Marin Mincu: Dracula's diary

A sort of "hystorical" diary around the figure of Vlad III of Valacchia, better known as "Vlad the Impaler". The bloody and despotic "voivode" tells the dynastic plots of which he was the victim and reflects the ambiguity of the relationship between the abject and the sublime.

Valerio Evangelisti: Eymerich's Body and Blood

Eymerich, the famous inquisitor really existed in the fourteenth century, is called to Castres in southern France, to fight a sect of 'vampires' who terrorizes the inhabitants of the area disseminating campaigns corpses drained of blood. Eymerich shows his ruthlessness and does not hesitate to massacre hundreds of people just to eradicate heresy. But six hundred years later a group seems to revive the feats of those mad devotees ...

Laurell K. Hamilton: Anita Blake series

Guilty Pleasures

Anita lives in St Louis, vampire capital of an America that had recognised vampires as legal beings. Anita Blake is an animator.  She raises zombies for a living and is also a court appointed vampire executioner. Vampires can not be kept in prison because they are uncontrollable, so once the vampire has been proven guilty it’s the death sentence for them. This is where Anita comes in.

Anita is a specialist consultant with the police.  The Regional Preternatural Investigation Team investigates crimes of a supernatural nature.  At the start of Guilty Pleasures Anita is asked to investigate a murder, which she establishes is a ghoul attack.  She has more problems than trying to find the ghouls responsible.  Nickolaos, the master vampire of the city, wants Anita to find out who has been killing vampires in the city...

The Laughing Corpse

Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it. 

Circus of the Damned

Anita Blake fights a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis's master vampire, but she does need him on her side, if not in her bed. Anita's reluctant involvement in the odd goings-on at the supernatural Circus of the Damned introduces her to Richard, the werewolf of her dreams, and Larry, her powerful but nervous partner in zombie-raising.

 

The Lunatic Cafe

Marcus, the leader of the local werewolf pack, wants Anita to find eight missing lycanthropes. But Anita's boyfriend Richard is locked in a power struggle with Marcus. Jean-Claude, master vampire of the city, is getting jealous as well. Anita has to solve some horrific murders and keep her bounty-hunting friend Edward from killing Richard and Jean-Claude.

Bloody Bones

Anita arrives in Branson, Missouri, to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute. But the job gets more interesting. A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area...

 

The Killing Dance

Anita becomes a wanted woman-by a vampire, a werewolf, and a creature far more terrifying: a man who puts a price on her head.

Burnt Offerings

Anita agrees to help track down a pyrokinetic arsonist. Anita finds herself embroiled in a dangerous and deadly game of undead politics in defense of Jean-Claude, her lover and the city's Master Vampire.

Blue Moon

Anita's ex Richard is jailed in Tennessee, accused of rape. When Anita arrives, it's clear that something is rotten in Myerton. The local cops are corrupt, and the trolls Richard was studying are threatened. But if she sticks around to investigate, the local Master vampire will attack her and her friends. The local werewolf clan isn't rushing to welcome her either, and her self-control is going to the, um, wolves. 

Obsidian Butterfly

Anita hunts monsters in New Mexico. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward, Anita's mentor, has no idea what creature could be responsible for such crimes. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has another life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known...

Narcissus in Chains

Anita is still no closer to choosing between her lovers Jean-Claude, a vampire, and Richard, a werewolf. Plunged into the netherworld of a dominant/submissive bar, Narcissus in Chains, by the abduction of one of her inherited wereleopards, Blake finds herself deep into shapeshifter politics.

Cerulean Sins

Having gained immense supernatural powers and become an important force in the vampiric and lycanthropic communities of St. Louis, Anita begins this adventure by raising the dead and ends it by tackling a murderous monster. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires.

Incubus dreams

Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Team seeks Anita assistance when a St. Louis stripper is murdered and the evidence points to a group of seven vampires.

Danse macabre

Anita discovers she may be pregnant. There are six potential fathers...

The Harlequin

Anita fights the extremely old and very strong vampire force named the Harlequin, that were planning to take over Jean-Claude's territory.

Blood Noir

Marmee Noir forces Anita to have sex with two were-tigers. Anita also discovers that her anger and rage have been affecting those around her, specifically Richard.

