Blood Lite III: Aftertaste

Kevin J. Anderson

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781451636253
• Print ISBN:
  9781501142833
• Subtopic: Literature General

This darkly humorous follow-up to the national bestselling anthology from the Horror Writers Association is a heart-pounding collection of stories from acclaimed authors like Heather Graham, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, and many more.

Sink your teeth into a smorgasbord of macabre morsels laced with horrific humor in this third Blood Lite anthology! Whether you shriek with laughter or scream in fear…well, that’s simply a matter of taste.

Jim Butcher’s wizardly PI Harry Dresden pranks some high-tech monster seekers—and attempts to save a friend’s son whose life-energy is slowly being drained by an unknown adversary in “I Was a Teenage Bigfoot.” The Author from Hell has dropped dead, but a stressed-out editor is harassed by her emails from beyond the grave in Sherrilyn Kenyon’s “A Day in the Life.” The flesh is weak—and possibly even rotting—as a teenage virgin werewolf discovers on a visit to a brothel in Kelley Armstrong’s “V Plates.” Murder comes alive in “Mannequin,” by Heather Graham, as two thrill-seeking couples “axe” for trouble at a B&B with a bloody history.

Featuring thirty unforgettable stories, this anthology continues to put the fun back into dark fiction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Description
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• I Was a Teenage Bigfoot • Jim Butcher
• Blood-Red Greens • Joel A. Sutherland
• V Plates • Kelley Armstrong
• Put On a Happy Face • Christopher Golden
• Devil’s Contract • E. S. Magill
• Nine-Tenths of the Law • Eric James Stone
• Scrumptious Bone Bread • Jeff Strand
• Let That Be a Lesson to You • Mark Onspaugh
• Mint in Box • Mike Baron
• The Great Zombie Invasion of 1979 • J. G. Faherty
• Dating After the Apocalypse • Stephen Dorato
• Typecast • Jeff Ryan
• Making the Cut • Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn
• Acknowledgments • Will Ludwigsen
• Mannequin • Heather Graham
• Short Term • Daniel Pyle
• Distressed Travelers • Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Bayou Brawl • L. A. Banks
• The Steeple People • John Alfred Taylor
• For Sale • David Sakmyster
• The Man Who Could Not Be Bothered to Die • Norman Prentiss
• The Last Demon • Don D’Ammassa
• A Misadventure to Call Your Own • Adrian Ludens
• Smoke and Mirrorballs • Chris Abbey
• Brians!!! • D. L. Snell
• Still Life • Ken Lillie-Paetz
• A Day in the Life • Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Old MacDonald Had an Animal Farm • Lisa Morton
• Two for Transylvania • Brad C. Hodson
• The Four Horsemen Reunion Tour: An Apocumentary • Lucien Soulban
• About the Authors