Now available in hardcover for the first time, The Laughing Corpse takes readers back to a time when Anita's life was a bit less complicated. As the best Animator in the business-she's as good at raising the dead as she is at slaying the undead-she crosses paths with a creature from beyond the grave, a super-powerful zombie who is tearing a swath o...more
First time in trade paperback: the second Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel. Nearly two million Anita Blake novels in print. The early Anita Blake novels find new life in trade paperback-as perfect collectibles for long-time fans or as great ways for new readers to sink their teeth into the series. In The Laughing Corpse, a creature from b...more
Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold s zombie and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priest...more
Dear Reader,I'd been prowling the crumbling ruins of Castle Weyrcraig for so long that I could no longer remember if I was man or beast. Then one stormy night the superstitious Highlanders of Ballybliss decided to leave a helpless virgin bound to a stake in the castle courtyard to satisfy my insatiable appetites. My demands might strike terror in t...more
In a thriller of astounding menace and power, the acclaimed author of A Season for the Dead returns to the landscape he has made his own–the seething landscape of modern-day Rome–where ancient crimes lie hidden beneath colorful, bustling avenues. Here a teenage girl has disappeared, a detective is exploring a 2000-year-old ritual–...more
Hoping that he has left behind his violent experiences as a Detroit cop, police chief Nathan Slaughter settles in a tiny Wyoming community only to find his peaceful plans shattered by an evil force that rises with the full moon. Reprint. PW.
The finest Animator in the business, Anita Blake finds her reputation--and her life--on the line when she encounters a powerful zombie, un undead monster who is leaving a trail of mayhem and murder across the city. Originally in paperback.
A lovely teenage girl's final goodbye..."I love you and I'm going to bed," were the last words Elyse Pahler ever said to her parents. But she would never dream again, for the pretty blond 15-year-old was about to begin a walking nightmare that would end in her grisly stabbing murder.Three depraved schoolboys' deadly fantasies...Later that night Ely...more