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Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.
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J. H. Rosny Aîné: The Young Vampire

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A London girl is possessed by an extra-dimensional entity which mutates her body and turns her into a living vampire. 

Erica Orloff: Blood Son

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Elizabeth Martin was on a wild-goose chase halfway around the world to save him from madness. She didn't believe a word of his cryptic e-mail about vampires and drinking blood. Nor did she believe the drunkard who spoke of vampires ruling the small Czech village where he was last seen. Until she was put in contact with a mysterious Dhampir--the offspring of a vampire and a human. Reputed mercenaries who'll do anything--or betray anyone--for a price. Elizabeth takes an instant disliking to Josef Darecky. He's too edgy, intense and moody...and he arouses desires that could compromise her mission. But he's also the only man who can save her brother, who is half-turned already. And, as she forms an unlikely bond with the half-blood mercenary, she senses that only by trusting him--and winning his trust--can the vampires be fully destroyed....

Fred Saberhagen: The Dracula Series

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The Dracula Tape

Count Dracula tells his own version of his fateful journey to England in 1891, presenting a surprising revision to the well-known tale.










A Coldness In the Blood, Fred Saberhagen, The Dracula Series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



The Holmes-Dracula File

Sherlock Holmes faces a terrible crisis: a ring of criminal masterminds has threatened to loose thousands of plague-infected rats into the streets of London. Meanwhile a lone killer sows the city of corpses, drained of blood to the last drop.









A Coldness In the Blood, Fred Saberhagen, The Dracula Series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels

An Old Friend of the Family

The Southerland family left the old world to start anew in America, but little did they know that a blood-feud, older than history itself, would follow them through the generations to come. Kate Southerland, the first born of the latest generation of Southerlands, has been murdered, but she is not dead. Her little brother, Johnny, has also vanished, a severed, bloody finger the only clue. But the Southerlands have no clue what they've fallen into. Their enemy is no mortal madman, but the undying mistress of evil enchantment, Morgan Le Fay, and the Southerlands are not her true target. She seeks to do battle with their protector, the only man who is capable of saving this mortal family from a war they've never realized was waged.




A Coldness In the Blood, Fred Saberhagen, The Dracula Series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels


Thorn

The immortal Count Dracula, Vlad Tepes Prince of Wallachia, hunts the murderous art thieves who have stolen the portrait of his lost love. But the thieves are after more than art. From the Master Vampire they would steal the very secrets of life and death








A Coldness In the Blood, Fred Saberhagen, The Dracula Series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels




Dominion

When two ancient, ruthless beings, locked in a struggle for the ultimate magic Weapon, bring their blood feud to New York, Vlad Tepes races to hide the coveted weapon.








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A Matter of Taste

After more than a decade, the Chicago-based Southerland family again finds itself involved with the 500-year-old fiend who loved their great-great-grandmother in Bram Stoker's original story. Finding the Count (now known as Uncle Matthew) poisoned and comatose in his upscale condo, John Southerland and his fiancee try to nurse him to health while defending the apartment against various living and "undead" foes. They also discover a tape-recorded autobiography telling of the Count's early bloodsucking days and his encounters with 15th-century legends Cesare and Lucretia Borgia, who may be masterminding the current attack.





A Coldness In the Blood, Fred Saberhagen, The Dracula Series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels




A Question of Time

Sixty years after Conservation Corps worker Jake Rezner disappeared without a trace into the Grand Canyon. Private detective Joe Keogh is hired to locate a missing girl in that area and stumbles upon an ancient mystery.








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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire

A seance held in an aristocratic London home goes horribly awry when one of the undead nosferatu appear. The resulting chaos leaves one of the fraudulent spiritualists dead, Sherlock Holmes missing, and Dr. Watson alone and mystified. With time running out, Watson has no choice but to summon the only one who might be able to help: Holmes' vampire cousin, Prince Dracula.






