Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead
Kilpatrick has done a first-class job of selecting and editing 23 stories and 1 poem of the undead, all by Canadian writers. Her introduction is an informative summary of the development of vampires in popular entertainment, and the stories themselves are vignettes of vampires in the early-twenty-first century. The backgrounds and characters vary, but all the writing is of very high quality. The authors include Rebecca Bradley, Tanya Huff, Steve Vernon, Michael Skeet, and Claude Bulduc (whose story is translated from the French). Excellent work all around. --Frieda Murray