Circus of the Damned (1995) (edit title/settings)

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• Anita Blake: Vampire Executioner, Animator
• Jean Claude: Master Vampire of the City. Is in love with Anita.
• Richard Zeeman: High School Teacher
• Mr. Oliver: Member of The Vampire Council. Known as the Traveler.
• Manny Rodriguez: Anita's old partner and her mentor.
• Edward: Assassin who's also Anita's friend.
• Yasmeen: Master vampire.
• Alejandro: Ancient vampire.
• Dolph Storr: Sergeant of the RPIT.
• Bert Vaughn: Anita's boss at Animators INC.
• Marguerite: Yasmeen's human servant.
• Zerbrowski: Detective at RPIT.
• Veronica Simms: Anita's best friend, private detective.
• Irving Griswold: Reporter who helps Anita.
• John Burke: Animator, Vampire Executioner.
• Rashida: Werewolf
• Willie McCoy: Anita's friend, The only Vampire that she had know both alive and dead.
• Malcolm: Master vampire. Head of the Church of Eternal Life (the vampire church)
• Lawrence Kirkland: New Animator that Anita is training.
• Stephen: Werewolf
• Jeremy Ruebens: Part of Humans First.
• Karl Inger: Part of Humans First.

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• “Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human.”

  Anita

• “Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred." "I rest my case.”

  Anita, Jean-Claude

• “Brownie point for me.”

  Anita

• “Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.”

  Anita Blake

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• Circus of the Damned: a supernatural circus.
• Animator Inc.: the firm where Anita works.

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• RPIT - Regional Preternatural Investigation Taskforce: RPIT, created by the City of St. Louis 4 years before the events of Guilty Pleasures. It started out as a way to appease the media and politicos about the preternatural crimes within the city; i.e. vampire and shapeshifter attacks, preternatural murder victims, etc. RPIT is ran by Dolph, his team has a very good success/solve rate, due in part to Anita's insight.
• Humans Against Vampires: A group that is against vampires having the same rights as humans. Also referred to as HAV.
• Humans First: And off-shoot of HAV, this group wants to simply destroy all vampires.

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• Ulfric: The Alpha of a werewolf clan.
• Lupa: The female leader of a werewolf clan, dominant to every other werewolf in the clan except the Alpha.
• Ma Petite: A term of endearment that Jean Claude uses for Anita Blake.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Laughing Corpse, and followed by The Lunatic Cafe.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Laurell K. Hamilton (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Craig White (artist) (Cover Artist)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3558.A443357 C57 2004
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sexually Explicit Content, Language, Violence

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Dark Fantasy
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Urban

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