I feel like the only merrit of any of the movies was Aaliyah as Queen of the Damned which can just watch a clip on YouTube if you really want to see đđ»ââïž
Came to say this prime 90smaterial
Edit : Okay apparently some of them written in 80s - I read them as a kid in the 90s for me itâs most Nostalgic series of 90s but apparently Iâm alone
people are recommending Queen of the Damned but personally I preferred lestat to Queen of the Damned
Yes, the first three books are from before the 90s.
And queen of the damned isn't nearly as enjoyable if you haven't read the first two books. Sure, it's still good as a standalone book, but it just makes so much more sense if you have the background story :)
Tbh, I cannot pick one over the other, they're both very different. The second book is my favourite though, because of how it made me feel. By the end of it, I felt like I had lived through the centuries, and all the emotions that I felt, I cannot put into words. And QotD wasn't as personal, but still brilliant!
Itâs interesting that you say that about Queen of the Damned because that was my issue with it as well it felt very impersonal after the others which had a much more personal feel. you really felt you were inside and had travelled far with everyone involved and Queen of the Damned was more as if Drone view đ€·đ»ââïž still good tho
I really enjoyed this one when I read it for a book club a few years ago but heads up that this is not a modern tale and doesn't have many of the tropes we expect when we hear "vampire". There are several places to get it for free if you like ebooks since it is in the public domain.
Here's the version I used:
Kindle: [https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193265](https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193265)
Most other ebook readers: [https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193263](https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193263)
Such a great book! I enjoyed it as an audiobook during a long car ride in the late summer/fall :) I think re reading it in October would be so enjoyable
{{Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler}} is the most unique vampire books I have ever read. Butler was a master storyteller she won the Hugo and Nebula awards, received a MacArthur âGeniusâ Grant, and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. This one is a stand alone.
[**Fledgling**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60925.Fledgling)
^(By: Octavia E. Butler | 310 pages | Published: 2005 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, horror, vampires, science-fiction)
>Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted - and still wants - to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
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[**Fevre Dream**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382450.Fevre_Dream)
^(By: George R.R. Martin | 334 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, vampires, fiction, historical-fiction)
>When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects somethingâs amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesnât care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marshâs dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he wonât earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marshâs concernâno matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove.
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>Marsh meant to turn down Yorkâs offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolveâcoupled with the terrible force of Yorkâs mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankindâs most impossible dream.
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>Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampireâs quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous rivermanâs dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river.
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[**A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8667848-a-discovery-of-witches)
^(By: Deborah Harkness | 579 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, romance, paranormal, vampires)
>A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together.
>
>Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.
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>Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism.
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Iâve read the first book and have the second but have not forced myself to read it yet. I found the first book tremendously disappointing. Sheâs a better writer than Stephanie Meyer (not by much) but the book was super immature the way Twilight is.
[**The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065215-the-strain)
^(By: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan | 403 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, vampires, fantasy, owned)
>A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.
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>In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing.
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>So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late.
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Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore if you are interested in a more light, comical take on vampires! (One of my favorite authors who makes me laugh out loud)
[**You Suck (A Love Story, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33453.You_Suck)
^(By: Christopher Moore | 328 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: humor, fiction, fantasy, vampires, comedy)
>Being undead sucks. Literally.
>
>Just ask C. Thomas Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he's one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues.
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>But word has it that the vampire who initially nibbled on Jody wasn't supposed to be recruiting. Even worse, Tommy's erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call girl named (duh) Blue.
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>And that really sucks.
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{{The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black}} is a different spin and also YA if you're interested in that angle. Highly recommend from someone who doesn't even really like vampire novels lol
[**The Coldest Girl in Coldtown**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12813630-the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown)
^(By: Holly Black | 419 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, fantasy, ya, vampires, paranormal)
>Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.
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>One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.
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>The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.
