Vampire and/or werewolf books without explicit or gratuitous sex
I love vampires and werewolves, but the hypersexualization of them is tiring to me and I don’t wanna read sex scenes or characters eye-shagging each other all the time.
the Cirque du Freak series was my favorite growing up, I’m re-reading them now!
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If you’re okay with YA you could do the Cirque Du Freak series.
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**Red Moon** by *Benjamin Percy* (werewolves)
**The Lesser Dead** by *Christopher Buehlman* (vampires)
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Since *Twilight,* vampires have become much more of a romance trope than a horror trope.
I enjoyed *The Lesser Dead* by Christopher Buehlman. I honestly can’t think of other recent books that lean into the serial murder and immortality facets of vampires, rather than the “Mr. Darcy but goth” angle.
Oh, *The Historian* by Elizabeth Kostova was good, and has actual zero sex, though just like *Dracula,* the vampire is almost never “on-screen.”
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The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs!
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The Historian by Kostova
Fevre Dream by GRRM
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The Sonja Blue books by Nancy A Collins (start with Sunglasses After Dark) are vampire books with little sex or romance, vampires are definitely not romantic in these books. Some very explicit violence though.
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Anne rice’s vampire books (ex: interview with a vampire)
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Bloodsucking Fiends – You Suck – Bite Me by Christopher Moore. It’s a trilogy, more comedy of errors than Gothic horror and I don’t remember any sex scenes on the page.
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Dracula does have sex scenes but I don’t remember them being explicite. Overall it’s a great book (Bram Stoker’s original, not the adaptations).
EDIT:// Project Gutenberg published the book (the website is completely legal).
Here are [multiple download options](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345) of project Gutenberg and If you just want to read a chapter to see If it is a good book you can start reading the book [online](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/345/pg345-images.html#chap01).
the Cirque du Freak series was my favorite growing up, I’m re-reading them now!
If you’re okay with YA you could do the Cirque Du Freak series.
**Red Moon** by *Benjamin Percy* (werewolves)
**The Lesser Dead** by *Christopher Buehlman* (vampires)
Since *Twilight,* vampires have become much more of a romance trope than a horror trope.
I enjoyed *The Lesser Dead* by Christopher Buehlman. I honestly can’t think of other recent books that lean into the serial murder and immortality facets of vampires, rather than the “Mr. Darcy but goth” angle.
Oh, *The Historian* by Elizabeth Kostova was good, and has actual zero sex, though just like *Dracula,* the vampire is almost never “on-screen.”
The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs!
The Historian by Kostova
Fevre Dream by GRRM
The Sonja Blue books by Nancy A Collins (start with Sunglasses After Dark) are vampire books with little sex or romance, vampires are definitely not romantic in these books. Some very explicit violence though.
Anne rice’s vampire books (ex: interview with a vampire)
Bloodsucking Fiends – You Suck – Bite Me by Christopher Moore. It’s a trilogy, more comedy of errors than Gothic horror and I don’t remember any sex scenes on the page.