The life of best-selling young adult horror author R.L. Stine including his childhood, the evolution of his writing career, and his popularity with both boys and girls.
Discusses the lives and works of the creators of famous monster literature: Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Gaston Leroux.
Until now Armand has played a small role in the Vampire Chronicles. Here he assumes center stage, relating his five hundred years of life to fledgling vampire David Talbot, who plays amanuensis to Armand as he did to Lestat.
Fledgling vampire Quinn Blackwood, heir to the opulent Blackwood Farm, appeals to the vampire Lestat for help when the spirit doppelganger known as Goblin that has followed Quinn his entire life, becomes increasingly hostile, endangering his family.
Collection of forty-three outstanding fantasy and horror stories and poems published in the English language in 1996, with summations of the year's writing in those genres, and a list of honorable mentions.