Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms

Suzy McKee Charnas. Tachyon Publications, $24.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-1-892391-21-6

Suzy McKee Charnas's Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms collects nine distinctive vampire stories, one a collaboration with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, by this winner of Hugo, Nebula and Tiptree awards. Two new autobiographical essays round off the volume. .

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