Literature

Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in 18th century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori‘s The Vampyre (1819), which was inspired by the life and legend of Lord Byron. Later influential works include the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire (1847); Sheridan Le Fanu‘s tale of a lesbian vampire, Carmilla (1872) and the masterpiece of the genre: Bram Stoker‘s Dracula (1897).

In later years, vampire stories have diversified into areas of crime, fantasy, science fiction or even chick-lit. As well as the typical fanged revenants, newer representations include aliens and even plants with vampiric abilities. Others feed on energy rather than blood.

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Literature

• The Vampire by Heinrich August Ossenfelder (1748).
• The Giaour by Lord Byron (1813).
• Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816).
• “The Vampyre” by John William Polidori (1819).
• “La Morte Amoureuse” by Théophile Gautier (1836).
• “The Family of the Vourdalak” by Count Alexis Tolstoy (1843).
• Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer (or Thomas Peckett Prest) (1847).
• “The Mysterious Stranger” by Anonymous. Translated from the original German, this vampire tale appeared in the English magazine Odds and Ends in (1860).
• Le Chevalier Ténèbre (Knightshade) by Paul Féval (1860).
• La Vampire (The Vampire Countess) by Paul Féval (1865).
• Carmilla (1872) by Sheridan le Fanu.
• La Ville Vampire (Vampire City) by Paul Féval (1874).
• “The Fate of Madame Cabanel” by Eliza Lynn Linton (1880).
• Manor by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1884).
• The True Story of the Vampire by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1894).
• Lilith by George MacDonald (1895).
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897).
• “The Tomb of Sarah” by F. G. Loring (1900).
• The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck (1907).
• The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (1911).
• “For the Blood is the Life” (1911) by F. Marion Crawford.
• “Wampir” (“The Vampire”) (1911) by Władysław Reymont.
• “The Room in the Tower” (1912) by E.F. Benson.
• “Bewitched” (1927) by Edith Wharton.
• “The Dark Castle” (1931) by Marion Brandon.
• “Revelations in Black” (1933) by Carl Jacobi.
• There were no Asper Ladies (1946) by Eugene Ascher.
• “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (1949) by Fritz Leiber.
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954).
• Natural History (Les històries naturals in the original Catlan) by Joan Perucho (1960). Translated into English by David H. Rosenthal in 1988.
• “The Longest Night” by Ray Russell (1960).
• “Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal” (1973) by Robert Aickman.
• ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (1975).
• “The Night Flyer” by Stephen King.
• The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (1980).
• Vampyr by Jan Jennings (1981).
• The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (1981).
• They Thirst by Robert McCammon (1981).
• Castle Dubrava (1982) by Yuri Kapralov.
• The Curse of the Vampire (1982) by Karl Alexander.
• Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin (1982).
• The Delicate Dependency by Michael Talbot (1982).
• The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford (1983).
• The Light at the End by John Skipp and Craig Spector (1986)
• How Dear the Dawn by Marc Eliot (1987).
• My Lover, My Cousin, My Vampire by Summermist Steeligian (1987).
• The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories edited by Alan Ryan (1988).
• Those Who hunt the Night (UK title: Immortal Blood) by Barbara Hambly (1988).
• The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers (1989).
• Vampire$ by John Steakley (1990).
• The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause (1991).
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (1991).
• Vampire of the Mists by Christie Golden (1991)
• Knight of the Black Rose by James Lowder (1991)
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite (1992).
• Suckers by Anne Billson (1993).
• Darkness on the Ice by Lois Tilton (1993).
• Daughters of Darkness (1993) edited by Pam Keesey. An anthology of lesbian vampirestories (1993).
  • Dark Angels (1995). A second anthology on the same theme.
• The books I, Strahd, Memories of the Vampire (1993) and I, Strahd, the War with Azalin by P.N. Elrod tells the tale of the vampire lord Strahd von Zarovich who occupies the castle Ravenloft.
• The Night Inside by Nancy Baker (1995).
• Travelling with the Dead by Barbara Hambly (1995). A sequel to Immortal Blood.
• The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires by Brian Stableford (1996).
• “The Kiss” (1996) by Kathryn Reines.
• Dracula the Undead by Freda Warrington (1997). Commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracula for the centenary of the latter’s first publication.
• Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (1998).
• Cowboy and The Vampire: A Very Unusual Romance by Clark Hays (1999).
• Sunshine by Robin McKinley (2003).
• What Big Teeth You Have: A Vampire Tale by Jimmy Autrey (2004).
• Let the Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komma In in the original Swedish) by John Ajvide Lindqvist (2004). Translated into English 2007.
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005).
• Fledgling by Octavia Butler (2005).
• Renfield: Slave of Dracula by Barbara Hambly (2006).
• The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo (2006).
• “Morrigan’s Cross”, “Dance of the Gods” and “Valley of Silence” (The Circle Trilogy) by Nora Roberts (2006).
• Fangland by John Marks (2007).
• Asetian Bible by Luis Marques (2007).
• The Society of S (2007) and The Year of Disappearances (2008) by Susan Hubbard.
• Twelve by Jasper Kent (2009).
• A Sigh for Life’s Completion by Sara Kuhns (2009).
• Blood Hunger by A. M. Esmonde (2010).
• Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth (2010).
• Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story by Jamie Wasserman (2010)
• Modern Marvels – Viktoriana by Wayne Reinagel (2011)

Fiction series

There are several recent series in vampire fiction, of variable literary quality. They tend to either take the form of direct sequels (or prequels) to the first book published or detail the ongoing adventures of particular characters.

