Margaret L. Carter
Margaret L. Carter received a B.A. from the College of William and Mary, M.A. from the University of Hawaii, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, all in English. She has taught literature and composition courses at various colleges and presently works as a part-time proofreader for the Maryland General Assembly.
Her first two books were paperback anthologies, CURSE OF THE UNDEAD and DEMON LOVERS AND STRANGE SEDUCTIONS. She has published several works on vampirism in literature, including SHADOW OF A SHADE: A SURVEY OF VAMPIRISM IN LITERATURE, the anthology DRACULA: THE VAMPIRE AND THE CRITICS, and THE VAMPIRE IN LITERATURE: A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Her stories have appeared in several of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover anthologies, and her “Voice from the Void” appears in THE TIME OF THE VAMPIRES, edited by P. N. Elrod and Martin Greenberg. The Design Image Group published her werewolf novel, SHADOW OF THE BEAST, in 1998. Her vampire novel, DARK CHANGELING, appeared in electronic form in June, 1999, from the Hard Shell Word Factory and won the 2000 Eppie Award in Horror.
Two vampire romances in the same universe, SEALED IN BLOOD and CRIMSON DREAMS, and WILD SORCERESS, a fantasy novel in collaboration with her husband, Leslie Roy Carter, have been published by Amber Quill Press. Other fiction is in progress from Ellora’s Cave and Amber Quill.
Each January (from 1990 on) Carter produces a vampire fiction bibliography update. Contact MLCVamp@aol.com for information.
Book List:60 titles
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Yokai Magic
- Jan-2019
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When Val unearths a Japanese scroll and a cat figurine inherited from her grandfather, magic invades her world. The statuette, actually a cat spirit named Yuki—a yokai—enchanted into that form for her own protection, comes to life. Over a century...
Merry Twinness
- Dec-2014
- / Paranormal Romance
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At midnight on Christmas Eve, Nicole goes home with her lover Cal to spend the holiday at his house. Knowing he plans to give her an engagement ring, she hopes to find out why he hasn’t previously invited her to stay at his place longer than one ni...
Sealing The Dark Portal
- Aug-2014
- / Romance
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Almost nothing Rina thinks she knows about her past is true. She believes she's an ordinary librarian whose parents and brother died in a car crash while she was in graduate school. So why does she have nightmares of her family's death from an earthq...
Legacy Of Magic
- Dec-2013
- / Fantasy
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The exciting prequel to the Wild Sorceress series... Most people in the country of Saphradea admire sorcerers and dream of having magical powers. Not Merina, a young woman who detests magic because she thinks it ruined her mother’s life. All she...
Passion In The Blood
- Nov-2013
- / Fantasy
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Twin sisters Cordelia and Miranda know nothing about the mother who abandoned them soon after their birth. When their father dies and Miranda insists on tracking down their mother, the sisters discover the dark heritage in their bloodline. Their moth...
Dame Onyx Treasures
- Mar-2013
- / General Fiction
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Explore love among the monsters in stories of romance, fantasy, and horror. Meet werewolves and vampires, a wandering ghost, and eldritch creatures from an alien dimension. A stray cat receives the gift of speech on Christmas Eve and uses it to help ...
Late Blooming
- Dec-2012
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It's hard being the only person in your family with no significant magical ability. But it's much worse when you're the only one still free during an attack by a neighboring mage.This story was originally published in Sword & Sorceress 20, Aug 2003....
Manila Peril
- Dec-2012
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The Filipina widow of an American naval officer made a contented life for herself in San Diego. But when her son starts disappearing each night she will use her powers to rescue him from a menace that only her special abilities can recognize and subd...
Sorcerer's Pet
- Dec-2012
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Involving yourself in a quarrel between two wizards is difficult enough. But taking your younger brother along on the job is guaranteed to complicate things even more.This story was originally published in Sword & Sorceress 5, Aug 1988....
Her Own Blood
- Nov-2012
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Gwennis was surprised to discover that she was the nedestra daughter of a comyn lord. But she had no idea of how that fact was going to change her life.This story was originally published in FREE AMAZONS OF DARKOVER, Dec 1985....
Blood Hostage
- Dec-2011
- / General Fiction
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Descended from a long line of vampire hunters, Hal Bergson realizes not all bloodthirsty creatures of the night are merciless killers. Still, he knows better than to trust one of them. His principles are tested, though, when his cousin, in training t...
Allure of the Beast
- Jan-2010
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Erin's father abandoned the family when she was a baby, leaving her his heritage of lycanthropy. As a werewolf, she tries to live as much like an ordinary woman as possible. One night Raoul, her father’s foster brother, now estranged from the pack ...
Vanishing Village
- Nov-2007
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Liriel and Bertrice are sent to find the Duke's missing son. They soon discover that not only is he missing, but an entire village is as well.This story was originally published in Sword & Sorceress 22, Nov 2007....
Embracing Darkness
- Mar-2005
- / Contemporary Romance
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Mills & Boon Intimate - Australia - 682
Silhouette Intimate Moments - 1355
Silhouette Sensation - 1023
Caring about her beyond a basic need to keep her safe, he could not. Maxwell Tremayne never should have touched her, kissed her, tasted her. It was foolish -- dangerous -- for a vampire to get involved with a human, let alone a flesh-and-blood spitfi...
From the Dark Places
- Oct-2003
- / Horror
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When a hit-and-run driver almost kills young widow Kate Jacobs, she dismisses as deranged fanatics the two men who warn her that dark forces are trying to destroy her. The eerie disappearance of her four-year-old daughter Sara changes her mind. New f...
Child of Twilight
- Sep-2003
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sequel to DARK CHANGELING: Gillian, a vampire-human hybrid in the throes of adolescence, overwhelmed by the urges and powers surging through her, runs in panic to the half-human father she has never known. But her father's enemy offers to teach her h...
Crimson Dreams
- Feb-2003
- / Contemporary Romance
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The summer when Heather was eighteen, her dream beast's nightly visits warded off loneliness and swept her away in flights of ecstasy. Now, returning to the mountains to sell her dead parents' vacation cabin, she finds her "beast" again. But he turns...
Dark Changeling
- Jun-1999
- / Contemporary Romance
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A successful, middle-aged psychiatrist tormented by an unquenchable lust for blood... A vampire serial killer on the rampage... At the age of forty, Dr. Roger Darvell discovers that he is no ordinary man. He also discovers that vampires exist, and th...
Shadow Of The Beast
- Nov-1998
- / Horror
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One night Jenny Cameron arrives home to find her twin brother and their kid sister slaughtered by what looks like a feral dog. Why can't she remember more about that night? Why do nightmares plague her soon afterward—dreams of running in the moonli...
Pop-Up Cinderella Cat
- Oct-1994
- / General Fiction
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A feline version of Cinderella features pop-up surprises and a Cinderella cat doll dressed as a princess, whose movable arms and legs enable young readers to play along with the story. By the author of Pop-Up Ballerina Bear. ...
Prey of the Goat
- Jun-1994
- / General Fiction
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Clergyman Michael Emeric wrote an academic paper on obscure cults devoted to eldritch entities. He never suspected that his research could attract the attention of those malign deities. Then his wife received a strange amulet...This story was origina...
Beauty and the Beast and Other Stories
- Apr-1994
- / General Fiction
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One of a series of illustrated books, each of which contains simple retellings of three or four familiar fairy tales for reading aloud. The series incorporates stories by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault and others....
Cinderella and Other Stories
- Mar-1994
- / General Fiction
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One of a series of illustrated books, each of which contains simple retellings of three or four familiar fairy tales for reading aloud. The series incorporates stories by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault and others....