Anita must fight for her reputation when a mob boss offers her a million dollars to resurrect a corpse and a powerful zombie begins to leave a trail of mayhem and murder across the city.

Current queen of the book charts and soon to bethe star of her own television fi lm, best-selling author Laurell K. Hamilton's vampire hunter continues to take comics by storm! As THE LAUGHING CORPSE enters its haunting fi nal act, Anita Blake thinks she has the deadly voodoo priestess who's made her life hell dead to rights...but the necromancer is about to find out her nightmare's only just begun! Find outwhy everyone in America is talking about Anita! COLLECTING: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The Laughing Corpse - Executioner #1-6

For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Laurell K. Hamilton. When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake is an expert in the kinds of preternatural goings-on that have everyone spooked. And she's got an 'in' with the creature that can make sense of the slayings-the sexy master vampire known as Jean-Claude.

Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today

When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake's town, a battle of the undead ensues.

Vampire slayer Anita Blake helps the police find a vampire serial killer responsible for a series of child murders, but quickly realizes she needs the help of her mentor Manny and supernatural hitman Edward to solve the case.

Adapting the second novel in Laurell K. Hamilton's bestselling Anita Blake series! St. Louis is a city of the damned. The supernatural is commonplace, and the undead enjoy free rein. But whether warm- or cold-blooded, the laws of man still apply--and nobody dispenses justice better than Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter! This time out, a child's parents are gruesomely slaughtered by an unknown entity. With the child missing and time running out for his safe return, Anita is called in to lend her special expertise as an Animator--one who can raise the bodies of the dead. But as she pursues the truth behind his abduction, she descends into a maelstrom of voodoo mysticism and the many dark secrets of her foes, her friends and--inevitably--herself! COLLECTING: ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER: THE LAUGHING CORPSE - ANIMATOR 1-5; NECROMANCER 1-5; EXECUTIONER 1-5

Fusing mythology and horror in a story loaded with mystery, action and romance, New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake novels take place in a world where vampires, werewolves and other creatures of nightmare have been declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an "animator" - a profession that involves raising the dead for a living. She is also known as a fearsome hunter of criminal vampires, and she moonlights by investigating cases outside the jurisdiction of conventional police. But as Anita gains the attention of the vampire masters in her hometown of St. Louis, she also risks revealing an intriguing secret about herself - the source of her unusual strength and power. Collecting ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER: GUILTY PLEASURES #1-12.

Watch a video A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.

Animator and vampire hunter Anita Blake is about to discover that some secrets are better left buried—and some people better off dead.