By Blood We Live

For Further Reading compiled by Ross E. Lockhart

What follows is a selected bibliography of vampire fiction. This list focuses primarily on vampires in fantasy, science fiction, and horror novels published within the last thirty years or so, and largely ignores young adult, tie-in (Buffy, Angel, etc.), romance, and erotica titles, although some crossover is inevitable. This list also looks beyond the obvious origins of the vampire genre; if you’re not already intimately familiar with John William Polidori’s Lord Ruthven (The Vampyre, 1819), Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (Carmilla, 1872), or Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Dracula, 1897), then start there. Titles noteworthy for their high literary value are marked with an asterisk.

To learn more about the stories in By Blood We Live, visit the anthology’s website at johnjosephadams.com/by-blood-we-live.

Acevedo, Mario

– The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (et seq.)

Aldiss, Brian W.

– Dracula Unbound

Altman, Steven Elliot

– Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires

Andersson, C. Dean

– I Am Dracula

Armstrong, F. W.

– Devouring

Armstrong, Kelley

– Bitten (Women of the Otherworld) (et seq.)

Arthur, Keri

– Full Moon Rising (et seq.)

Aycliffe, Jonathan

– The Lost

Baker, Scott

– Ancestral Hungers

– Dhampire

Banks, L. A.

– Minion (The Vampire Huntress Legend) (et seq.)

Barbeau, Adrienne and Michael Scott

– Vampyres of Hollywood

Bellamy, Dodie

– The Letters of Mina Harker

Bennett, Nigel and P. N. Elrod

– His Father’s Son

Bergstrom, Elaine

– Shattered Glass (et seq.)

– Mina (as Marie Kiraly)

– Blood to Blood: The Dracula Story (as Marie Kiraly)

Bishop, David

– Operation Vampyr (et seq.)

Bledsoe, Alex

– Blood Groove

Bodner, Hal

– Bite Club

Bradbury, Ray

– From the Dust Returned *

Brand, Rebecca

(see also Charnas, Suzy McKee)

– The Ruby Tear

Briggs, Patricia

– Blood Bound (et seq.)

Brite, Poppy Z.

– Lost Souls

Butcher, Jim

– Storm Front (The Dresden Files) (et seq.)

Butler, Octavia

– Fledgling *

Cacek, P. D.

– Night Players

– Night Prayers

Cecilione, Michael

– Thirst

Charnas, Suzy McKee

(see also Brand, Rebecca)

– Stagestruck Vampires and

Other Phantasms

– The Vampire Tapestry

Clark, Simon

– Vampyrrhic

Clegg, Douglas

– The Priest of Blood (The Vampyricon)

Conner, Michael

– Arkangel

Curtin, Joseph

– Daughters of the Moon

Davidson, MaryJanice

– Undead and Unwed (et seq.)

Dedman, Stephen

– Shadows Bite Del Toro, Guillermo and Chuck Hogan

– The Strain (et seq.)

Dietz, Ulysses G.

– Desmond

Doherty, Robert

– Area 51: Nosferatu

Due, Tananarive

– My Soul to Keep (et seq.)

Elrod, P. N.

– Quincy Morris, Vampire

– Bloodlist (et seq.)

– Red Death (et seq.)

Farmer, Philip Jose

– Image of the Beast *

Farren, Mick

– Darklost (et seq.)

Ford, John M.

– Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History

Fox, Andrew

– Fat White Vampire Blues (et seq.)

Friedman, C. S.

– The Madness Season

– Black Sun Rising (et seq.)

Garton, Ray

– Live Girls

Golden Christopher

– Of Saints and Shadows (et seq.)

Gunn, Derek

– Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder (et seq.)

Hambly, Barbara

– Those Who Hunt the Night

– Traveling With the Dead

– Renfield

Hamilton, Laurell K.

– Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter) (et seq.)

Harris, Charlaine

– Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire) (et seq.)

Harris, Narrelle M.

– The Opposite of Life

Harrison, Kim

– Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows) (et seq.)

Hawkins, Kerri

– Blood Legacy: The Novel

Hendee, Barb and J. C. Hendee

– Dhampir (et seq.)

