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RACHLEFF, OWEN S.

 

Enigma  (Leisure, 1989.)

 

Mary Ellen visits her uncle's laboratory and meets there a strange and compelling man who seems out of touch with the world, an amalgamation of man and beast, perfect and imperfect at the same time.  What she eventually learns is that the seeming is the actuality, and that she has run into a creature not entirely human.

 

Eric's Image  (Tower, 1982. (Leisure, 1986, as The Image.)

 

                A young couple struggles to come to emotional as well as physical terms with the existence of genuine occult forces, while also avoiding the  menace of a group of congregants whose devotion to the arcane arts may not be limited to the theoretical. 

 

Image, The.  (See Eric's Image.)

 

RADCLIFFE, ANN

 

Mysteries of Udolpho, The  (Robinson, 1794, White & Spotswood, 1795, Arnold, 1823, Routledge, ?, Juniper, 1960.)

 

                A classic haunted house, gothic horror tale.

 

RADFORD, KEN

 

Haunting at Mill Lane  (Goodchild, 1983.)

 

                Not seen.

 

RADNOR, ALAN  (See Richard Lewis.)

 

RADYSHEVSKY, DMITRY

 

Mantra, The  (Jove, 2002.)

 

                A very popular singer is using dark magic to ensorcel his listeners.

 

RAE, BEVERLY

 

Dancin’ in the Moonlight  (Triskelion, 2006.)

 

                Werewolf romance novel.

 

RAE, HUGH C.

 

Haunting at Waverley Falls, The  (Constable, 1980.)

 

                Not seen.

 

RAINEY, STEPHEN MARK.  (See also collaboration which follows.)

 

Balak  (Wildside, 2000.)

 

                A mysterious cult kidnaps children and absorbs their essence, until they are foiled by a police detective and two others.

 

Fugue Devil and Other Weird Horrors  (Macabre, 1993.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Last Trumpet, The  (Wildside, 2000.)

 

                Collection of loosely related stories.

 

Lebo Coven, The  (Five Star, 2004.)

 

                A good witch and two estranged brothers battle a man intent upon acquiring ancient powers of sorcery.

 

RAINEY, STEPHEN MARK & MASSIE, ELIZABETH

 

Dreams of the Dark  (Harper, 1999.)

 

A Dark Shadows novel.

 

                The woman who caused Barnabas to become a vampire has been banished to the realm of the dead.  Now she has used her influence to send another vampire against the man who spurned her.

 

RAISOR, GARY

 

Less Than Human   (Diamond, 1992.)

 

Two wandering vampire pool hustlers get involved in a brawl which leads to open warfare between human and vampire.  Very cleverly done, with considerable originality and a wry sense of humor.

 

Sinister Purposes  (Cemetery Dance, 2006.)

 

Collection of unrelated stories.

 

RALEIGH, RICHARD  (See collaborations with David Barbour.)

 

RALSTON, GILBERT A.

 

Ben  (Bantam, 1972, from the screenplay by the author.)

 

Novelization of the movie, which is a sequel to Willard, from the novel Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert.  Ben, the evil intelligent rat from the original story, returns at the head of a horde of weaker minded vermin.

 

RAMIE, FLORENCE

 

Toyland  (Leisure, 1986.)

 

The spirit of a dead girl reaches out to a living family, using a young boy's toy closet as the focus of her supernatural rage.  Her presence enters their dreams, turning them into nightmares, and her spectre flits at the edge of their consciousness while they are awake, turning their home into a place of terror. 

 

RAMONE, DEE DEE

 

Chelsea Horror Hotel  (Thunder's Mouth, 2001.)

 

                Episodic novel about a rock band who get involved with ghosts.

 

RAMOS, OCTAVIO

 

Smoke Signals  (Delirium, 2001.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

RAMSAY, JACK

 

Rage, The.   (Sphere, 1977, Ace, 1978.)

 

A powerful new strain of rabies takes hold in England, infecting one person after another until the entire country is swept up in a modern day plague of pain and death. 

 

RAMSAY, JAY  (Pseudonym of Ramsey Campbell, whom see.)

 

Night of the Claw   (MacDonald, 1983, St. Martin's, 1983, Tor, 1985. Warner, 1992, as The Claw by Ramsey Campbell.)

