Books for Vampire Lovers

These are a couple of books for serious vampire lovers. They have everything you need to know about vampires...well almost everything.

The Everything Vampire Book is a little more funny, kinda campy while The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires is much more serious and detailed.

However both are must haves for any vampire aficionado's bookshelf.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires goes into in depth research about vampire myths and legends from around the world and even covers close vampire relatives including witches, werewolves, ghouls and ghosts. You'll also find vampire like murderers throughout history and literary vampires, even Victorian vampires and of course a whole chapter of Anne Rice's vampires. This is a great book I am keeping on my reference shelf because it is full of all kinds of vampire facts, stats and detailed little trivia. (Is there a vampire Trivia Pursuit game, that would be so fangsome, I bet I would totally rock playing that game).

The Everything Vampire Book focuses mostly on literature, movies and legends but is also an invaluable resource for vampire facts and stats. Another keeper for my reference shelf.

Being such a huge vampire fan I have to admit I collect just about anything and everything about vampires that I can. So these books are added to my little collection of everything vampiric.

Someday I hope to get my hands on one of those authentic vampire slaying kits back from Victorian times but do you know they go for thousands of dollars? Wow. Maybe after I become a NYT Bestseller, right? :-) I'll also have a much bigger house with a whole room to devote to my vampire collections.

Anyway if you are a fang fan like I am these books should be on your must have list. Check them out, if nothing else they are entertaining.

Free Book Friday: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires

Not the usual paranormal fiction book but a must have for lovers of vampire lore, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires is full of everything you have ever needed or wanted to know about vampires: from the rise of new vampire legends and heroes and the resurrection of the old ones, to vampire myths from around the world, the Goth and Vampire lifestyle, real vamps today, fun and campy vamps, vamps, zombies and other undead, all about Dracula, and other classic vampires in film and books.

I haven't read this book yet but it is in my pile, looks interesting. I love to read what others write about vampires. Seems everyone has a take on what vampires mean to us. Of course if I start this will be a long discourse and I have not the time so I'll save that for another day.

Anyway in addition to giving away The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires, I have another set of signed book cover postcards of Vicki Lewis Thompson's hex series. Each of the 3 postcards depicts the cover of one of the Hex books and on the back gives a quick blurb about the book...and each one is signed by Vicki Lewis Thompson. I also have a I brake for Big Knob bumper sticker and trading cards featuring George the Dragon and Dee Dee the Lake Monster from the Hex series.

In the goodie pack I also have a signed bookmark from Jenna Maclaine author of the fantastic Cin Craven series, a bookmark from Lynda Hilburn, and a signed postcard from me featuring one of my books.

Hope you enjoy.

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