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The Passage by Justin Cronin joins a growing number of vampire thrillers. There is nothing romantic, however, about Cronin's villains. He paints a pictures of a post-apocalyptic world where a small colony of human survivors stay protected from the "dracs" by a massive barrier of lights that repel the demons. The lights will soon fail, though, and the humans must find another way to survive.

Millions of Twilight fans will have their wish granted this summer -- Stephenie Meyer is releasing a new book in the Twilight Saga. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is a novella that looks at the life of Bree Tanner, one of the minor characters from the vampire army in Eclipse.

So Cold the River by Michael Koryta is a horror novel/thriller about a filmmaker who is hired to make a video about a deceased billionaire but stumbles upon a frightening town history. Things get weird when he begins to see vision of a dead tyrant by the same name as the man whose life he is documenting.