“What are the best Vampire books?” We looked at 287 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
Last year, in the run-up to Halloween, we looked at the Scariest Books Of All-Time. This year we decided to look at individual genres that make up the horror genera.
The top 42 books, all appearing on 3 or more, “Best Vampire” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The books include images, descriptions, and links. The remaining 200+ books, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
For more Best Horror and Scary Book lists, see below!
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Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
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Schuyler Van Alen is confused about what is happening to her. Her veins are starting to turn blue, and she’s starting to crave raw meat. Soon, her world is thrust into an intricate maze of secret societies and bitter intrigue. Schuyler has never been a part of the trendy crowd at her prestigious New York private school. Now, all of a sudden, Jack Force, the most popular guy in school, is showing an interest in her. And when one of the popular girls is found dead, Schuyler and Jack are determined to get to the bottom of it. Schuyler wants to find out the secrets of the mysterious Blue Bloods. But is she putting herself in danger? Melissa de la Cruz’s vampire mythology, set against the glitzy backdrop of New York City, is a juicy and intoxicating read.
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King Verence, in a fit of enlightened democracy and ebullient goodwill, invites Uberwald’s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But everyone knows you don’t invite vampires into your house—unless you want permanent guests. Once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving . . . ever. As the Lancre living are about to discover, there’s only one way to fight. Go for the throat, or as the vampyres themselves say . . . Carpe Jugulum!
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“An evil legacy comes to life in this classic and ultimately human novel about believable vampires, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons. Children of the Night will take you to a place that no one knows―yet all of us fear.
In a desolate orphanage in post-Communist Romania, a desperately ill infant is given the wrong blood transfusion―and flourishes rather than dies. For immunologist Kate Neuman, the infant’s immune system may hold the key to cure cancer and AIDS. Kate adopts the baby and takes him home to the States. But baby Joshua holds a link to an ancient clan and their legendary leader―Vlad Tsepes, the original Dracula – whose agents kidnap the child. Against impossible odds and vicious enemies– both human and vampire – Kate and her ally, Father Mike O’Rourke, steal into Romania to get her baby back.”
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Now, in a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marks-a former 60 Minutes producer-sinks his satirical teeth into twenty-first- century media. In Fangland, Evangeline Harker is an employee of the legendary TV news magazine The Hour. Sent on assignment to Transylvania, she delivers more than a story when mysterious e-mails, coffins, and a creepy guy named Torgu descend on the New York office. This darkly funny tale will appeal to vampire and horror aficionados as well as anyone who’s fed up with what passes for “news” today.
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“Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the night–whatever you call him–Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he can’t see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he can’t get his big ol’ butt off the ground.
What’s worse, after more than a century of being undead, he’s watched his neighborhood truly go to hell–and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X . Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules he’d better confine himself to white victims–or else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isn’t kidding, Malice burns Jules’s house to the ground.
With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coast– Jules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him . . . without getting a stake through the heart. It’s enough to give a man the blues.”
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“So what if he’s a bit older and usually regards a human female as dinner, not a dinner date? Yes, Roman Draganesti is a vampire, but a vampire who lost one of his fangs sinking his teeth into something he shouldn’t have. Now he has one night to find a dentist before his natural healing abilities close the wound, leaving him a lop–sided eater for all eternity.
Things aren’t going well for Shanna Whelan either…After witnessing a gruesome murder by the Russian mafia, she’s next on their hit list. And her career as a dentist appears to be on a downward spiral because she’s afraid of blood. When Roman rescues her from an assassination attempt, she wonders if she’s found the one man who can keep her alive. Though the attraction between them is immediate and hot, can Shanna conquer her fear of blood to fix Roman’s fang? And if she does, what will prevent Roman from using his fangs on her…”
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“Miss Harriet Brandt, daughter of a mad scientist and a voodoo priestess, comes of age and leaves her home in Jamaica for the first time, travelling to Europe. Beautiful and talented, Harriet will gain the affections of many of the men and women she meets and a bright future seems assured for her.
But there is something strange about Harriet. Everyone she gets close to seems to sicken or die. Doctor Phillips has a theory: the blood of the vampire flows through Harriet’s veins, and she is draining the life out of those she loves. Are the misfortunes that seem to follow Harriet merely coincidence? Or is she really afflicted with the curse of the vampire?”
