BtVS Books Based on the Show
"The Harvest"
By: Richie Tankersley Cusick
In this generation, she is Buffy Summers, 16 year old and a new student at Sunnydale High. Her experiences at her last school persuaded Buffy to try to resume the life of a normal teenager. But it is no coincidence that Buffy has come to this town at this time. The area is a center of mystical energy, and all the signs point to an imminent, crucial upheaval. Once in a century comes The Harvest: a night where the Master Vampire can draw enough power to break free and open the portal between his world and ours...unleashing havoc.
With the help of new friends and a new Watcher, Buffy's back in business....
"Halloween Rain"
Around Sunnydale, they say a scarecrow saturated with Halloween Rain
will come alive and slaughter anyone in sight. (Lovely Place, Sunnydale)
Buffy's best friends, Xander and Willow used to think the tale was
nonsense- but after a few adventures with Buffy, now they're not so sure.
Even without a maniacal scarecrow, a Sunnydale Halloween is a truly
horrific happening. There enough zombies and vampires about, ready
to party hearty, to keep the Slayer and her friends up all night.
And then the rain starts to fall....
"Coyote Moon"
The seedy carnival looks just the thing to give Buffy and her best
buds, Xander and Willow, a break from staking bloodsuckers. Some
greasy food, a few cheap thrills--what more could a slayer ask for?
But then Buffy senses something evil behind this carnival. Xander
and Willow aren't so sure. They don't buy Buffy's notion that the
carneys are somehow connected to the corpses turning up around Sunnydale.
It doesn't help that her two best friends are interested in someone
at the carnival. Whice puts the burden of proof on Buffy.
can she find out what's going on in time to save her friends?
"Night of the Living Rerun"
As if real life wasn't already overflowing with vampire-staking,
now Buffy has begun to dream about slaying! Night after night,
it's the same thing. She's back with the Puritans, a Slayer on the trail
of a witch. What can it mean?
Buffy gets a clue when Xander and Giles start acting like they
have ancient alter egos. Now the stage is set for a symbolic replay
of the night the Master was accidently trapped in the other dimension.
Only this time, the Master wants a happy ending-for himself. Buffy and
her friennds must prevent the Master from rewriting the script and
escaping his supernatural prison before Sunnydale become history!
"Blooded"
The Spirits of Chirayoju, the vampire of Chinese lore, and
Sanno, the legendary Japanese Mountain King, have been safely
imprisoned for centries in an ancient sword.
Until Now...
Buffy's on the trail of the legendary vampire... a bloody trail
that leads straight to one of her closest friends
"Child of the Hunt"
Jousting contest, human chess matches, lords and ladies and beggars...a traveling
Renaissance fair has come to Sunnydale. The fair may seem terminally uncool, but Buffy
and her friends are charmed anyway. Especially be a sadeyed boy named Roldan, who
serves as court jester.
Unfortunately, the people from the fair are not the only visitors in Sunnydale.
Roaming the countryside are nasty little creatures with a taste for flesh: the dark
faerie. They are minions of the Wild Hunt, servants of the evil Erl King.
Buffy's challenge is to annihilate the king and his murderous horde. But the
path to his destruction leads straight to Roland, who is not quite human...and destined
to become the slayer's mortal adversary.
"Return to Chaos"
The Hellmouth (aka Sunnydale California) has drwn vampires, witches, and other demons to
it's powerful vortex. Now it has also drawn the attention of an ancient sect of
Druids-allies in Buffy Summers' battle against the Undead.
Cloaked in Darkness, wrapped in mystery, the Druids descend on Sunnydale ready
to perform new rituals to summon forth a new world order, free from the evil that shapes
Buffy's nights.
But the Slayer's concerns are more immediate-someone is stalking her friends.
Cordelia, Xander, and Oz-all falling victim to this new spell. And now it's up to
Willow and Giles to find the cause, while Buffy stands between the Mouth of Hell and the
New Dawn.
"Angel Chronicles (Volume 1)"
After a century of killing without a care, the vampire Angelus was cursed with a conscience
and eventually fled to Sunnydale, where he restricted his feeding to blood banks.
Until 16-year-old Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, arrived in town to battle vampires,
demons and the Forces of Darkness. First, he has to convince her not to kill him. Then he has
to convince himself not to fall in love with her.
Now collected for the first time, are three stories from the cult-hit TV series chronicling the beginning of this
star-crossed love story.
Can Buffy and Angel survive life, death...and beyond?
"Angel Chronicles (Volume 2)"
The course of love in Sunnydale never runs smoothly, especially for Buffy Summers the
vampire Slayer and her boyfriend, Angel the vampire. They're going through the usual early
stages of a romantic relationship--dressing to impress, going on coffee dates, and saving the
world.
When Buffy tries to be more like the girls from Angel's distant past, she succeeds a little too
well--becoming helpless in the face of real evil.
