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Women of the Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica
A Ravenous Romance™ Panamour™ Original Publication
A new collection of lesbian vampire sex collected by Cecilia Tan, the editor Susie Bright calls, “simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature.”
Erotic fiction expert Cecilia Tan captures the timeless allure of lesbian vampires who seduce their way through these fifteen stories. These stories of eternal love, dark avenging angels, and the eroticism of blood lust explore the female vampire and her sisters from all angles.
Stories in Women of the Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica
The Queen of Goth and Sugar by Cat Rambo
Till Death by Fran Walker
How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth by Nghi Vo
At the Pageant, The Vamp by Lori Selke
Guardian Spirit by Tammy Jo Eckhart
“When Not To Be Receives Reproach…” by Elizabeth Thorne
Graced by Kierstin Cherry
A Sunny Sky by M. Johnston
The Heiress by Rakelle Valencia
Steak Tartare by Jen Bluekissed
Keeping Score by Kaysee Renee Robichaud
Jessabel by Sacchi Green
Strange Bedfellows by Moondancer Drake
My Soul Immortal by Jennifer Williams
Hope on the Mississippi: 2025 by Jewelle Gomez
Cecilia Tan is the author of White Flames, Black feathers, and Edge Plays, and her stories have appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica, Best American Erotica, and Ms. Magazine. Her most recent projects include a paranormal erotic romance entitled Mind Games for Ravenous Romance. She lives in Boston, MA.
A new collection of lesbian vampire sex collected by Cecilia Tan, the editor Susie Bright calls, “simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature.”
Erotic fiction expert Cecilia Tan captures the timeless allure of lesbian vampires who seduce their way through these fifteen stories. These stories of eternal love, dark avenging angels, and the eroticism of blood lust explore the female vampire and her sisters from all angles.
Stories in Women of the Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica
The Queen of Goth and Sugar by Cat Rambo
Till Death by Fran Walker
How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth by Nghi Vo
At the Pageant, The Vamp by Lori Selke
Guardian Spirit by Tammy Jo Eckhart
“When Not To Be Receives Reproach…” by Elizabeth Thorne
Graced by Kierstin Cherry
A Sunny Sky by M. Johnston
The Heiress by Rakelle Valencia
Steak Tartare by Jen Bluekissed
Keeping Score by Kaysee Renee Robichaud
Jessabel by Sacchi Green
Strange Bedfellows by Moondancer Drake
My Soul Immortal by Jennifer Williams
Hope on the Mississippi: 2025 by Jewelle Gomez
Cecilia Tan is the author of White Flames, Black feathers, and Edge Plays, and her stories have appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica, Best American Erotica, and Ms. Magazine. Her most recent projects include a paranormal erotic romance entitled Mind Games for Ravenous Romance. She lives in Boston, MA.
262 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2009
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About the author
Cecilia Tan
197 books588 followersSusie Bright says, "Cecilia Tan is simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." Since the publication of Telepaths Don't Need Safewords in 1992, she has been on the cutting edge of the erotic form, often combining elements of fantasy and science fiction in her work. She is also founder and editor of Circlet Press.
RT Book Reviews awarded her Career Achievement in Erotic Romance in 2015 and her novel Slow Surrender (Hachette/Forever, 2013) won the RT Reviewers Choice Award and the Maggie Award for Excellence from GRW in 2013. She has been publishing Daron's Guitar Chronicles as a web serial since 2009 and her Secrets of a Rock Star series (Taking the Lead, Wild Licks, Hard Rhythm) is published by Hachette/Forever. In 2018 Tor Books will launch her urban fantasy/paranormal series, The Vanished Chronicles. In her other life, Cecilia is also the editor of the Baseball Research Journal and publications director for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research.
RT Book Reviews awarded her Career Achievement in Erotic Romance in 2015 and her novel Slow Surrender (Hachette/Forever, 2013) won the RT Reviewers Choice Award and the Maggie Award for Excellence from GRW in 2013. She has been publishing Daron's Guitar Chronicles as a web serial since 2009 and her Secrets of a Rock Star series (Taking the Lead, Wild Licks, Hard Rhythm) is published by Hachette/Forever. In 2018 Tor Books will launch her urban fantasy/paranormal series, The Vanished Chronicles. In her other life, Cecilia is also the editor of the Baseball Research Journal and publications director for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research.
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December 22, 2023
Purchased for the Gilda story by Jewell Gomez. So far the first two stories have been good.
Cat Rambo's story features an abused wife who's rescued by a vampiress. And Fran Walker's "Til Death" is a true love story of two vampires with opposite personalities who find true communication in the end. With the aid of a red hot dildo and a wooden stake sex toy. I was disappointed in "How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth" by Nghi Vo, which seemed to me straight up porn with fangs as window dressing. I wanted more from Nghi Vo.
