In just over two thousand years, Loot has transformed from an orphan Viking to the most powerful caster and greatest superhero on Earth. One day after a ship lands on Loot and Safrins beloved island, they destroy their home and head to the safety of a cave deep within the Smoking Mountains. But unfortunately within his chaotic world, safety is always short-lived. When Loot learns a fleet of ships is approaching and that the king of the Vikings in Norrland wants to find new lands for his sons to rule, he realizes war appears imminent and decides to help the Giants of the north. Two hundred years after he demonstrates his abilities and trains others like Dento in his quest to assist the Vikings in their win, Loot is sent on a dangerous journey to hunt for the vampire lair where he meets Merlin the great, Jack the Ripper, and Dracula with all of his children. But can he save the king of his new friends, before it is too late? In this continuing fantasy tale, a superhero must rely on help from a band of magical characters as he embarks on a new quest to help the Vikings and battle vampires.

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic horror and fantasy double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, Thorp McClusky¿s ¿Loot of the Vampire¿ is a real chiller from the pages of Weird Tales. It was a horrible crime. David Eichelman, jeweler, had been found dead in his office and a $400,000 string of pearls missing. So in stepped Police Commissioner Charles Ethredge and his ace crime fighter, Detective-Lieutenant Peters. It was their job to investigate what looked like, at least superficially, an ordinary case of murder. However, the facts in the case just didn¿t seem to add up. In all this a prime suspect appeared to be emerging, a strange foreign fellow named Count Woerz. It was up to Ethredge and Peters to determine whether Woerz was innocent or guilty, normal or abnormal, natural or supernatural¿ Jim Harmon¿s ¿The Man Who Made Maniacs¿ is the second novel. He had been killed! So why was he still alive? Jace Reid had felt the impact of the bullet. He had remembered falling face downwards into the dirt. The next thing he knew he was reading about his own death, while lying on a bed in an institute for the insane. It had started with a picture of himself making love to a girl, and a threatening phone call¿then his own startling death! The police had the body¿there could be no doubt that it was Jace Reid. But then, who was he? Carla said he was immortal and of the Un-dead. A vampire. And even in his arms she called him the Master. The Master of what? And what about those nightmares? The strangled cat? The idol? And most of all¿who were the Chosen Ones? A shocking story of horror and intrigue, set against the background of a depraved cult of sadism.

Becoming a knockoff Dracula in tight leather pants was never part of Vincent's plans. Neither was being summoned to another world by a cult of vampire wannabes. But both happened. Now Vincent's left picking up the tattered pieces of his humanity as he tries to grow strong enough to keep his family safe. There's a world filled with nightmares, and the looming threat of losing his soul standing between his goal and his reality, so it's not like it will be too hard or anything. Hell should tremble. A good man is going to war.

What do you have when you blend a pinch of litrpg, a touch of farming simulator, a sprinkle of epic fantasy, a whole cup of Isekai, and a dash of Home Alone? You have Arnold's life. Accidentally murdered by a cleric in another universe during a botched resurrection, Arnold, a semi-pro gamer, wakes upon an altar to find himself incarnated into the overweight body of a farmer who could have been his fatter twin. He's not the hero. He's not the villain. He's certainly not the chosen one who is there to save the world. He's a clerical error. It could be a bad joke, but apparently, it happens so often that they have a standard procedure for returning you. That standard procedure doesn't apply to Arnold. Now stuck on a new earth, in a new universe, with no way home, Arnold must use his gaming skills to figure out how to level his farmer class to 100 and gain a second class which doesn't make him want to beat his head against the wall. There is just one small problem: farmers don't gain experience from killing monsters. Like at all. Follow Arnold on his hilarious journey as he stubbornly comes to grips with his new reality and tries to change his destiny from that of your typical farmer.

Many years have passed seance Loot and Safrin left their home to live on their secluded island Loot has helped with many wars against humanity. When suddenly their island was invaded, and they had no choice but to move back to the Smoking Mountains. With they're the only ones they trusted the clan of Dragons Loot was now about to have a challenge like he has never had before. He must find the King of giants and save him from the vampire Dracula and his clan. This will be a difficult fight without putting the King in danger and causing a war with the magical world and humans.

Brian Frost chronicles the history of the vampire in myth and literature, providing a sumptuous repast for all devotees of the bizarre. In a wide-ranging survey, including plot summaries of hundreds of novels and short stories, the reader meets an amazing assortment of vampires from the pages of weird fiction, ranging from the 10,000-year-old femme fatale in Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Conqueror to the malevolent fetus in Eddy C. Bertin’s “Something Small, Something Hungry.” Nostalgia buffs will enjoy a discussion of the vampire yarns in the pulp magazines of the interwar years, while fans of contemporary vampire fiction will also be sated.