Vampire Fiction
From myths and legends centuries old, to today's best-selling series, the Vampire has caught the attention of popular culture like no other fictional character. The vampire who lives eternally by quenching his thirst for life via his victim's blood, who can shape shift into a bat, wolf, or mist, who can control the elements of wind, fog, and moonlight, who can telephathically communicate with those who he has under his control, and who has supernatural stregnths but yet many limitations has been at the cornerstone of horror fiction for the better part of two centuries.
From the very first stories in the early 19th century through to today's masters of horror and dark fantasy, here is our selection of some of the best and most influential vampire fiction available.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is always a good starting point into the world of the vampire.
Richard Matheson's I Am Legend is one of my favorite vampire stories. The story's protagonist is one of the last men on earth who's not a vampire. Some sort of virus has affected the entire population turning them into vampires and only a few "survivors" were immune and now must struggle for their survival.
If you are looking for a series of books I recommend three different series to look into. Anne Rice's famous Interview with a Vampire series brings us the stories of Lestat, Armand and other's from the French and New Orleans settings.
Brian Lumley's Necroscope series features Harry Keogh the Necroscope and the war with the Vampires. This series mixes psychic abilities, the power to summon and talk with the dead, international espinoage, and the secret government organization E-Branch.
And finally, there is the Anita Baker vampire series from Laurel K. Hamilton where Vampire Hunting takes on a chic, Los Angelese twist.
- 'Salem's Lot
- Circus of the Damned
- Dracula
- Dracula's Guest
- Dreams of Decadence #10: Spring 2000
- Dreams of Decadence #8
- Dreams of Decadence #9: Fall 1999
- Guilty Pleasures
- I Am Legend
- In A Glass Darkly (Carmilla)
- Interview with the Vampire
- Memnoch The Devil
- Necroscope
- Necroscope II: Vamphyri!
- Necroscope III: The Source
- Necroscope: Defilers
- Necroscope: Resurgence The Lost Years Volume 2
- Necroscope: The Lost Years
- Night Prayers
- Obsidian Butterfly
- The Darkest Thirst
- The Kiss of Death
- The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price
- The Laughing Corpse
- The Tale of the Body Thief
- The Unbeholden
- The Vampire Armand
- The Vampire Lestat
- The Vampire Stories
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