Fangs, Otto Penzler
Fangs, Otto Penzler
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Fangs
The Vampire Archives, Volume 2

Author: Otto Penzler, Kim Newman

Narrator: Peter Altschuler, Scott Brick, Erik Davies, Susan Denaker, Susan Duerden, Stephen Hoye, Carrington MacDuffie, Robin Sachs, Simon Vance, Bob Walter, Steve West

Unabridged: 18 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2010


Synopsis

The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary Vampire Archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Many Many More. . .

Featuring:

·        bloody fangs
·        dark and foreboding crypts
·        mysterious nighttime apparitions
·        languid ladies

About The Author

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the editor of The Vampire Archives and The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, which was a New York Times bestseller. He is also the series editor of The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year. His other anthologies include Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense. He lives in New York City.  


Reviews

Goodreads review by Niki on February 19, 2017

This was my very first "dipping my toe" reading classic writers like Barker and Lovecraft, not to mention "Carmilla". I'm still very fond of this story collection, and I'd like to read volumes 1 and 3 as well.......more

Goodreads review by Armand on December 22, 2019

As with the previous volume, the twenty stories in this book present some of the best vampire short fiction ever written. I noticed a slight dip in the overall quality but it's nothing much, really. There is not one tale which I felt was a waste of my time. This is high praise indeed, for a majority......more

Goodreads review by Dymphna on May 30, 2017

It was pleasant to re-visit Carmilla and The Master of Rampling Gate, the former I read as a young girl and the latter was my first audiobook purchase. Considering the snobbishness of the foreword, some of these stories are no better than Dr Polidori’s The Vampyre, however there’s some wonderful sto......more

Goodreads review by A.L. on August 06, 2017

Vampire books in general, aren't always my thing, but this anthology was a nice compilation of short stories. I was already familiar with the work of several of the authors in it, so that made it more interesting for me. Two of the tales were very different concepts on the idea of Vampirism, which I......more


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