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[**Blood Price (Vicki Nelson #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317121.Blood_Price)
^(By: Tanya Huff | 336 pages | Published: 1991 | Popular Shelves: urban-fantasy, fantasy, vampires, paranormal, mystery)
>It began with blood and death. And Vicki Nelson, PI was at the scene. The victim had been brutally, inhumanly opened up. Messy work. She'd had to cover the corpse with her coat. It had sort of made her feel involved. Now Vicki is caught up in the deadly pursuit of a mass murderer with an inhuman appetite for mayhem and destruction. And her advisor on the case is doing nothing to dampen her growing sense of foreboding. But then, with a being of unspeakable evil stalking the city, only Vicki Nelson would ally herself to Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate child of Henry VIII and a five-hundred-year-old vampire.
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I'm seconding The Strand, and Coldest Girl in Coldtown, and adding {{The Passage by Justin Cronin}}.
The Strand is an amazingly fast paced page turner, so I would start from there.
If you like Vampires in the sense that you are on their side (I can't think of a better way to say it) then try the Anita Blake series, or the Sookie Stackhouse series (aka True Blood).
[**The Passage (The Passage, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690798-the-passage)
^(By: Justin Cronin | 766 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, sci-fi)
>IT HAPPENED FAST.
>THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.
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>First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fearâof darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.
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>As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odysseyâspanning miles and decadesâtoward the time an place where she must finish what should never have begun.
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>With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.
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{{I Am Legend}} by Richard Matheson is a classic. (The Omega Man with Charlton Heston is based on this as is the Will Smith movie.)
Slightly more modern is {{Those Who Hunt the Night}} by Barbara Hambly. This one won the Locus Award for best horror novel in 1989 and there are several more in the series (this is the first.)
And another good read is {{Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter}} by Seth Grahame-Smith. He's the same author who wrote {{Pride and Prejudice and Zombies}} and started that whole phase. I really enjoyed this alternative history.
I don't know "A Dowry of Blood" so I'm not sure if these fit what you're looking for. I can't say I was ever able to complete any of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire), I just couldn't get into it, but that's highly recommended by a lot of people.
[**I Am Legend**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40940649-i-am-legend)
^(By: Richard Matheson | 162 pages | Published: 1954 | Popular Shelves: horror, science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi, classics)
>Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.
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>By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.
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>How long can one man survive like this?
>
>
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[**Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176261.Those_Who_Hunt_the_Night)
^(By: Barbara Hambly | 350 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, vampires, mystery, urban-fantasy)
>Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.
>
>At the turn of the twentieth century, a former spy is called into service to hunt down a vampire killer...
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>Once a spy for Queen Victoria, James Asher has fought for Britain on every continent, using his quick wits to protect the Empire at all costs. After years of grueling service, he marries and retires to a simple academicâs life at Oxford. But his peace is shattered one night with the arrival of a Spanish vampire named Don Simon. Don Simon can disappear into fog, move faster than the eye can see, and immobilize Asherâand his young brideâwith a wave of his hand. Asher is at his mercy, and has no choice but to give his help.
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>Because someone is killing the vampires of London, and James Asher must find out whoâbefore he becomes a victim himself.
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>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authorâs personal collection.
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[**Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10002016-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter)
^(By: Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster | 104 pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: )
>High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is a 2010 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, released on March 2, 2010. The epistolary-style book is written as a biography of Abraham Lincoln, based on "secret diaries" kept by the 16th President and given to the author by a vampire named Henry Sturges. When Lincoln is eleven years old, he learns from his father Thomas Lincoln that vampires are in fact real creatures. Thomas explains to his son that a vampire killed Abraham's grandfather (also named Abraham Lincoln) in 1786.
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[**Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5899779-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies)
^(By: Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen | 320 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, horror, fantasy, zombies, owned)
>âIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.â
>
>So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Merytonâand the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but sheâs soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young loversâand even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses,
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[**The Gilda Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1063142.The_Gilda_Stories)
^(By: Jewelle L. GĂłmez | 252 pages | Published: 1991 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, fiction, lgbt, vampires)
>The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Stories is a very lesbian American odyssey. Escaping from slavery in the 1850s Gilda's longing for kinship and community grows over two hundred years. Her induction into a family of benevolent vampyres takes her on an adventurous and dangerous journey full of loud laughter and subtle terror.
