Borchardt, Alice - The Silver Wolf "The third and best yet by Anne Rice's older sister . . . . This time however, Borchardt enters bona fide Rice territory, centering her tale on the rise of a werewolf clan during the last gasp of the Roman empire and the rise of Charlemagne. . . . Borchardt's version of the immortal city includes sewage systems, glass factories, thieves' markets, and much more. Adding an extra fillip to her tale, Borchardt's teenage female werewolf, Regeane, has an animal nature perpetually simmering at the surface of her character (like many an adolescent) while she goes about her daily life in human form. . . . Borchardt reaches descriptive and dramatic peaks with Regeane's vulpine supersenses as she noses about Rome by night, reading the dead city's skin and air. Top-flight fantasy." --Kirkus Reviews King, Stephen - Bag of Bones 1999 (June 1999) (Locus Awards - Bset Horror) ... partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot, though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn - Writ in Blood A classic vampire story in the style of Bram Stoker's Dracula, set in pre-WWI Europe and Russia. Count Ragoczy (a.k.a. Count Saint-Germain) is living in Czar Nicholas' Russia. The Czar is deeply worried about the possibility of war breaking out. Ragoczy is drafted into special diplomatic service of the Czar. His mission takes him to the courts of King Edward and Kaiser Wilhelm and a couple of side trips that have a direct impact on the Count's existence.
