10 Spooky Vampire Romance Books: Vampire legends are among those “things that go bump in the night” myths that have endured the longest, and not simply because they are immortal.
The Vampyre is the original vampire book; it was published in 1819, almost a century before Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Dracula by Bram Stoker expertly conjures the nightmare world of vampire hunters and vampires while simultaneously shedding light on the hidden regions of Victorian desire and sexuality.
Whether you’ve streamed every sizzling episode of True Blood twice or had no idea it existed, reading the book that served as the basis for the HBO series will keep you enthralled from beginning to end.
Laura lives alone with just her ill father in a remote castle situated deep within an Austrian woodland. Until one starry night, when the stunning Carmilla unexpectedly enters the scene in a horse-drawn carriage.
Among Anne Rice’s most well-known books, Interview with the Vampire is a bit sensual, a bit terrifying, and a whole lot of fun.
The unthinkable occurs in the autumn of 1981 in the Swedish suburb of Blackeberg. A teenage boy’s blood-drained body is discovered, and it is presumed that the murder was part of a ritual slaying.
The main character learns information about her own family’s past as well as about Vlad the Impaler, the brutal medieval tyrant who served as a major Dracula inspiration while rummaging around her father’s library.
This recently released book, which was published in 2020, follows the participants of a women’s reading club in Charleston as they work to uncover the identity of a strange guy.
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler is not your typical vampire story. While it is immensely entertaining and simple to read in one sitting, it also addresses topics of racism, gender, and identity.
The imaginative reinterpretation of Abraham Lincoln’s life by Seth Grahame-Smith blends biographical and historical fiction with fantasy.