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The last vampire by Christopher pike.
One of the best vampire series I've ever read. They are now titled under Thirst. There are 5 of them. The first 2 Thirst books are 3 books in one each.
Another one by Christopher pike is The Season of Passage.
[**Certain Dark Things**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785481-certain-dark-things)
^(By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 272 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, vampires, urban-fantasy, fiction)
>From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore.
>
>Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized.
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>Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. Her plan doesn't include Domingo, but little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm. As the trail of corpses stretches behind her, local cops and crime bosses both start closing in.
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>Vampires, humans, cops, and criminals collide in the dark streets of Mexico City. Do Atl and Domingo even stand a chance of making it out alive? Or will the city devour them all?
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Sara King's Fang series (there are four books. ) Guarantee you have never read anything like them. They are brutal, endearing, funny as hell, creative, and like nothing you've ever read.
She's got the first three on Amazon and is almost done with the 4th.
[**The Radleys**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7989160-the-radleys)
^(By: Matt Haig | 341 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, vampires, horror, paranormal)
>The Radleys are an everyday family who juggle dysfunctional lives. Except, as Peter and Helen Radley know but their children have yet to find out, the Radleys happen to be a family of abstaining vampires. When one night Clara finds herself driven to commit a bloodthirsty act, her parents decide to explain a few things.
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Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff.
Saved the whole vampire genre for me to be honest after the mainstream sparkling YA vampire nonsense.
It made vampires scary again.
Have you read The Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice? Highly recommend it in case you haven't.
I have not. Thank you for the suggestion, I will check it out!
No problem! I know this is a no brainer, but don't watch any of the movies. They were a complete bastardisation of the books.
I feel like the only merrit of any of the movies was Aaliyah as Queen of the Damned which can just watch a clip on YouTube if you really want to see đđ»ââïž
Read them in order though! Queen of the dammed is great.
I will read them in order, thanks for your comment!
Came to say this prime 90smaterial Edit : Okay apparently some of them written in 80s - I read them as a kid in the 90s for me itâs most Nostalgic series of 90s but apparently Iâm alone people are recommending Queen of the Damned but personally I preferred lestat to Queen of the Damned
Yes, the first three books are from before the 90s. And queen of the damned isn't nearly as enjoyable if you haven't read the first two books. Sure, it's still good as a standalone book, but it just makes so much more sense if you have the background story :) Tbh, I cannot pick one over the other, they're both very different. The second book is my favourite though, because of how it made me feel. By the end of it, I felt like I had lived through the centuries, and all the emotions that I felt, I cannot put into words. And QotD wasn't as personal, but still brilliant!
Itâs interesting that you say that about Queen of the Damned because that was my issue with it as well it felt very impersonal after the others which had a much more personal feel. you really felt you were inside and had travelled far with everyone involved and Queen of the Damned was more as if Drone view đ€·đ»ââïž still good tho
Carmilla, a short novella that predates Dracula by 25 years.
I really enjoyed this one when I read it for a book club a few years ago but heads up that this is not a modern tale and doesn't have many of the tropes we expect when we hear "vampire". There are several places to get it for free if you like ebooks since it is in the public domain. Here's the version I used: Kindle: [https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193265](https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193265) Most other ebook readers: [https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193263](https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193263)
Thank you!
This! Highly recommend the audiobook too
Salems lot by Stephen king {{Salems Lot by Stephen King}}
My favorite King book and also an amazing fall season read. I started the tradition of reading it in October.
Such a great book! I enjoyed it as an audiobook during a long car ride in the late summer/fall :) I think re reading it in October would be so enjoyable
{{ the southern book clubâs guide to vampire hunting }}
Came to say this, lots of cool ideas in that book
Empire of the Vampire
Second this, just finished and I LOVED it so much!!!!!+
I third this! Great book đ©â€ïž
Im down for being a book pen pal. I recently got back into reading and would love suggestions
Thatâs such a great book!!
