The Vampires of Malibu High is the first collection of Chris Bunch's short fiction. We've gathered the very best of his stories published in magazines such as Absolute Magnitude, Fantastic Stories, Dreams of Decadence, and Realms of Fantasy. Each story is a polished gem waiting to satisfy Bunch's legion of readers. Bunch is best known as a novelist, but these science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories demonstrate Bunch's mastery of the short form.

Joshua Wolf is the only human to have learned the alien Al'ar's killing ways. Mankind believes that the Great War with the Al'ar is over, but Joshua knows the truth. A new war is coming. And he's in the middle. Now is the time for him to fulfill his destiny. Now is the time for him to become the Shadow Warrior!

Joshua Wolfe must save mankind from a mysterious alien virus. He has only one hope: to recover the lost crystal of Ur'Lumina, which may offer a cure. It won't be easy. A powerful cult, the Federation government, and an angry shipping baron looking for revenge lie in the way . . .

This special hardcover edition contains all three novels in Chris Bunch's "Shadow Warrior" trilogy: Wind After Time, Hunt the Heavens, and Darkness of God. Plus, completing the series, is the previously uncollected short story: Backblast"!

Down a thousand miles of jungle trail the enemy came. The Tet Offensive was about to explode:

THEIR SIDE: The attack, their long awaited General Offensive, will begin during the traditionally peaceful celebration of the Vietnamese New Year - the Year Of The Monkey. Their leader is General Vo Le Duan, a soldier who knows his patriotic duty, but knows also he will never see, in this messy, endless war, the glory that he dreams of.

OUR SIDE: Blooded and ready, all they need now is an enemy. Not one that murders from the ditch, or from the darkness of the night, but an enemy in the open....

The year is 1778 and the Revolutionary War has young America trapped in the crossfire of hatred and fear. Diana, an indentured servant escapes her abusive master with the help of Emmett Shannon, a deserter from the desperate army at Valley Forge. They fall in love and marry, but their happiness is shattered and Diana Shannon must learn to survive on her own. From that moment on she will become a true woman of her times, blazing a path from lawless lands in the grips of the Revolution, to plague-stricken Philadelphia, to the burning of Washington in the War of 1812.

The Wars Of The Shannons... In Book Three Of The Shannon Trilogy, young Patrick Shannon is the heir-apparent to the Shannon fortune, but murder and betrayal at a family gathering send him fleeing into the American frontier, with only the last words of a wise old woman to arm him against what would come. And when the outbreak of the Civil War comes he finds himself fighting on the opposite side of those he loves the most. In The Wars Of The Shannons we see the conflict, both on the battlefield and the homefront, through the eyes of Patrick and the members of his extended Irish-American family...

During the Vietnam war, GIs who managed to survive their tour of duty in one piece - more or less - were flown home in chartered airliners. They called those planes "Freedom Birds." This is the story of three young men - from wildly different backgrounds - who meet on such a plane and make a pact to spend three days together in San Francisco. Their goal: to spend every cent of their mustering out money in a party of a lifetime. And they'll get more than they bargained for: because when they land, it is July 1967 - in a time that would come to be known as "The Summer Of Love." A place and time...