A piano? Tell me about Tanith Lee's piano vampire story?
The vampire piano comes from "The Isle Is Full of Noises," which is the closing story of and the best thing in Martin Kaye's The Vampire Sextette (2000); I think it has been collected since then, but only in small-press publications which I have never personally seen. Conversely, the vampire boat in "La Dame" (1995) is much easier to get hold of, since it was reprinted in Datlow and Windling's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Edition (1996) and the vampire painting of "Venus Rising on Water" (1991) can be found in Stephen Jones' The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women (2001). As far as I can tell, Tanith Lee operated on the assumption that anything could be a vampire and since she could make her readers believe it, I am delighted. Some of her vampires are more animate, of course, and I like them, too.
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The vampire piano comes from "The Isle Is Full of Noises," which is the closing story of and the best thing in Martin Kaye's The Vampire Sextette (2000); I think it has been collected since then, but only in small-press publications which I have never personally seen. Conversely, the vampire boat in "La Dame" (1995) is much easier to get hold of, since it was reprinted in Datlow and Windling's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Edition (1996) and the vampire painting of "Venus Rising on Water" (1991) can be found in Stephen Jones' The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women (2001). As far as I can tell, Tanith Lee operated on the assumption that anything could be a vampire and since she could make her readers believe it, I am delighted. Some of her vampires are more animate, of course, and I like them, too.