With her love life-and life-on the line, the time has come for Anita Blake to choose.between a vampire and a werewolf.m Stoker introduced a certain Transylvanian count over a century ago. Since then vampires have been used as vehicles for everything from romantic novels to erotica to humor to the expected tales of terror.

However, very few writers have combined all of these facets of the never-say-die vampire quite the way that Laurell K. Hamilton has. Hamilton has not always been under the spell of undead things that go bump-and-grind in the night. When she was a young girl, her literary tastes were a bit more on the traditional side. I wanted to be Louisa May Alcott, who wrote Little Women, because I had never read any science fiction, fantasy, or horror, she confessed in a podcast on Mayor Slay. International Financial Markets And The Firmament on this page. com. Then at 13 or 14 I found Robert E. Howards short story collection Pigeons From Hell.

It was the first horror, the first heroic fantasy, the first science fiction Id ever read, and the moment I read that I knew that not only did I want to be a writer, but this is what I wanted to write. Furthering Hamiltons burgeoning fascination with the fantastic, she discovered Anthony Masterss The Natural History of the Vampire at her high school library. Coupled with the ghost stories her grandmother had told her when she was a child and heavy doses of Hammer Horror movies from Great Britain, Hamilton was well on her way to creating a character that would only be rivaled by Buffy in the field of vampire slaying. Hamilton first introduced vampire huntress Anita Blake in her third novel Guilty Pleasures. Blake is an unlikely combination of action hero, federal marshal, necromancer, and lusty dame. Her exploits between the sheets and in the graveyard won Hamilton a rabid following hungry for something new in the well-traveled vampire genre. Enemy Front Proper Cracker on this page.