"Guardian Spirit" by Tammy Jo Eckhart, about a gypsy girl and a vampiric Calypso, was pretty neat, only because there was more story than sex. And "When Not To Be Receives Reproach..." by Elizabeth Thorne was simply amazing - Moira, after 500 years of vampiric life with her lover Celia, decides to become mortal, see the sunlight, and die a mortal life. It had really touching moments, especially as Celia can't help but feel abandoned by her lifelong friend and lover who choses a life without her. I'm strongly reminded of the Aragon and Arwen story from LOTR, wherein Arwen choses to give up immortality and die to be with her lover. Here, Moira gives up immortality, but she leaves behind a grieving lover.
The next two stories are straight up lesbian porn, so I skimmed them, in case anything of interest emerged. I liked Moondancer Drake's story next, and that was about it. The last two stories of the anthology were not included in my copy, which is a shame, because the Jewelle Gomez story on Gilda was the entire reason I picked this book up.
A few good stories buried in here, but nothing I would look at again.
Cat Rambo's story features an abused wife who's rescued by a vampiress. And Fran Walker's "Til Death" is a true love story of two vampires with opposite personalities who find true communication in the end. With the aid of a red hot dildo and a wooden stake sex toy. I was disappointed in "How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth" by Nghi Vo, which seemed to me straight up porn with fangs as window dressing. I wanted more from Nghi Vo.
"Guardian Spirit" by Tammy Jo Eckhart, about a gypsy girl and a vampiric Calypso, was pretty neat, only because there was more story than sex. And "When Not To Be Receives Reproach..." by Elizabeth Thorne was simply amazing - Moira, after 500 years of vampiric life with her lover Celia, decides to become mortal, see the sunlight, and die a mortal life. It had really touching moments, especially as Celia can't help but feel abandoned by her lifelong friend and lover who choses a life without her. I'm strongly reminded of the Aragon and Arwen story from LOTR, wherein Arwen choses to give up immortality and die to be with her lover. Here, Moira gives up immortality, but she leaves behind a grieving lover.
The next two stories are straight up lesbian porn, so I skimmed them, in case anything of interest emerged. I liked Moondancer Drake's story next, and that was about it. The last two stories of the anthology were not included in my copy, which is a shame, because the Jewelle Gomez story on Gilda was the entire reason I picked this book up.
A few good stories buried in here, but nothing I would look at again.
October 24, 2010
1. I Liked The Queen of Goth and Sugar by Cat Rambo
2. I Liked Till Death by Fran Walker
3. I Liked How sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
4. I Liked At the pageant, the Vamp
5. I Liked Guardian Spirit by Tammy Jo Eckhart
6. When Not To Be Receives Reproach WAS OK AT BEST!
7. Graced by Kierstin Cherry WAS INTERESTING!
8. I Really Liked A Sunny Sky by M. Johnston
9. The Heiress WAS OK
10. I Really LOVED Steak Tartare by Jen Bluekissed
11. Keeping Score by Kaysee Renee Robichaud WAS OK!
12. I REALLY LIKED Jessabel by Sacchi Green
13. I REALLY LOVED Strange Bedfellows by Moondancer Drake
2. I Liked Till Death by Fran Walker
3. I Liked How sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
4. I Liked At the pageant, the Vamp
5. I Liked Guardian Spirit by Tammy Jo Eckhart
6. When Not To Be Receives Reproach WAS OK AT BEST!
7. Graced by Kierstin Cherry WAS INTERESTING!
8. I Really Liked A Sunny Sky by M. Johnston
9. The Heiress WAS OK
10. I Really LOVED Steak Tartare by Jen Bluekissed
11. Keeping Score by Kaysee Renee Robichaud WAS OK!
12. I REALLY LIKED Jessabel by Sacchi Green
13. I REALLY LOVED Strange Bedfellows by Moondancer Drake
September 21, 2016
The actual short stories are okay for erotica, but they really could've stood a round of tighter editing; there are punctuation and spelling problems in some stories, and I'm still wondering why "Somalia-skinny" was actually used in one story to describe a thin character.
January 26, 2022
a couple were great, a few were terrible, and a whole lot more were mediocre. in true lesbian fashion, most of these were plot more than porn
January 17, 2025
Trop de porn, pas assez de vampire
June 13, 2025
I didn’t realise it was short stories.
I hate short stories. And they’re poorly written.
I hate short stories. And they’re poorly written.
October 7, 2014
I only read one story in this anthology because I wanted to know what happened to Gilda from the Gilda Stories. I enjoyed another look into Gilda's life and struggles as she gets older and experiences innovations and challenges to humanity.
July 4, 2010
It was great to be part of such an amazing project with so many talented authors
September 4, 2014
Just another rip off of 50 shades
May 11, 2010
One of my short stories appears in this book.
November 1, 2017
All of these stories were good....some even better but one in particular still holds in memory and that was by Elizabeth Thorne - When not to be receives reproach.
I believe I spent my time and money satiated after reading and now I might just relax, sip my tea and listen to some great tunes
I believe I spent my time and money satiated after reading and now I might just relax, sip my tea and listen to some great tunes
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