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Sixteen stories of femail vampires by Stephen King, William Tenn, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, August Derleth, Richard Matheson, and Tanith Lee.

Contents:

• Introduction: Why There Are So Many "Ladies of the Night" - essay by Charles G. Waugh
• One for the Road - [Jerusalem's Lot] - (1977) - short story by Stephen King
• She Only Goes Out at Night - (1956) - short story by William Tenn (variant of She Only Goes Out at Night...)
• Heredity - (1947) - short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• Clarimonda - novelette by Théophile Gautier^? (trans. of La morte amoureuse 1836)
• The Cloak - (1939) - short story by Robert Bloch
• For the Blood Is the Life - (1905) - short story by F. Marion Crawford
• The Last Grave of Lill Warren - [John Thunstone] - (1951) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
• The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Ken's Mystery - (1883) - novelette by Julian Hawthorne
• Restless Souls - [Jules de Grandin] - (1928) - novelette by Seabury Quinn
• The Drifting Snow - (1939) - short story by August Derleth
• When It Was Moonlight - (1940) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• Luella Miller - (1902) - short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Dress of White Silk - (1951) - short story by Richard Matheson
• Red As Blood - (1979) - short story by Tanith Lee
• Carmilla - [Martin Hesselius] - (1872) - novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

When the sun goes down, New York's true elite all head to one place: Bathory Academy, where the young ladies of the finest vampire families are trained in shapeshifting and luring their prey.

Bathory's reigning queen, Lilith Todd, is the daughter of a powerful vampire businessman, and she knows exactly what she wants from life. She wants to look beautiful for eternity and party till the sun comes up with her gorgeous boyfriend, Jules. And she doesn't want any New Blood upstarts standing in her way.

Enter Cally Monture, an unexpected threat from a trash zip code. When their first meeting leads to tragic results, Lilith is hungry for revenge.

Fashion victim just got a whole new meaning.

When vampire heiress Lilith Todd decides she wants a modeling career, she won't let her father stop her--even if he does threaten to cut off her credit cards.

Lilith's rival, Cally Monture, is in a different kind of hot water. Her boyfriend, Peter, is a vampire hunter--a sexy, sensitive soul mate who just happens to be sworn to destroy her entire race.

With the Rauhnacht Grand Ball fast approaching, both girls need the same things: a handsome escort and a dress to die for. But in a sea of shifting and dangerous loyalties, there's no telling who will betray them next.

What good is a designer dress if someone puts a stake through it?

It's the most important event of the season in New York's upper-crust vampire society. The Rauhnacht Grand Ball has everything you need for a night of scandal and intrigue: gala dresses, stolen boyfriends, forbidden love...

Then a team of vampire hunters shows up and ruins everything! The surprise attack by Van Helsings is the worst gate-crashing ever.

In the aftermath, half sisters Lilith and Cally scramble to regain their footing at the exclusive Bathory Academy--and in the world of high fashion, where both have star potential. When new suitors turn the romance up a notch, it's almost enough to make the half sisters forget their intense rivalry. Almost. But shared blood between vampires is not easy, and before long Lilith and Cally find themselves face-to-face again.