The year is 2550. The world as the human race once knew it; had changed two-hundred years previous. Gone were the cities that featured regularly on the daytime and evening news bulletins and used as backdrops for Hollywood Movies. The nations of the world had been displaced and that was due to the resurgence of mankind's age-old adversary, the VAMPIRE!

Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia.

Now in paperback--the gut-wrenching first book in The Vampire Mountain trilogy.

Mr. Crepsley leads Darren Shan on a dangerous trek to Vampire Mountain, the very heart of the vampire world, to be presented to the Council, but an encounter with the Vampanese along the way means trouble.

"You are the thing that keeps him human. You are what keeps him from madness and darkness. We need you, dearest." The Order of the Blessed is all I have known. I keep my head down and my hair covered. I don’t speak unless spoken to. I follow the rules—mostly. But the clock is ticking. Soon, Father Joshua will name my husband and there isn’t a man here I want to touch me. The last thing I expected was for Father Joshua to choose me for his own. I’m special, he said. I’m wicked. And I need a holy man to keep me from my own wickedness. Now, I must escape. Even though I hardly know what’s beyond these walls. Even if I die out there in the forest. I didn’t expect someone to catch me when I leapt. Especially four someones. Rayner. Silvus. Jie. Thom. I have fallen into the arms of four vampires. They have loved me across time, across many lives. When I die, they find me, claim me, love me passionately, no matter where I'm from or who I've become. They are completely devoted to me. They'd kill for me. But the one thing they've never been able to do is turn me into a vampire so we never have to say goodbye. One way or another, I'm going to die--but will it be in the hands of an evil man, or to be reborn with the men I love? Originally published as a trilogy. Book One: Take Me Slowly Book Two: Love Me Madly Book Three: Kill Me Softly