Résultats pour "Vampire! Vampire!" dans Historique

Vampire mit Zähltick wie Graf Zahl? Wer oft flucht, wird zum Vampir? Und Vampire leben ewig und glitzern in der Sonne? Fragen über Fragen – hier ist DAS Hörbuch mit stundenlangen Antworten! Was hilft beispielsweise alles gegen die Blutsauger, wer wird zu einem Vampir, und was ist mit Knoblauch? Und warum man das Pfählen wirklich nur Profis überlassen sollte. Natürlich wird ein Blick auf das schicksalhafte Jahr 1731 geworfen, in dem Westeuropa zum ersten Mal historisch offiziell von Vampiren erfuhr.

AD 1346. King Edward III wages war to claim the crown of France by conquest. On the battlefield of Crecy, Richard confronts a mysterious knight with inhuman strength fighting beneath a banner as black as death. To find his dangerous new enemy, Richard assembles a company of veteran men-at-arms and deadly English archers. Together, they must invade France and burn and plunder the country to bring the mighty French army to battle.

AD 1440, Brittany. Scores of children have gone missing from the countryside around Nantes. The commoners know who is to blame. But they dare not speak up, for they suspect their very own lord, the marshal of France and lieutenant-general of Brittany, the Baron Gilles de Rais. As Richard investigates the monstrous crimes, he is haunted by the recent crushing defeats at the hands of an insane French peasant girl called Joan of Arc. But what is the strange connection between the Maiden of Orleans and the depraved Baron de Rais?

In The Tale of the Vampire Bride, Lady Glynis suffered great horrors at the hands of her evil vampire master, Count Vlad Dracula, and vowed she would one day escape him. In The Vengeance of the Vampire Bride, Glynis learns to embrace the title of Countess Dracula as she sets into motion her plans to seek revenge on those who betrayed Glynis and her family to Dracula and to reunite with the man she loves. Set in the 1820s against the lush gothic backdrop of Buda, Hungary....

The immortal knight battles an unstoppable horde of Mongol vampires. AD 1253. The immortal William de Ferrers sits at the right hand of the great Mongol Khan while his hordes conquer Persia and Syria. Soon, nothing will separate them from Christendom itself. And so Richard of Ashbury must cross the barbarian wilderness to destroy the threat to Christendom and fulfill his oath of vengeance.

This is the saga of the immortal Gon, a 30,000 year-old vampire. The first volume of his memoirs recounts his mortal life in prehistoric Germany alongside his male companion, Brulde, and his two wives, the Neanderthal Eyya and his Cro-Magnon mate, Nyala. It details the fearsome events that lead to his transformation from man to undying monster.

In modern-day Belgium, the vampire Gon has kidnapped a ruthless murderer. Lukas Jaeger is a cunning sociopath, a monster in the guise of a man. Lonely and fascinated by his hostage's inhumanity, Gon strikes a deal with the seductive serial killer: his life story in exchange for the mortal's vile tales. So long as Gon is intrigued, his captive lives on.

Im zweiten Teil der Schwarzen Königin von Bestsellerautor Markus Heitz bleibt es blutig, actionreich und dramatisch! Wenn es neben Zauberei und Alchemie ...

Fesselnd, düster, gewaltig: Der Auftakt der großen Vampir-Saga Vampyria aus Frankreich. Vor drei Jahrhunderten hat Ludwig der Unwandelbare als Vampir eine Aristokratie des Schreckens in Europa errichtet. Während die Adeligen nichts mehr begehren, als durch die Gunst des einstigen Sonnenkönigs ebenfalls unsterblich zu werden, müssen die einfachen Menschen jeden Monat ihr eigenes Blut als Steuer abgeben. Die junge Sterbliche Jeanne verschlägt es unerwartet nach Versailles an den Hof der Finsternis.

Torn, bleeding and dying, from the battlefields of France, Calin Sheridan finds himself back in London. But while the city remains familiar, war has changed him in ways he couldn't imagine. This working class lad turned soldier, finds himself in the lap of luxury, but do the palatial trappings hide a more sinister and deadly world. Can he control his new primal urges and find a way back, or is his old life and love lost to him forever?

