Many Bloody Returns
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Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others. Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again. In New York Timesbestselling author Charlaine Harris's "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is the only human at the annual commemoration of Dracula's birth. But this year, the Prince of Darkness actually shows up-and finds Sookie to be a tasty-looking present. New York Timesbestselling author Jim Butcher's crime-solving wizard Harry Dresden, of the Dresden Files novels, heads to a role-playing party to give his vampire brother a birthday present in "It's My Birthday Too," only to discover there are some bloodthirsty party crashers who don't share their brotherly love. In "Twilight," Cassandra DuCharme, who appeared in New York Timesbestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Dime Store Magic, knows she has to kill to live as a vampire another year-but finds herself disturbingly disinterested in the hunt. Plus ten more bloody good birthday stories that take the cake. Contents xi * Preface: A Few Words (Many Bloody Returns) * (2007) * essay by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner 1 * Dracula Night * [Sookie Stackhouse 4.3] * shortstory by Charlaine Harris 21 * The Mournful Cry of Owls * novelette by Christopher Golden 50 * I Was a Teenage Vampire * novelette by Bill Crider 73 * Twilight * [Women of the Ot