette by Ian McDowell
• In the Greenhouse - (1994) - short story by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• Cafe Endless: Spring Rain - (1994) - short story by Nancy Holder
• Empty Vessels - (1994) - novelette by David B. Silva
• The Final Fete of Abba Adi - (1994) - short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Cherry - (1994) - short story by Christa Faust
• White Chapel - (1994) - novelette by Douglas Clegg
• Delicious Antique Whore - (1994) - short fiction by W. H. Pugmire
• Triptych di Amore - (1994) - novelette by Thomas F. Monteleone
• Queen of the Night - (1994) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• The Marriage - (1994) - short story by Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem
• In This Soul of a Woman - (1994) - short story by Charles de Lint
• The Alchemy of the Throat - (1994) - novelette by Brian Hodge
• Love Me Forever - (1994) - short story by Mike Baker
• --And the Horses Hiss at Midnight - (1994) - short story by A. R. Morlan
• Elixir - (1994) - short story by Elizabeth Engstrom
• The Gift of Neptune - (1994) - short story by Danielle Willis
• From Hunger - (1994) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
• A Slow Red Whisper of Sand - (1994) - novelette by Robert Devereaux

A second helping of blood and passion...

Acclaimed dark fantasist Poppy Z. Brite's previous excursion into the nightmare realm of terrifying sensuality offered readers a sumptuous blood feast of unspeakable pleasures. Now she has done it again, serving up more provocative tales from some of the most inventive and accomplished writers in the field -- an unabashed exploration of shadow places and terrible hungers that's more dangerously seductive, more boldly erotic than the first.

If you found Love in Vein disturbingly dark, unsettlingly seductive, and deliciously carnal -- you're going to adore Twice Bitten: Love in Vein II. But be warned. It may be more than you can handle. It may open doors into the darkest corners of your unspoken fears. And it may be exactly what you've been secretly lusting for.

Table of Contents:

• Snow, Glass, Apples - (1995) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Bela's Plot - (1997) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Armies of the Heart - (1997) - short story by Christopher Fowler
• Whispers in Walled Tombs - (1997) - short story by O'Neil De Noux
• Ceilings and Sky - (1997) - short story by Lucy Taylor
• The Fly Room - (1997) - novelette by Thom Metzger
• The Subtle Ties That Bind - (1997) - short story by David Niall Wilson
• When Memory Fails - (1997) - novelette by Roberta Lannes
• The I of the Eye of the Worm - (1997) - short story by Janet Berliner and George Guthridge
• Stigmata - (1997) - short story by Jean-Daniel Brèque (trans. of Stigmates)
• The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins - (1997) - novella by Brian Hodge
• I'm Not Well, But I'm Better - (1997) - short story by Pat Califia
• Kingyo no fun - (1997) - novelette by Nicholas Royle
• First Date - (1997) - novelette by Richard Laymon
• To Have You with Me - (1997) - short story by Randy Fox
• Dusting the Flowers - (1997) - novelette by David J. Schow
• Bloodlight - (1997) - short story by Stephen Mark Rainey
• The Privilege of the Dead - (1997) - short story by Thomas S. Roche