– In Shade and Shadow (et seq.)

Hudson, Charlie

– Already Dead (et seq.)

Huff, Tanya

– Blood Price (et seq.)

Jefferson, Jemiah

– Voice of the Blood

– Wounds

– Fiend

Jewell, Elizabeth

– Dark Callings: Bloodlines

Jones, Matt R.

– Hollywood Vampires: UnholyWar (et seq.)

Kenyon, Sherrilyn

– Fantasy Lover (Dark Hunter) (et seq.)

Kiernan, Caitlín R.

– The Five of Cups

Killough, Lee

– Blood Hunt (et seq.)

Kilpatrick, Nancy

– Child of the Night (Power of the Blood) (et seq.)

King, Stephen

– ’Salem’s Lot *

Knight, E. E.

– Way of the Wolf (Vampire Earth) (et seq.)

Kohler, Karen

– Slayer (et seq.)

Kostova, Elizabeth

– The Historian *

Kupfer, Allen C.

– The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing

Lash, Batton

– The Vampire Brat

Laws, Stephen

– Fear Me

Laymon, Richard

– Bite

– The Traveling Vampire Show

Lee, Tanith

– Dark Dance (Blood Opera) (et seq.)

– Vivia

– Sabella

– The Blood of Roses

Lindqvist, John Ajvide

– Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One In) *

Lumley, Brian

– Necroscope (et seq.)

– Vampire World I: Blood Brothers (et seq.)

Lukyanenko, Sergei

– Night Watch (et seq.)

Marks, John

– Fangland

Martin, George R. R.

– Fevre Dream *

Martinez, A. Lee

– Gil’s All Fright Diner

Matheson, Richard

– I Am Legend *

McCammon, Robert

– They Thirst

McKinley, Robin

– Sunshine

McMullen, Sean

– Voyage of the Shadowmoon

– Glass Dragons

Mellick, Carlton, III

– The Faggiest Vampire

Merz, Jon F.

– The Fixer (et seq.)

Meyer, Stephenie

– Twilight (et seq.)

Mitchell, Mary Ann

– Sips of Blood (et seq.)

Moore, Christopher

– Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (et seq.)

Mosiman, Billie Sue

– Red Moon Rising

– Malachi’s Moon

– Craven Moon

Navarro, Yvonne

– AfterAge

Newman, Kim

– Anno Dracula (et seq.)

Powers, Tim

– The Stress of Her Regard (et seq.)*

Pratchett, Terry

– Carpe Jugulum

Resnick, Mike

– Stalking the Vampire

Rice, Anne

– Interview with the Vampire (et seq.) *

Romkey, Michael

– I, Vampire (et seq.)

– The Vampire’s Violin

– American Gothic

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn

– Sins of the Blood

Saberhagen, Fred

– The Dracula Tape (et seq.)

Schiefelbein, Michael

– Vampire Vow (et seq.)

Shepard, Lucius

– The Golden

Simmons, Wm. Mark

– One Foot in the Grave

– Dead on My Feet

– Habeas Corpses

Smith-Ready, Jeri

– Wicked Game

Stableford, Brian

– Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of Eternity

– The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires

– The Empire of Fear

– Young Blood

Steakley, John

– Vampire$

Strieber, Whitley

– The Hunger (et seq.) *

Taylor, Karen E.

– Blood Secrets (et seq.)

Thompson, James M.

– Night Blood (et seq.)

Thurlo, David and Aimee Thurlo

– Second Sunrise (et seq.)

Thurman, Rob

– Nightlife

– Moonshine

Waggoner, Tim

– Necropolis

Watts, Peter

– Blindsight

Wellington, David

– 13 Bullets

– 99 Coffins

– Vampire Zero

– 23 Hours

Wilson, Colin

– The Space Vampires

Wilson, F. Paul

– The Keep

– Midnight Mass

Wright, T. M.

– The Last Vampire

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn

– Hôtel Transylvania (et seq.)

– A Flame in Byzantium (et seq.)

– Out of the House of Life (et seq.)

– The Angry Angel (et seq.)