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“Ernessa is a vampire.
At an exclusive girls’ boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy’s friendship with their new and disturbing classmate. Ernessa is an enigmatic, moody presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes.
Around her swirl dark rumors, suspicions, and secrets as well as a series of ominous disasters. As fear spreads through the school and Lucy isn’t Lucy anymore, fantasy and reality mingle until what is true and what is dreamed bleed together into a waking nightmare that evokes with gothic menace the anxieties, lusts, and fears of adolescence. And at the center of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it: Is Ernessa really a vampire? Or has the narrator trapped herself in the fevered world of her own imagining?”
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“Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe’s brooding thoughts of her dying mother.
Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?”
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“The story begins in the tiny Hungarian hamlet of Krajeck, where nine-year-old Andre Palatazin awaits the return of his father from an unspecified—but clearly dangerous—mission. The man who finally returns is no longer Andre’s father—is no longer, in fact, a man. Pursued by this undead entity, Andre and his mother barely escape with their lives. Decades later, Andre—now Andy—Palatazin is a homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department, and spends his days dealing with the quotidian terrors of a large metropolis. His life takes a darker turn when the demonic forces he first encountered in Krajeck arrive in L.A., led by an ancient vampire known as The Master. The Master’s plan: to overrun the city and use it as a stepping-stone toward wider, ultimately global, domination.
They Thirst marks the earliest appearance of McCammon’s penchant for epic, wide-angled narratives. With the unobtrusive ease of a natural storyteller, the author propels a wide assortment of vividly created characters through an apocalyptic scenario that combines gritty urban realism with a powerful portrait of supernatural forces at large in the modern world. The result is a genuine classic of the genre, a novel that is as fresh and absorbing today as it was more than thirty years ago.”
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He’s Baaaaack~~~~ after 100 years of neglect, the potboiler Penny Dreadful Varney The Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood returns in this innovative critical edition to entertain a whole new generation of readers.
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“””Something is murdering my men.””
Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims.
When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the men find something that’s both powerful and terrifying. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on folklore–who just happens to be Jewish–to shed some light on the mysterious happenings. And unbeknownst to anyone, there is another visitor on his way–a man who awoke from a nightmare and immediately set out to meet his destiny.”
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An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival,The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.
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The progenitor of the romantic vampire genre.
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“Who’s been killing the vampires of London, tearing open their coffins to let in lethal sunshine as they sleep–and then drinking their blood?
“”Hambly’s examination of vampirism is beautifully detailed, with a fine realistic background and strong sense of atmosphere…Will give Anne Rice a run for her money.””–Publishers Weekly”
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You don?t just kill vampires for the money?you do it for the satisfaction. You do it because somebody has to. You do it no matter what it does to you. And you drink?a lot. Some jobs just suck. This one bites.
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“It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. 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.
Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London.”
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“Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.
Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that’s where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all that changes when a beautiful undead redhead walks through the door…and proceeds to rock Tommy’s life — and afterlife — in ways he never thought possible.”
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There hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake in years. Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts for a minute. But then the vampires found her . . . Now, chained and imprisoned in a once-beautiful decaying mansion, alone but for the vampire, Constantine, shackled next to her, Sunshine realizes that she must call on her own hidden strength if she is to survive. But Constantine is not what she expected of a vampire, and soon Sunshine discovers that it is he who needs her, more than either of them know.
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An epic battle for survival begins between man and vampire in The Strain—the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy from one of Hollywood’s most inventive storytellers and a critically acclaimed thriller writer. Guillermo del Toro, the genius director of the Academy Award-winning Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy, and Hammett Award-winning author Chuck Hogan have joined forces to boldly reinvent the vampire novel. Brilliant, blood-chilling, and unputdownable, The Strain is a nightmare of the first order.
