New Book of Vampire Tales Published

POPLAR GROVE, Ill. - May 3, 2022 - PRLog -- Poplar Grove, Illinois publisher Tales of Wonder and Dread has just unleashed a collection of vampire stories. "Life Blood Two: More Vampire Tales" will be the follow-up to 2018's original "Life Blood" collection.

Dan Klefstad, the author of "Fiona's Guardians" said this about the book, "A vampire saves the Beatles. Another convinces ancient tribesmen that he is a god. A human treats a patient who's been bitten and turned. Welcome to 'Life Blood Two: More Vampire Tales,' a new collection of fiction and folk histories about exsanguination, exhumation, transfusion, and trickery. We also travel back to ancient Greece for an origin story about these bloodthirsty nocturnals. The authors in this anthology can't guarantee that crosses and garlic will protect you. But their words will prompt you to think twice about venturing out at night – or not scattering a suspected revenant's ashes."

"Life Blood Two: More Vampire Tales" features six fiction stories from Gary Hill and one each from Bill Camp, Del Merritt and R.C. Mulhare along with seven non-fiction storied from Gary Hill, two from Rick Hale and one each from Diane Hill and Mike Korn. A classic vampire story from Bram Stoker rounds it out. The book is available at lulu.com/spotlight/strangesound and GaryHillAuthor.com.

Founded in 2018, Poplar Grove based Tales of Wonder and Dread Publishing has released  more than two dozen books to date. All the T.O.W.D. books have a focus on science fiction, horror or generally macabre type subject matter. The most recent T.O.W.D. releases were "Faithmre: A Collision of Religion and Horror,""No More New Years,"  "Horrifying Holidays," "Relics, Remnants and Artifacts" and "Spooky Stories,"

Previously T.O.W.D. has published such titles as  "Interstellar Journeys: A Collection of Space Travel Stories," "The Homestead," "Wizard Song," " Spooky Houses: Spooky Fiction and Non-fiction Homebound Tales." "Life Blood: A Collection of Vampire Stories," " Spectral Stories: A Collection of Ghost Tales," "Speculative Stories: A Collection of Science Fiction Tales," "Spirited Classics: A Collection of Timeless Ghost Stories" and " Temporal Journeys: A Collection of Time Travel Stories."  They have also published a series of four photo heavy books on Rockford, Illinois cemeteries titled "Rockford's Final Resting Places," with another due later.

Gary Hill has been publishing "Music Street Journal" since 1998. In August of 2006 his first book "The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft" was published. Since then several other books have been released. Hill launched Spooky Ventures in 2019. Hill recently launched some "Put the Spooky Back Into Christmas" merchandise through Spooky Ventures at CafePress.com/Spookyventures. In 2019 Hill began a series of books under the Music Street Journal banner focused on the Rockford, Illinois music scene titled, "Music Street Journal Local: Rockford Area Music Makers.".