 

                The clawed talisman seems little more than a curiosity when the hero of this story acquires it, but it doesn't take long before its malign influence causes an entire family to fall under a spell, and everything which they have believed trustworthy and real becomes suspect.

 

RAMSLAND, KATHERINE

 

Blood Hunters, The  (Pinnacle, 2004.)

 

                Members of a vampire clan try to prevent an open war between their kind and normal humans.

 

Heat Seekers, The  (Pinnacle, 2002.)

 

                Two rival vampire clans, one comparatively good, the other utterly evil, are locked in a battle to the undeath.

 

RAMUZ, CHARLES FERDINAND

 

Reign of the Evil One, The  (Harcourt Brace, 1922.)

 

                A supernatural being posing as a human brings trouble to a small town including raising the dead.

 

RANDALL, BOB

 

Calling, The  (Simon & Schuster, 1981, Jove, 1983.)

 

A happy, successful woman finds her life turned on its head following a mysterious series of telephone calls, calls which follow her from place to place, even when she has no clear idea where she will go next.  It's the voice of a force beyond human comprehension, capable of using the telephone as an instrument of its rage.

 

Next, The  (Warner, 1981.)

 

When a ten year old boy is sent to live temporarily with his aunt, the woman has no idea that she will witness a terrifying, unnatural transformation.  Within a space of weeks, the boy grows into an adult male, and the two find themselves drawn together in a compulsive and unholy sexual liaison.  Decidedly odd story, but Randall makes it work convincingly.

 

RANDALL, FLORENCE ENGEL

 

Haldane Station  (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, Crest, 1974.)

 

A mysterious old house holds a strange fascination for a woman, despite her promise to her father never to enter it.  When she finally succumbs to temptation, she discovers that it is the gateway to another time, another world.

 

Place of Sapphires, The  (Harcourt Brace, 1969, Crest, 1970.)

 

Two young women in a haunted house discover that  a ghost has entered their lives, turning its own twisted unhappiness into a weapon with which to destroy their futures as well.

 

RANDERS, NICHOLAS  (See also Nicholas Grabowsky.)

 

Pray Serpents Prey  (Critic's Choice, 1988.)

 

A small town in Montana is turned into a suburb of Hell when a number of its inhabitants are transformed into monsters by a supernatural force hidden within the community.  The usual gory consequences follow.

 

RANDOLPH, VANCE

 

Devil's Pretty Daughter, The  (Columbia University Press, 1955.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

RANDOLPHE, ARABELLA  (See also Jack Younger.)

 

Vampire Tapes, The  (Berkley, 1977.)

 

Three different evil women throughout four centuries turn out to be one individual, an undying vampiress who changes her identity.  The female version of Anne Rice's vampire novels, but done with considerably less delicacy.

 

RANGEL, KIMBERLY

 

Homecoming  (Leisure, 1998.)

 

                Romance and suspense involving possession by the spirit of an executed man.

 

Shadows  (Leisure, 1996.)

 

                A family is cursed through the generations to change into panthers in the darkness and claim human victims.

 

RANKIN, ROBERT

 

Brentford Chainstore Massacre  (Doubleday, 1997.)

 

                Someone succeeds in cloning Jesus from the shroud of Turin, and turns out a number of copies, one for each major religion.

 

RANSOM, DANIEL  (Pseudonym of Ed Gorman who writes mysteries under that name.)

 

Babysitter, The  (St Martin's, 1989.)

 

Years earlier, the protagonist witnessed the transformation of a neighbor into a creature partly human, partly insect.  The shock was so great that she was never able to articulate the traumatic event.  When she returns as an adult, she is forced into a direct confrontation with an inhuman force.

 

Forsaken, The  (St. Martin's, 1988.)

 

An unhappy and malevolent spirit strikes out from the other side of the grave, expressing its rage on a succession of living victims.  Finally someone realizes what is happening, and decides to ensure that the ghost is finally at rest.

 

Long Midnight, The  (Dell, 1993.)

 

                The staff members of an orphanage which engaged in psychic research are being murdered by a mysterious mental force.  A woman who was a resident at the time discovers she is being followed and suspects she may be in danger from a ruthless man and his secretly recruited psychics.

 

Night Caller   (Zebra, 1987.)