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Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates. This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usual learning and acumen, and with remarkable directness and condensation. It will form but one volume of the series of that extraordinary man’s collected papers. As I publish the case, in this volume, simply to interest the “laity,” I shall forestall the intelligent lady, who relates it, in nothing; and after due consideration, I have determined, therefore, to abstain from presenting any précis of the learned Doctor’s reasoning, or extract from his statement on a subject which he describes as “involving, not improbably, some of the profoundest arcana of our dual existence, and its intermediates.” I was anxious on discovering this paper, to reopen the correspondence commenced by Doctor Hesselius, so many years before, with a person so clever and careful as his informant seems to have been.
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The story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself.
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“Harry Keogh is the man who can talk to the dead, the man for whom every grave willingly gives up its secrets, the one man who knows how to travel effortlessly through time and space to destroy the vampires that threaten all humanity.
In Necroscope, Harry is startled to discover that he is not the only person with unusual mental powers–Britain and the Soviet Union both maintain super-secret, psychically-powered espionage organizations. But Harry is the only person who knows about Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire long buried in the mountains of Romania–still horribly alive, in undeath–and Thibor’s insane “”offspring,”” Boris Dragosani, who rips information from the souls of the dead in a terrible, ever-lasting form of torture.”
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In Missing Mile, North Carolina, in search of supple young flesh and thirsting for blood, three beautiful vampires–Molochai, Twig, and Zillah–follow vampires Nothing and Ann on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans.
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First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she’s killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can’t seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.
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Elena Gilbert is a high school golden girl, used to getting what she wants. And who she wants. But when the boy she’s set her sights on—the handsome and haunted Stefan—isn’t interested, she’s confused. She could never know the real reason Stefan is struggling to resist her: Stefan is a vampire, and Elena’s in danger just by being around him. What’s more, Stefan’s dark, dangerous vampire brother Damon has just arrived in town. And wherever Damon goes, trouble always follows.
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Isabella Swan’s move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella’s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. 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 Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife-between desire and danger.Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
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Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological ― rather than supernatural. He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from labs rather than committing murder. Weyland is a monster who must form an uneasy empathy with his prey in order to survive, and The Vampire Tapestry is a story wholly unlike any you’ve heard before.
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Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with an unbreakable bond to the earth’s magic. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa’s best friend, makes her a Dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making her one of them. Rose and Lissa must navigate through this dangerous world, confront the temptation of forbidden romance, and never once let their guard down, lest the Strigoi make Lissa one of them forever.
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“The only purebred vampire left on the planet and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago. But when his most trusted fighter is killed—orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate—Wrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful female into another world.
Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasn’t there before, Beth Randall is helpless against the dangerously sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. His tales of the Brotherhood and blood frighten her. Yet his touch ignites a dawning new hunger—one that threatens to consume them both…”
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When St. Louis?s most powerful vampire comes to Anita Blake for help, she is faced with her greatest fear?a man capable of arousing in her a hunger strong enough to match his own.
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Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something’s amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. The hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet; nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade. York’s reasons for traversing the powerful Mississippi are to be none of Marsh’s concern—no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious York’s actions may prove. Not until the maiden voyage of Fevre Dream does Marsh realize that he has joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare—and humankind’s most impossible dream.
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“Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana—except for her “disability.” She can read minds. But she can’t hear a word that Bill Compton is thinking when he walks into her life—and then one of her coworkers is killed…
Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn’t such a bright idea.”
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To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history….Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to “My dear and unfortunate successor,” and 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.The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself-to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed-and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe.
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“Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.
An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.
By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn…”
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“It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.
But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night. . . .Sweeping top honors at film festivals all over the globe, director Tomas Alfredsson’s film of Let the Right One In has received the same kind of spectacular raves that have been lavished on the book. American and Swedish readers of vampire fiction will be thrilled!
Following the success in Sweden, this movie was remade starring Kodi Smit Mcpheem, Chloe Grace Moretz and Richard Jenkins under the new title Let Me In. The story has continued to reach new viewers in a London Musical and the book remains a vampire favorite among its readers.”
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Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
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Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.
