Look, I love Anne Rice vampires but I need something new.
My brain is fried and I've been trying to get back into reading but my attention span is so disgustingly horrible that I've resorted to pulling out books from my shelf that I got when I was a child because they're quick, easy, and kinda fun. Right now I'm reading a My Sister the Vampire novel and I just have this urge for more vampire-esque novels but more mature obv! 😆 If any of y'all are familiar with the Underworld movies, do y'all know of vampire books similar to that kind of vibe?
Please and thanks 🙏
by wizardsfrolikgardens
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Twilight? Lol
All These Bodies – Kendare Blake (AMAZING!!)
Salem’s Lot – Stephen King (classic)
Dracula
Dead Until Dark
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
Edit: I do not know the Underworld show, so sorry if this isn’t close – just ones I could think of 🙂
Fledgling by Octavia Butler
The All Souls series by Deborah Harkness is pretty good. I’ve only read the first three books but I enjoyed the mix of witches and vampires (demons were in it too but I didn’t understand what their species details were). The books are dense but as a fellow reader of Anne Rice -I can tell you that the All Souls series isn’t as challenging to read as some of Anne Rices books and they move along nicely (think Interview with a Vampire by Rice that was enthralling vs Queen of the Damned that was frustrating and confusing).
Sunshine by Robin McKinley.
The *Vampire Hunter D* series by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Dracul by JD Barker
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Classic: Dracula by Bram Stoker
The best modern retelling: ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
The bloodiest: Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite
The most fun (and my favorite): Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.
*Anno Dracula* is fantastic. It posits a world where Abraham Helsing failed to stop Dracula, and he instead went on to turn Queen Victoria. As Prince Consort, Dracula creates a haven for Vampires, who start revealing their existence. Turns out there’s a lot of them. In this world, nearly every literary vampire exists, and not just vampires; most fictional character’s are real in this world, so you’ll have Mycroft Holmes running the Diogenes Club, Dr Jekyll rubbing shoulders with Oscar Wilde, and so on.
The novel takes place a few years after Dracula’s coup. Vampires are now uneasily accepted as part of British life. Some accept them as useful members of society, while others still see them as little more than monsters.
Then, a brutal murderer starts carving up vampire prostitutes in Westchapel…
The God of Endings
Out of left field, maybe, but:
[This Charming Man](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a431da24-68d3-4683-81fd-4b7b1605fb7f) by CK McDonnell (you might want to read The Stranger Times first)
[Carpe Jugulum](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6b45b663-3c89-42b6-91d7-7b5beb060df5) by Terry Pratchett
Lesser Dead by christopher buehlman
Jay Kristoff: Empire of the Vampire and Empire of the Damned
Bram Stoker: Darcula
Isabel Canas: Vampirea of El Norte
Curses, Foiled Again by Sera Trevor
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris
GRRM’s *Fevre Dream*
{{Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia}}
The Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as The True Blood Novels and The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris.
Let the Right One In by Lindqvist was recommended to me as “the best vampire book that exists” by my locally famous bookseller! I agree with her 🙂
Bride-Ali Hazelwood
The Vampire the Masquerade role playing game has a series of related novels.
Sons of Darkness by Dan Simmons. A great contribution to the genre
You Suck by Christopher Moore
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
might sound cringe but Anita Blake series by Laurell Hamilton – the first few books had a plot from what I recall after that it just became smut