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Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association | 
| Authors: Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Creator: Kevin Anderson
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1953
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 1416567836
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781416567837
ASIN: 1416567836
Publication Date: October 21, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
The Horror Writers Association Presents
BLOOD LITE...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge. Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a gory twist in "An Evening with Al Gore"...In an all-new Dresden Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly paranormal doings, there's no such thing as a "Day Off" for the Chicago P.D.'s wizard detective, Harry Dresden...Sherrilyn Kenyon turns a cubicle-dwelling MBA with no life into a demon-fighting seraph with one hell of an afterlife in "Where Angels Fear to Tread"...Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold-out seance tour, but behind the scenes, a disgruntled ghost has a bone to pick, in Kelley Armstrong's "The Ungrateful Dead." Plus tales guaranteed to get under your skin -- in a good way -- from Janet Berliner Don D'Ammassa Nancy Holder Nancy KilpatrickJ. A. Konrath and F. Paul Wilson Joe R. Lansdale Will LudwigsenSharyn McCrumb Mark Onspaugh Mike Resnick Steven SavileD. L. Snell Eric James Stone Jeff Strand Lucien Soulban Matt Venne Christopher Welch
So let the blood flow and laughter reign -- because when it comes to facing our deepest, darkest fears, a little humor goes a long way!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 No Sookie here.... November 18, 2008
Holly Lewis (Medina, OH USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Got this from the library just for the Charlaine Harris story. While mildly entertaining, it was not a Sookie Stackhouse short story. For those of us in love with Sook, it' a bit dissapointing. That's not to say everything that Harris writes must be set in that world -- but if she's going to stray I need a bit better than what was included here. Fans can miss this easily....
 Disappointed November 18, 2008
G. Clark
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed a few of the stories, but was mostly disappointed. The title was the bet part of the book
Blood lite November 11, 2008
Jessica Pepe (New Orleans, LA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Horror isn't really my prefered genre. This anthology makes me think maybe there's a reason for that.
As with any multi-author anthology, the quality of the stories varies. Jim Butcher's Day Off and Kelly Armstrong's The Ungrateful Dead are amusing additions to the popular Dresden Files and Women of the Otherworld series, but with few exceptions, the rest of the stories range from boring to just plain bad, with occasional 'disgusting' thrown in for variety. (I'm not sure why 'horror' equals 'being offensively crude when describing women', but apparently it does.) I say skip it unless you're a very committed Dresden Files or Jamie Vegas fan.
 The Ungrateful Dead November 5, 2008
A. Burdette (Maryland, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book solely for the Kelley Armstrong story. Regardless of which woman of the otherworld narrated it, I would have bought it. Lucky for me, it was my favorite woman of the otherworld, Jaime Vegas. I've enver been disappointed by anything of Kelley's. There is always humor, though most of the time dark. And there is action (note: usually less action in Jaime's stories than others). This book is worth the money spent for this story alone.
Sorry guys... haven't had time to read the rest.
 Ewwww November 2, 2008
Jeanne Tassotto (Trapped in the Midwest)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
It was nearly Halloween, I noticed Charlaine Harris and Jim Butcher who have written other things I have enjoyed so I picked up this anthology. I am very happy that I was at the library and not a book store so I am not out any cash but I would certainly like the evening I spent with this back again.
Most of the stories are boring or gross, some manage to be both. A few are clever and worth the time spent reading them, 'Elvis Presley and the Bloodsucker Blues','No Problem', 'An Evening with Al Gore'. Devoted fans of THE DRESDEN FILES will enjoy 'Day Off'. That makes four out of twenty-one stories that are worth the effort to read. There are about eight of the stories that I would like to have permanently excised from my memory.
If you really want to read this check it out from a library don't waste your money buying it, even from the discount table where it will certainly appear shortly.
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