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Includes an original Sookie Stackhouse story"Clever...entertaining... excellent"(Library Journal) original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more.From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's favorite bloodsucking subculture by a baker's dozen of favorite authors. Each of these thirteen original stories offers a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. From Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse attending a birthday party for Dracula to Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden battling bloodsucking party crashers, these suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous stories will ensure paranormal fans will never think of vampires or birthdays quite the same again.

clever...entertaining... Excellent(library Journal) Original Vampire Stories By Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, And More.

from Cakes To Stakes, A Celebration Of Everyone's Favorite Bloodsucking Subculture By A Baker's Dozen Of Favorite Authors. Each Of These Thirteen Original Stories Offers A Fresh And Unique Take On What Birthdays Mean To The Undead. From Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse Attending A Birthday Party For Dracula To Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden Battling Bloodsucking Party Crashers, These Suspenseful, Surprising, Sometimes Dark, Sometimes Humorous Stories Will Ensure Paranormal Fans Will Never Think Of Vampires Or Birthdays Quite The Same Again.

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this Patchwork Anthology Of 13 New Vampire Stories Proves That Heavyweight Contributors Can Give Some Substance To A Relatively Slight Theme. Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse Novels), Kelner (the Laura Fleming Mysteries) And 11 Other Writers With Serious Vamp Credentials Craft Stories Around The Concept Of Birthdays For Bloodsuckers. Most Of The Tales Only Blow Out Candles In Passing, As With P.n. Elrod's Grave-robbed, Which Mixes Pathos And Comedy As Vampire Pi Jack Fleming Busts A Phony Medium Mid-séance, And Tanya Huff's Blood Wrapped, In Which Henry Fitzroy's Search For The Ideal Gift For A Vampire's 40th Mixes With His Pursuit Of A Human Kidnapper. Christopher Golden Takes Birthdays To Heart In His Poignant Coming-of-age Story, The Mournful Cry Of Owls, While Kelley Armstrong Proposes In Twilight That A Vampire's Real Birthday Is The Date Of Transformation From Mortal To Immortal. Fans Of The Many Series Vampires On Parade Here Will Be Undeterred By The Variable Quality Of Their Adventures. (sept.)

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Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again.In New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris's "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is the only human at the annual commemoration of Dracula's birth. But this year, the Prince of Darkness actually shows up-and finds Sookie to be a tasty-looking present.New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher's crime-solving wizard Harry Dresden, of the Dresden Files novels, heads to a role-playing party to give his vampire brother a birthday present in "It's My Birthday Too," only to discover there are some bloodthirsty party crashers who don't share their brotherly love.In "Twilight," Cassandra DuCharme, who appeared in New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Dime Store Magic, knows she has to kill to live as a vampire another year-but finds herself disturbingly disinterested in the hunt.Plus ten more bloody good birthday stories that take the cake. EDITORIAL REVIEW: **''Clever...entertaining... excellent''(*Library Journal*) original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more.** From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's favorite bloodsucking subculture by a baker's dozen of favorite authors. Each of these thirteen original stories offers a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. From Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse attending a birthday party for Dracula to Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden battling bloodsucking party crashers, these suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous stories will ensure paranormal fans will never think of vampires or birthdays quite the same again. A collection of vampire tales includes Charlaine Harris's heroine Sookie Stackhouse in "Dracula's Night," Jim Butcher's wizard hero Harry Dresden in "It's My Birthday Too," and other stories by Tanya Huff, P.N. Elrod, Christopher Golden, and Bill Crider.