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Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
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| 43 | 30 Days of Night | Steve Niles | Best Horror Novels |
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| 44 | A Hidden Fire (Elemental Mysteries, #1) | Elizabeth Hunter | Goodreads |
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| 45 | Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter | Seth Grahame-Smith | Carol Mckibben |
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| 46 | Beautiful Creatures | Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl | Cafe Mom |
| New Love Times | |||
| 47 | Bitten & Smitten | Michelle Rowen | Best Romance Books |
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| 48 | Black Sun Rising | C.S. Friedman | Best Fantasy Books |
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| 49 | Blood Oath | Christopher Farnsworth | Wikipedia |
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| 50 | Blood Price | Tanya Huff | Flashlight Worthy |
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| 51 | Carrion Comfort | Dan Simmons | Best Horror Novels |
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| 52 | Companions of the Night | Vivian Vande Velde | Best Romance Books |
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| 53 | Dark-Hunter Series | Sherrilyn Kenyon | Top Tenz |
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| 54 | Evermore: The Immortals | Alyson Noel | Cafe Mom |
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| 55 | Evernight | Claudia Gray | Best Romance Books |
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| 56 | Halfway to the Grave | Jeaniene Frost | Why To Read |
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| 57 | Hotel Transylvania | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | NPR |
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| 58 | House of Night | P. C. Cast | Best Fantasy Books |
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| 59 | Illuminate – A Gilded Wings Novel, Book One | Aimee Agresti | New Love Times |
| Cafe Mom | |||
| 60 | Impure: Resurrection | J. R. Bailey | The Best Fantasy Books |
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| 61 | Insatiable | Meg Cabot | She Knows |
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| 62 | La Morte Amoreuse | Théophile Gautier | The Guardian 2 |
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| 63 | Live Girls | Ray Garton | Goodreads |
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| 64 | Morrigan’s Cross (Circle Trilogy, #1) | Nora Roberts | Goodreads |
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| 65 | Night Pleasures | Sherrilyn Kenyon | Best Romance Books |
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| 66 | Queen of Kings | Maria Dahvana Headley | Barnes & Noble |
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| 67 | Sweetblood | Pete Hautman | Best Romance Books |
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| 68 | The Delicate Dependency | Michael Talbot | Wikipedia |
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| 69 | The Dresden Files | Jim Butcher | Best Fantasy Books 2 |
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| 70 | The Fate of Madame Cabanel | Eliza Lynn Linton | Wikipedia |
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| 71 | The Golden | Lucius Shepard | The Best Fantasy Books |
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| 72 | The House of the Vampire | George Sylvester Vi… | Best Fantasy Books |
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| 73 | The Last Vampire | Christopher Pike | Best Fantasy Books |
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| 74 | The Light at the End | John Skipp and Craig Spector | Wikipedia |
