Vampiric Fiction

[GravemakersAndGunslingers]

I needs some good examples of Vampiric fiction people! Although I would say Ive already read the best. Dracula was always my favourite, then I read the excellent Salem's Lot, before reading Brian Lumley's Necroscope series (The Vampire World books are awesome), and Mathison's I am Legend and now I'm reading Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and enjoying it - currently halfway through The Vampire Lestat.

No one can convince me to touch Twilight with a bargepole and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't enjoy the Sookie Stackhouse tru blood books either, so what do you think people? Any glaring omisions from the aforementioned list?

Thanks.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

There's only one other I'd suggest and that was the progenitor of Stoker's tale, Dr. John Polidari's 'The Vampyre' and you can read it at the Gutenberg thingy at the bottom of the Wiki link here free,mand other early examples of the genre.

The Vampyre

Long days and pleasant nights

[Selena_Kitt]

There is sooooo little good vampire fiction out there now. There's a LOT of it... but not much of it good, I'm afraid.

[Sugar Marie]

This is a little ot, but I posted a link sometime around Halloween, that there is a sequel to "Dracula", written by one of Stoker's heirs, called "Dracula the Undead".

http://horror-fiction.suite101.com/a...ng_of_vampires

OT, because I can't personally reccommend it, as I haven't read it yet(my sis swiped my copy after I told her it would probably be a while before I could get to it). Literary reviews I've seen have been generally positive, reader reviews - not so much.

[GravemakersAndGunslingers]

Thanks for the replies folks, I will look into your recommendations. And:

There is sooooo little good vampire fiction out there now. There's a LOT of it... but not much of it good, I'm afraid.

Yes and I think the popularity of certain stories of Vampires going to High school and falling in love certainly isn't helping. Give me my gruesome bloodthirsty creatures of the night damn it!

[Wayne C. Rogers]

Read Robert McCammon's, They Thirst. That was an excellent vampire novel. It was published back during the early eighties, so it might be hard to find. I don't know if it is still in print or not.

[w666]

If you can tolerate some humor with your horror, then try "Blood Sucking Fiends" by Christopher Moore.

[edkemper]

if your interested on a different take on vampires try Charlie Hustons Joe Pitt casebooks. More crime noir, with vampires, but not the typical kind. I believe the first bookis called Already Dead, he just put out part five which ended the story, this year.

[Doc Wilson]

Stoker was great in his day but for me Interview With A Vampire will always be the penultimate vampire book. You should read the chronicles up through at least Memnoch before stopping. They kinda get iffy after that.

[w666]

Uncle Stevie might feel somewhat slighted that we don't hold "Salem's Lot" in the same regard, but I'm inclined to agree....."Interview With the Vampire" is the standard to which all other contemporary (the last `50 years, anyway) "vampire" books must be compared.

Stoker was great in his day but for me Interview With A Vampire will always be the penultimate vampire book. You should read the chronicles up through at least Memnoch before stopping. They kinda get iffy after that.