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13) Vacation with a Vampire and Other Immortals by Maggie Shayne and Maureen Child - 2 novellas that would have been better served by being longer works. Or at least the first one by Maggie Shayne would have been better if it was allowed to be longer. The concept of vampirism and the root of it in her world is interesting, at least, even if the hero was the tired cliche of Wounded Romantic Sensitive Vampire. The second story... Dude, this lady spent way too much time watching Highlander and (maybe) smoking pot. I spent way too much time giggling and waiting for the hero to say "My name is Bain Sinclair of the Clan Sinclair. There can be only one."

14) Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger - I've been meaning to read this for a while and kept passing up copies so, when I found it in a used bookshop in NOLA, I had to get it finally. Even knowing that it had a lot of stories that had already been exposed as blatant bullshit and gristmill reporting, I was not quite ready for how hilariously dodgy and erratic it was. But it reminded me of some names that I want to do more research on. Thelma Todd, for instance.