Some great Vampire, Zombie, Werewolf, Witches authors!

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Just finished Bitten and Stolen by Kelley Armstrong; can't wait for Broken later this month.

Charlaine Harris has an awesome, quirky imagination. Love her stuff!

Of course, Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series is loads of fun.

All these authors fuse a little horror, with a little humour, and a wee bit of the eroticism too (not so much as to be classified as erotic though)

Does anybody know of any other new or up-and-coming authors that write with similar style?
 
Kim Harrison, very good author, loads of attitude in her stories :D
 
You might also check out the "Does a Dead Werewolf Become a Vampire" thread for suggestions....
 
Nolene-Patricia Dougan - Mix of historical fiction and horror. A twist on the classic Vampire myth. Really strong characters - especially the females and an extraordinary story.
 
Kitty and the Midnight Hour, by Carrie Vaughn.

I thought that it had a slightly different take on the whole werewolf thing. Plus, it was funny.

Bob
 
Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford for a different spin on the nature and creation of vampires. It pretty much turns things upside down.

Sunshine by Robin McKinley for a very different sort of vampire indeed and it's also one of the best stories of a human-vampire relationship.

Historian by Elizabeth Kostova for vampire that goes back to Vlad Dracul. A beautifully written and thought-provoking book.
 
In answer to your question from the "Chronical" thread, SW: Yes, people do... but it isn't easy. After all, the vampire is a rather set type, and with the plethora of material written on the subject over the years, little original can be said about it. Werewolves suffer the same problem. Witches have a little more leeway, as you have all kinds of approaches, from Ainsworth's The Lancashire Witches to The Witches of Karres, by James H. Schmitz, to Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife. Zombies, as noted elsewhere, are extremely limited, usually, so not much centering on them per se is worthwhile, with very rare exceptions. There are plenty of sourcebooks out there devoted to these subjects that have great reading lists and bibliographies, if you're really interested, not to mention literally hundreds of anthologies that deal with these in short story form, which is often the best form for the supernatural tale, as it's more concentrated in impact. It's just a matter of seeking such things out, that's all.
 
I agree on Necroscope. Have you read Jan Jennings: Vampyr?
Slightly different, in a nice way.
 
Ah now gotta agree with the Wolf's hour recommendation it's a brilliant novel reminds me a less gory Graham Masterton.

Robert R Mcmannon writes a fantastic Vampire novel called "They Thirst" which I cannot recommend enough.

Now to Zombies, an author called David Wellington who actually started publishing online has put out three Zombie novels on his site one Vampire and a werewolf novel they were serialised but are all now complete.

Have read the first two Zombie novels which were not too bad havent read any of the others.
 
I agree with Nesact loved The Historian, but I would also add Fevre Dream - George R R Martin as another good vampire story, only short but very good.
 
I just bought 'They Hunger' by Scott Nicholson. So far so good. According to him, the vamps are 'more like monsters and less like sex gods', so I'm hoping they might be kind of Lumley-esque.
 
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