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| 75 | The Shake | Mel Nicolai | The Best Fantasy Books |
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| 76 | The Stress of Her Regard | Tim Powers | Wikipedia |
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| 77 | The Twilight Saga | Stephenie Meyer | Best Fantasy Books |
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| 78 | The Vampire Lestat | Anne Rice | Best Horror Novels |
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| 79 | Vampire Chronicles | Anne Rice | Best Fantasy Books 2 |
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| 80 | 13 Bullets (Laura Caxton, #1) | David Wellington | Goodreads |
| 81 | A Quick Bite (Argeneau #1) | Lynsay Sands | Goodreads |
| 82 | A Shade Of Vampire | Bella Forrest | Best Romance Books |
| 83 | A Touch Of Dead | CHARLAINE HARRIS | NPR |
| 84 | Acheron | Essential Vampire | |
| 85 | After Ninety Years | Milovan Glišić | Wikipedia |
| 86 | Alliance in Blood | Ariel Tachna | Spellbound Scribes |
| 87 | Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1) | Charlie Huston | Goodreads |
| 88 | Angel of Darkness | Tyler May | Spellbound Scribes |
| 89 | Angels’ Blood (Guild Hunter, #1) | Nalini Singh | Goodreads |
| 90 | Batman Apollo | Victor Pelevin | Wikipedia |
| 91 | Bewitched | Edith Wharton. | Wikipedia |
| 92 | Blind Man’s Wolf | Amelia Faulkner | Spellbound Scribes |
| 93 | Blood Blade | Marcus Pelegrimas | Barnes & Noble |
| 94 | Blood Promise | Essential Vampire | |
| 95 | Blood Shadows: Blackthorn Book One | Best Romance Books | |
| 96 | Blood Ties | TANYA HUFF | NPR |
| 97 | Blood Vice | Keith Melton | Barnes & Noble |
| 98 | Breaking Dawn | Stephenie Meyer | Best Romance Books |
| 99 | Cake (Blood Nation #1) | Derikica Snake | Spellbound Scribes |
| 100 | Cat and Bones from the Night Huntress series | Jeaniene Frost | BookBub Blog |
| 101 | Christabel | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Wikipedia |
| 102 | Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3) | Laurell K. Hamilton | Goodreads |
| 103 | Cirque Du Freak | Essential Vampire | |
| 104 | City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) | Cassandra Clare | Goodreads |
| 105 | Complete Vampire Chronicles | Anne Rice | Flashlight Worthy |
| 106 | Covenant with the Vampire (The Diaries of the Family Dracul, #1) | Jeanne Kalogridis | Goodreads |
| 107 | Cowboys and Vampires | Hank Edwards | Spellbound Scribes |
| 108 | Cronin’s Key | NR Walker | Spellbound Scribes |
| 109 | Dance in the Dark | Megan Derr | Spellbound Scribes |
| 110 | Dark Dance (Blood Opera Sequence, #1) | Tanith Lee | Goodreads |
| 111 | Dark Prince (Dark, #1) | Christine Feehan | Goodreads |
| 112 | Darkfever (Fever, #1) | Karen Marie Moning | Goodreads |
| 113 | Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, #1) | Kim Harrison | Goodreads |
| 114 | Deep Desire | ZA Maxfield | Spellbound Scribes |
| 115 | Denial | Adele Carrington | Cafe Mom |
| 116 | Der Vampir | Heinrich August Ossenfelder | Wikipedia |
| 117 | Dhampir (The Noble Dead Saga, Series 1, #1) | Barb Hendee | Goodreads |
| 118 | Die Braut von Korinth | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wikipedia |
| 119 | Doctors Wear Scarlet | Simon Raven | The Guardian |
| 120 | Dracula the Undead | Freda Warrington | Wikipedia |
| 121 | Dracula Unbound | Brian Wilson Aldiss | Best Fantasy Books |
| 122 | Draculas | Blake Crouch | Goodreads |
| 123 | Echopraxia | Peter Watts | The Best Fantasy Books |
| 124 | Ellen Schreiber’s Vampire Kisses series | Wikipedia | |
| 125 | Empire V | Victor Pelevin | Wikipedia |
| 126 | Enter, Night | Michael Rowe | Barnes & Noble |
| 127 | Eternally Yours | STEPHEN JUERS | NPR |
| 128 | Fated (Dark Protectors, #1) | Rebecca Zanetti | Goodreads |
| 129 | First Drop of Crimson (Night Huntress World, #1) | Jeaniene Frost | Goodreads |
| 130 | For the Blood is the Life | F. Marion Crawford | Wikipedia |