Skin Trade

Anita fights a particularly monstrous vampire named Vittorio. Aided by sadistic serial killer Otto Jefferies, convenient sociopath Edward Kemper and fanged escorts handpicked by her lover Jean-Claude, Anita offers her services to Las Vegas, now under siege from Vittorio's army of enthralled preternatural beings. Anita employs her insight into Vittorio's condition and weaponized libido as the decisive weapons in this struggle. 

Flirt

Anita uses her powers in self-defense against Nicky, a were-lion that had kidnapped her to perform a zombie raising for his client.

Bullet 

The Mother of All Darkness, the first vampire, wants to enter into a new human body...and the one she has in mind belongs to Anita Blake. Marmee Noir's spirit returns to attack Anita and the Vampire Council. Marmee Noir's plan was to have a powerful were-tiger impregnate Anita and then to possess the unborn infant, but her plans shift to her taking over Anita's body or kill her in the process.

Hit List

Harlequin assist Marmee Noir in this task...

Kiss the Dead

When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, Anita tries to find her. Anita faced with something she’s never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people —kids, grandparents, soccer moms— all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master.

David Bishop: Fiends of the Eastern Front Trilogy

Operation Vampyr: Fiends of the Eastern Front Series, Book 1

During World War II, an idealistic young German soldier Hans Vollmer joins the front on the eve of the invasion of Russia, unaware that darker things than the enemy stalk the battlefields. When he is saved from a Russian attack by a Rumanian platoon, led by the mysterious Lord Constanta, his relief is short-lived. Klaus, Hans' brother, a pilot, wonders why the Rumanian pilots' canopies are black. How can they see? Ralf, Hans' brother in the Panzer division, finds dead Russians with bite marks on their necks. Hans of the Infantry sees wisps of smoke rise up and kill attacking Russian soldiers. What's going on? Why do they never see the Rumanians during the day? Why do the Russian dead wear expressions of complete terror? Why are their bodies drained of blood? What unholy bargains has the Fuhrer made in order to win this war?

Blood Red Army: Fiends of the Eastern Front Series, Book 2

Russian casualties are dying to get back into the war... Leningrad 1942. Winter has halted the Nazi invasion of Russia, but the city is still besieged by German troops. Red Army soldiers and civilians are starving to death, but they refuse to surrender. As night falls on Leningrad, the Russians are horrified to see their comrades rising from the dead to join the attack against them.One of the bloodiest conflicts in World War II is the backdrop for all-out zombie war as Lord Constanta and his elite cadre of Rumanian vampyr warriors continue to sow unholy terror among the allies.

Twilight of the Dead: Fiends of the Eastern Front Series, Book 3

A bloody fight for the future of all mankind is about to begin! April, 1945: Retreating German troops mount a valiant rearguard action against the mighty Red Army. It is only a matter of time before Berlin falls, especially as the Rumanian vampyr have switched sides to be allies with the Russian forces. German soldiers Hans and Rolf Vollmer know the war is lost, but they believe something more important is at stake. Unless Lord Constanta and his undead army are stopped, the vampyr plan to enslave all humans will succeed. Soldiers from each side must put aside their mutual hatred to target the true enemy: Constanta and his vampyr. The final chapter in the terrifying Fiends of the Eastern Front trilogy. Also available in this series: Operation Vampyr, Blood Red Army.

Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story

Adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, told through the eyes of the vampire Claudia, who was just a little girl when she was turned by the vampire Lestat. Though she spends many years of happiness with her two vampire fathers, she gradually grows discontent with their insistence upon treating her like a little girl, even though she has lived as long as any mortal man...and her lust to kill is certainly no less than theirs...

Stephenie Meyer: Midnight sun

Retelling of Twilight from Edward Cullen's perspective.

Midnight Sun Partial Draft

Stephenie Meyer: The Twilight Saga

Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)

Bella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington. There she meets the mysterious and beautiful Edward Cullen. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear.

New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)

Bella and Edward’s love face new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi.

Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3)

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob --- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death…

Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)

To be in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of  two tribes hangs.

Whitley Strieber: The Hunger

Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse, an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent demise, Miriam sets out in serach of a new partner, one who can quench her thirst for love and withstand the test of time. She finds it in the beautiful Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young scientist who may hold the secret to immortality. But one thing stands between the intoxicating Miriam Blaylock and the object of her desire: Dr. Tom Haver...and he's about to realize that love and death to hand in hand.

Anne Rice: Pandora

Pandoratell the story of her life. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.