 

An antique telephone is the horrifying instrument by which a young girl is corrupted and compelled to commit brutal murder. Although we learn that it was a cleverly devised plot with an entirely mundane explanation, the eerie incident is repeated in the waning chapters, as a supernatural force claims vengeance for the deceit.

 

Serpent's Kiss, The  (Dell, 1992.)

 

Each time an inmate of a small sanitarium escapes, he commits a series of inexplicable and brutal murders before returning to the institution to commit suicide.  The incidents are linked to a mysterious tower, where a supernatural creature waits to find a host for its next round of slaughter.

 

RASKIN, JOSEPH & EDITH

 

Ghosts and Witches Aplenty  (Scholastic, 1973.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Witch House and Other Tales Our Settlers Told, The  (Scholastic, 1971.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

RATCLIFFE, DAVID

 

Prisoners of Limbo  (Tanjen, 1977.)

 

                Not seen.

 

RAUCHER, HERMAN

 

Maynard's House  (Putnam, 1980, Joseph, 1981, Berkley, 1981.)

 

A Vietnam veteran returns to the United States and sets up housekeeping in a remote part of Maine, in a home left to him by a friend from the war.  Before long, he begins to experience uncanny feelings of imminent danger, as though something was urging him to leave.  Too stubborn to be driven out, he decides to investigate the place's history instead.

 

RAVEN, DANIEL

 

Happy Cage, The  (Onyx, 1989.)

 

When James Peck is murdered by his long suffering wife, his personality is able to remain dormant in her body, wakening only when his original body is exhumed.  Before his death, he had been planning to achieve immortality by preparing a series of bodies from which his ego could move at will.

 

RAVEN, SIMON

 

Doctors Wear Scarlet  (Blond, 1960, Simon & Schuster, 1960; Avon, 1961, Panther, 1966, Berkley, 1967.)

 

A very intelligently plotted and literate variation of the vampire theme, dwelling more on the psychological dependence of the victim than the more traditional preoccupations of bloodsucking and creaking coffins.  Far more subtle, and chilling, then the more explicit novels currently in fashion.

 

RAVENSWOOD, FRITZEN

 

Spawning, The  (Zebra, 1981.)

 

Satanists #2.

 

A demon of sorts seduces a woman and impregnates her, planning to use the resulting children as part of an elaborate evil plot.  Mind control, white witchcraft, and outright murder are all part of the subsequent action.

 

Witching, The  (Zebra, 1980.)

 

Satanists #1.

 

A woman visiting a chateau which was once the setting for a cult of satanists who practiced barbarous rites and human sacrifice learns that one of the present residents is a practicing witch.

 

RAVENWOLF, SILVER

 

Beneath a Mountain Moon  (Llewellyn, 2001.)

 

                A good witch is investigating a murder when she discovers a pact of evil men led by a warlock with extraordinary magical powers.

 

Witches' Key to Terror  (Llewellyn, 2001.)

 

Witches #3.

 

                A series of disappearances and other mysterious events in the vicinity of an orchard lead a group of teenaged witches to investigate.

 

Witches' Night of Fear  (Llewellyn, 2001.)

 

Witches #2.

 

                A teenaged witch has a prescient vision of murder and sets out with her coven members to foil the killer.

 

Witches' Night Out  (Llewellyn, 2000.)

 

Witches #1.

 

                Young adult novel in which a coven of teenager witches use magic to find out who was responsible for the death of a classmate.

 

RAY, JEAN

 

Ghouls in My Grave  (Berkley, 1965.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

My Own Private Spectres  (Midnight House, 1999.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

RAYE, KIMBERLY  (Pseudonym of Kimberly Groff.)

 

Dead and Dateless (Ballantine, ?)

 

Vampire Club #2.

 

?

 

Dead End Dating  (Ballantine, ?)

 

Vampire Club #1.

 

?

 

Just One Bite  (Ballantine, 2007.)

 

Dead End Dating #3.

 

A nasty vampire wants the perfect mate.

 

Your Coffin or Mine?  (Ballantine, 2007.)

 

Dead End Dating #3.

 

A night club and dating service for vampires runs into problems.

 

READ, CAMERON

 

Forsaken, The  (Pinnacle, 1982.)

