Of Masques and Martyrs was the third volume in Christopher Golden’s vampire “Shadow Saga”, a computer programmer involved with role-playing games was apparently killed by one of the undead in Linda Grant’s Vampire Bytes, and The Undying by Mudrooroo, a native Australian, was an unusual vampire novel and the second volume in the “Master of the Ghost Dreaming” series.

Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton was the eighth instalment in the author’s horror/crime series featuring vampire-hunter Anita Blake, who had to figure out a way to get her ex-boyfriend, high school teacher and werewolf Richard, out of jail after he was framed for attempted rape in Tennessee. The characters returned in Burnt Offerings, which involved an arsonist destroying businesses owned by the undead and a visit from the vampire’s ruling council.

A Chill in the Blood was the seventh volume in P. N. Elrod’s “The Vampire Files” series about undead private eye Jack Fleming in a post-prohibition Chicago, and The Flesh, the Blood, and the Fire by S. A. Swiniarski (S. Andrew Swann) involved police detective Stefan Ryzard investigating a vampire conspiracy and a series of “torso” murders in Depression-era Cleveland.

A vampire had been hiding for years inside the Titanic in Michael Romkey’s Vampire Hunter, while in Miguel Conner’s The Queen of Darkness vampires ruled a post-holocaust Earth.

One of Britain’s most successful authors, Terry Pratchett was awarded the O.B.E. in the Queen’s Birthday honours list for his services to literature. He also published his twenty-third “Discworld” novel, Carpe Jugulum, which involved the rulers of Uberwald, who just happened to be modern-thinking vampires.

Elvira: The Boy Who Cried Werewolf was the third in the series by the camp TV horror host and John Paragon. Lycanthropic detective Ty Merrick returned in Manjinn Moon, the third volume in Denise Vitola’s mystery series set in the near-future. The Passion was a romantic tale about contemporary werewolves and a family secret by Donna Boyd, while a book of spells created a reluctant werewolf in Sandra Morris’ dark fantasy Green Moon and Wolfsbane.