title: Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale
author:  Pam Keesey 
description: Books about goddesses, books about vampires, and books about film stars are common, but <i>Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale</i> is a rare treat: it combines all those topics and more within a historical context for understanding our long-time fascination with the dangerous, alluring female. The story starts in prehistory with the worship of a mother goddess who was also the Lady of the Beasts, and spans the centuries from ancient Greek and medieval views of harmful women through the hysterics of the romantic period. The history of film vamps goes from Theda Bara in <i>A Fool There Was</i> (1915) to Natasha Henstridge in the Species movies (1990s), and includes beautiful photographs of all the usual suspects--Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Tallulah Bankhead, Louise Brooks, Maila Nurmi (a.k.a. Vampira), the two Morticias, and many others.
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  #  Chapter 1
  
  
  I heard cursing from outside the pawnshop before the knocking started.
  
  
  As soon as someone started to pound on the door, I immediately sat up from
  where I had been entwined with Ava, and we both paused to listen for any clues
  about who might be at the door. They were loud enough that we heard them all
  the way in the back office of Yarber’s pawnshop, and that meant they were
  either desperate or angry.
  
  
  I was still deep inside of the beautiful assassin, and we both let out gasps
  of pleasure as I slowly slid my cock out of her cum-filled tunnel. Then I
  reached for my clothes and handed the blonde assassin her own. As we both
  slipped them back on, I glanced over at Ava just to take one more look at her
  naked figure. The assassin was muscled from years of training, but her pale
  skin was still soft in all the right places, and her large breasts swayed back
  and forth like bells as she wriggled back into her ti