Der Busausflug nach Prag und ins Banat läuft anders, als der junge Len sich je hätte ausmalen können. Auch wenn seine Großmutter immer behauptet hatte, er sei ein Drăculești und der letzte Nachfahre von Vlad II, hat er selbst nie daran geglaubt. Bis er in Prag von Vampiren gejagt wird – denn Vlad und seine Familie galten als erbitterte Feinde der Blutsauger. Nun fürchten sie, dass Len ein Vorbote ist: für die Rückkehr der Schwarzen Königin! Sie wollen über ihn an die alten magisch-alchemistischen Aufzeichnungen der geheimnisvollen Herrscherin. Dumm nur, dass Len nicht den blassesten Schimmer hat.

Who was the first vampire? Why do they crave blood? Why is sunlight deadly to them? Who made them immortal? It's time you learn the truth about vampires and the first born. This novelette is the first of a four-part series that explains the true origin of the first vampire and the curses placed upon its bloodline. Set in ancient Egypt during Moses's return, an Egyptian woman, Pashera, hears rumors of the final plague that the Hebrew God will cast upon the firstborn of Egypt.

As he struggles to fight the gangsters at large, he is also trying to sustain an ordinary life. At least, as ordinary as it can get when you're a vampire... Death hasn't ended Jack Fleming's problems. His girlfriend, Bobbi, has caught the attention of a famous radio star, who promises to open doors for the lovely singer - including the one to his bedroom.

P. N. Elrod's novels of The Vampire Files blend the seductive shadows of classic noir into a sanctuary for a most unusual private investigator-vampire Jack Fleming. In Elrod's newest novel, Jack is under the gun when the New York mafia wants his hide, and the love of his life is wanted for murder.

The stakes have never been higher . . . Damned by Genevieve Cogman is the final book in the Scarlet Revolution series, a spellbinding adventure of magic, vampires and mayhem. 1794. Eleanor, once a lowly English maid, is now a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel and a promising conjuror...

Elena's brother Ion visits his home today. But the Boyar already cut Ion's throat and buried him in unconsecrated ground. Their mother knows Ion returns tonight for his sister. Can she convince the priest to grant him absolution? Or the Boyar to protect Elena from the brother who sinned with her even while still alive? Does Elena want protection from her brother?

This compelling series combines action and historical drama in fascinating tales of an American Tory who stumbles into the dark world of the vampire. Completely revised and expanded, each of these new editions includes more than 40 pages of new material. In this introduction to the series, young Jonathan Barrett arrives in London in 1773 to pursue his college education. His fate among the undead is sealed by the unnaturally beautiful Nora Jones, who seduces him and consumes his blood.

Louis XIV transformed from the Sun King into the King of Shadows when he embraced immortality and became the world’s first vampire. For the last three centuries, he has been ruling the kingdom from the decadent Court of Shadows in Versailles, demanding the blood of his subjects to sate his nobles’ thirst and maintain their loyalty.

Harry Dresden ist tot, doch auch noch als Geist setzt er alles daran, seine Freunde und die Bewohner Chicagos zu beschützen. Der 13. dunkle Fall des Harry Dresden. Mein Name ist Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, und ich war der mächtigste Magier Chicagos – bis ich ermordet wurde. Dass ich diese Geschichte erzählen kann, liegt daran, dass ich ein Geist bin. Ich schien dazu verdammt zu sein zuzusehen, wie meine Freunde ohne mich den übernatürlichen Gefahren meiner Heimatstadt gegenübertreten mussten. Doch auch für Geister ist Chicago gefährlich, und vielleicht war es ganz gut, dass ich nun ein körperloses Gespenst war.

Vampires around the world are coming forth to remind humans they are not romantic fantasies to be sought, nor are they should that can be redeemed. These are the stories that they must tell. The first novella in a series of 12, Anne Fitzgerald gives the tale of her involvement in the Irish gangs in the 1930s and her transformation into the Wyandot's vampiric legend of the hooh-strah-dooh. Her tale is a hard one to tell, with love, loss, and abuse plaguing her past. But she must tell it so that humans know the truth. That the world of the vampire is one of suffering.