Career week at school finds Buffy questioning her future as the Slayer--and all the relationship baggage that
comes with--until an unexpected ally gives new insight into her calling. And when Angel is taken hostage by an
old acquaintance with sinister plans, Buffy realizes that she must draw on all her passion to save the one she
loves.
Now, collected for the first time, are three stories from the hit-TV series chronicling Buffy and Angel's growing
romantic relationship.
"Gatekeeper Trilogy Vol. 1: Out of the Mad House"
Werewolves. Trolls. Sea Monsters. Rain of toads. Skyquakes. Sunnydale is being besieged by
dark forces. But even with Buffy providing her unique style of damage control while Giles is
hospitalized out of town, it's more than one Slayer can handle--especially since the
abominations are coming from a centuries-old portal through time and space.
Somehow, the hell-hole must be found and corked at it's sources. For Buffy Angel, and the rest
of her gang, that means a road trip to Boston where an ailing Gatekeeper resides over a
supernatural mansion that has been, until recently holding the world's worst monsters at bay. Once there, Buffy
discovers the catastrophic truth: the magical structure houses thousands of rooms, all of which are doorways to
limbo's "ghost roads," and all of which may bring her face-to face with the most nefarious forces in hell and on
earth--forces bent on horrific plans far worse than the Slayer ever imagined.
"Gatekeeper Trilogy Vol. 2: Ghost Roads"
Buffy, Oz and Angel are Europe-bound, only they're not flying any airlines. They're traveling
limbo's "ghost roads" in search of Jacques Regnier. Jacques is the sole heir of the dying
Gatekeeper whose Boston mansion is the supernatural barrier restraining thousands of the
world's monsters. The evil Sons of Entropy will do anything to destroy the gate--even if it
means trading the power-laden Spear of Longinus to the wicked vampires holding Jacques.
Back home, the ghost ship Flying Dutchman has set sail for Sunnydale, determined to
shanghai new crewmen--dead or alive. For Willow, Xander, Cordelia, and Giles, it's an ocean of trouble
especially when the monstrous Kraken reemerges with a vengeance.
But everyone's assistance will be needed once Buffy locates Jacques, and uncovers the shocking plans the
Suns of Entropy have already placed in motion--a plan that, if successful, will destroy the world and create a
horrible new realm ruled by monsters.
"Gatekeeper Trilogy Vol. 3: Sons of Entropy"
Led by the fanatical Il Maestro, the Sons of Entropy are assaulting the supernatural Boston
mansion that holds back the realm of monsters, and stealing the life force from the besieged
Gatekeeper. In limbo, the Ghost Roads are crumbling, becoming weak and unstable where Hell
and the Otherworld have begun seeping in, blurring the passages that lead to the human
world. And Xander lies mortally wounded froma failed attempt to free Joyce Summers from the
clutches of the zealots who hold her hostage.
With the Gatekeeper rapidly weakening, Buffy sends Willow and Cordelia to escort Xander along the Ghost
Roads to the Gatehouse, which may hold his only hope of survival. Meanwhile, she, Giles and an unlikely band
of allies take their fight to the very mouth of Hell itself, desperately hoping to save Joyce and repel the evil
spawn before Sunnydale becomes a demonic ground zero. Only then can Buffy safeguard the Gatekeeper's
eleven-year-old heir, the only one able to prevent the ultimate destruction of humanity.
"The Xander Collection (Volume 1)"
Unfulfilled crushes. Awkward first conversations. A date who wants you...dead. Having a
Y-chromosome in Sunnydale is never easy. But Buffy the Vampire Slayer's friend Xander
Harris seems to find more than his share of trouble with the opposite sex.
At first Xander is happy being the teacher's pet--until his schoolboy crush brings out her true
animal instincts. Then his whirlwind romance with the exotic foreign exchange student falters
when she demands the ultimate sacrifice.
Some members of the Slaying squad might say that dating Cordelia chase could kill a guy. But Xander's
relationship with the high-maintenance Cordy actually seems to be working out---until she decides she's
seriously harming her social standing. His crafty plan to win her back may earn him more love than one guy can
handle.
Now collected for the first time, are three stories from the hit TV series chronicling Xander's search for love on
the Hellmouth.
"Visitors"
The paranormal forces centered in Sunnydale attract the vilest kinds of evil: vamps,
demons...and student teachers? An invasion of collegians testing their teaching prowess on
Buffy and her peers coincides with the arrival of a supernatural stalker. The Slayer feels the evil
entity watching her every move, and she's not the only one. But researching the beast is going
to be problematic with the student teachers setting up shop in Giles's home turf--the school
library.
When the stalker starts to take his malicious game to the next level, Buffy finds herself face to face with a being
unlike any she's ever encountered. But can she figure out it's weakness before she is forced to participate in it's
dance of death?
By: Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
By: John Vornholt
By: Arthur Byron Cover
By: Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
By: Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
By: Craig Shaw Gardnerr
By: Nancy Holder
By: Ritchie Tankersley
By: Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
By: Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
By: Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
By: Written by: Keith R.A. DeCandido
By: Laura Anne Gilman & Josepha Sherman
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