• David Wellington‘s Thirteen Bullets, 99 Coffins, Vampire Zero, 23 Hours (Laura Caxton, James Arkeley series)
• Lara Adrian‘s Midnight Breed series (2007–).
• Elaine Bergstrom‘s Austra Vampires series (1989–).
• L.J. Smith’s The Vampire Diaries
• Jim Butcher‘s The Dresden Files series (2000–). It should be noted that not all of these novels concern themselves largely with vampires, but a war between vampires and wizards figures heavily in the story.
• Kresley Cole‘s The Immortals After Dark series (2006-)
• Nancy A. Collins‘s Sonja Blue series (1989–).
• MaryJanice Davidson‘s Undead series (2004–).
• P. N. Elrod‘s Vampire Files series (1990–).
• Christine Feehan‘s Dark series (1999–).
• Joey W Hill Vampire Queen series (2007–).
• Christopher Golden‘s Saints and Shadows Saga (1994–2003).
• Laurell K. Hamilton‘s Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series (1993–).
• Charlaine Harris‘s Southern Vampire Mysteries (2001–).
• Kim Harrison‘s Hollows series (2004–).
• Tanya Huff‘s Blood Books series (1991–1997).
• Charlie Huston‘s Joe Pitt casefiles series (2005–).
• Jasper Kent‘s Danilov Quintet (2009–).
• Sherrilyn Kenyon‘s Dark-Hunter (2002–).
• E. E. Knight‘s Vampire Earth series (2003–).
• Brian Lumley‘s Necroscope series (1986–).
• Richelle Mead‘s Vampire Academy and soon to be coming Bloodlines (Richelle Mead novel) series
• P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast‘s House of Night series
• Sienna Mercer‘s My Sister the Vampire series.
• Christopher Moore‘s A Love Story series (1995–2007).
• Kim Newman‘s Anno Dracula series (1992–).
• Caridad Piñeiro‘s The Calling series (2004–).
• Anne Rice‘s Vampire Chronicles series (1976–2003).
• Marilyn Ross‘s Barnabas Collins series (1966–1971).
• Fred Saberhagen‘s Vlad Tepes series (1975–2002).
• Darren Shan‘s The Saga of Darren Shan series (2000–2006).
• Maggie Shayne‘s Wings in the Night series (1993–).
• Jeanne C. Stein‘s Anna Strong series
• Whitley Strieber‘s Hunger series (1981–2002).
• JR Ward‘s Black Dagger Brotherhood series (2005–).
• Freda Warrington‘s Bloodwine series (1992–).
• Gene Wolfe‘s Urth: Book of the Short Sun trilogy (1999–2001).
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro‘s Saint-Germain series (1978–).
• Guillermo del Toro with Chuck Hogan The Strain (La trilogía de la oscuridad) (2009 – ).
• Kevin & Kyle Reynolds KISMET  : Vampire Detective series by Suzanne LaRosa-Herlihy (2009-)
• Katherine Silva‘s The Monstrum Chronicles (2010- ).

White Wolf, a maker of role playing games, releases novels set in the fantasy world of its Vampire: The Masquerade‘ game. These series of novels were released in 13-book sets, each corresponding to one of the 13 clans of vampires in their game universe.

Juvenile fiction

• The Little Vampire series, by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1979).
• The Bunnicula series by Deborah Howe and James Howe (1979).
• The Darkangel series by Meredith Ann Pierce (1982–1990).
• The Vampire Diaries series by L. J. Smith (author) (1991–).
• Night World series by L.J. Smith (1996-)
• The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause (1992).
• The Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike (1994–).
• Companions of the Night (1995) by Vivian Vande Velde.
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes‘s novels In the Forests of the Night (1999), Demon in My View (2000), Shattered Mirror (2001), Midnight Predator (2002), Persistence of Memory (2008).
• Saga of Darren Shan also known as the Cirque Du Freak series (2000–4) series by Darren Shan.
• Sweetblood by Pete Hautman (2003).
• Ellen Schreiber‘s Vampire Kisses series (2005–).
• Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (2005).
• Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer (2005–2008)
• The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld (2006).
• Facade of Shadows by Rick Chiantaretto (2006).
• Blue Bloods and Masquerade: A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa de la Cruz (2006, 2007).
• Richelle Mead‘s Vampire Academy series (2006–2010).
• Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2007).
• The House of Night series by P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast (2007–).
• The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks (2009).
• Little Dracula series by Martin Waddell & Joseph Wright (1986–2001).
• The Morganville Vampires Series series by Rachel Caine (2006–).
• Star Donovan‘s Young Vampire Adventures (2008 – ).
• Tears of Crimson by Cara Faith Donovan (2010-)
• Kevin & Kyle KISMET Vampire Detectives series by Suzanne LaRosa-Herlihy(2009 – )
• The Fair Hero Series by Kerry Rockwood White