Let me just say that there were some OK stories in this book. Not good, definitely not great, but OK. With that being said , the overall rating I gave this book is still one star because the bad outweighed the good. And I just could not get the second story out of my head the whole time I was reading this. It was a horrible story. I was going to go into a big paragraph as to why I hated it but I think I'll skip that. I love vampire stories and horror stories but obviously these types of stories

not really sure if there's a better word combo for a book title than 'vampire' and 'erotica'... a sexy read if'n you're into that whole 'dying in the arms/legs/lips of the undead'... this book made me think of who i would like to see as a vampire in a remake of 'Nosferatu'... i went through a HUGINORMOUS vampire phase in the 90's and couldn't pass this one up! a pretty sketchy genre nowadays, all romance-y and lovey-dovey, not enough 'come hither so i can ravage you while i am draining you of yo...

A few stories were standouts -- "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" by Nancy Holder, "Cherry" by Christa Faust, "In This Soul of a Woman" by Charles de Lint, "The Alchemy of the Throat" by Brian Hodge, and "A Slow Red Whisper of Sand" by Robert Devereaux.However, even including those stories, it's waaaaaaaaaay too gorey and gross to be erotic. The definitions of "vampire" and "sex" were both too vague to mean much of anything. If it had been called "Twenty original tales of vampiric sex-tinged disgustin...

I found this book at the library book sale and grabbed it because it had "Poppy Z. Brite" splashed across it and I've been wanted to read her stuff.But then it said, "Vampire Erotica" and I put it back. I thought about it a bit and said to myself, "Well, it's only $1. What do I have to lose?" I bought this one and "Love in Vein II."I was pleasantly surprised. Though most of the stories have sex in them, most of them are not erotica in the classic sense. By that I mean, sex isn't the point of the...

I love Poppy Z. Brute but was disappointed to learn she only edited this book and had written no short stories among the bunch. A lot of the stories were good but most forgettable. I would still read the second anthology book though.

A reread.If you're looking for a balance between the erotic and the horrific, well, it's overbalanced toward the horrific, and most of the stories seem to miss some crucial element of appeal--the beginnings waste pages clearing their throats; the paragraphs meander aimlessly; the endings go off the rails or stop before the resolution, let alone the kiss-off. The book came out in 1994, though: twenty years have passed, and the Sexy Vampire craze isn't running full steam. I have the benefit of hin...

I don't know what it is but I just can't get along with short stories. I have trouble writing them, and I have trouble reading them. I always want more, I always want it go somewhere it doesn't have time to go, and most of the time I finish them thinking...'what was the point?'That said, I did enjoy some of these 'tales of vampire erotica', but many I started and then skipped. I was surprised to see a story from Nancy Holder in here, who I recognised as one of the writers on Buffy (same person,

A wonderful little collection of the more...shall we say risque?....side of the well-loved vampire.

My favorite stories in this collection of “vampire erotica” include Gene Wolfe’s “Queen of the Night,” a retelling of the Celtic myth of changelings from a boy’s POV who has been abducted by the dark fairies and lived with them for 9 years; on his return to the “real” world he is initiated into sexuality by the dark fairie queen in excruciatingly painful vampiric fashion. Wolfe tells the story with his usual reverence for character and the general paranoic feeling of the protagonist that he will...

Don't buy it, definitely not worth the money. Out of 20 stories, maybe 3 were ok. The rest were pretty bad. This collection was more horror than erotica and only half the stories were about traditional vampires. Far less than should have been in a collection of "vampire erotica".Since I don't normally write reviews unless I have something specific to say, here's the break down of how I rate my books...1 star... This book was bad, so bad I may have given up and skipped to the end. I will avoid th...

None of these stories really held my attention and I found myself skimming through big passages before setting this in the resale pile.

I remember thinking,where's the erotica?

As erotica, not so good. Too much self-conscious splatterpunk posing, too little actual sex or exploration of vampire sex that goes beyond the tired and overdone. It's only "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain", Nancy Holden's small gem of a story about desire and pain and longing in Japan that saves the collection at all.

*Warning* Massive fucking swearing up ahead! I don't write many reviews but I just had to explain why I rated this 1 star. The second story in this mindfuck of an anthology is about a girl named Chris who was repeatedly sexually abused by her fucktard father. She grows up and finally moves out, but because of the abuse, she has problems connecting to anyone. She dumps her boyfriend because he fucked her while she was sleeping without a condom. She knows she's bi but doesn't want to be a lesbian

I read this book many years ago and found it to not be at all creepy or erotic at all. It's one of the few books I really, truly regret having wasted my time reading.

My feelings about this book are deeply, deeply mixed. I think it's an excellent vampire-themed sexual horror collection, but I don't think the majority of the stories are remotely erotic. Just because something has sexual content, doesn't mean it's sexy. I have a hard time imagining anyone finding the majority of these stories very erotic. I mean, what is erotic about a ten year-old boy watching is prostitute mother have sex with a john through a crack in the door, and then seeing him suck her e...

An anthology of twenty tales of vampire erotica. Or, at least, it's meant to be. Brite's arrangement is strong, but the quality of the selections leaves much to be desired. There are a cluster of decent stories from Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Christa Faust, Douglas Clegg, and Brian Hodge, and Gene Wolfe's "Queen of the Night," an oblique dreamscape of ghouls and fairy queens, was my favorite. But there's just as many mediocre stories, and three that I couldn't even bring myself to finish. Brite's...

I thought by reading the back cover would give me an idea about what to expect in the book. I also read the introduction by the editor for another idea about what to expect from the book. I gave the book a try and was left wanting to find a better book. I was greatly disappointed in the book being that it's anthology. I only like the first story out of the whole book and the rest of the stories to me just fell flat or were trying to hard. I love a good vampire book but this cannot be called a go...

I'd never read Poppy Z Brite, and this book was recommended to me. Generally, I like anthologies, but this book is a collection of hit-and-miss. Some of the stories are interesting, but many of them do not even have vampires in them, or are just so poorly written that they are hard to read (such as the last story in this collection, which is nonsensical and disjointed) Some of the stories are about psychic vampires - feeding off emotion, or sound, or whatever, but this was a plodding book to get...

The overall tenor of the erotic tales in Poppy Z. Brite's collection is strongly reminiscent of Harlan Ellison's ground-breaking Dangerous Visions anthologies: edgy, uncomfortable to read, but full of images that are hard to forget. Brite has collected twenty stories that skirt the perimeter of good taste—and despite the market among adolescents for vampirica, this is not a book for the teenager. Themes range from ghoulish feasting to lesbian revenge, and include references to Wiccan and pag...