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Dolly Biters - The Vampire Girls of Victorian London: A Victorian Horror Anthology
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Four saucy tales from the legendary vampire girls on Victorian London, bound up in one alluring volume! Tales to quicken the pulse, thrill the mind, and excite parts of the body that other, lesser books fail to reach! A delightfully sweet confection of blood, sex, and gothic melodrama!
Novellas and short stories featured in this compilation include the Holmes of the Baskervilles, Miss Katie Bell - Victorian Vampire, Joan Dark is Lost, and The Vampire Alice Through the Looking Glass. Welcome to a perverse and gothic London of the 1800s, where vampires walk the streets and some of your favourite characters from Victorian literature have been taken and twisted until they snap!
Four saucy tales from the legendary vampire girls on Victorian London, bound up in one alluring volume! Tales to quicken the pulse, thrill the mind, and excite parts of the body that other, lesser books fail to reach! A delightfully sweet confection of blood, sex, and gothic melodrama!
Novellas and short stories featured in this compilation include the Holmes of the Baskervilles, Miss Katie Bell - Victorian Vampire, Joan Dark is Lost, and The Vampire Alice Through the Looking Glass. Welcome to a perverse and gothic London of the 1800s, where vampires walk the streets and some of your favourite characters from Victorian literature have been taken and twisted until they snap!
- GenresVampires
371 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 15, 2015
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May 30, 2015
Every now and again, I'll read a book solely based on its cover. If the cover is something that automatically appeals to a favorite genre of mine, I'll get a twitchy one-click finger. This dark, and yet somehow light, cover pulled me in. It is obviously about vampires, and it says "Victorian London" right in the title... I mean, who needs a book blurb? My choice was made. Now that I've finished the book and actually read the blurb, that would've sucked me in too! I love classics that are twisted, as Voodini does with The Vampire Alice Through the Looking Glass and Holmes of the Baskervilles.
All that being said, had I known going into the book how much gore and erotica therein was contained, I might have shied away. And I would've missed a great read. While I love the paranormal/monster genre, I tend to harbor a special place in my heart for the struggling monster hero - a hero determined to suppress his natural inclinations for those he loves. This is not that kind of book. These vampire girls are monsters, and for the most part, they revel in their monsterdom. And yet somehow, I could still find a connection with them that would allow me to sympathize with their plight.
Voodini's writing is superb. I was completely immersed and transported to the East End of London. His characters were equal portions creepy, perverse, and entertaining. Excellent read.
All that being said, had I known going into the book how much gore and erotica therein was contained, I might have shied away. And I would've missed a great read. While I love the paranormal/monster genre, I tend to harbor a special place in my heart for the struggling monster hero - a hero determined to suppress his natural inclinations for those he loves. This is not that kind of book. These vampire girls are monsters, and for the most part, they revel in their monsterdom. And yet somehow, I could still find a connection with them that would allow me to sympathize with their plight.
Voodini's writing is superb. I was completely immersed and transported to the East End of London. His characters were equal portions creepy, perverse, and entertaining. Excellent read.
May 15, 2015
The cartoonish-style cover misled me in thinking this would be some kind of comedy book (love them!) about vampires in Victorian times. It definitely wasn't a comedy. It had plenty of blood, killing, lesbian sex (including a case of necrophilia) and more blood. Usually this is not really my cup of tea but I kept reading and I am glad I did.
The writing style was great, the world building extremely credible, the characters very well fleshed out and the story telling fluid and never boring. It is actually one of the best vampire books I have read in a while.
I could't like any of characters, they were definitely anti-hero material but I couldn't avoid to at least symphatize with them: this is not the story of sparkly near perfect creatures or dark and handsome gentlemen... this is the story of common girls who have been brutally transformed in something different from human and are trying their best to survive.
Would I recommend this book?
Yes,I definitely would.
4.5 stars
The writing style was great, the world building extremely credible, the characters very well fleshed out and the story telling fluid and never boring. It is actually one of the best vampire books I have read in a while.
I could't like any of characters, they were definitely anti-hero material but I couldn't avoid to at least symphatize with them: this is not the story of sparkly near perfect creatures or dark and handsome gentlemen... this is the story of common girls who have been brutally transformed in something different from human and are trying their best to survive.
Would I recommend this book?
