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Werewolves: Dead Moon Rising
Moonstone proudly steps up during the full moon to launch this first book in a line of monster/horror prose fiction anthologies, with this one featuring our favorite ferocious and furry fiends, werewolves! The blood will run red in the dead of night as both horror-fiction and comic book writers alike unite to bring you an unlucky 13 chilling tales of howling horror, just in time for Halloween. With stories by Elaine Bergstrom, Tom DeFalco, Dave Dorman, Clay Griffith, William R. Halliar, C.J. Henderson, David Michelinie, Christopher Mills, Mike Reynolds, Beau Smith, Paul D, Storrie, Dave Ulanski and Fred Van Lente! Interior illustrations by Ken Wolak and a fang-tastic cover by fan-favorite Dave Dorman, this chilling collection of short stories is sure to keep you cringing under the covers all night long!
- GenresHorrorWerewolves
192 pages, Paperback
First published December 26, 2007
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About the author
Elaine Bergstrom
27 books87 followersElaine Bergstrom is a Milwaukee-based novelist whose writing melds vampire, romance, mystery and, always, suspense.
Her first published piece of fiction was her first novel, Shattered Glass (1989). It introduced the character of the immortal Stephen Austra and artist Helen Wells, a victim of polio, along with Stephen's family of vampires who are “born not created and have an abhorrance for coffins, particulary their own.” The novel was a critical success, a consistent favorite with readers of adult-oriented vampire fiction. Bergstrom has written six novels in the Austra series, including Daughter of the Night, which featured Elizabeth Bathory as a half-breed Austra vampire. Beyond Sundown, the newest book in the Austra series, released early in 2011. The Violin, a novella, in 2012. Most are in print. All are available on Amazon kindle or through the author's website www.elainebergstrom.com
Using her grandmother's name, Marie Kiraly, Bergstrom wrote a sequel to Dracula called Mina ... The Dracula Story Continues, and its sequel, Blood to Blood ... The Dracula Story Continues, which both look at Mina Harker as a woman changed by her experience in Transylvania, struggling to find her way in the repressive Victorian society. Both were featured in the Science Fiction Book Club and Doubleday Book Club.
For the novel Madeline ... After the Fall of Usher, she adopted Poe’s journalistic style to tell a story in which the details of the last few months of Poe’s life are correct, with her own fictional story overlaid on them.
J. Gordon Melton (The Vampire Encyclopedia) notes that Shattered Glass contains "one of the most horrific scenes in vampire literature." (less)
Her first published piece of fiction was her first novel, Shattered Glass (1989). It introduced the character of the immortal Stephen Austra and artist Helen Wells, a victim of polio, along with Stephen's family of vampires who are “born not created and have an abhorrance for coffins, particulary their own.” The novel was a critical success, a consistent favorite with readers of adult-oriented vampire fiction. Bergstrom has written six novels in the Austra series, including Daughter of the Night, which featured Elizabeth Bathory as a half-breed Austra vampire. Beyond Sundown, the newest book in the Austra series, released early in 2011. The Violin, a novella, in 2012. Most are in print. All are available on Amazon kindle or through the author's website www.elainebergstrom.com
Using her grandmother's name, Marie Kiraly, Bergstrom wrote a sequel to Dracula called Mina ... The Dracula Story Continues, and its sequel, Blood to Blood ... The Dracula Story Continues, which both look at Mina Harker as a woman changed by her experience in Transylvania, struggling to find her way in the repressive Victorian society. Both were featured in the Science Fiction Book Club and Doubleday Book Club.
For the novel Madeline ... After the Fall of Usher, she adopted Poe’s journalistic style to tell a story in which the details of the last few months of Poe’s life are correct, with her own fictional story overlaid on them.
J. Gordon Melton (The Vampire Encyclopedia) notes that Shattered Glass contains "one of the most horrific scenes in vampire literature." (less)
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December 18, 2014
Since this book came out on Christmas of 2007, it seems fair to review this during the holiday season.
Part of the basic conceit of this collection seemingly was to draw writers from the comic book field and the entertainment world, rather than from established horror short story authors. This worked to an extent, but some of the stories were very uneven.
Comics writers such as Tom DeFalco, David Michelinie, Clay & Susan Griffith, and Fred Van Lente turned in some very interesting twists on the werewolf concept, although I didn't really LIKE some of them.
Of the others, I thought that Stephen Smith's masked wrestler story was trying too hard to make fun of something that was never very serious in first place. It was like trying to read a parody of Count Chocula commercials. There's just nothing to be gained by doing it.
The quality of the stories is a little uneven, but if you like werewolf stories overall, the collection is worth reading.
Part of the basic conceit of this collection seemingly was to draw writers from the comic book field and the entertainment world, rather than from established horror short story authors. This worked to an extent, but some of the stories were very uneven.
Comics writers such as Tom DeFalco, David Michelinie, Clay & Susan Griffith, and Fred Van Lente turned in some very interesting twists on the werewolf concept, although I didn't really LIKE some of them.
Of the others, I thought that Stephen Smith's masked wrestler story was trying too hard to make fun of something that was never very serious in first place. It was like trying to read a parody of Count Chocula commercials. There's just nothing to be gained by doing it.
The quality of the stories is a little uneven, but if you like werewolf stories overall, the collection is worth reading.
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