| 131 | From Afar | Ava Marsh | Spellbound Scribes |
| 132 | Full Moon Rising (Riley Jenson Guardian #1) | Keri Arthur | Goodreads |
| 133 | Gil’s All Fright Diner | A. Lee Martinez | Goodreads |
| 134 | Guardians Of The Night | Alan Russell | Best Fantasy Books 2 |
| 135 | Guildhunter Series | Top Tenz | |
| 136 | How to Be a Vampire | R. L. Stine | Wikipedia |
| 137 | Icarus | J. S. Chancellor | Best Romance Books |
| 138 | If Angels Burn (Darkyn #1) | Lynn Viehl | Goodreads |
| 139 | Immortality Bites | Michelle Rowen | Best Fantasy Books 2 |
| 140 | Immortality is the Suck | AM Riley | Spellbound Scribes |
| 141 | Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side | Best Romance Books | |
| 142 | Kiss of Midnight (Midnight Breed, #1) | Lara Adrian | Goodreads |
| 143 | Kiss of the Vampire (Creed, #1) | Nancy Baker | Goodreads |
| 144 | Knight of the Black Rose | James Lowder | Wikipedia |
| 145 | La Femme Immortelle | Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail | Wikipedia |
| 146 | Lady Christina | Mircea Eliade. | Wikipedia |
| 147 | Le Chevalier Ténèbre | Paul Féval | Wikipedia |
| 148 | Lenore | Gottfried August Bürger | Wikipedia |
| 149 | Lestat in The Vampire Chronicles | Anne Rice | BookBub Blog |
| 150 | Lilith | George MacDonald | Wikipedia |
| 151 | Lilith in the Circle trilogy | Nora Roberts | BookBub Blog |
| 152 | Little Dracula series | Martin Waddell & Joseph Wright | Wikipedia |
| 153 | Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron | Tom Holland | She Knows |
| 154 | Lord Ruthwen ou les vampires | Cyprien Bérard | Wikipedia |
| 155 | Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1) | Ilona Andrews | Goodreads |
| 156 | Manor | Karl Heinrich Ulrichs | Wikipedia |
| 157 | Merrick | Claire Cray | Spellbound Scribes |
| 158 | Midnight Predator | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | BuzzFeed |
| 159 | Midnight’s Daughter (Dorina Basarab, #1) | Karen Chance | Goodreads |
| 160 | Minion (Vampire Huntress, #1) | L.A. Banks | Goodreads |
| 161 | Modern Marvels – Viktoriana | Wayne Reinagel | Wikipedia |
| 162 | Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1) | Patricia Briggs | Goodreads |
| 163 | Natural Instincts | SJ Frost | Spellbound Scribes |
| 164 | New Moon | Essential Vampire | |
| 165 | Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs (Jane Jameson, #1) | Molly Harper | Goodreads |
| 166 | Night Huntress Series | Jeaniene Frost | Cristan Williams |
| 167 | Night Watch (Watch #1) | Sergei Lukyanenko | Goodreads |
| 168 | Night World series | L.J. Smith | Wikipedia |
| 169 | Nightwalker (Dark Days, #1) | Jocelynn Drake | Goodreads |
| 170 | Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Jaz Parks, #1) | Jennifer Rardin | Goodreads |
| 171 | Once Burned (Night Prince, #1) | Jeaniene Frost | Goodreads |
| 172 | One Grave at a Time (Night Huntress, #6) | Jeaniene Frost | Goodreads |
| 173 | Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal | Robert Aickman. | Wikipedia |
| 174 | Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires, #1) | Anne Rice | Goodreads |
| 175 | Payback | Jordan Castillo Price | Spellbound Scribes |
| 176 | Peeps | Scott Westerfeld | Wikipedia |
| 177 | Plain Fear: Forsaken | Leanna Ellis | She Knows |
| 178 | Queen of the Damned | Top Tenz | |
| 179 | Raphael (Vampires in America, #1) | D.B. Reynolds | Goodreads |
| 180 | Ravens Deep | Jane Jordan | Best Romance Books |
| 181 | Real Vampires Don’t Sparkle | Amy Fecteau | Spellbound Scribes |
| 182 | Real Vampires Have Curves (Glory St. Clair, #1) | Gerry Bartlett | Goodreads |
| 183 | Red Moon Rising, Malachi’s Moon; Craven Moon | BILLIE SUE MOSIMAN | NPR |
| 184 | Renfield: Slave of Dracula | Barbara Hambly | Wikipedia |
| 185 | Revelations in Black | Carl Jacobi. | Wikipedia |
| 186 | Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series | Wikipedia | |