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A Sharpness on the Neck

In 1790s France, Philip Radcliffe, an illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin, befriends Vlad Dracula, thereby incurring the enmity of Vlad's brother, Radu. Two hundred years later, a Radcliffe descendant and his bride are kidnapped and imprisoned by one Mr. Graves. For their own protection, he says. In fact, Radu is on the prowl again, and the Dracula version of a family feud has caught up with the young couple.








A Coldness In the Blood, Fred Saberhagen, The Dracula Series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novelsA Coldness In the Blood

Matthew Maule has seen many horrific things in his five hundred years as one of the most powerful vampires in the world. But even his formidable talents cannot predict the unthinkable acts about to occur within his own home. When the vampire Dickon and his human partner appear in the middle of the night frightened for their lives, Matthew offers them protection. They carry with them a small Egyptian statue of great value and many secrets. By morning, Matthew has woken from a mysterious trance to discover that Dickon’s human friend has been brutally murdered, the vampire has gone missing, and their statue has been smashed to pieces. Matthew has also made a dangerous new enemy, one who possesses strength even Matthew may be no match for. For the statue is no ordinary artifact, but one of six replicas. However, only one contains a gem in the center, a stone of unimaginable magical power that could spell the end of humanity if it ever fell in the wrong hands.

Michael Cadnum: The Judas Glass

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Richard Stirling is a youngish lawyer with a comfortable life and a disintegrating marriage when he cuts his hand on a mysterious antique mirror. The injury gives him an abnormal sensitivity to his surroundings, the first symptom of a nascent vampirism that consumes him after his accidental death. Liberated from the tunnel vision of his mortality, Richard finds himself intoxicated with a new appreciation of the living world. He resurrects his murdered mistress, Rebecca, to share the wonders of his strange existence. But their superhuman awareness only drives home how unnatural their unlife is, and Richard determines to reacquire the mirror and regain his humanity.

Barbara Hambly: Renfield: Slave of Dracula

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When Dracula imposes himself on Renfield's deteriorated mind, he, bound to an active purpose, becomes yet more lucid. When Dracula orders him to kill Van Helsing, he isn't strong enough to refuse, but on the journey from London to Transylvania, he develops the strength to resist the count, find allies, and eventually retrace his journey back from lunacy to sanity.

Richard Matheson: I Am Legend

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A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into vampire. Only Robert Neville appears to be immune to this disease. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because, now, he is different from everyone else.

Poppy Z. Brite: Lost Souls

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Zillah, Molochai and Twig visit New Orleans. There the vampire Zillah impregnates an adolescent girl. Fifteen years later the young boy, Nothing, who lives with adoptive parents, discovers the truth of his heritage. Infatuated by the music of a band, Lost Souls, Nothing is determined to find them. He runs away from home and meets up with Zillah, Molochai and Twig. Together they seek out Nothing's favorite band, Lost Souls. Both vampiric and human come together, first in Missing Mile, then in New Orleans.

Brian Lumley: Necroscope series


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Necroscope

A terrible evil is growing in the Balkan mountains of Rumania. Long buried, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge.
The vampire's human tool is Boris Dragosani, part of a Soviet spy agency. Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the skills of the necromancer, gives him the ability to rip secrets from the mind of the dead.
Actually Dragosani works not for Ferenczy's freedom but he wants rule the world with knowledge raped from the dead.
His only opponent is Harry Koegh, champion of the dead and the living. To protect Harry, the dead will do anything. Even rise from their graves...


Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels





Vamphyri!

Imbued with a vampire's powers before his birth, Yulian  Bovescu rules men's minds and bodies. In a secluded English village, he is secretly creating an army of vampiric monsters. He plots his takeover of the world.
Harry Keogh, the man who talks to the dead, lives on, more powerful than ever, to fight Yulian Bodescu.





Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



The Source

Russia's Ural Mountains hide a supernatural portal from which emerge vampires fully intent on ravaging mankind. Soviet scientists and spies, in a secret military base, study the portal.
Jazz Simmons, a British agent infiltrated and captured by the KGB, is sent through the portal. His last message tells the vampires are preparing a mass invasion.
Harry Keogh try to carry the human-vampire war to the vampire's own land. But his psychic power will be useless there.







Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels




Deadspeak

Deep in the Balkan mountains, rises the castle of the Ferenczy, once a stronghold of the Vamphyri. Janos Ferenczy, vampire and powerful and evil magician, has risen from his ages-long sleep... thirsty for blood...








Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



Deadspawn

A maniac brutally murderes young women with a vampiric ferocity. Harry Koegh is asked to solve the crimes by the spirits of the victims.
Harry makes an alliance with Faethor Ferenczy, long-dead 'father' of the world's vampires, who betrayed his own kind. But the cost reveals itself terrible: Harry's very humanity is under attack from the vampire evil coiled in his mind.





Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels


Blood Brothers

The vampires have been vanquished by Harry Keogh. Nathan and Nestor, secret twin sons of Harry and a gypsy woman, were children when their father sacrificed himself to save mankind.
Yet there are cruel vampires still. When Nathan and Nestor are men these merciless killers attack.
 have few of Harry Keogh's .
Torn from each other by battle, the sons of Harry which have inherited some of his miraculous powers,  journey across the vampire world, each seeking the other, trying to destroy terrible monsters and searching a missing woman... they both love.



Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



The Last Aerie

Nestor and Nathan are brothers, but they are very different. Nathan struggles against the vampires, while Nestor has become a Wamphyri Lord. Harry's sons have become the enemies. When they meet, one will surely die.







Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels


Bloodwars

Nestor has become the most horrifying blood sucking Wamphyi Lord! He and his companion, the beautiful Wratha the Risen, kill without mercy.
The battle between the brothers Nestor and Nathan mirrors the war between vampires and humans.
Nathan discovers a way to destroy the vampires forever. In the midst of a titanic battle, Nathan makes a desperate move that forever changes earth.





Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



The Lost Years Volume I

Harry Keogh, the world's greatest vampire hunter, is desperately searching for his wife and son, who disappeared in the midst of Harry's war against the undead monsters.
Harry does not realize that he has become a pawn in the battle between two powerful vampires. When one has killed the other, Harry will be the last to die.





Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels


Resurgence The Lost years Volume II

Harry Keogh has been searching for his wife and son. This obsession has left him open to influence by an ancient vampire, Radu. Buried in amber, Radu plans for his resurrection. He will destroy any vampire who might challenge his supremacy.
Harry needs help to fight Radu. But Harry is not without allies. E-Branch, the psychic spy organization, is worried about him. So is Harry's long-dead Ma, and the ancient prophet Nostradamus, whose centuries-old quatrain make eerie sense in the modern world.




Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels


Invaders

Two Lords and a Lady vampires arrive on an Earth full of defenseless humans. Though Harry Keogh is gone, the E-Branch move swiftly against the vampires.
Jake Cutter is running for his life through the streets of Turin when he vanishes, appearing moments later inside the "Harry's room" in E-Branch's London headquarters. Jake's dreams are very strange, filled with the voices of dead, including the voice of Harry Keogh.
If Jake is the inheritant of Harry, he has to learn fast how to control his powers. E-Branch is about to go head-to-head with Malinari the Mind, a powerful vampire Lord.



Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



Defilers

Jake Cutter is hunting down the Sicilian mobsters who killed his girlfriend. A dead vampire named Korath is also stuck inside his head.
The monsters descend upon the Greek island of Krassos. Mankind needs Jake returning to E-Branch once more. 



 




Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels


Avengers 

A Lord and Lady of the Wamphyri run from E-Branch and Jake Cutter in a ship. The few beings still living on board will no longer be human.
Korath, the vampire who lurks in Jake Cutter's mind, is determined to gain control over him. To win this struggle Jake must confide in the head of E-Branch.
A mysterious sleeping sickness-with a vampiric taint-slowly spreads among the population of Great Britain.



Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



The touch 

Malevolent aliens, the Mordri Three decide to become so evil that God himself will have to stop them. The Three have already destroyed an entire solar system and most of their own race. Their next targets: mankind and Earth. On Earth, Scott St. John is struck by a golden arrow of light, a fragment of the soul of Harry Keogh...







Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels





Harry and the Pirates 

Three new long short stories about Harry and his supernatural adventures. 








Brian Lumley: Necroscope series, Vampire novels, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels




The Plague-Bearer 

Harry Keogh searches still for his missing wife and child. But his heart now lies in Edinburgh with Bonnie Jean, a beautiful Scottish werewolf. 
From Sicily, the diabolical Francezci brothers plot ancient evil schemes. The brothers infect a Mafia thug him with an engineered plague that even a werewolf could never survive. They offer him the antidote if he successfully contaminates the wolf-pack.

John Ajvide Lindqvist: Let the Right One In

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Oskar, a bullied 12-year-old schoolboy living in a Stockholm suburb, notices that his next-door neighbor, Eli, has some peculiar traits: Eli doesn't go to school, only comes out at night and smells like death warmed over. Eventually, Eli reveals she's a vampire, stuck permanently in childhood, who survives by feeding off the neighborhood lowlifes. One victim had bullied Oskar... What should Oskar do, especially when Eli is his friend as much as anyone else?

James Malcolm Rymer: Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood



Originally published as a series of cheap pamphlets known as "penny dreadfuls" (1845–47), until 1847, when it first appeared in book form.

Flora Bannersworth is attacked in her own room in the middle of the night. The discovery of two small bite marks on Flora’s neck leads Mr Marchdale, an old friend of the family, to the conclusion that she was bitten by a vampire. While Flora recovers, her brother Henry and Mr Marchdale begin their hunt for the vampire. Their suspicions soon fall on the mysterious Sir Francis Varney, who has just bought an old abbey near Bannersworth Hall, and who bears an uncanny resemblance to Marmaduke Bannersworth, a long-dead ancestor of the family.

Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula, which it heavily influenced.

Paul Féval: The Vampire Countess

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Written in 1856 - over 40 years before Bram Stoker's Dracula - The Vampire Countess is one of three classic vampire stories penned by Paul Féval.
The particular gift of Countess Addhema, a Hungarian Countess, was to be reborn beautiful and young every time she could apply to the hideous bareness of her skull a living head of hair, a scalp, torn from the head of a living victim. This was why her tomb was full of the skulls of young women.
Addhema takes up lodgings in Paris in the company of a secret society of operatives who appear to be scheming to perpetrate large scale crimes or to foment political unrest.

Charlaine Harris: The Southern Vampire Mysteries / The Sookie Stackhouse Novels


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Dead Until Dark

Sookie is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She lives with her grandmother and has an older brother. Sookie falls in love with a Civil War veteran vampire, Bill Compton. Several murders occur in town, and Bill becomes a suspect...






Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels





Living Dead in Dallas

Sookie co-worker is killed. Then she comes face-to-face with a beastly creature which gives her a poisonous lashing. Vampires suck the poison, saving her life. One of the vampires asks for a favor: Sookie uses her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire in Dallas.





Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



Club Dead

Sookie vampire boyfriend, Bill, has been distant lately. Then Bill announces that he is going on a business trip. After a werewolf tries to abduct Sookie at work, Bill's boss, Eric, tells her that Bill has been kidnapped by a sexy vamp. Eric wants Sookie's help in getting Bill back.







Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels




Dead to the World

Sookie takes care of vampire Eric after some witches erase his memory. She aids Eric in their struggle against a coven of witches seeking to take over control of his area.









