Helpful Score: 5
I really enjoyed some of the stories, but most of them bored me. Definitely not for someone with a weak stomach. Not really all that erotic.
Not recommended
Not recommended
Helpful Score: 4
This was a bit of a disappointment for me. The stories were strange, hard to follow, and many were not even very erotic.
Helpful Score: 2
Some of the stories were a little too "artsy" for me; nothing really to do with vampires in any sense that I could relate to. The book got better as I continued through the stories and I really enjoyed several of them. Overall, an interesting read.
My cover is different.
My cover is different.
Helpful Score: 1
Not what I am looking for in erotica
Helpful Score: 1
Not at all what I thought it would be like. I didn't really get into any of the stories. Not authored by PZB, only edited by her.
Though it says it is authored by Poppy Z. Brite, it is only edited by her and contains twenty original vampire erotica stories from different authors. Not the run-of-the-mill vamps either!
The title is misleading. This does not fall under my definition of erotica or normal definitions of vampire in a lot of the stories. Most of the stories were really verbose, where you had to read the sentence more than once and it still didn't have any substance to it when it was digested. And some of the stories were down right gross (a female 'vampire' that sucks unborn fetuses for food). Ugh! I forced myself to finish it just so I could cross it off my list. It took me about three weeks to read when I normally read a book in a couple of days. I only paid $.50 for it at a sale but even if you get it free, I'd pass it by. There way too many good books out there to catch up on than to waste time on something like this. A real disappointment.
Tanya K. (ForeverDreaming) reviewed Love in Vein: Tales of Vampire Erotica on + 14 more book reviews
This book was awful. I couldn't even follow the majority of the stories in this book. There was maybe 1 or 2 stories that I did like, but I didn't LOVE any of them. I didn't even finish reading a couple of them.
I was very happy with this book. The different short stories varied and never lost my attention. I have just started the second Love In Vein because it was that good.
Not Anne Rice...20 short stories, by as many authors.. all pertaining to vampires. Some good...some unusual...some not so good....typical book that houses a number of short stores.
From Booklist
Like scotch or very dry martinis, these 20 servings of "vampiric erotica" may be for many a resistible acquired taste. Those who do wind up enjoying this controversial new literature that goes "deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers" may, however, find this anthology intoxicating. In it, the beast is beautiful, a situation probed by Charles de Lint, Gene Wolfe, and less-known others. Celebrating "unspeakable intimacies," the stories explore the subversive appeal of vampirism in all its manifestations as readers meet a color-blind veterinarian mysteriously--and, without regular refills, only temporarily--restored to a world of color by a strange elixir from a prostitute's third nipple; a vampire whose dying, mortal wife has nourished him for years by allowing him to hurt her, then draw her sensations of fear and pain from her for his own sustenance; and a pair of lesbians who literally copulate the father of one to death. Not as mainstream as Ann Rice, this anthology might be most comfortable in extensive and specialized horror collections. Whitney Scott
Like scotch or very dry martinis, these 20 servings of "vampiric erotica" may be for many a resistible acquired taste. Those who do wind up enjoying this controversial new literature that goes "deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers" may, however, find this anthology intoxicating. In it, the beast is beautiful, a situation probed by Charles de Lint, Gene Wolfe, and less-known others. Celebrating "unspeakable intimacies," the stories explore the subversive appeal of vampirism in all its manifestations as readers meet a color-blind veterinarian mysteriously--and, without regular refills, only temporarily--restored to a world of color by a strange elixir from a prostitute's third nipple; a vampire whose dying, mortal wife has nourished him for years by allowing him to hurt her, then draw her sensations of fear and pain from her for his own sustenance; and a pair of lesbians who literally copulate the father of one to death. Not as mainstream as Ann Rice, this anthology might be most comfortable in extensive and specialized horror collections. Whitney Scott
This is a really good book I enjoyed it alot.
Not my type of Vampire stories.
The classic horror tale is about fear. But now there is a controversial new literature of the macabre that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones lovers are even forbidden to share.
20 Original Tales of Vampire Erotica
20 Original Tales of Vampire Erotica
A wonderful collection of stories
Beyond fear, beyond horror, beyond temptation, there is a realm of the senses that only the boldest may enter. An acclaimed master of the dark fantastic, author Poppy Z. Brite has brought together the genre's most powerful and original writers to reinvent the literature of the macabre and give it a distinctly erotic spin.
A shameless celebration of unspeakable intimacies, the stories within explore our most sinister and irrepressible hungers, those that even lovers are forbidden to share.
Prepare to experience sensuality that entices, enslaves, terrorizes, and destroys. It is not for everyone. But neither is the night.
A shameless celebration of unspeakable intimacies, the stories within explore our most sinister and irrepressible hungers, those that even lovers are forbidden to share.
Prepare to experience sensuality that entices, enslaves, terrorizes, and destroys. It is not for everyone. But neither is the night.
not what i suspected at all
Tales of vampiric love, lust and longing.
Please note: this book has a different cover than the one shown.
Please note: this book has a different cover than the one shown.
