Vampires that DON'T Sparkle!
Top 10 Vampires that DON'T Sparkle!
: Interview with the Vampire, City of Bones, I Am Legend and Other Stories, Carmilla, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Guilty Pleasures, The Vampire Armand, Necroscope, I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire, The Strain
Interview with the Vampire
Author | Anne Rice |
ISBN | 0345476875 |
This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets...
Author | Cassandra Clare |
ISBN | 1416914285 |
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the...
I Am Legend and Other Stories
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.
By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades...
Author | J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
ISBN | 0809510839 |
Bloody relevant to read!
BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS...
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.
This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula....
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Author | Seth Grahame-Smith |
ISBN | 0446563080 |
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only...
Author | Laurell K. Hamilton |
ISBN | 0425197549 |
Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable...
Author | Anne Rice |
ISBN | 0345434803 |
In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the...
DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES...
Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying.
In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither...
I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire
Author | P.N. Elrod |
ISBN | 0786901756 |
This was an oddly enjoyable book! I played the Ravenloft D&D modules in high school, and I like P. N. Elrod's writing, so I figured I'd indulge in nostalgia and read this. The plot covers Strahd's background, his choice to become a vampire, and his path from that choice to his weird existence surrounded...
Author | Guillermo del Toro |
ISBN | 0061558230 |
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of...
Author | George R.R. Martin |
ISBN | 0553383051 |
When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something’s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of...
Author | Angela Sommer-Bodenburg |
ISBN | 3499212803 |
So, I dug up my 1987 beat up copy and I'm rereading it. I had forgotten how cute this was. I want to have a vampire show up at my window and befriend me! It seems that 25 years have passed and I still have the same dream I did at 8. Sadly, it hasn't come true yet.
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Verland: The Transformation
Author | B.E. Scully |
ISBN | 1460907000 |
True crime writer Elle Bramasol is drawn into a macabre mystery when incarcerated Hollywood producer Eliot Kingman asks her to write a book about his case. As she delves deeper into Kingman's murder conviction, she discovers that he possesses a centuries old diary written by an elusive vampire named...
Author | Rachel Caine |
ISBN | 0451233182 |
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine is "a first-class storyteller" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris).
After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else...
Author | MaryJanice Davidson |
It'a been a helluva week for Betsy Taylor. First, she loses her job. Then, to top things off, she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites (besides waking up in the morgue dressed in a pink suit and cheap shoes courtesy of her stepmother) is that she can't seem to stay dead. Every night she rises with...