I just picked up a copy of Seth Grahame-Smith’s The Last American Vampire. I’ll review it as soon as I read it, and I know, will actually stun everyone by posting a book review on my book blog.
But while we’re waiting for that, what are your favorite vampire books?
Is the vampire genre too saturated, or is there still room for a new, unique twist?
Bookshelf Battle 
I think there can be more to the vampire stuff. Like (I don’t remember the author) There’s a book about an evil vampire who gets stabbed by a unicorn! That’s original haha ^^! I haven’t read like any vampire books that I can think of… that is sad!!!
Which book is that? I guess the unicorn horn can count as a stake.
Haha I guess it can. It is called Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst 🙂
Probably more enjoyable than Eat Pray Love, especially the Julia Roberts movie version.
Maybe. I have neither read nor seen it 😮 but Drink, Slay, Love sounds kind of funny. And weird haha 🙂
I’ve read a few vampire books but not that many. I like twilight and few others but I feel like it’s a genre you cannot do too much with. But I do like the addition of vampires in books where they are not the main character like Harry Potter or Hex Hall. I read Never Bite a Boy on the First Date recently and it was good, it was vampire teen mixed with mystery it was really good. 🙂
Dresden Files has some vampire action too, but the main character remains a human. True, sometimes vampires need only do a walk on.
I can’t even think of any other than the Sookie Stackhouse series. I loved the series, but it wasn’t exactly *quality* stuff, just a fun read.
Did you watch True Blood?
No, I’ve heard it’s terrible compared to the books :p
I did enjoy the true blood books. I also loved the vampire chronicles by Anne rice
Did you read Interview with a Vampire?
Yes I read all of the books in that series 🙂
The Passage by Justin Cronin felt like a breath of fresh air when I read it a couple of years ago. A great post-apocalyptic contemporary horror novel with a scientific explanation for the vampirism. The writer removes most of the human element, returning them to something quite animalistic.
What was the explanation?
It’s viral, some sort of super-virus discovered in South America (I think) with a high transmission rate. It’s so potent that within a century, the last few remaining humans take shelter in a handful of fortified cities. I highly recommend it 🙂
I’m certain this vampire novel has a unique twist to it that no other book has taken on, especially once you get into the series. My Soulmate, The Moon: Science of the Vampire seems like it’s about the untold history of humankind, but it’s really about the future of humanity.
I’m certain this vampire novel has a unique twist to it that no other book has taken on, especially once you get into the series. My Soulmate, The Moon: Science of the Vampire seems like it’s about the untold history of humankind, but it’s really about the future of humanity.
I’ll have to check it out
Just worked my way back to this post. You have met a vampire novel collector.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro did it right for about five minutes with “The Palace,” the third or fourth in her series about the Comte de Saint-Germain — yes, that is the name of an hisotircal person and she grafted her 2000-year old vampire onto a few factoids about him (he was probably an engaging charlatan and poseur, who was to be found in aristocratic France in the 1700’s claiming he ate nothing and drank only “the elixir of life.” “The Palace” is set in Medicean Florence, with Savonarola and all, and parts of it were so poignant they made me weep, but after a few years she was turning them off on a lathe (I suspect with a shop of assistants, like a Renaissance fresco artist) and some of the epistolary effusions that resulted are just embarrassing, especially the one set around WWII that is full of (repeatedly) incorrect German.
Kim Newman’s vampire novels are good too just for their whole-hogging embrace of every fictional character to have traction in the English language from the late 19th to the mid 20th century, despite my reservations about Newman writing for a post-publication market of gamers [ https://sledpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/commodernism/ ]
And who would not love Fred Saberhagen’s revisionist tropes on “Dracula,” narrated in the Count’s own voice, with long-suffering resignation to enduring the chowderheads and chumps that hunt him?
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Fred+Saberhagen+dracula
(Disclaimer: there are clearly more than I ever knew existed.)
I could go on for a while, so I’ll stop here and spare you.
No that was awesome! It’s like you just wrote a cool article about vampires! I appreciate it!