A huge welcome to the newcomers! And to everyone--setting these books aside just for a moment (I'll let you have that long)--how many of you have read other vampire erotica books? And how many read lesbian erotica? If i knew how to o charts I'd see how many do both. less

A huge welcome to the newcomers! And to everyone--setting these books aside just for a moment (I'll let you have that long)--how many of you have read other vampire erotica books? And how many read lesbian erotica? If i knew how to o charts I'd see how many do both. less

I'm glad I got "Dream Lover" to review, but that cover would have made me at least consider getting "Girls Who Bite" if I had seen it beforehand. Though I haven't really read much in the way of lesbian erotica and am not sure how much I would like it.

I do plan on reading "Daughters of Darkness" after hubby finishes with it. Though from what he says, it doesn't sound like he's liking it very much, so I doubt I'll like it either. less

So you've finished reading Delilah's introduction, right? Here are some excerpts from Pam Keesey's introduction for Daughters of Darkness, first published in 1993.

Pam's Keesey’s introduction is a long and rewarding discourse on the histories and traditions of both vampires and lesbians, and the ways they converge. She covers myth, legend, literature, and movies, and even has an extensive and filmology and bibliography at the end.

“Female vampires have a long and varied history. Vampires have long been the favorite representation of “bad” women. Vampires are not only the supernatural creatures that haunt the night in search of blood: according to the Random House Dictionary, he vampire is also the woman who “unscrupulously exploits, ruins, or destroys the men she seduces.” She is the “vamp.”

The stories included in this anthology involve female vampire who have sought out one-to-one relationships with other women. Most of the stories are written by lesbians who are writing for a primarily lesbian audience, though this certainly is not the case for all of them. Some of the stories are funny, others are highly erotic. More than a few deal openly with the most pervasive of all vampire themes, the point at which the lines between sexuality and vio0lence become blurred.

“Dracula retold” by zana is a retelling of Bram Stoker’s tale. This time Lucy rather than Mina is married to Jonathan Harker. Lucy, bored with the life of a suburban housewife, chooses her vampire life, leaves her husband for lesbian land, and changes her name to “amazonclitwomon.” In Jody Scott’s vampire sci-fi comedy, Sterling O’Blivion is a “born that way” vampire whose family has always known that she had “it”—the defective gene that runs through her family…something that terrified others, but was minor, natural, and even quite pleasant as far as she was concerned." less

A huge welcome to the newcomers! And to everyone--setting these books aside just for a moment (I'll let you have that long)--how many of you have read other vampire erotica books? And how many read lesbian erotica? If i knew how to o charts I'd see how many do both. less