Yes,I definitely would.
4.5 stars
October 24, 2016
‘My fangs, my dreadful, awful, pearly white fangs, extend in my mouth and the saliva begins to flow.’
Though there is no biographical data on author Paul Voiding, from his writing style and use of the Queen’s English we get the feeling that he is British. Or may be it is just that he is so fine in resurrecting old British tales that his technique of writing marries to the subject well.
In a time when both the television series and games and movies and operas and plays and novels seem to be obsessed with the undead stories, along comes Paul with an entirely different take on the subject of the undead – the Vampire Girls of Victorian London. Shrewd, inventive, clever and addicting, these four stories bring a fresh light to the genre.
Paul opens the door to his parlor of horror in a fine Prologue – ‘That vampires once existed in the London of the 18th and 19th Centuries is not in question. After all, it is this knowledge that has brought you here, to these streets, filled with fog and gas-lamps and alluring women with teeth too sharp and manners too coarse to belong anywhere else but in the old East End of London. The streets that you are about to walk are streets that you will not recognise. They are not the Victorian streets of Christmas cards and biscuit tins and cosy televisual costume dramas. These streets are dangerous and dirty; they are filled with s**t and shadows and at any moment, out of these shadows, death could appear in the guise of a thug's bludgeon or a prostitute's syphilis or a vampire's teeth. The truth of the matter, and it's a truth that you may already suspect, is that the streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields were far more dangerous than you will ever truly comprehend. The average life expectancy in the East End of London was the mid-twenties (it was an extravagant mid-forties in wealthier areas such as Chelsea), with half of all children dying before they reached their tenth birthday. It was in this atmosphere that the vampires of Victorian London operated with all-but impunity. Death surrounded the mortals, and if it wasn't one thing that got you, well, it would be the other. To the vampire girls of Victorian London, we soft, weak humans were nothing but food, to be preyed upon and taken at leisure. We may thank our Gods (should we have cause to believe in such fancies) that we live now in the 21st Century, and not in the 1800s. For if this were the 1800s we would by now, undoubtedly, be dead. So enjoy these tales, these macabre tales of death and murder and lesbian sex. Slaver over them, let them haunt your sleep and benumb your waking day. Laugh and curse and thrill along with our dark heroines, safe and secure in the knowledge that if these girls still lived, if our paths should ever cross, they would despise us, spit in our face, and then feast upon our blood.’ That, fellow readers, is the tenor of the tales. You’ll never associate these famous parodies of Brit Lit the same again!
The synopsis comments by Paul shares a broader view of the actual content – ‘Four saucy tales from the legendary vampire girls of Victorian London, bound up in one alluring volume. These are tales to quicken the pulse, thrill the mind, and excite parts of the body that other, lesser books fail to reach. Novellas and short stories featured in this sweet confection of blood, sex and gothic melodrama include the Holmes of the Baskervilles, Miss Katie Bell - Victorian Vampire, Joan Dark is Lost, and The Vampire Alice Through the Looking Glass. Welcome to the gothic London of the 1800s, where vampires walk the streets and some of your favorite characters from Victorian literature have been taken and twisted until they snap.’
Follow Paul into this netherworld – it is some of the best entertainment out there – even if you are not a fan of the undead. Lighten up and have fun.
Though there is no biographical data on author Paul Voiding, from his writing style and use of the Queen’s English we get the feeling that he is British. Or may be it is just that he is so fine in resurrecting old British tales that his technique of writing marries to the subject well.
In a time when both the television series and games and movies and operas and plays and novels seem to be obsessed with the undead stories, along comes Paul with an entirely different take on the subject of the undead – the Vampire Girls of Victorian London. Shrewd, inventive, clever and addicting, these four stories bring a fresh light to the genre.
