The Bitten Word

From slick urban terror to murder in the streets of old London town, from the horror awaiting a doomed archaeological expedition to Vampirism in a society of sentient insects, from fey children to blighted houses, from besotted artists to mysterious goings-on during Bram Stoker's theatrical days... A brand new collection of seventeen original stories detailing vampiric horror, murder and mystery; Vampires as you've never seen them before. Includes stories by Kelley Armstrong, Tanith Lee, Storm Constantine, Freda Warrington, Gail Z Martin, Nancy Kilpatrick, Chaz Brenchley, Sarah Singleton, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Simon Clark, and many more.

Kelley Armstrong believes experience is the best teacher, though she's been told this shouldn't apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.Armstrong is the author of the Rockton thriller series, standalone thrillers beginning with Wherever She Goes, and the Royal Guide to Monster Slaying middle-grade fantasy series. Past works include the Otherworld urban fantasy series, the Cainsville gothic mystery series, the Nadia Stafford thriller trilogy, the Darkest Powers & Darkness Rising teen paranormal series and the Age of Legends teen fantasy series.