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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Alphabetical order:
BLOODED - Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
An ancient curse, imprisoning two oriental warrior enemies in an antique sword, is accidentally removed and its lethal inhabitants wreak havoc among the living and the dead.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (movie tie-in) - Richie Tankersley Cusick
The book of the film, based on Joss Whedon’s screenplay.
CHILD OF THE HUNT - Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Buffy and her friends are charmed by a travelling Renaissance fair, especially its sad-eyed jester, but roaming the countryside are the dark faerie, minions of the Wild Hunt, servants of the Erl King.
COYOTE MOON - John Vornholt
Buffy senses something evil behind the seedy carnival, which lures her friends.
CREATURES OF HABIT - Tom Fassbender & Jim Pascoe, and Brian Horton & Paul Lee (Illustrated novel)
An old and resourceful friend of Spike's lures the town's teenagers to his very special after-hours parties, just as Dawn is taking her first tentative steps into the exciting world of juvenile delinquency.
DEEP WATER - Laura Anne Gilman & Jospeh Sherman
A shape-shifting seal girl is rescued from an oil spill, and Buffy can’t shake her suspicions of the creature whose nature, like the ocean, is ever changing.
DOOMSDAY DECK - Diana G. Gallagher
Sunnydale Sidewalk Art Festival brings a mysterious artist to lure the Scoobies, and to frighten the resident vampires.
GHOUL TROUBLE - John Passarella
A mesmerizing girl band is more than they seem, and a sunlight-resisting vampire adds to Buffy’s problems.
HALLOWEEN RAIN - Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Sunnydale legend says a scarecrow saturated with Halloween rain will come alive and slaughter anyone in sight. Xander and Willow used to think the tale was nonsense. And then the rain starts to fall …
HERE BE MONSTERS - Cameron Dokey
Two clean-cut schoolboys with an unnatural attachment to their mother lead Buffy to battle her own personal demons to save her mom.
HOW I SURVIVED MY SUMMER VACATION vol.1 - various authors
Six stories, telling what might have happened – in Sunnydale and LA - after Buffy defeated the Master at the end of sophomore year.
IMMORTAL - Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
A vampire with the gift of reincarnation, hell-bent on raising an all-powerful demon, and a life-threatening personal crisis for Joyce, pull Buffy between her duties as a daughter and the Slayer.
[My favourite, so far]
NIGHT OF THE LIVING RERUN - Arthur Byron Cover
Buffy’s dreams of Salem, and her friends’ new alter egos, lead to a re-enactment of the Salem witch trials, with the Master battling to escape his supernatural prison.
OBSIDIAN FATE - Diana G. Gallagher
The uncovered remains of a 500-year-old Spanish expedition leads to a battle between light and darkness as an evil Aztec god schemes to regain his power.
OZ - INTO THE WILD - Christopher Golden
Oz, constantly questioning his basic nature, leaves Sunnydale and sets off on a course toward enlightenment.
PALEO - Yvonne Navarro
Jurassic Park comes to Sunnydale, and the Dingoes – along with the Scooby gang - are offered fame and fortune … at a price.
POWER OF PERSUASION - Elizabeth Massie
Girl power goes into overload when the local womyn’s movement reaches a feverish – and probably unnatural – pitch. Buffy is the only one impervious to the malignant muses permeating the school, leaving her alone in the search to figure out who’s behind the
sinister sisterhood.
PRIME EVIL - Diana G. Gallagher
An ancient, powerful witch wreaks havoc as she gathers a coven of thirteen people with magickal ability to endow herself with infinite power.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW - Christopher Golden
Spike and Dru in war-torn 1940 Europe, planning the death of the Slayer and slaughtering slayers-in-waiting in exchange for a necklace which will give the wearer shape-shifting abilities.
RESURRECTING RAVANA - Ray Garton
Willow’s hurt feelings escalate to antagonism toward Buffy, students suffer brutal acts of violence whose perpetrators end up mutilated, and the new guidance teacher becomes prime suspect … until Giles’ old
"friend” arrives in town.
RETURN TO CHAOS - Craig Shaw Gardner
Druids come to Sunnydale to summon forth a new world order, while someone stalks Buffy’s friends.
REVENANT - Mel Odom
When a Chinese gang hits Sunnydale, racial tensions are sparked. Suddenly a beautiful martial-arts warrior arrives on the scene. It's impossible to tell
where her allegiance lies. Before long, Buffy is wondering who's behind the gang warfare. Is supernatural evil brewing?
SINS OF THE FATHERS - Christopher Golden
Buffy’s old flame, Pike, is on the run from a stone demon, and the Slayer finds a connection between old friends and new enemies.
SUNNYDALE HIGH YEARBOOK - Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
Buffy's year book from the Class of '99.
SWEET SIXTEEN - Scott Ciencin
Dawn's new friend has superstrength and accelerated healing power, as well as a dark secret, and an unusual past which is primed to reveal itself as soon as she turns sixteen.
TALES OF THE SLAYER - various authors
Seven stories recounting the lives and deaths of previous Slayers.