| 187 | Saga of Darren Shan also known as the Cirque Du Freak series | Darren Shan. | Wikipedia |
| 188 | Samson’s Lovely Mortal (Scanguards Vampires, #1) | Tina Folsom | Goodreads |
| 189 | San Francisco Vampire Series | Christopher Moore | Cristan Williams |
| 190 | School for vampires series, | Jackie Niebisch | Wikipedia |
| 191 | Single White Vampire | Lynsay Sands | Best Romance Books |
| 192 | Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock, #1) | Faith Hunter | Goodreads |
| 193 | Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires, #1) | Chloe Neill | Goodreads |
| 194 | Some of Your Blood | Theodore Sturgeon | Goodreads |
| 195 | Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1) | Gail Carriger | Goodreads |
| 196 | Southern Comfort: Chandler’s Story | Best Romance Books | |
| 197 | Southern Vampire Mysteries | Top Tenz | |
| 198 | Spirit Sanguine | Lou Harper | Spellbound Scribes |
| 199 | Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) | Jim Butcher | Goodreads |
| 200 | Stripped with the Vampire | Jax Garren | Spellbound Scribes |
| 201 | Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, #1) | Richelle Mead | Goodreads |
| 202 | Suck It Up | BRIAN MEEHL | NPR |
| 203 | Suckers | Anne Billson | The Guardian |
| 204 | Sucks To Be Me | KIMBERLY PAULEY | NPR |
| 205 | Sunglasses After Dark (Sonja Blue, #1) | Nancy A. Collins | Goodreads |
| 206 | Tantalize | Cynthia Leitich Smith | Wikipedia |
| 207 | Thalaba the Destroyer | Robert Southey | Wikipedia |
| 208 | The 30 Days of Night | Essential Vampire | |
| 209 | The Awakening | L. J. Smith | Best Romance Books |
| 210 | The Beast Without | Christian Baines | Spellbound Scribes |
| 211 | The Blood Book Series | Tanya Huff | Cristan Williams |
| 212 | The Bloody Chamber | Angela Carter | Flashlight Worthy |
| 213 | The Blue Bloods series | Melissa de la Cruz | Wikipedia |
| 214 | The books I, Strahd, Memories of the Vampire | P.N. Elrod | Wikipedia |
| 215 | The Bunnicula series | Deborah Howe and James Howe | Wikipedia |
| 216 | The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires | Best Romance Books | |
| 217 | The Carpathians Series | Top Tenz | |
| 218 | The Coldest Girl in Coldtown | Holly Black | Wikipedia |
| 219 | The Dark Castle | Marion Brandon. | Wikipedia |
| 220 | The Dark Series | Essential Vampire | |
| 221 | The Dark-hunter Series | Sherrilyn Kenyon | Best Fantasy Books 2 |
| 222 | The Darkangel series | Meredith Ann Pierce | Wikipedia |
| 223 | The Dead Travel Fast | ERIC NUZUM | NPR |
| 224 | The Dracula Tape (Dracula Series, #1) | Fred Saberhagen | Goodreads |
| 225 | The Dragon Waiting | John M. Ford | Wikipedia |
| 226 | The Family of the Vourdalak | Count Alexis Tolstoy | Wikipedia |
| 227 | The Giaour | Lord Byron | Wikipedia |
| 228 | The Gilda Stories | Jewelle Gomez | Flashlight Worthy |
| 229 | The Girl with the Hungry Eyes | Fritz Leiber. | Wikipedia |
| 230 | The Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy) | Libba Bray | Cafe Mom |
| 231 | The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire, #1) | Clay Griffith | Goodreads |
| 232 | The House of Night series | P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast | Wikipedia |
| 233 | The Journal of Edwin Underhill | Peter Tonkin | Wikipedia |
| 234 | The Lair of the White Worm | Bram Stoker | Wikipedia |
| 235 | The Last Days | Scott Westerfeld | Wikipedia |
| 236 | The Little Vampire series, | Angela Sommer-Bodenburg | Wikipedia |
| 237 | The Longest Night | Ray Russell | Wikipedia |
| 238 | The Mangadarth Trilogy | Essential Vampire | |
| 239 | The Mysterious Stranger | Wikipedia | |
| 240 | The New Romantics: Ten Stories of Mystery, Passion, Travel and Vampires | Richard Marranca | Wikipedia |
| 241 | The Night Flier | Stephen King. | Wikipedia |
| 242 | The Night Huntress Series | Top Tenz | |
