A Vampire Hater's Concise Guide to Vampire Fiction

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Are you fed up with 'the softcore-porn, rape-romanticizing, wish-fulfillment-fantasy aspect of most popular vampire fictions'? Well, Claude Lalumière has a few options for you. This article was written in Oct 2002, so there may be newer stuff he's missed out on, but well worth a read:

http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Reviews/Lalumiere10_Vampires.html

 

[ravenus]

Haven't read any o' that but I recommend George Martin's Fevre Dream, about a vampire that starts a partnership steamboat business, but for his own reasons. Grand adventure with very well-written characters and yes, the vampires are no sympathy seeking wussies.

 

[ravenus]

And see George Romero's Martin

 

[dwndrgn]

I'm intrigued by the author's final statements about the fact that he liked the men's fiction better than the women's. When I first began reading fantasy and science fiction, it was all written by men. I don't know if this was just a matter of there being more men in the genre at the time or if the men's fiction was just better. My point here is that nowadays I find that my favorites are all written by women. That isn't to say that I don't enjoy fiction written by men, just that those that top my list are by women.

I've never liked the Ann Rice type of vampire story. I haven't ever attempted any others besides Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's (which I like) and some other, more modern stuff (by women ) so I may have to put some of these guys on my 'To Read' list to at least check them out.