"Clever...entertaining...excellent" (Library Journal) original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more.

From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's favorite bloodsucking subculture by a baker's dozen of favorite authors. Each of these 13 original stories offers a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. From Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse attending a birthday party for Dracula to Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden battling bloodsucking party crashers, these suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous stories will ensure paranormal fans will never think of vampires or birthdays quite the same again.

Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner (“Introduction: A Few Words”); Copyright 2007 by Charlaine Harris (“Dracula Night”); Copyright 2007 by Christopher Golden (“The Mournful Cry of Owls”); Copyright 2007 by Bill Crider (“I Was a Teenage Vampire”); Copyright 2007 by KLA Fricke, Inc. (“Twilight”); Copyright 2007 by Jim Butcher (“It’s My Birthday, Too”); Copyright 2007 by P. N. Elrod (“Grave-Robbed”); Copyright 2007 by Roxanne Longstreet Conrad (“The First Day of the Rest of Your Life”); Copyright 2007 by Jeanne C. Stein (“The Witch and the Wicked”); Copyright 2007 by Tanya Huff (“Blood Wrapped”); Copyright 2007 by Carolyn Haines (“The Wish”); Copyright 2007 by Lyda Morehouse (“Fire and Ice and Linguini for Two”); Copyright 2007 by Elaine Viets (“Vampire Hours”); Copyright 2007 by Toni L. P. Kelner (“How Stella Got Her Grave Back”)