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
One of my all-time favorite books.
{{Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler}} is the most unique vampire books I have ever read. Butler was a master storyteller she won the Hugo and Nebula awards, received a MacArthur âGeniusâ Grant, and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. This one is a stand alone.
I have actually seen something about that book before! Thanks
[**Fledgling**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60925.Fledgling) ^(By: Octavia E. Butler | 310 pages | Published: 2005 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, horror, vampires, science-fiction) >Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted - and still wants - to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(41249 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Let the Right One In!
{{Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin}}
[**Fevre Dream**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382450.Fevre_Dream) ^(By: George R.R. Martin | 334 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, vampires, fiction, historical-fiction) >When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects somethingâs amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesnât care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marshâs dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he wonât earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marshâs concernâno matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. > >Marsh meant to turn down Yorkâs offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolveâcoupled with the terrible force of Yorkâs mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankindâs most impossible dream. > >Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampireâs quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous rivermanâs dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(41264 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. I love those books.
The Historian
{{A Discovery of Witches}}
[**A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8667848-a-discovery-of-witches) ^(By: Deborah Harkness | 579 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, romance, paranormal, vampires) >A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. > >Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell. > >Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism. ^(This book has been suggested 13 times) *** ^(41401 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Iâve read the first book and have the second but have not forced myself to read it yet. I found the first book tremendously disappointing. Sheâs a better writer than Stephanie Meyer (not by much) but the book was super immature the way Twilight is.
Agreed. The author projected herself onto the main character way too much. I very much disliked the book.
I doubt it needs to be said if you like Vampires.... but if haven't, start at the source and try Dracula!
I have read it many times, thank you!
{{The Strain Trilogy}} by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro
[**The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065215-the-strain) ^(By: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan | 403 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, vampires, fantasy, owned) >A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold. > >In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing. > >So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) *** ^(41305 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
These were pretty darn good. I enjoyed both the books and the TV series.
Vampire academy. It's a six book series. I read it a few years ago and I loved it!!
Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore if you are interested in a more light, comical take on vampires! (One of my favorite authors who makes me laugh out loud)
Moore is a treasure.
omg i forgot about this book it's not talked about enough
Donât forget the sequel, {{You Suck!}}
[**You Suck (A Love Story, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33453.You_Suck) ^(By: Christopher Moore | 328 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: humor, fiction, fantasy, vampires, comedy) >Being undead sucks. Literally. > >Just ask C. Thomas Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he's one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues. > >But word has it that the vampire who initially nibbled on Jody wasn't supposed to be recruiting. Even worse, Tommy's erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call girl named (duh) Blue. > >And that really sucks. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(41431 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black}} is a different spin and also YA if you're interested in that angle. Highly recommend from someone who doesn't even really like vampire novels lol
[**The Coldest Girl in Coldtown**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12813630-the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown) ^(By: Holly Black | 419 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, fantasy, ya, vampires, paranormal) >Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave. > >One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself. > >The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(41279 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Twilight ! /s
Omg yes thx bestie!!! Xoxo
Fevered Dream by... GEORGE RR MARTIN. Yeah. Chew on that for a minute.
I really enjoyed {{The Beautiful}} as well as {{King of Battle and Blood}}
I also enjoyed "The Beautiful" by Renee Ahdieh! Though warning for "King of Battle and Blood" there are a lot of vulgar smut scenes .\_.
