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Post by dem on Mar 3, 2017 12:00:53 GMT
Tim Waggoner - Supernaturally Incorrect: Marshall Raymond, celebrity TV and radio host, self-styled "the Voice of Right." Raymond is "practically a god" to his conservative audience who lap up his daily dose of prejudice and intolerance toward a particular minority group: the supernatural community. I mean, zombie cab drivers, vampire waiters. Where will it end, eh? IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!
With the above in mind, Sarah makes for an improbable date. She works as a journalist on an alternative newspaper whose coverage of Marshall's Wake Up, America! is never knowingly complimentary. We suspect an ulterior motive and we are right as usual. After an unseemly episode in a restaurant, Sarah flashes her fangs, but Raymond remains infuriatingly unperturbed ....
Ramsey Campbell - Jack In The Box: (Dark Horizons, #26 Spring 1983). From his disjointed memories we gather that, prior to his incarceration in an asylum and subsequent "death", protagonist was a soldier engaged in jungle combat. A bite from a vampire (or, possibly, a zombie?) saw him sent home to the city where he struggled to adapt to not killing everyone he met. The local body-snatchers are in for an unpleasant surprise.
Jeff Gelb - The Last Victim: He gets complacent, breaks the golden rule and takes a victim too close to home. One calamity fast follows another. Even an ice cream turns against him.
Richard Parks - Coffin.Nail: Should you receive an email subject: vampires info from KNACKER.COM delete it unopened and run your anti-virus software. Like we don't have enough to contend with from CHEAP K-i-t-c-h-e-n-s R Us, New Era Hats, and solar power victoria systems, now vampires are in on the act. Bloody spammers.
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Post by dem on Mar 5, 2017 14:40:18 GMT
David Drake - Something Had To Be Done: ( Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Feb 1975). First read this, and Ramsey Campbell's Conversion, in Michel Parry's Rivals Of Dracula and says much for both that they've stayed with me ever since. Sergeant Morzek, terminally ill with disgusting skin disease malignant melanoma - he's being "warted to death" - is made aware that his troops are in greater danger from a colleague, Stefan Lunkowski, than they are the Viet Cong. There's nothing for it but to destroy this viper in the nest and accompany his corpse back home to complete the mission. John Maclay - Entrapment: A policewoman goes undercover as a nude dancer in the hunt for a suspected vampire with a preference for showgirls. Rick Hautala - Setup: A downtrodden janitor at the press office is determined to get even with a bullying reporter. With the help of his unlikely new friend "the pretty lady", the caretaker lures his enemy to the local 'haunted house' on Halloween night. Over recent years, several children have gone missing in the vicinity ..... Will this book never end?
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