TEMPTED CHAMPIONS - Yvonne Navarro
While Anya considers her options - romance or immortality - Buffy faces a vampire with a shocking secret and shared heritage.
THE ANGEL CHRONICLES vol.1 - Nancy Holder
Novelisations of “Angel”, “Reptile Boy” and “Lie To Me".
THE ANGEL CHRONICLES vol.2 - Richie Tankersley
Novelisations of “Halloween”, “What’s My Line, part 1” and “What’s My Line, part 2”
THE ANGEL CHRONICLES vol.3 - Nancy Holder
Novelisations of “Surprise”, “Innocence” and “Passion”.
THE BOOK OF FOURS - Nancy Holder
A quartet of elemental disasters are linked to nightmares shared by Buffy and Faith, and the spirits of former slayers are called in to help in the battle a monstrous force that journeys through time.
[This comes a very close second in my favourites list]
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO - Nancy Holder
A shooting spree rocks Sunnydale, whose stressed out residents become increasingly unpredictable, and a powerful vampire uses Buffy’s friends to lure her to her death.
THE FAITH TRIALS vol.1 - James Laurence
Novelisations of "Faith, Hope & Trick", "Revelations", "Bad Girls" and "Consequences". NB the cover of my book states "Enemies" rather than "Revelations", but you still get four cracking stories.
THE GATEHOUSE TRILOGY - Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
OUT OF THE MADHOUSE
Sunnydale is besieged by legendary dark forces, Giles is hospitalized out of town, and Buffy & co. take a trip to Boston – to the supernatural mansion that holds the world’s worst monsters at bay … until now.
GHOST ROADS
Buffy, Oz and Angel travel the interdimensional highway to find the Gatekeeper’s heir – held hostage by an evil but familiar pair of vampires - while Giles and the Scoobies battle new monsters in Sunnydale.
SONS OF ENTROPY
The Ghost roads are crumbling, the Gatekeeper is weakening, and Xander is mortally wounded. An unlikely band of allies help Buffy and Giles fight the mouth of hell itself to safeguard the Gatekeeper’s heir and prevent the destruction of humanity.
THE HARVEST - Richie Tankersley Cusick
A novelisation of the series premiere.
THE JOURNALS OF RUPERT GILES - Nancy Holder
Novelisations of "Helpless", "A New Man", and "Blood Ties".
THE LOST SLAYER - Christopher Golden
PROPHECIES
A singel moment of bad judgement catapults Buffy into an alternate future dimension where vampires reign supreme.
DARK TIMES
Buffy meets the future Scoobies in the terrifying alternate reality for which only she is to blame.
KING OF THE DEAD
Old foes are wreaking havoc in vampire-dominated Southern California. But Buffy is rocked to the core when she learns who leads them.
ORIGINAL SINS
With the help of Willow and the Slayerettes, Buffy must invoke the elements, stave off a vampire stronghold, and return to her real-time body.
THE SCRIPT BOOK - SEASON ONE vol.1 Episodes 1 - 6
THE SCRIPT BOOK - SEASON ONE vol.2 Episodes 7 - 12
THE SCRIPT BOOK - SEASON TWO vol.1 Episodes 1 - 6
THE SCRIPT BOOK - SEASON TWO vol.2 Episodes 7 - 12
THE WILLOW FILES vol.1 - Yvonne Navarro
Novelisations of “I Robot…You Jane”, “Phases” and “Dead Man’s Party”.
THE WILLOW FILES vol.2 - Yvonne Navarro
Novelisations of "Gingerbread", "Doppelgangland" and "Choices".
THE XANDER YEARS vol.1 - Keith R. A. Candido
Novelisations of “Teacher’s Pet”, “Inca Mummy Girl” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”.
THE XANDER YEARS vol.2 - Jeff Mariotte
Novelisations of “The Pack”, “Go Fish” and “The Zeppo”.
UNNATURAL SELECTION - Mel Odom
Willow’s babysitting charge goes missing, leaving behind a monstrous changeling in its place. The Scoobies discover a connection with some strange artifacts found at a local archaeological dig, which also unearthed an evil entity.
VISITORS - Laura Anne Gilman & Joseph Sherman
Student teachers set up shop in the library while Buffy and co try to research a supernatural stalker.
ANGEL
Alphabetical order:
AVATAR - John Passarella
Cordelia and Doyle convince Angel of the benefits of starting up a Web site for A.I. Then a trail of desiccated bodies leads the police to discover the victims' shared hobby: online chatting. A techno-savvy demon is determined to complete a ritual that extends the arm of evil far beyond the reaches of even the Internet.
BRUJA - Mel Odom
A bruja, the 'Weeping Woman' of Spanish lore, leaves a trail of death across Los Angeles as Angel, Doyle and Cordelia search for a mother and child in danger, and the missing wife of a big-shot producer.
CITY OF - Nancy Holder
A novelisation of the series premiere.
CLOSE TO THE GROUND - Jeff Mariotte
Angel becomes bodyguard to a studio boss’s spoilt daughter, who is being pursued by an unidentifiable creature.
