Vampire Novels

[DarkChilde78]

I've finally read all the vampire novels that I own. I'm looking for more. I've really enjoyed the work of Anne Rice and Jeanne Kalogrodis. I've also enjoyed the Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton. If anyone has some suggestions along these lines, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks

DC

 

[Gater]

I've read all of the Anita Blake series too! part from the first! argh! i started them on holiday and i'm afraid i wasn't all that keen on vampire books before then but i'm obssesive so once i've read one or two of a group of books i'll go nuts unless i read the rest! which can be hard when there are a couple o' hundred! Anyways i'll dig up some names for ya an post em when poss!

 

[Krystal]

Hi! I don't know is you have read it already but both Anne Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton have new novels. Anne Rice have "Blood And Gold" that is the story of Marius. And Laurell have "Narcissus in Chains" of the Anita Blake saga. I'm reading right now Laurell's novel and I have to say is brilliant and great as always. I can't put it down. When I'm finished it I will begin Marius story. Also I don't know if you have read A Kiss of Shadows, is from Laurell but is not of the Anita Blake saga. Is about the Fey, but is really good also. So if you haven't read it check it out.

Krystal:rain:

 

[BAYLOR]

Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

They Thirst by Robert McCammon

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Best vampire book of all time: Salem's Lot by Stephen King

 

[anno]

Bram Stoker is worth checking out...

 

[Randy M.]

Hi.

There's another thread along these lines at,

Vampires

Besides the one I mention there, I'd recommend (in more or less chronological order by publication),
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (really a novella included in anthologies though occasionally published on its own)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
I am Legend by Richard Matheson
Progeny of the Adder by Leslie Whitten
Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (though it's not exactly a vampire)
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman (to be honest, this one strikes me as closer to what you want than the others, but I'm not confident it's on the mark)

Those I haven't read yet that still interest me enough to keep them in my TBR pile (in no real order),
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Fledgling by Octavia Butler
The Golden by Lucius Shepard
The Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford
The Vampire Soul and Other Sardonic Tales by Auguste Villiers de L’lsle-Adam (trans. Brian Stableford)
The Vampire and the Devil's Son by Ponson du Terrail (trans. Brian Stableford)


I would stress again that there's more to vampire fiction than novels and The Vampire Archives ed. by Otto Penzler is a solid anthology.


Randy M.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

The Passage is absolutely amazing, well worth a read, one of my favourite books of the last ten years

 

[BAYLOR]

They Thirst by Robert McCammon

Very good book, long out of print.