Author: John R. Cole
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504947290
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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The Vampire Trucker was born in Berlin, Germany, in the year 1657. His identity must be changed every fifty years, as questions arise why he continues to live on, as others around him begin to die off. In todays world, he takes the role of an eighteen-wheeler truck driver. This story revolves around his life on the road, the people he comes in contact with, along with his conquests, all unbeknownst to the fact that he is a vampire among us posing and living the dream as an owner/operator truck driver. This book would not have been possible without the help of coauthor, Victoria C. Nyulassie.
Author: J Gordon Melton
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578593484
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 945
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The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D. takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the bloodthirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.
Author: J. Gordon Melton
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578597544
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1337
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Grab a stake, a fistful of garlic, a crucifix and holy water as you enter the dark, blood-curdling world of the original pain in the neck in this ultimate collection of vampire facts, fangs, and fiction! What accounts for the undying fascination people have for vampires? How did encounters with death create centuries-old myths and folklore in virtually every culture in the world? When did the early literary vampires—as pictured by Goethe, Coleridge, Shelly, Polidori, Byron, and Nodier as the personifications of man’s darker side—transform from villains into today’s cultural rebels? Showing how vampire-like creatures organically formed in virtually every part of the world, The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History by renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D., examines the historic, societal, and psychological role the vampire has played—and continues to play—in understanding death, man’s deepest desires, and human pathologies. It analyzes humanity’s lusts, fears, and longing for power and the forbidden! Today, the vampire serves as a powerful symbol for the darker parts of the human condition, touching on death, immortality, forbidden sexuality, sexual power and surrender, intimacy, alienation, rebellion, violence, and a fascination with the mysterious. The vampire is often portrayed as a symbolic leader advocating an outrageous alternative to the demands of conformity. Vampires can also be tools for scapegoating such as when women are called “vamps” and bosses are described as “bloodsuckers.” Meet all of the villains, anti-heroes, and heroes of myths, legends, books, films, and television series across cultures and today’s pop culture in The Vampire Almanac. It assembles and analyzes hundreds of vampiric characters, people, and creatures, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vlad the Impaler, Edward Cullen and The Twilight Saga, Bram Stoker, Lestat De Lioncourt and The Vampire Chronicles, Lon Chaney, True Blood, Bela Lugosi, Dracula, Dark Shadows, Lilith, Vampire Weekend, Batman, Nosferatu, and so many more. There is a lot to sink your teeth into with this deep exhumation of the undead. Quench your thirst for facts, histories, biographies, definitions, analysis, immortality, and more! This gruesomely thorough book of vampire facts also has a helpful bibliography, an extensive index, and numerous photos, adding to its usefulness.
Author: Edo van Belkom
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 1625670141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Not all vampires are tall, dark, and handsome. Some are short, fat, and ugly. Amanda Peck is stuck in a dead-end job, lives with a deadbeat boyfriend, and is dead set on changing her life. With no thought about what tomorrow might bring, she packs up and runs. She hitchhikes west by accepting rides from truckers, but what she know is that prowling the enedless miles of asphalt on eighteen wheels is a vampire who’s already claimed the lives of five women, leaving their mutilated bodies in his tracks like so much roadkill. Will the next truck take her on the ride of her life, or will it take her on a nightmare journey that can only lead to the end of the road?
Author: Steve Krebs
Publisher: a-argus books
ISBN: 0578049201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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A sleepy Colorado town harbors a deadly secret; ancient covens of vampires, battled by an unlikely hero-- a pizza delivery driver. Jack Holladay finds himself violently dragged into the world of the supernatural. He soon learns that things do go bump in the night, but even in the darkest of nights a romantic flame can spark. One thing is for sure, his life will never be the same.
Author: Arthur C. Jett
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499071795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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On a cold, rainy night, just outside of Medford, Oregon, the trail was darklike when you close your eyes in a closet kind of dark. Clouds covered the sky and moon, what little of it there was. For days, the moon had been a sliver, like a cats eye. It was barely noticed except by him, Victor Jane, a lone cowboy with a small herd.
Author: Kevin J Anderson
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
ISBN: 1614755388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 443
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Meet Dan Chambeaux—a.k.a. Dan Shamble—zombie detective, a persistent hardboiled gumshoe (or maybe that’s something more sinister on the bottom of his shoe…) Even being murdered doesn’t keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter—inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud!) in the night—a zombie P.I. fits right in. Dan Shamble solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer. And first on the list: finding out who murdered him. This Zomnibus contains the complete first Dan Shamble novel, Death Warmed Over, plus the seven individual cases showcased in the collection Working Stiff, together in one volume. It’s a perfect way to dig up the dirt on a lot of things that would rather stay buried. Dan Shamble puts the PI in RIP.
Author: Finn Murphy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608727
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.”—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job.
Author: Dee Phillips
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105036278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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Author: Munro S. Edmonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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