Seize the Night

New Tales of Vampiric Terror

John Ajvide Lindqvist, Laird Barron, Gary A. Braunbeck, Dana Cameron, Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry, Charlaine Harris, Brian Keene, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Michael Koryta, John Langan, Tim Lebbon, Seanan McGuire, Joe McKinney, Leigh Perry, Robert Shearman, Scott Smith, Lucy A. Snyder, David Wellington, Rio Youers, Christopher Golden

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781476783130
• Print ISBN:
  9781476783093

A chilling vampire horror anthology featuring original short stories from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors—including Charlaine Harris (whose novels inspired HBO’s True Blood) and Scott Smith, in his first published fiction since The Ruins.

Before vampires became romantic antiheroes, they were creatures of shadow and blood. In this terrifying collection, some of the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy restore the vampire to its rightful place as a monster to be feared. Edited by New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden, Seize the Night gathers all-new, blood-curdling tales from Charlaine Harris, John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), Scott Smith, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kelley Armstrong, Brian Keene, Seanan McGuire, Tim Lebbon, David Wellington, and more.

From ancient legends and gothic nightmares to modern-day urban horror, these stories span folklore, myth, and visceral contemporary terror. Dark, unsettling, and relentlessly suspenseful, Seize the Night is essential reading for fans of classic vampire fiction, gothic horror, and supernatural thrillers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Reclaiming the Shadows: An Introduction
• Epigraph
• ‘Up in Old Vermont’ by Scott Smith
• ‘Some thing Lost, Something Gained’ by Seanan McGuire
• ‘On the Dark Side of Sunlight Basin’ by Michael Koryta
• ‘The Neighbors’ by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• ‘Paper Cuts’ by Gary A. Braunbeck
• ‘Miss Fondevant’ by Charlaine Harris
• ‘In a Cavern, in a Canyon’ by Laird Barron
• ‘Whiskey and Light’ by Dana Cameron
• ‘We Are All Monsters Here’ by Kelley Armstrong
• ‘May the End Be Good’ by Tim Lebbon
• ‘Mrs. Popkin’ by Dan Chaon and Lynda Barry
• ‘Direct Report’ by Leigh Perry
• ‘Shadow and Thirst’ by John Langan
• ‘Mother’ by Joe McKinney
• ‘Blood’ by Robert Shearman
• ‘The Yellow Death’ by Lucy A. Snyder
• ‘The Last Supper’ by Brian Keene
• ‘Separator’ by Rio Youers
• ‘What Kept You So Long?’ by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• ‘Blue Hell’ by David Wellington
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• About the Editor
• Copyright