 

Another haunted house tale.  In this one, the ghosts of two sisters return to plague the new residents in their home, with the customary sounds in the night, malign influences on the children, and sundry other supernatural phenomena.

 

READ, WILLIAM I.I.

 

Degrees of Fear  (Sarob, 2000.)

 

                Collection of related stories.

 

Skeletons in the Closet  (Sarob, 1998.)

 

                Collection of related stories.

 

REAMY, TOM

 

Blind Voices  (Putnam, 1978, Berkley, 1979.)

 

Although this single novel by the late Tom Reamy is fashioned more as a fantasy than a horror novel, it spans genres and is of such outstanding quality that it needs to be mentioned. A traveling carnival of freaks stops in a small town, and the interaction of the local residents with the utterly evil carnival master and his inhuman staff is both suspenseful and touching.

 

REARDON, JOYCE  (Pseudonym of Ridley Pearson.)

 

Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, The  (Hyperion, 2002.)

 

                Marginal story of a house where psychic phenomena might be real.

 

REAVES, MICHAEL  (See collaboration which follows.)

 

Night Hunter  (Tor, 1995.)

 

                A detective is assigned to track down a killer who apparently believes he is executing vampires.  His investigation, however, reveals that the murderer might be absolutely correct.

 

Voodoo Child  (Tor, 1998.)

 

                A drug lord uses voodoo magic to open a door to a supernatural other world through which monstrous creatures are entering ours.  A voodoo priest pits his own magic against that force to try to contain the threat.

 

REAVES, MICHAEL & BOHNHOFF, MAYA KAATHRYN

 

Mr. Twilight  (Del Rey, 2006.)

 

                A demon fighter and a police officer become a team when the fabric of reality is shattered and evil creatures enter the modern world.

 

RECTOR, JEANI

 

After Dark  (Publish America, 2006.)

 

Collection of unrelated stories.

 

REED, DANA  (Pseudonym of Edwina Berkman.)

 

Deathbringer, Leisure, 1985.)

 

A town is ravaged by a series of murders and mutilations, but there are so many mysterious characters, it is not readily apparent just who is responsible.  Ultimately, the forces of evil are split, and zombies commanded by a voodoo priest are only one of the horrifying groups of creatures set loose against the populace.  Confusing and overly violent.

 

Demon Within, The  (Leisure, 1988.)

 

A hideous demon haunts a sprawling building, killing young women and devouring their bodies in its quest to build its own power.  Satan himself makes an appearance, as the protagonist struggles to find a way to send the creature back to the underworld.

 

Gatekeeper, The  (Leisure, 1987.)

 

                The heroine moves into a house which appears initially to be haunted, but which is actually host to a kind of demon who interacts with her sexually.  Eventually she flees, knowing that it's a kind of entranceway from another plane of existence, but the demon pursues her.

 

Hell Board  (Leisure, 1990.)

 

                An ugly and unpopular girl discovers a way to gain vengeance on those who have tormented her.  Using a ouija board as the key, she gains access to another plane of existence, where supernatural creatures are willing to be cajoled into assisting her.  The body count rises starts a few pages later.

 

Margo  (Leisure, 1989.)

 

Rotting corpses wander out of the woods at the bidding of an evil sorceress in this gory novel of a woman who is the spawn of Satan himself. 

 

Sister Satan  (Leisure, 1984.)

 

A teenager experimenting with occult powers manages to create a doppelganger of herself out of thin air, but the doppelganger is an evil, demonic creature who begins a campaign of horrible acts against others.  And since the two are physically identical, Lauren is unable to convince people that she is innocent.  And in some ways, she is not.

 

Summoning, The  (Leisure, 1988.)

 

A young boy is drawn to a secret tomb in which several demons have been imprisoned for countless ages, and provides the key which allows them to escape back into the world.  Now he must find the proper chants and incantations to undo the damage while the demons stalk about, claiming victim after victim.

 

REED, RICK

 

Face Without a Heart, A   (Design Image Group, 2000.)

 

                An update of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.  The model for a holographic sculpture leads a life of crime and debauchery without any physical changes, all of which are reflected only on the sculpture until in a fit of remorse he destroys it.

 

REES, DOUGLAS

 

Vampire High  (Delacorte, 2003.)

 

                Humorous young adult story about a normal boy in a school full of vampires.