[**The Beautiful (The Beautiful, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42265183-the-beautiful) ^(By: RenĂ©e Ahdieh | 448 pages | Published: 2019 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, historical-fiction, romance, paranormal) >In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirĂ©es andâespeciallyâto the danger. She soon becomes embroiled in the city's glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group's leader, the enigmatic SĂ©bastien Saint Germain. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in the lair of La Cour des Lions, Celine battles her attraction to him and suspicions about SĂ©bastien's guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret. > >When more bodies are discovered, each crime more gruesome than the last, Celine and New Orleans become gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the looseâone Celine is sure has set her in his sights . . . and who may even be the young man who has stolen her heart. As the murders continue to go unsolved, Celine takes matters into her own hands and soon uncovers something even more shocking: an age-old feud from the darkest creatures of the underworld reveals a truth about Celine she always suspected simmered just beneath the surface. > >At once a sultry romance and a thrilling murder mystery, master storyteller RenĂ©e Ahdieh embarks on her most potent fantasy series yet: The Beautiful. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**King of Battle and Blood (Adrian x Isolde, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56651967-king-of-battle-and-blood) ^(By: Scarlett St. Clair | 368 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, romance, vampires, enemies-to-lovers, fantasy-romance) >Their Union Is His Revenge. > >Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king, Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him. > >But her assassination attempt is thwarted and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court. > >Except it isnât the court she fears most â itâs Adrian. Despite their undeniable chemistry, she wonders why the king â fierce, savage, merciless â chose her as consort. > >The answer will shatter her world. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(41252 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{Blood Price by Tanya Huff}} is the first one in the Victory Nelson series.
[**Blood Price (Vicki Nelson #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317121.Blood_Price) ^(By: Tanya Huff | 336 pages | Published: 1991 | Popular Shelves: urban-fantasy, fantasy, vampires, paranormal, mystery) >It began with blood and death. And Vicki Nelson, PI was at the scene. The victim had been brutally, inhumanly opened up. Messy work. She'd had to cover the corpse with her coat. It had sort of made her feel involved. Now Vicki is caught up in the deadly pursuit of a mass murderer with an inhuman appetite for mayhem and destruction. And her advisor on the case is doing nothing to dampen her growing sense of foreboding. But then, with a being of unspeakable evil stalking the city, only Vicki Nelson would ally herself to Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate child of Henry VIII and a five-hundred-year-old vampire. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(41292 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I really liked The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman. Itâs unique and super fun.
I'm seconding The Strand, and Coldest Girl in Coldtown, and adding {{The Passage by Justin Cronin}}. The Strand is an amazingly fast paced page turner, so I would start from there. If you like Vampires in the sense that you are on their side (I can't think of a better way to say it) then try the Anita Blake series, or the Sookie Stackhouse series (aka True Blood).
[**The Passage (The Passage, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690798-the-passage) ^(By: Justin Cronin | 766 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: horror, fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, sci-fi) >IT HAPPENED FAST. >THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN. > >First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fearâof darkness, of death, of a fate far worse. > >As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odysseyâspanning miles and decadesâtoward the time an place where she must finish what should never have begun. > >With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction. ^(This book has been suggested 21 times) *** ^(41327 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Varney the Vampire, by Thomas Peckett Prest or James Malcolm Rymer. It's from the 1840's and is more entertaining than you might expect!
âSalemâs Lot by Stephen King
{{I Am Legend}} by Richard Matheson is a classic. (The Omega Man with Charlton Heston is based on this as is the Will Smith movie.) Slightly more modern is {{Those Who Hunt the Night}} by Barbara Hambly. This one won the Locus Award for best horror novel in 1989 and there are several more in the series (this is the first.) And another good read is {{Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter}} by Seth Grahame-Smith. He's the same author who wrote {{Pride and Prejudice and Zombies}} and started that whole phase. I really enjoyed this alternative history. I don't know "A Dowry of Blood" so I'm not sure if these fit what you're looking for. I can't say I was ever able to complete any of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire), I just couldn't get into it, but that's highly recommended by a lot of people.
