Dark passions
By: edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett
Series: Hot blood XIII; Hot blood series -- 13.
Publisher: Pinnacle Books; Kensington Pub. Corp.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780786029044; 9780786018215
Subjects: Horror tales; Erotic stories; American Short stories
Description: "Not all love is innocent. Some desires swallow you whole ... There's more than meets the eye to the twenty twisted pleasures collected here, with death and desire lying in wait behind every corner. One goth girl finds the man whose love can make her beautiful and whose body can bring her ecstasy-if she can stomach the price ... A zombie apocalypse destroys a man's family, but "til death do us part" is a vow his wife won't forget-even if she's now more on the undead side. A vampire hunter wakes up the morning after and has to discover what forbidden pleasures he indulged in the night before-he suspects they might involve the drop-dead gorgeous bloodsucker next door ... These and many more tales of sinister passion lie inside-if you aren't afraid of the dark ..."--
Table of contents: title: A building desire  -- D. Lynn Smith; title: Mood elevator  -- David Benton and W.D. Gagliani; title: The thirteen locks  -- Dave Zeltserman; title: Beauty and the beast  -- Richard Wilkey; title: Tres Hermanas  -- Roberta Lannes; title: The mile-high club  -- Trevor Anderson; title: Care and feeding  -- Christina Crooks; title: Magna mater  -- Cody Goodfellow; title: Change of pace  -- Steve Vernon; title: Hot hot hot  -- Ed Gorman; title: Miss Faversham's room  -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; title: Axis  -- Gary Lovisi; title: The bonfires of humanity  -- Jeff Gelb; title: What scares you  -- David J. Schow; title: The last resort  -- Lisa Morton; title: Secret admirer  -- Steve Armison; title: Goo girl  -- Thomas Tessier; title: Nocturnal invasions  -- Steve Niles; title: Less than perfect  -- P.D. Cacek; title: Son of beast -- Graham Masterton.