A Touch of Dead: Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #10
A Touch of Dead is a collection of short stories from Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries. This book only contains the short stories Harris has published in which Sookie Stackhouse is present.
Dead and Gone: Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #9
For Sookie Stackhouse, the day-to-day activities of the vampire and Were communities in and around Bon Temps, Louisiana, are of vital interest. She's blood-bound to the area 5 Sheriff of the vamps, a friend to the local Were pack, works for a man who is a Shifter, and has a brother who is a Were-Panther …
In this story a young man, recently broken off from a long engagement, attends a gala costume party dressed as a camel. There he is approached by his gal, who does not recognize him in his camel garb, and the comical escapade ensues. This light and amusing story will keep you entertained, right up to the surprise ending.
Although Bram Stoker wrote many novels, essays and short stories, the Irish writer is inextricably linked with his infamous vampire novel - Dracula. Many of his writings, like this adapted version of The Judge’s House, are eerie accounts between the human world and horrid beings from beyond the grave. The Judge’s House recounts the tale of a young student, looking for a remote location to study for his college exams. But the house he rents in the quiet town of Benchurch, delivers much more excitement than he ever could have imagined.
Protagonist Eugene Debs Hartke, West Point graduate, Vietnam vet, college professor, educator of the disabled and the illiterate, is awaiting trial for a crime initially unspecified. Until this time, Hartke has diligently and good-naturedly participated in whatever was expected of him, including involvement in the evacuation of American personnel from Saigon. At one point, however, he calculates the remarkable fact that he has killed exactly as many people as he has had sex with, a coincidence that causes him to doubt his atheism.