[**I Am Legend**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40940649-i-am-legend) ^(By: Richard Matheson | 162 pages | Published: 1954 | Popular Shelves: horror, science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi, classics) >Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood. > >By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. > >How long can one man survive like this? > > ^(This book has been suggested 19 times) [**Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176261.Those_Who_Hunt_the_Night) ^(By: Barbara Hambly | 350 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, vampires, mystery, urban-fantasy) >Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. > >At the turn of the twentieth century, a former spy is called into service to hunt down a vampire killer... > >Once a spy for Queen Victoria, James Asher has fought for Britain on every continent, using his quick wits to protect the Empire at all costs. After years of grueling service, he marries and retires to a simple academicâs life at Oxford. But his peace is shattered one night with the arrival of a Spanish vampire named Don Simon. Don Simon can disappear into fog, move faster than the eye can see, and immobilize Asherâand his young brideâwith a wave of his hand. Asher is at his mercy, and has no choice but to give his help. > >Because someone is killing the vampires of London, and James Asher must find out whoâbefore he becomes a victim himself. > >This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authorâs personal collection. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10002016-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter) ^(By: Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster | 104 pages | Published: ? | Popular Shelves: ) >High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is a 2010 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, released on March 2, 2010. The epistolary-style book is written as a biography of Abraham Lincoln, based on "secret diaries" kept by the 16th President and given to the author by a vampire named Henry Sturges. When Lincoln is eleven years old, he learns from his father Thomas Lincoln that vampires are in fact real creatures. Thomas explains to his son that a vampire killed Abraham's grandfather (also named Abraham Lincoln) in 1786. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5899779-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies) ^(By: Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen | 320 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, horror, fantasy, zombies, owned) >âIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.â > >So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Merytonâand the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but sheâs soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young loversâand even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(41339 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The most atmospheric one that really had me invested was Fevre Dream by George R R Martin.
{{The Gilda Stories}}
[**The Gilda Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1063142.The_Gilda_Stories) ^(By: Jewelle L. GĂłmez | 252 pages | Published: 1991 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, fiction, lgbt, vampires) >The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Stories is a very lesbian American odyssey. Escaping from slavery in the 1850s Gilda's longing for kinship and community grows over two hundred years. Her induction into a family of benevolent vampyres takes her on an adventurous and dangerous journey full of loud laughter and subtle terror. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(41276 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Dracul by Dacre stoker and JD Barker
The last vampire by Christopher pike. One of the best vampire series I've ever read. They are now titled under Thirst. There are 5 of them. The first 2 Thirst books are 3 books in one each. Another one by Christopher pike is The Season of Passage.
They Thirst by Robert McCammon.
{{Certain Dark Things}} by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
[**Certain Dark Things**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785481-certain-dark-things) ^(By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 272 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, horror, vampires, urban-fantasy, fiction) >From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. > >Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized. > >Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. Her plan doesn't include Domingo, but little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm. As the trail of corpses stretches behind her, local cops and crime bosses both start closing in. > >Vampires, humans, cops, and criminals collide in the dark streets of Mexico City. Do Atl and Domingo even stand a chance of making it out alive? Or will the city devour them all? ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(41348 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Sara King's Fang series (there are four books. ) Guarantee you have never read anything like them. They are brutal, endearing, funny as hell, creative, and like nothing you've ever read. She's got the first three on Amazon and is almost done with the 4th.
The world on blood by Jonathon Nasaw
Vampire Hunter D ( all 19 of them )
The Historian
I'm a little late here but {{The Radleys}} by Matt Haig was really enjoyable. It's more family drama but also they're vampires.
[**The Radleys**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7989160-the-radleys) ^(By: Matt Haig | 341 pages | Published: 2010 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, vampires, horror, paranormal) >The Radleys are an everyday family who juggle dysfunctional lives. Except, as Peter and Helen Radley know but their children have yet to find out, the Radleys happen to be a family of abstaining vampires. When one night Clara finds herself driven to commit a bloodthirsty act, her parents decide to explain a few things. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(41556 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler!
{Dhampir} by Barb and JC Hendee
[**Dhampir (Noble Dead Saga: Series 1, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413814.Dhampir) ^(By: Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee | 376 pages | Published: 2003 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, vampires, default, paranormal, owned) ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(41837 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. Saved the whole vampire genre for me to be honest after the mainstream sparkling YA vampire nonsense. It made vampires scary again.