| 243 | The Night World | Essential Vampire | |
| 244 | The Nightlife: New York (The Nightlife, #1) | Travis Luedke | Goodreads |
| 245 | The Ouroboros Cycle: A Monster’s Coming of Age Story | G.D. Falksen | BuzzFeed |
| 246 | The Pale Lady | Alexandre Dumas | Wikipedia |
| 247 | The Queen of the Damned | Anne Rice | Carol Mckibben |
| 248 | The Quick | Lauren Owen | Bustle |
| 249 | The Reformed Vampire Support Group | Catherine Jinks | Wikipedia |
| 250 | The Room in the Tower | E.F. Benson. | Wikipedia |
| 251 | The Shepherd | Travis Luedke | Carol Mckibben |
| 252 | The Smoke Trilogy | TANYA HUFF | NPR |
| 253 | The Society Of S; The Year Of Disappearances | SUSAN HUBBARD | NPR |
| 254 | The Southern Vampire Series | Shelley Stringer… | Best Fantasy Books 2 |
| 255 | The Tinder Chronicles | Alexa Land | Spellbound Scribes |
| 256 | The Tomb of Sarah | F. G. Loring | Wikipedia |
| 257 | The Traveling Vampire Show | Richard Laymon | Goodreads |
| 258 | The True Story of the Vampire | Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock | Wikipedia |
| 259 | The Turning (Blood Ties, #1) | Jennifer Armintrout | Goodreads |
| 260 | The V Unit | Max Vos | Spellbound Scribes |
| 261 | The Vampire | Jan Neruda | Wikipedia |
| 262 | The Vampire Archives | OTTO PENZLER, NEIL GAIMAN, AND KIM NEWMAN | NPR |
| 263 | The Vampire Files | P.N. Elrod | Cristan Williams |
| 264 | The Vampire Queen’s Servant (Vampire Queen, #1) | Joey W. Hill | Goodreads |
| 265 | The Virgin Vampire | Etienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon | Wikipedia |
| 266 | The Warlord Wants Forever (Immortals After Dark #1) | Kresley Cole | Goodreads |
| 267 | Thirst | Lisa Worrall | Spellbound Scribes |
| 268 | Thirsty | M.T. Anderson | BookBub Blog |
| 269 | This Side of the Grave (Night Huntress, #5) | Jeaniene Frost | Goodreads |
| 270 | Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer, #1) | Karen Chance | Goodreads |
| 271 | Travelling with the Dead | Barbara Hambly | Wikipedia |
| 272 | Travels into Dalmatia | Alberto Fortis | Wikipedia |
| 273 | Unnatural | Michael Griffo | She Knows |
| 274 | Vampire | Vladimir Dal | Wikipedia |
| 275 | Vampire Earth | E.E. Knight | Best Fantasy Books |
| 276 | Vampire Elite (Vampire Elite, #1) | Irina Argo | Goodreads |
| 277 | Vampire Girl | Karpov Kinrade | Best Romance Books |
| 278 | Vampire Hunter D | Hideyuki Kikuchi | Goodreads |
| 279 | Vampire Killer Series | Candace Steele | Cristan Williams |
| 280 | Vampire of the Mists | Christie Golden | Wikipedia |
| 281 | Vampires Overhead | Alan Hyder. | Wikipedia |
| 282 | Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula | Christopher Frayling | Flashlight Worthy |
| 283 | Wake Not the Dead | Johann Ludwig Tieck | Wikipedia |
| 284 | Wampir | Władysław Reymont. | Wikipedia |
| 285 | Way of the Wolf | E.E. Knight | The Best Fantasy Books |
| 286 | Wicked Lovely | Melissa Marr | Cafe Mom |
| 287 | With the People from the Bridge | Dimitris Lyacos | Wikipedia |
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| Bustle | 7 Vampire Novels That Go Way Above And Beyond ‘Twilight’ |
| BuzzFeed | The Five Greatest Vampire Novels Written In The Past 100 Years |
| Cafe Mom | 10 Best Vampire & Supernatural Books to Replace Your ‘Twilight’ Obsession |
| Carol Mckibben | The 10 Best Vampire Books |
| Cristan Williams | Top 10 Vampire Book Series |
| Dudley Media Group | The Best Vampire Books and Movies |
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| Goodreads | Best Adult Vampire Books |
| Mitt Ray | 5 Vampire Books You Should Read |
| New Love Times | 10 Best Vampire Romance Books Of All Time |
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| SciFiNow | TOP 10 BEST VAMPIRE BOOKS EVER |
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| The Best Fantasy Books | 25 Best Vampire Books |
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