Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South (The American Vampire Series)
Frightening, heart-stopping, and often shocking...
Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the past. Ghosts of history, of the dead, of wars and lineages, of slights to honor—all linger vividly. So do a host of superstitions, both petty and grand. One of the strongest superstitions of the South is the myth of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living. The stories in Southern Blood are set in the South—from Florida to Texas, North Carolina to Arkansas—and are written by master storytellers.
Authors include Susan Schwartz, Robert Barbour Johnson, Brian Hodge, Manly Wade Wellman, Fred Chappell, Esther Freisner, James Kisner, Delia Sherman, Dan Simmons, Tracy A. Knight, William Tenn, Lawrence Schimel, and Billie Sure Mosiman.
Can't get enough vampire stories? Check out the other books in this series: Blood Lines and Streets of Blood.
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Book details
- Edited by
- Lawrence Schimel, Martin Harry Greenberg
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 203
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Horror
- Topics
- vampire fiction · horror short stories · anthology · Southern Gothic · supernatural horror · folklore and mythology
- ISBN-13
- 9781888952490
About the authors
LAWRENCE SCHIMEL is a bilingual Spanish/English writer, anthologist, and translator who has co-edited numerous short story anthologies, including all three books in the American Vampire series.
Schimel’s anthology PoMoSexuals won the 1998 Lambda Literary Award; he has also received the Rhysling Award. He holds a B.A. in literature from Yale University.
Lawrence lives in Madrid, Spain.
MARTIN HARRY GREENBERG was an American academic and anthologist who compiled over 1,200 anthologies across mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, co-editing the American Vampire series with Lawrence Schimel.
Greenberg received lifetime achievement awards including the Milford Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Ellery Queen Award. He earned a Ph.D. in political science and taught at the University of Wisconsin from 1975 until 1996. He founded Tekno Books.