Vampire Fiction

Short Story Collections

Blood Lines: Vampire Stories From New England edited by Lawrence Schimel and Martin H. Greenberg 813.0873837 B623

Includes stories by Esther Friesner, Sarah Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Manly Wade Wellman, Lawrence Schimel, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

Blood Muse: Timeless Tales of Vampires In the Arts edited by Esther M. Friesner and Martin H. Greenberg 813.0873808 B623

Penned by such authors as Bill Pronzini, Jack Ketchum, Ed Gorman, and Larry Segriff, a collection of entirely original vampire stories set in the world of the arts features vampires as artists or as artists' obsessions.

Novels

The Judas Glass by Michael Cadnum

The miraculous reappearance of an ornate mirror he possessed as a boy has a strange effect on attorney Richard Stirling, drawing him into the world of the undead and awakening a lust for blood and revenge against his lover's killer.

Shadows Bite by Stephen Dedman

Mage Magistrale, the recipient of a magical key, discovers that the object was taken from a powerful Japanese-American mobster, and when he kills the mobster in a fight, the daughter of the gangster will stop at nothing to destroy Mage.

Darklost by Mick Farren

In modern-day Los Angeles, Victor Renquist, a centuries-old vampire, seeks to establish a "colony" of the undead but first must prevent the meddling of a quasi-religious cult

Stainless by Todd Grimson

A bizarre love story follows the experiences of a rock musician whose career and girlfriend were destroyed by his enemies and who became the plaything of Justine, an age-old being with a woman's body and a cold heart.

Posted to Death: A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery by Dean James

American vampire sleuth Simon Kirby-Jones arrives in the cozy village of Snupperton Mumsley to start a new life, but when Abigail Winterton, the town's nasty postmistress, is murdered after a rather spirited meeting of SMADS (the Snupperton Mumsley Amateur Dramatic Society), Simon must dig through a wealth of suspects to expose a killer.

The Book of Common Dread by Brent Monahan

Modern vampire Vincent DeVilbiss travels to Princeton University to destroy an ancient cuneiform scroll being translated before the scroll's powers can be turned against the inhabitants of the underworld.

The World On Blood by Jonathan Lewis Nasaw

A member of a group of "blood addicts" living in Northern California, horror novelist Nick Santos first enjoys the incredible world of these modern-day vampires, until a growing madness and murderous rage make him resolve to end his addiction.

Blood and Gold, Or, The Story of Marius: The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

The former mentor to the vampire Lestat tells his story, which begins in the ancient Roman Empire when he is made a "blood god" by the Druids and follows him through the darkest, bloodiest centuries of European history.

The Golden: a Novel by Lucius Shepard

In a gothic netherworld of underground canals, arched chambers, and crumbling statuary, the members of the Family, a race of vampires, gather to discuss their future.

The Rulers of Darkness by Steven Spruill

Set in the shadow world of vampires, a story of medical suspense and murder finds police detective Merrick Chapman hunting a bloodthirsty killer and trying to prevent the woman he loves from becoming the next victim.

Seance For a Vampire by Fred Saberhagen

Vladimir Kulakov returns from his hanging with a sore neck and an axe to grind, and when Sherlock Holmes vanishes, Dr. Watson suspects a connection and summons Holmes's cousin, the vampire Prince Dracula, to help.

A Feast in Exile: A Novel of Saint-Germain by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro [available through CWMARS]

In the fourteenth century, Count Saint-Germain's vampiric identity could be threatened when he is captured by the Mongol conqueror Timur, while Tulsi, a beautiful acrobat, is torn between her love for the count and her fears of becoming a vampire, and Avasi Dani, the count's former lover, must adjust to her new vampire life and as woman without a protector in a perilous era.