Tales of the Slayer, Volume 1

by Yvonne Navarro

Other authorsMel Odom (Author), Christie Golden (Author), Greg Rucka (Author), Nancy Holder (Author), Doranna Durgin (Author)
Paperback, 2001

Series

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Tales of the Slayer, Volume 1)

Genres

Tags

Description

Into every generation, a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, to find the vampires where they gather, and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. In our time, that girl is Buffy Summers. But Buffy is merely one Slayer in an eternal continuum of warriors for the Powers That Be. We've known of others: The Primal Slayer, who stalked the earth and the forces of darkness in fierce solitude ... Nikki, the funky hipster whose demise at Spike's hands lent an urban edge to his wardrobe and a bigger bounce to his swagger. Slayers by nature have a limited life expectancy; for each one who falls, another rises to take her place. Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1, chronicles Slayers past who have influenced -- and are influenced by -- the traditions and mythologies of yore. From ancient Greece, to aristocratic Slayers holding court in revolution-era France, to the legend of the Bloody Countess Elizabeth Bathory, to 1920's Munich, each girl has a personal history, a shared moral code, and a commitment to conquer evil, regardless of the cost.… (more)

Subjects

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fictitious character) Fiction
Horror tales, American
Vampires Fiction

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

2001-10

Publication

Simon Spotlight Entertainment (2001), Edition: 4th Printing, 288 pages

ISBN

0743400453 / 9780743400459

Local notes

While technically a non-canon prequel, this is sorted in Continuations Shelf.

Library's rating

Library's review

Quite good stories of various Vampire Slayers throughout history -- the Battle of Marathon, the missing Roanoke Colony girl, the Bloody Countess, the French Revolution, Hitler's 1923 coup attempt and American Segregation are all at least tangentially mentioned. It being a tangential tie-in product
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 that's not even about the characters from the TV show (though that last bit I did suspect might be in its favour, continuity, creativity and tone of voice-wise, and indeed it was), I didn't have the highest expectations, despite my wife's long-standing recommendation. I was all the more pleasantly surprised to find that most of these short stories are very well executed, and even the ones that feel they drag their feet a bit have decent conclusions and endings. Two thumbs up, I'll definitely read the other three such collections as well now.
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Rating

½ (76 ratings; 3.6)

User reviews

LibraryThing member rampaginglibrarian
Being the Buffy-addict that i am--one of the things i always wanted to know about was past slayers and this is a collection of short stories about them. This is an interesting collection--if somewhat more for the filling in of slayer history sometimes than the stories themselves.
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LibraryThing member jshillingford
First of four anthologies that tell the stories of Slayers that came before Buffy. Fans of the show will surely enjoy these books, but fans of vampire literature in general will also find it good reading. Recommended.
LibraryThing member KathrynGrace
Excellent and highly original collection of stories. Christie Golden's "White Doe" is one of the best of the collection, where the author offers up her own slayer-related answer to the mystery of the Roanoake colony. While in Yvonne Navarro's "Die Blutgrafin," a slayer takes on the Bloody Countess
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 Elizabeth Bathory. Nancy Holder's story concerns a slayer in Marie Antoinette's court at the start of the French Revolution, while Greg Rucka's takes place in Ancient Greece, and recreates the Spartans as werewolves. Mel Odom's "Silent Screams" is tragic tale of Germany in the 1920's, and the last two tales capture the rich feel of the south, taking place in Kentucky and Louisiana respectively.
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LibraryThing member buffysvampire
As the Buffy addicted I am, I loved these stories about the past slayers, especially the one about the battle of marathon.
LibraryThing member kayceel
I really dug the fact that (not surprisingly), the stories do not, um, end well. Also cool? At least one of the slayers is, well, a total snob. Despite what Slayers are *meant* to do, it is incredibly unlikely that all of 'em, in the history of Slayer-dom, would have gladly shouldered the honor and
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 death sentence it bestowed.
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LibraryThing member Hegemellman
I really enjoyed this short story collection. For some fans of the show it will be exactly what you've been waiting for, interesting tidbits of the lives of other slayers. Other fans will find frustration in the fact that (and this is mentioned numerous times in the television show) most slayers
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 didn't survive long enough to become experienced, so a tidbit of their lives as slayer is all that there is.
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LibraryThing member sublunarie
The weakest story in the collection is definitely "Die Blutgrafin", but most of the others are really well done.
LibraryThing member wyvernfriend
Tales of historical slayers

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