Worse Than Death is the very sexy pulp novel about making love to a woman -- who happens to be a vampire. Gottlieb, whose first novel, Love Bite, became a made-for-TV movie, is back with a horrifyingly funny vampire novel about a Los Angeles policeman who has resigned from his job to spend eternity with his beloved. Their lust knows no bounds, but he is shy about making the transition from human to vampire. When he does, both of them are shocked to find that his new state has a significant sexual drawback, one that injects discord into their love nest -- he can bite, but the honeymoon seems to be over.