Paul opens the door to his parlor of horror in a fine Prologue – ‘That vampires once existed in the London of the 18th and 19th Centuries is not in question. After all, it is this knowledge that has brought you here, to these streets, filled with fog and gas-lamps and alluring women with teeth too sharp and manners too coarse to belong anywhere else but in the old East End of London. The streets that you are about to walk are streets that you will not recognise. They are not the Victorian streets of Christmas cards and biscuit tins and cosy televisual costume dramas. These streets are dangerous and dirty; they are filled with s**t and shadows and at any moment, out of these shadows, death could appear in the guise of a thug's bludgeon or a prostitute's syphilis or a vampire's teeth. The truth of the matter, and it's a truth that you may already suspect, is that the streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields were far more dangerous than you will ever truly comprehend. The average life expectancy in the East End of London was the mid-twenties (it was an extravagant mid-forties in wealthier areas such as Chelsea), with half of all children dying before they reached their tenth birthday. It was in this atmosphere that the vampires of Victorian London operated with all-but impunity. Death surrounded the mortals, and if it wasn't one thing that got you, well, it would be the other. To the vampire girls of Victorian London, we soft, weak humans were nothing but food, to be preyed upon and taken at leisure. We may thank our Gods (should we have cause to believe in such fancies) that we live now in the 21st Century, and not in the 1800s. For if this were the 1800s we would by now, undoubtedly, be dead. So enjoy these tales, these macabre tales of death and murder and lesbian sex. Slaver over them, let them haunt your sleep and benumb your waking day. Laugh and curse and thrill along with our dark heroines, safe and secure in the knowledge that if these girls still lived, if our paths should ever cross, they would despise us, spit in our face, and then feast upon our blood.’ That, fellow readers, is the tenor of the tales. You’ll never associate these famous parodies of Brit Lit the same again!
The synopsis comments by Paul shares a broader view of the actual content – ‘Four saucy tales from the legendary vampire girls of Victorian London, bound up in one alluring volume. These are tales to quicken the pulse, thrill the mind, and excite parts of the body that other, lesser books fail to reach. Novellas and short stories featured in this sweet confection of blood, sex and gothic melodrama include the Holmes of the Baskervilles, Miss Katie Bell - Victorian Vampire, Joan Dark is Lost, and The Vampire Alice Through the Looking Glass. Welcome to the gothic London of the 1800s, where vampires walk the streets and some of your favorite characters from Victorian literature have been taken and twisted until they snap.’
Follow Paul into this netherworld – it is some of the best entertainment out there – even if you are not a fan of the undead. Lighten up and have fun.
September 16, 2019
Better than expected
I found this on Amazon Prime and am pleased with it far beyond what I had expected. A lot of what I find free through Prime is brief, badly edited, and/or simply bad. This is neither, and I really couldn't stop reading it after I began. I may read it again sometime, and for me that's a strong compliment.
I found this on Amazon Prime and am pleased with it far beyond what I had expected. A lot of what I find free through Prime is brief, badly edited, and/or simply bad. This is neither, and I really couldn't stop reading it after I began. I may read it again sometime, and for me that's a strong compliment.
December 4, 2016
Filled with imaginative brilliance this book paints a very realistic picture of the East End in Victorian times. Throw in a lesbian vampire or two, some enigmatic literary characters and storylines that take you to a new realm, then you've got 'Dolly Biters'. A refreshing new take on an old legend, but be warned, it might have you lusting over a rare steak or two!
January 27, 2020
I'm a sucker for Victorian vampires
I loved this novel overall, all the twists and turns and darkness. It was a pretty intoxicating insight to Victorian London made grittier with the added bonus of unapologetic vampires. Lots to sink your teeth into. I found myself getting somewhat bored in the last section of the book as the story telling changes but I'm glad I stuck with it. By the end, you really feel quite acquainted with the dolly biters.
I loved this novel overall, all the twists and turns and darkness. It was a pretty intoxicating insight to Victorian London made grittier with the added bonus of unapologetic vampires. Lots to sink your teeth into. I found myself getting somewhat bored in the last section of the book as the story telling changes but I'm glad I stuck with it. By the end, you really feel quite acquainted with the dolly biters.
February 1, 2020
HERE IS ONE ☝REALLY FASCINATING VAMPIRE STORY!😍
Want to read a very unusual,exciting,interesting BOOK? Okay then you will be captivated by the characters in this Storyline.SO GO GET THIS AND ENJOY IT!😍 BUY THIS BOOK NOW!😍
Want to read a very unusual,exciting,interesting BOOK? Okay then you will be captivated by the characters in this Storyline.SO GO GET THIS AND ENJOY IT!😍 BUY THIS BOOK NOW!😍
August 14, 2024
A unique view of women turned vampires in Victorian London.
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