Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter · Book 3
Circus of the Damned
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 329
- ISBN-13
- 9780515134483
- Type
- novel
About this book
Book 3 in the Anita Blake series, Circus of the Damned (1995) runs 329 pages and belongs to the hardboiled-detective phase of the series, published before Narcissus in Chains (2001) pushed the books toward Anita's expanding romantic life -- here the mystery plotting still leads.
Its place in Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Circus of the Damned is book 3 in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. It follows The Laughing Corpse. It is followed by The Lunatic Cafe. See the full Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter reading order.
Anita Blake raises zombies for a living and stakes vampires as a licensed executioner for the city of St. Louis, in a world where vampires won legal personhood decades ago and the undead, werewolves, and other shapeshifters live in uneasy, regulated coexistence with humans. The early novels play as noir-tinged supernatural procedurals -- Anita investigating murders, rogue vampires, and lycanthrope pack politics with a gun in one hand and necromancy in the other. From the middle of the series onward, the books…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780441001972
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425201398
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780515134483