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Blood and Other Cravings: Original Stories of Vampires and Vampirism by Blood and Other Cravings
Ellen Datlow (editor)
Tor, Oct 16 2012, $16.99
ISBN: 9780765328298
This super seventeen short story collection focuses on paranormal compulsive obsessive disorder and codependency. Each of the excellent entries provides the reader with insight into deviant supernatural cravings. In Kaaron Warren’s “All You Can Do Is Breath,” the trapped miner witnesses a creature attacking a peer and after being saved sees that same beast outside the mine. The vampire struggles between instinctive hunger and maternal cravings in Elizabeth Bear’s “Needles.” The mother grieves her son while living only to keep his memory alive in “Keeping Corky” by Melanie Tem. The incarcerated vampire struggles with controlling his needs and his mind in Michael Cisco’s “Bread and Water.” “The Mulberry Boys” (by Margo Lanagan) know you are what you eat as their bodies convert into silk manufacturing plants. The other contributions are all top rate as Blood and Other Cravings affirms its claim of “Blood and Other Cravings.”
Ellen Datlow (editor)
Tor, Oct 16 2012, $16.99
ISBN: 9780765328298
This super seventeen short story collection focuses on paranormal compulsive obsessive disorder and codependency. Each of the excellent entries provides the reader with insight into deviant supernatural cravings. In Kaaron Warren’s “All You Can Do Is Breath,” the trapped miner witnesses a creature attacking a peer and after being saved sees that same beast outside the mine. The vampire struggles between instinctive hunger and maternal cravings in Elizabeth Bear’s “Needles.” The mother grieves her son while living only to keep his memory alive in “Keeping Corky” by Melanie Tem. The incarcerated vampire struggles with controlling his needs and his mind in Michael Cisco’s “Bread and Water.” “The Mulberry Boys” (by Margo Lanagan) know you are what you eat as their bodies convert into silk manufacturing plants. The other contributions are all top rate as Blood and Other Cravings affirms its claim of “Blood and Other Cravings.”