 

REESE, JAMES

 

Book of Sorrows, The  (Morrow, 2002.)  CHECK TITLE

 

Book #1.

 

                Genuine witchcraft set in a convent.

 

Book of Spirits, The  (Morrow, 2005, Avon, 2006.)

 

Book #2.

 

                More witchcraft and voodoo in the early 19th Century.

 

REEVE, CLARA

 

Champion of Virtue, The  (Keymer, 1777. Keymer, 1778, Oxford University Press, 1967, as The Old English Baron.)

 

                A ghost intercedes in family affairs.

 

Old English Baron, The.  (See The Champion of Virtue.)

 

REEVES, PHOEBE

 

Revenant, The (Xlibris, 2000.)

 

                A contemporary ghost story that is more metaphysical than horrifying,

 

REEVES‑STEVENS, GARFIELD

 

Bloodshift  (Virgo, 1981, Popular Library, 1990, Pan, 1993.)

 

                 A race of vampires has been living secretly among us, using superstition to conceal their existence and the fact that they are not quite as invulnerable as legend would have us believe.  Arrayed against them is a Jesuit group armed with crossbows, whose nature is evil as well.  Spies, secret plots, assassinations, and open warfare result.

 

Children of the Shroud  (Doubleday, 1987, Popular Library, 1990.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Dark Matter  (Doubleday, 1990, Bantam, 1991, Pan, 1992.)

 

                A brilliant but insane physicist gains his inspiration by brutally killing a series of people.  A detective struggles to uncover his secret, never expecting to be faced with the possible destruction of the entire human race.

 

Dreamland  (McClelland, 1985, Warner, 1991.)

 

A gigantic theme park has its opening day, and a sinister force uses that occasion to claim numerous victims from among the crowds who come to play. 

 

Nighteyes  (Doubleday, 1989.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Nightfeeder  (Roc, 1991.)

 

Galen Sword #2.

 

                Vampires and other mythical creatures co-exist in our world, opposed by a heroic figure aware of their existence.

 

Shifter  (Roc, 1990.)

 

Galen Sword #1.

 

                The protagonist learns he is a sorcerer exiled from a parallel universe.  Contemporary fantasy this time, although horror elements appear in the sequel.

 

REGAN, DIAN CURTIS

 

Missing Moose Mystery, The  (Scholastic, 1995.)

 

Ghost Twins #4.

 

                The ghosts are helping a living child find a missing statue when another ghost shows up to complicate matters.

 

Mystery at Kickingbird Lake, The  (Scholastic, 1994.)

 

Ghost Twins #1.

 

                Two childish ghosts try to help a living child who is living in the cabin they are forced to haunt.

 

Mystery of One Wish Pond, The  (Scholastic, 1994.)

 

Ghost Twins #2.

 

                Two children and their St Bernard, all ghosts, help solve a mystery involving strange noises at a pond.  This is apparently supposed to be a sort of Topper for younger readers.

 

REID, FORREST

 

Pender Among the Residents  (Collins, 1922.)

 

                A haunted house story.

 

REINES, KATHRYN

 

Kiss, The  (Avon, 1996.)

 

Two refugees from 1938 Nazi Germany take refuge with an aristocratic family in Rumanian, not realizing that they have fallen into the clutches of vampires.  High emphasis on the erotic aspect of the undead.

 

REISFELD, RANDI  (See collaborations with H.B. Gilmour.)

 

REISS, KATHRYN

 

Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge  (Harcourt, 2004.)

 

                A young girl discovers that her dollhouse is haunted.

 

REISS, MARC & WILLIAM, BARRY

 

Adversary, The  (Charter, 1979.)

 

The personified aspect of evil itself has taken an active role in the world once again, but the opposing force of good has selected a single woman as its champion.  Now all she has to do is figure out what is going on and how to hold up her end of the fight.  Piece of cake.

 

RELLING, WILLIAM JR

 

Brujo  (Tor, 1986.)

 

                An island not far from the West Coast is cut off from the mainland as an angry Indian spirit rises to strike back against the white man and erase his influence from the face of the world. Enlisting nature itself on his behalf, the spirit of a long dead shaman causes death and devastation throughout the small community.  This is really pretty good despite the presence of yet another malevolent but dead Indian.

