Books

I finally received my copy of Blood Sacraments after having it rush delivered, and I’m glad I did. In one evening I sucked down half the stories. Blood Sacraments compiles 20 gay vampire short stories into one 264 page volume (and the text is bit small, so each page is dense with words). One story, Willing by Xan West appears in Men at Noon, Monsters at Midnight, and initially I was worried another two were repeats from the same authors. In fact, one story that appears in Men at Noon is continued in a way; Black Sambuca by Jeff Mann is a further adventure of Derek Maclaine who we first met in Masters of Midnight. Bloodletting by the book’s editor Todd Gregory, is a continuation of my favorite story from Midnight Hunger; our hero Cord returns to New Orleans against better advice and is found by his ex-fraternity roommate.

Overall the tales are well written, fang-filled and vampire positive. My favorites at this point were Kells by Jay Lygon and Bloodletting. I highly recommend Blood Sacraments to any follower of gay vampires.

Blood Sacraments: available from: amazon.com or from amazon.co.uk.

Get this book: Amazon.com Art critic Jean-Luc “Jack” Courbet and aspiring actor and model Claude Halloran have a wicked secret, one that has cost many their lives: they are vampires.[...]

Readers of gay vampire fiction may be familiar with Cord Logan, the young frat boy turned vampire created by Todd Gregory, and who first appeared in the last Kensington vampire anthology Midnight Hunger (Amazon paperbook or Kindle). He returned in Blood Sacraments (Amazon), which set up the story that now continues in Need (available for pre-order from Amazon print or kindle, or for your iPad in the iBookstore). Actually if you haven’t picked up Blood Sacraments, skip right to Need as the book’s first chapter is the short story.

Late Night Boyfriends: tales of the gay vampire is quite possibly one of the best new gay vampire anthologies, and I am not saying this because my brother wrote one of the stories or because I am friends with the editor. Late Night Boyfriends is the exact gay vampire book I have always wanted to read.

After years of wait, Kensington Publishing is releasing a third volume of their vampire anthology series. (Masters of Midnight and Midnight Thirsts were the first two… I’m sensing a theme in the titles.)

Three stories have been included in this anthology being released late August/early-September (and December for the UK!). I’m looking especially forward to the story “Blood on the Moon”.

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There are plenty of gay vampire books bursting onto the market as ebooks and through on-demand printing. There are now three books in the Mark Julian Vampire P.I. series and I haven’t had a chance to pick them up, or review them. I’m not going to write these books off yet, but a previous purchase from the publisher Nazca Plains left me disappointed especially given how much I’d paid for the book. So if anyone out there has bought these books and has an option, let us know (like leave a comment).

One of the first gay vampire anthologies, Sons of Darkness (which was followed by the sequel Brothers of Night), was a disappointing read. Unfortunately the collection is out of print[...]