About the Book Title: The Torment of Rachel Ames Author: Jeff Gunhus Genre: Thriller / Horror Suffering from writer’s block, novelist Rachel Ames escapes to a lake cabin to calm her mind and regain a sense of herself. The location is perfect. Isolated. Beautiful. Inspiring. It even comes with a good-looking landlord who shows an…
Top Five Favorite Recurring TV Antagonists
One of the best things about a television series is that characters can be carefully explored over the life of the show. This is especially important for antagonists because if there’s not a lot of time to develop them, such as in most movies, they can become cardboard villains. Even if a character is simply…
Blog Tour: Interview with Karen E. Taylor
Tell us a bit about yourself. My name is Karen E. Taylor and I am a horror/paranormal author, with eight published novels to date and an eclectic assortment of short fiction which ranges from vampires to ghosts to telepathic, romantic dinosaurs. What can I say? I start out to write a story and, before I…
Vampire Week: Author Interview with Kirsten Weiss
Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m a huge mystery fan, and I love weaving the paranormal into my books. That extra oomph of paranormal amps up the mystery/suspense factor, I think. My final book in the Riga Hayworth series of urban fantasies, The Hermetic Detective, is coming out on Halloween, and I’ve got a…
Vampire Week Character Interview with Roger Darvell from DARK CHANGELING and CHILD OF TWILIGHT
How long have you been a vampire? Technically since birth, because I am a human-vampire hybrid, not a demon-possessed walking corpse as in those absurd folk legends. In a sense, however, I became a vampire when I learned my true nature and origin at the age of forty. Previously, I thought I was afflicted with…
Vampire Week Character Interview with Morgan D’Arcy, Earl of St. Averil, Concert Pianist, and…Vampire.
How long have you been a vampire? I was infected with the virus that mutates human DNA in 1659 in France. Of course, at that time, I only knew I’d been drained near death, fed blood from my vampire mother’s veins, and woke up immortal and craving blood. Do you drink blood or are you…
Vampire Week: Interview with Patty G. Henderson
Tell us a bit about yourself. I’ve been writing supernatural and horror tales since the late 60s and early 70s. My first novel was a lesbian Vampire tale, SO DEAD MY LOVE. After going through several publishers, I finally my rights back and decided to put out the edition I originally wanted, on my own….
Vampire Week Character Interview with Callum Scott from At Death It Begins
How long have you been a vampire? Wow, right to it then. To be sure, you aren’t a member of the press? This won’t get out? … I’ll be 280 years next month. Do you drink blood or are you a psychic vampire? Unfortunately, as a part of my condition I drink blood, quite a…
Vampire Week Character Interview with De Valis from Feast Anew
How long have you been a vampire? Two hundred and five years to be precise. Do you drink blood or are you a psychic vampire? I claim no psychic talents though I must say deriving nutrition in such a way sounds interesting. No, my dear, I’m most definitely a drinker of blood. What’s the worst…
Vampire Week: Excerpt from The Eternity Factor by B.J. McCAll
THE ETERNITY FACTOR by B.J. McCall For vampires, everything that’s fun is illegal. Once accepted by society, vampires are now considered unsafe to live among humans, but that doesn’t stop Azza from sneaking out of the Cemetery for a midnight party. Although the penalties are serious, nothing is better than a little intimate action with…
Vampire Week Character Interview with Afric from Some Vampires Shimmy
Do you drink blood or are you a psychic vampire? Five of my sisters are married to humans now. But my sister Foomna, and I are baobhan sith. We are also called dancing vampires. We dance with human men until they fall exhausted, then transform our fingernails to talons, claw them to shreds and…
Vampire Week: Zenobia Renquist’s Top Vampire Films
It’s Vampire Week on the Compelling Beasts blog and I, Zenobia Renquist, am here to tell you about my favorite vampire films. I won’t say movies because not all of them are movies. Some are TV series, some are animated features and some are anime series. I don’t discriminate when it comes to my favorite…