 

Infinite Man, The  (Scream Press, 1989.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

New Moon  (Tor, 1987.)

 

Moon #1.

 

An ancient sorcerer is revived and sets out to make himself invulnerable.  In order to do so, he commits a series of ritual murders, which awaken the interest of a determined police detective.  But there is an even greater link, for the policeman's wife appears to be a reincarnation of the woman the sorcerer once loved.

 

Silent Moon  (Tor, 1990.)

 

Moon #2.

 

A worldwide cults of immortals is secretly meeting in San Francisco, perhaps presaging the return of a number of supernatural entities from beyond our world.  Two investigative reporters find more than they bargained for when they look into the activities of a popular evangelist.

 

RENARD, MAURICE

 

Hands of Orlac, The  (Dutton, 1929, Horwitz, 1962, translated from the French by Florence Crewe-Jones. )

 

                A pianist loses his hands after an accident, but the hands have a mind of their own.

 

REYNOLDS, BONNIE JONES

 

Confetti Man, The   (Stein and Day, 1975, Ballantine, 1976.)

 

A man who has somehow managed to exist in a state neither dead nor alive through the years exerts his uncanny power on a beautiful woman, providing her with everything material which she could wish for, success, money, popularity, but always at a price.

 

Truth About Unicorns, The  (Stein and Day, 1972, Bantam, 1973.)

 

Witchcraft abounds in this story of compulsive love and twisted lives in a small rural town.  Deceptively gentle in the opening chapters, this becomes quite unsettling as the plot develops.

 

REYNOLDS, G.W.M.

 

Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals  (Vickers, 1847.)

 

                Not seen.  Retelling of the classic deal with the devil story.

 

Necromancer, The  (Reynolds, 1852, Dicks, 1857.)

 

                Not seen.  Deal with the devil.

 

Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf  (Reynolds, 1846, Dicks, 1857.)

 

                An early werewolf novel.

 

REYNOLDS, JOSEPH

 

Satan's Disciple  (Beeline, 1968.)

 

                Pornography involving the devil.

 

RHINE, ROBERT STEVEN

 

My Brain Escapes Me  (Sun Dog, 1999.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

RHODES, DANIEL  (Pseudonym of Neil McMahon)

 

Adversary, The  (St Martin's, 1988, Tor, 1989, New English Library, 1989.)

 

Templar #2.

 

The evil force of the first volume was thwarted in the nick of time, but now it is enlisting human allies to help establish a new power base among the world of the living.

 

Kiss of Death  (St Martin's, 1990, New English Library, 1990, Tor, 1992.)

 

The protagonist this time is a beautiful woman heir to a demonic curse who rejects her magical powers in order to find love with an ordinary mortal.  But there are other powers at work, and the death of her lover may be the first step to the damnation of her soul.

 

Next, After Lucifer  (St. Martin's, 1987, Tor, 1988, New English Library, 1988.)

 

Templar #1.

 

When an archaeologist probes too deeply into the legend of a buried Knight Templar, he inadvertently lets free the man's evil spirit.  Over the centuries, the disembodied presence has accumulated a supernatural rage and is determined never to be subdued again.  Instead, he seizes control of his liberator's body.

 

RHODES, EVIE

 

Criss Cross (Dafina, 2006.)

 

                A detective with psychic visions battles a serial killer.

 

RHODES, NATASHA  (See also collaboration with Nancy Collins.)

 

Blade Trinity  (Black Flame, 2004, from the screenplay by David S. Goyer.)

 

                Blade is framed for murder and must team up with a band of human vampire hunters to find out who is responsible.

 

Dante’s Girl  (Solaris, 2007.)

 

Kayla Steele #1.

 

                A young woman battles supernatural evil in modern Los Angeles.

 

Dead Reckoning  (Black Flame, 2005.)

 

A Final Destination novel.

 

                Several people attempt to cheat death personified.

 

Last Angel, The (Solaris, 2008.)

 

Kayla Steele #2.

 

 Someone murders an angel.

 

RICE, ANNE  fix order

 

Blackwood Farm  (Knopf, 2002.)

 

Lestat #10.

 

                A man who has been haunted by a doppelganger all his life is turned into a vampire, and when that happens, his doppelganger becomes an even stranger creature.

 

Blood and Gold  (Knopf, 2001.)

