This Week's Acquisitions

  • Florence Marryat, The Blood of the Vampire (Valancourt, 2009).  Reprint of Marryat's 1897 novel about a gorgeous female vampire.  Blood, sex, death...the usual.  Marryat was one of the novelist Captain Frederick Marryat's numerous progeny.  (Amazon)
  • Hilary Bailey, Miles and Flora (Touchstone, 1997).  Semi-epistolary sequel to The Turn of the Screw, starring a teenaged Flora.  (eBay)
  • Aleksander Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead, 2009).  An author tries to recreate the events surrounding the murder of Lazarus Averbuch.  (eBay)