HAUNTED - Jeff Mariotte
Cordelia's first big showbiz break brings her in contact with paranormal activity, not all of it provided by Wolfram & Hart ...
HOLLYWOOD NOIR - Jeff Mariotte
Doyle, Angel and Cordelia are tracking down a cigarette girl named Betty McCoy. But they're not the only ones to do so. There's a new P.I. in town, Mike Slade. Angel and his troops find that their research leads them directly to Slade and some confidential files.
IMAGE - Mel Odom
An ancient evil is using a painting to keep its body alive and intact, and in the meantime is preying on a child. Angel's past with Darla catches up with him again ...
NOT FORGOTTEN - Nancy Holder
Internal combustion and child pickpockets lead to a demon-worshipping slumlord.
REDEMPTION - Mel Odom
A beautiful actress whose fans want to stake her reminds Angel of a female warrior he knew as Angelus.
SHAKEDOWN - Don DeBrandt
Doyle foresees an earthquake, and affluent non-evil demons become Angel’s clients.
SOUL TRADE - Thomas E. Sniegoski
Angel, Doyle and Cordelia realise that the human soul is now a commodity among the gamblers, junkies and gangsters of the underworld, and the soul of an innocent child fetches the highest price.
[My favourite, so far]
THE SUMMONED - Cameron Dokey
An ornately engraved ancient amulet provides a link between a killer who burns his victims beyond recognition and a strange club with life-changing rules.
BUFFY/ANGEL CROSSOVERS
UNSEEN TRILOGY - Nancy Holder & Jeff Mariotte
THE BURNING
Buffy follows the trail of a missing person and a shadowy demon to LA, where Angel is investigating paranormal activities and Cordelia stumbles across vampire-wannabe runaways. When their paths cross they must deal with identity crises of their own.
DOOR TO ALTERNITY
Back in Sunnydale, doomsday has arrived via a portal bringing monsters from other dimensions, and renegade scientists have discovered how to open the portals from one reality to the next. Buffy and Angel join forces to do battle in the uncharted dimension.
LONG WAY HOME
While the Slayerettes hold down the fort in Sunnydale and LA, Buffy and Angel are launched into a frightening reality where fierce dragons and other fairytale monstrosities rule supreme, and wonder if a reality exists where their love could have survived.
RELATED BOOKS
SLAYER - Keith Topping
An unofficial guide to all things Buffy – a history of the vampire legend, analyses of seasons one to five, with some very entertaining comments, music notes, pop-culture and other references, an internet section, an extensive bibliography section, and comparisons between ‘real’ life and people and the ‘surreal’ world on the Hellmouth.
Updated and revised versions cover seasons one to four and five respectively.
THE SLAYER FILES - Peter Mann
An unauthorized guide to the series, this book has episode guides for seasons one to three (and season four to “Hush”), and ‘Angel’ season one to “Parting Gifts”, cast profiles, the music featured in each episode, and a resources section listing books, videos, websites etc.
THE MONSTER BOOK - Christopher Golden, Stephen R. Bissette & Thomas E. Sniegoski
The mythological, literary and cultural origins of the endless number of ghoulish creatures that have tried to take a piece of the Slayer, with references to seasons one to four. Black and white pictures,
plus two colour sections. 370 pages.
THE WATCHER’S GUIDE vol.1 - Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
The official companion, to seasons one and two. There are episode guides, exclusive interviews, character profiles, a guide to Sunnydale, and sections on the
mythology, monsters, music and love found in the show. Black and white pictures, plus two colour sections. 298 pages.
THE WATCHER’S GUIDE vol.2 - Nancy Holder with Jeff Mariotte & Maryelizabeth Hart
The second official companion, to seasons three and four. There are episode guides, a section on the Buffyverse, dealing with the characters and their pain, cast profiles, the production process, the bands, and merchandising. Black and white photos, plus two colour sections. 472 pages.
THE BUFFY CHRONICLES - N. E. Genge
An unofficial companion to seasons one and two, up to “Becoming, part 2”. As well as episode summaries, which are followed by articles on related subjects (such as witchcraft, near death experiences, ancient legends and cultures, etc) there are behind-the-scenes trivia, a history of vampire legends, cast information, music and band references, a quiz – even a drinking game! All pictures are black and white. 256 pages.
HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRE - Keith Topping
The unofficial guide to 'Angel'. Also covers 'Buffy' history. A brother book to 'Slayer' by the same author, presented in the same style. An in-depth episode guide to season one, plus sections on the novels and comics, internet links, and a very interesting essay on redemption with references to each episode.
The updated and revised version covers seasons one and two.
READING THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - edited by Roz Kaveney
A critical appreciation of 'Buffy' and 'Angel', whose contributors look at the complex way in which both shows have won the hearts and minds of an audience that has opened out from the tenn to the hip. It also includes a short episode guide to the first five seasons of 'Buffy' and the first two seasons of 'Angel' and a critical overview of those seasons' principal themes and structures.
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