• Grendel
  John Champlin Gardner List Price: $9.95 and less.
  
  A very affecting historical dark fantasy (many are) which retells the saga of Beowulf from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, to whom humans have made themselves evil incarnate. A classic of fine writing.
  
  
• Those Who Hunt the Night
  Barbara Hambly List Price: $5.99 and less.
  
  The most popular figure for dark fantasy is the vampire. In this case, Don Simon Ysidro forces former British intelligence agent, Jonathan Asher, to help him find the person or persons who are killing the vampires of 1880s London. A rivetting murder mystery, with a constant edge of peril.
  
  
• Traveling With the Dead
  Barbara Hambly List Price: $5.99 and less.
  
  Asher and his wife return, and in a dark historical thriller must find out who has the power to coerce vampires into spying against the Empire.
  
  
• Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness (2 Books in One)
  Fritz Leiber List Price: $4.99 and less.
  
  This is the form in which you can now get the dark fantasy Conjure Wife, in which a professor of folklore discovers the women of the world are all practicing magic -- and he's just forced his wife to disarm herself before deadly enemies. Our Lady of Darkness is horror, but a nice bonus at the price.
  
  
• Interview With the Vampire
  Anne Rice List Price: $6.99 and less.
  
  There are Anne Rice readers, and then there are people who happen to read an Anne Rice novel now and then. To the former she can do no wrong. To the latter, she is an uneven talent. This, her first novel, is considered one of her best by the latter, though some people have thrown it down in disgust at the idea that two men and a little girl can live in one mansion in New Orleans for sixty years and never have it noticed that they do not age -- or that they are adding 500 to 1000 people a year to the mortality statistics. Heavy on the twisted eroticism.
  
  
• Complete Vampire Chronicles : The Tale of the Body Thief, The Queen of the Damned, The Vampire Lestat, Interview With the Vampire
  Anne Rice List Price: $30.96 and less.
  
  If you're going to do the whole Anne Rice vampire thing, this is actually a savings. Many readers who are not devoted to the author consider The Queen of the Damned to be her best in the series. The Vampire Lestat is pretty good, too, but those not devoted to the author consider The Tale of the Body Thief to be the start of the precipitous sag in the series. The individual book titles are for some reason listed in reverse chronological order on this compendium.
  
  
• The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
  Anne Rice List Price: $7.99 and less.
  
  Another form of immortal, the eternally living Ramses is released from his sarcophagus in Edwardian England, to follow a trail of his past back to Egypt.
  
  
• Le comte de Saint Germain
  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
  
  Yarbro has meshed the tale of the comte de Saint-Germain, an alchemist of the 1700s who claimed to be centuries old and never ate in public, with vampirism, to create a dark fantasy hero of intelligence and charm, as well as ferocity and eroticism.
  
  
• Mansions of Darkness : A Novel of Saint-Germain
  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro List Price: $15.95 and less.
  
  St. Germain gets around more than most other vampires -- in this case to Peru in 1640, to study the wisdom of the Incas before it is lost to the crusades of the Spanish.
  
  
• Writ in Blood : A Novel of Saint-Germain
  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro List Price: $15.95 and less.
  
  St. Germain can often be found at the cruxes of history, as when in 1912 the Czar enlists him to try to stop the impending European war. This isn't alternate history; even though we know the outcome, Yarbro keeps the tension tuned high because she makes us care about the characters.