An anthology of stories edited by John Joseph Adams.

From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity’s darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hunger. And yet, there is an attraction, undeniable, to the vampire archetype, whether the pale European count, impeccably dressed and coldly masculine, yet strangely ambiguous, ready to sink his sharp teeth deep into his victims’ necks, draining or converting them, or the vamp, the count’s feminine counterpart, villain and victim in one, using her wiles and icy sexuality to corrupt man and woman alike… Edited by John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead), By Blood We Live gathers together the best vampire literature of the last three decades from many of today’s most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror.

An anthology of stories edited by John Joseph Adams

From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity's darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hunger. And yet, there is an attraction, undeniable, to the vampire archetype, whether the pale European count, impeccably dressed and coldly masculine, yet strangely ambiguous, ready to sink his sharp teeth deep into his victims' necks, draining or converting them, or the vamp, the count's feminine counterpart, villain and victim in one, using her wiles and icy sexuality to corrupt man and woman alike… Edited by John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead), By Blood We Live gathers together the best vampire literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror.

Esta segunda entrega de la ambiciosa y valiente crónica de la vida de Cristo comienza justo antes de su bautizo en aguas del Jordán y termina con el milagro de Caná. Jesús vive como un miembro más de su comunidad, a la espera de una señal que le indique el camino que habrá de tomar. Cuando el agua de las tinajas se convierte en vino, Jesús atiende a su llamado y se convierte en aquel que invoca a Israel para que tome las armas contra Roma.

Anne Rice abandona momentáneamente las historias de vampiros para adentrarse en la vida de Jesucristo, concretamente en los primeros años de vida de éste. La autora cede la palabra al propio Jesús, quien, con la voz de un niño de siete años, narra sus primeros recuerdos en Alejandría y su traslado, poco tiempo después y junto a su familia, a Nazaret. Es la primera parte de una trilogía que podría relevarse polémica: en un sueño, Jesús, el niño narrador, se encuentra con Satán.

Con La hora del ángel, primer volumen de su nueva serie, Anne Rice retoma su narrativa más oscura para convertir a los ángeles en protagonistas.

Toby O’Dare, un famoso asesino a sueldo, es un hombre despiadado que recibe órdenes del Hombre Justo. Se mueve en un mundo de pesadilla hasta que aparece un forastero misterioso, un serafín, y le ofrece la oportunidad de salvar vidas en lugar de destruirlas.

Viaja atrás en el tiempo hasta la Inglaterra del siglo XIII, y en ese escenario primitivo, comienza su peligrosa búsqueda de la salvación: una odisea llena de lealtades y traiciones, de egoísmo y amor.

In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.

He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.

Here in one marvellous volume, is the cream of erotic writing from all the corners of the globe. Maxim Jakubowski has gathered together unexpurgated delights, new and unpublished gems, and classic masterpieces seldom seen before.

Come play in a garden of exotic and erotic writing, with origins ranging from France and Germany to Japan and New Zealand, from Russia to the United States and Canada.

Set in the gasslit streets of 1888 London and the wild moors of the countryside beyond, The Master of Rampling Gate tells the story of Julie, a young woman who becomes obsessed with the house her father swore her and her brother to tear down upon his death. Julie can't imagine what lies in wait at Rampling Gate, a spirit that haunted her father for years and now yearns for her flesh. The Master of Rampling Gate is a sublime love story in which Julie struggles to choose between the world of reason and rationality and the dark promises of a creature she is almost helpless to resist.

Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger....

En plena pubertad, a punto ya de ser un hombre, Tonio Treschi fue drogado y raptado con la complicidad de su familia y castrado cruelmente para que no perdiera la voz…

Guido Maffeo, cuando apenas era un niño -demasiado joven para protestar o para huir-había sido vendido a los maestros de canto y «operado» también con fines artísticos.

Los dos eran castrati: sopranos masculinos cuya voz increíble causaba la admiración de Europa. Vivían como auténticos ídolos, deseados y cortejados lo mismo por hombres que por mujeres. Pero también sufrían el rechazo de muchos, que los miraban como si fuesen monstruos de feria. Tonio Treschi no olvidaba nunca la violencia que se había ejercido sobre su cuerpo. Y su pensamiento permanente era cómo vengarse…

«Fascinante y llena de colorido… Un grito al cielo es una historia de oscuros secretos familiares, de odio edípico y venganza, de complejas intrigas y violencia cotidiana, en la cual, como en la ópera, un personaje se vuelve loco, otro se oculta tras un disfraz y un tercero es víctima de un secuestro… Una mirada absorbente y deslumbrante a un mundo muy poco conocido». The Washington Post

«Sometidos a la «operación» más desconsiderada de todas, ¿quién hubiera adivinado que los castrati venecianos tenían una vida sexual tan variada y versátil?». The Guardian

«Un grito al cielo, como Entrevista con el vampiro, es una novela osada y erótica, atravesada por la lujuria, la tensión sexual y la música. Aquí la pasión lo es todo, el deseo es abrumador y los géneros quedan abolidos. Encontramos amantes gozosos y amantes separados, relaciones de primos con primos y de sobrinos con tías, eunucos convertidos en favoritos de cardenales, mujeres disfrazadas con ropa masculina, hombres luciendo sedas y rouge… La música lo inunda todo…» The New York Times Book Review

«La exubérante narración de Anne Rice -alternativamente tórrida y apasionada- sería un espléndido libreto». The New Yorker

In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.

While grieving the death of her husband, Triana falls prey to the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat who uses his magic violin first to enchant, then to dominate and draw her into a state of madness.

But Triana understands the power of the music perhaps even more than Stefan--and she sets out to resist him and to fight, not only for her sanity, but for her life. The struggle draws them both into a terrifying supernatural realm where they find themselves surrounded by memories, by horrors, and by overwhelming truths. Battling desperately, they are at last propelled toward the novel's astonishing and unforgettable climax.