A Scattering of Jades
by Alexander C. Irvine
In 1835, an attempted human sacrifice goes awry, sparking a fire that consumes much of Manhattan and destroys journalist Archie Prescott's home and family. Stephen Bishop, a slave exploring a Kentucky cave system, discovers a peculiar Aztec mummy that seems, sometimes, to move. A complex conspiracy involving Aaron Burr, P.T. Barnum, Tammany Hall, Irish gangsters, and a traveling medicine man will bring together Archie, Stephen, an accursed girl who may be Archie's daughter, and ferocious Aztec deities in the underworld of Mammoth Cave, in an epic struggle that will determine the fate of the earth.

Darker Angels
by S. P. Somtow
This tale is set in a slightly altered nineteenth-century U.S. in which zombies, werewolves and other were-creatures, and possession by evil spirits are as real as Abraham Lincoln or Walt Whitman (who are major characters). The plot involves a multiple-viewpoint narrative and the concept of wandering souls and those who can see and wish to control such entities.

The Lady in the Loch
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
When local authorities discover bones in the loch near Edinburgh, new sheriff Walter Scott takes charge of an investigation that expands to include a newly arrived community of gypsies, whose fabulous stories and legends gain Scott's sympathetic ear and stimulate his writer's imagination. Combining historical mystery with dark fantasy, Scarborough creates an intriguing and beguiling tale that should appeal to fans of period fiction and old-style horror.

The Laughing Corpse
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it. Notice to Hollywood: forget Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Anita Blake is the real thing.

The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned
by Anne Rice
In The Mummy Anne Rice weaves the same magic for the world and history of mummies that she previously did for the worlds and mythologies of vampires and witches. Ramses the Great lives, but having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell certain mummy hungers that can never be satisfied!

The Mummy's Ransom
by Fred Hunter
A controversial exhibit of Chinchorro mummies is about to open in Chicago. The mummies - dating from 2000 to 7000 BC - are incredibly fragile, making their transportation and display very risky. When it is reported that a mummy is moving around the exhibit at night, Chicago Police Detective Jeremy Ransom is assigned to find out what's going on.