 

Lestat #7.

 

                Vampire story set in the time of Rome.

 

Blood Canticle  (Knopf, 2003.)

 

Lestat #10.

 

                God tells Lestat to turn good.

 

Interview with the Vampire  (Knopf, 1976, Raven, 1976, Ballantine, 1977.)

 

Lestat #1.

 

The memoirs of a vampire, as dictated to an interviewer, make up this fascinating and ground breaking book.  The vampire has undergone quite a change in recent years, and appears as the sympathetic character almost as often as the villain.  Even this work, which characterizes him as the monster of legend, presents a majestic side to the creature.

 

Lasher  (Knopf, 1993, Chatto & Windus, 1993.)

 

Mayfair Witches #2.

 

                Returned from the dead, a ghost fathers a child who possesses extraordinary natural and supernatural powers.

 

Memnoch the Devil  (Random House, 1995, Chatto & Windus, 1995, Legend, 1996.)

 

Lestat #5.

 

                A vampire encounters the ghost of one of his victims and goes through a religious crisis.

 

Merrick  (Knopf, 2000.)

 

Lestat #9.

 

                More vampire reminiscences, this time blending the series with the Mayfair Witches for a time.  Voodoo, discorporate souls, and other occult elements.

 

Mummy, The  (Ballantine, 1989, Chatto & Windus, 1989.)

 

                A primarily historical novel about an Egyptian obsessed with the quest for immortal life and the effort he goes to in order to survive to modern times. 

 

Pandora  (Chatto & Windus, 1998, Ballantine, 1999, Arrow, 1999.)

 

Lestat #6.

 

                A vampire claims fresh victims in modern day Paris. 

 

Queen of the Damned, The   (Knopf, 1988, Ballantine, 1989, MacDonald, 1989.)

 

Lestat #3.

 

                Now the vampire faces a danger of his own, in the person of the queen of the vampires, rising from ages of somnolence to destroy him.

 

Servant of the Bones  (Knopf, 1996, Chatto & Windus, 1996, Ballantine, 1997.)

 

                A man is transformed into a genie and interacts with people throughout the ages.

 

Tale of the Body Thief, The  (Knopf, 1992, Chatto & Windus, 1992, Ballantine, 1993.)

 

Lestat #4.

 

Another reminiscence of a vampire, this time dealing with dreams, his childhood, and a strange encounter in modern New Orleans.

 

Taltos  (Knopf, 1994, Chatto & Windus, 1994.)

 

Mayfair Witches #3.

 

                We learn that the evil spirit reincarnated within the Mayfair family is actually one of a race of supernatural beings.

 

Vampire Armand, The  (Knopf, 1998, Arrow, 1999.)

 

Lestat #7.

 

                A vampire relates his life history while sitting in attendance on the comatose body of his vampire friend.

 

Vampire Lestat, The  (Knopf, 1984, Ballantine, 1985, MacDonald, 1985.)

 

Lestat #2.

 

An ageless vampire who has survived for centuries takes up a new career as a rock star, while spending his free time searching for others of his own kind who may have similarly survived from the Dark Ages.

 

Vittorio the Vampire  (Knopf, 1999,  Arrow, 2000.)

 

Lestat #8.

 

                One man survives a massive vampiric attack on a town, but although he is able to defeat most of the undead, he falls in love with one of them and therefore ensures his own doom.

 

Witching Hour, The  (Knopf, 1990, Chatto & Windus, 1991, Penguin, 1992.)

 

Mayfair Witches #1.

 

                A doctor with strange powers rescues a psychic man and the two become involved with the unraveling of a generations old family secret involving a ghost and an evil spirit.  A very long, very involved novel.

 

RICE, BEBE FAAS

 

Listeners, The  (Harper, 1996.)

 

For young adults.  Young Kathy feels something odd about her new home, as though unseen presences were hiding, some threatening, some warning her of danger to come.

 

RICE, DOUG

 

Blood of Mugwump  (Black Ice, 1996.)

 

                Collection of related stories about a clan of vampires.

 

RICE, JANE

 

Idol of the Flies and Other Stories, The  (Midnight House, 2003.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Sixth Dog, The   (Necronomicon, 1995.)

 

                Short story in pamphlet form.

 

RICE, JEFF

 

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