Fairy Dust (A touch of dead)

Sookie investigates the murder of a local fairy named Claude. At Claude's home she finds three people bound up. Everyone involved is associated with Hooligans, an exotic dancing establishment where Claude dances. Using her telepathy, Sookie interviews each suspect to discover the guilty party...


Dracula Night (A touch of dead)

Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novelsEric's vampire bar, Fangtasia, throws a party each year in honor of the Count Dracula. According to legend, the Count will choose one lucky party from all over the world to grace with his presence. Sookie Stackhouse is the only human at the party... 


One Word Answer (A touch of dead)

Sookie finds out the fate of her rarely mentioned cousin Hadley who ran away years ago and who Sookie has had no contact with. Sookie finally learns that Hadley, a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans, was murdered during a cemetery ritual.


Lucky (A touch of dead)

An insurance agent named asks Sookie to investigate a break-in at his office. He is worried that someone will discover that he uses magic spells to protect both his property and his clients. Sookie discovers that the break-in was just the insurance agent's daughter and her boyfriend, a recently-turned vampire. Sookie learns that two other agents in town have had break-ins...

Gift Wrap (A touch of dead)

Sookie, alone at Christmas, takes a walk through the woods. She comes upon a gravely injured werewolf. She opens her home to him and attempts to nurse him back to health. But he may actually be a wolf in sheep’s clothing... 


Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



Dead as a Doornail

When Sookie sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther. A sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter.







Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels






Definitely Dead

Someone doesn’t want Sookie looking too deeply into Hadley’s past...







Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



All Together Dead

Sookie attends an important central U.S. vamp summit on the shores of Lake Michigan as a "human geiger counter" for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire queen of a Louisiana weakened by Katrina and who will be tried during the event for murdering her king. Sookie knows the queen is innocent, but she's hardly prepared for other shocking murders, not to mention protests by the Fellowship of the Sun, a right-wing antivampire movement.





Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels 

From Dead to Worse

After the Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everythig is changing. Sookie Stackhouse is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend, Quinn, has gone missing.








Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels





Dead and Gone

The Louisiana town of Bon Temps is about to be rocked with some big supernatural news: like the vampires before them, the Were people —humans with the ability to change into animals— are about to reveal themselves to humanity.  






Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels




Two Blondes (Death's excellent vacation)

Sookie and Pam go to Tunica, Mississippi for what Sookie had hoped to be a simple vacation but is unsurprised that they also have to perform an errand at the request of Victor. They need to see if Michael, a vampire owner of the strip club Blonde, would defect to serve Castro, the vampire king in charge of Sookie and Pam's area. But Pam is poisoned...  





Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



Dead in the Family

When Claudine's triplet, Claude, appears at her doorstep, Sookie reluctantly allows him to move in. The government threatens two-natures with mandatory registration, and tensions run high in the local Were pack. Then Eric's maker, a Roman named Appius Livius Ocella, arrives without warning, bringing along Alexei Romanov, whom he rescued from the Bolsheviks and turned into a vampire.  






Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



Small-Town Wedding

Sookie accompanies her shapeshifting boss, Sam, to his brother’s wedding in Texas, where happily-ever-after seems very far away....


Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



Dead Reckoning

Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.







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Deadlocked

A young girl has died at a vampire party - and it looks as though her lover, Eric, might be responsible...









Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels




Playing Possum  (An apple for the creature)

Sookie brings enough birthday cupcakes for her nephew’s entire class but finds she’s one short when the angry ex-boyfriend of the school secretary shows up.









Charlaine Harris, Southern Vampire Mysteries, Vampire books, Vampire Narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic novels, Dark fiction, Dark novels, Horror fiction, Horror novels



If I Had A Hammer (Home improvement)

Quiana is working for Tara as her babysitter, since she has given birth to her twins Robbie and Sara. Quiana is a psychic. She sees visions via touch, has lost both her parents tragically, and as Sookie notices, Quiana saw the future for Tara’s twins yet kept it to herself when asked about it.