Anne Rice, Vittorio the Vampire: New Tales of the Vampires

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures. But Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.

Simon Clarck: Vampirrhic

In a small, isolated town, people are affected by a condition that leaves them in a coma unless they consume blood. Then a terminally ill man plans an act of vengeance: to set the dead against the living, so that the whole world might experience the misery the townspeople have endured for years.

Dr. David Leppington returns to the small, sleepy town that bears his family name in order to visit with his beloved Uncle George whom he hasn't seen in a couple of decades. He checks into the town's only hotel, run by the beautiful but bizarre Electra Charnwood, and meets up with Bernice and the sinister strongman Jack Black. Dear crazy-as-a-loon Uncle George tells David that he is heir to the Leppington legacy. David refuses to believe this whacky tale but soon learns that his uncle might be right when he, Electra, Jack, and Bernice find themselves thrown together to fight the bloodthirsty creatures lurking in the tunnels under the town...

Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian

A diabolic fraternity - the Order of the Dragon - is eternally opposed by a sodality of descendants of janissaries, the Crescent Guard.

Exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor,". They plunge her into a world she never dreamed of, a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.

Kim Newman: The Bloody Red Baron

It is 1918 and Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Diogenes Club is at the heart of British Intelligence and Charles Beauregard and his protégé Edwin Winthrop go head-to-head with a lethal vampire flying machine: the Bloody Red Baron.

Kim Newman: Anno Dracula

Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. An alternate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of Great Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders.

Anne Rice: The Vampire Chronicles

Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century...

Interview with the Vampire
Having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind in Paris. 

 

The Vampire Lestat 

Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years' sleep,  and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions.  And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence. We now follow Lestat through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality.  And who, more and more, engages our sympathy until he stands revealed as a questing romantic, a vampire-hero with his own strange and passionate courage and morality.

The Queen of the Damned
Akasha, the queen of the damned, once the queen of the Nile, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat...

 

The Tale of the Body Thief
Lestat is alone. Suddenly all his "life" is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence. He's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss. 

 

Memnoch the Devil
Having survived his near-fatal reacquaintance with human mortality, Lestat is recruited by the biblical Devil, Memnoch, to help fight a cruel and negligent God. A retelling of the Creation story from the point of view of the fallen angel, who blames his damnation on his refusal to accept human suffering as part of God's divine plan.

The Vampire Armand
15th-century Constantinople, Armand is sold to a Venetian artist and vampire...

 

Merrick
Louis is obsessed with raising the ghost of Claudia. Vampire David Talbot lobbies an octoroon of exceptional beauty, Merrick, to call Claudia's spirit and slake Louis's guilt. But Merrick's voodoo can turn the toughest vampire into a marionette...

Blood and Gold
A proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires. Through his eyes we see the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living among mortals, and giving his heart to the great master Botticelli, to the courtesan Bianca, and to the young apprentice Armand.

Blackwood Farm
All his life, Quinn has been haunted by Goblin, a doppelgänger no one else can see. But Goblin is real, and he is becoming maliciously tangible, strengthened by the blood that Quinn unwillingly drinks. Quinn's only hope of liberation is to find the legendary vampire Lestat. But Lestat has vowed to destroy any vampire who sets foot in New Orleans...

Blood Canticle
Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion with Memnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love.

Peter Tremayne: Dracula Lives! trilogy

Dracula Unborn

A document is discovered in mysterious circumstances: written by Mircea, son of Dracula, it tells of the monstrous power of the Undead and how he came to scourge the living for centuries.

The Revenge of Dracula

An enigmatic jade figurine brings nightmares to its owner, Upton Welsford. then the woman he loves seems possessed. How does the ancient relic connect him with the Vampire's quest for immortality?

Dracula, My Love

Following the death of her lover, governess Morag MacLeod travels to Transylvania where she is employed by the evil Count. Soon she is under his spell and must choose between love and life itself.

Stephen King: Salem's Lot

Stephen King's second novel, Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness.

Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to 'Salem's Lot, a small New England town, hoping to cast out his own devils. And found instead a new unspeakable horror.

A stranger with a secret as old as evil had also come to the Lot...

All would be changed forever: Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test; and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare.

Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written.

Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Indiana‚ 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his dying mother's bedside. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. Gifted with his legendary height‚ strength‚ and skill with an ax‚ Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.