ON THE SUBJECT OF VAMPIRE LITERATURE
Note: This is all based on my own personal opinion...
Good Vampire Fiction
* The Vampire by Heinrich August Ossenfelder (174 cool .
* The Giaour by Lord Byron (1813).
* Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816).
* "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori (1819).
* "La Morte Amoureuse" by Theophile Gautier (1836).
* "The Family of the Vourdalak" by Count Alexis Tolstoy (1843).
* Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer (or Thomas Peckett Prest) (1847).
* "The Mysterious Stranger" by Anonymous. Translated from the original German, this vampire tale appeared in the English magazine Odds and Ends in (1860).
* Le Chevalier Ténèbre (Knighshade) by Paul Féval (1860).
* La Vampire (The Vampire Countess) by Paul Féval (1865).
* Carmilla (1872) by Sheridan le Fanu.
* La Ville Vampire (Vampire City) by Paul Féval (1874).
* "The Fate of Madame Cabanel" by Eliza Lynn Linton (1880).
* Manor by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1884).
* The True Story of the Vampire by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock by (1894).
* Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897).
* "The Tomb of Sarah" by F. G. Loring (1900).
* The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck (1907).
* The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (1911).
* "For the Blood is the Life" (1911) by F. Marion Crawford.
* "Wampir" ("The Vampire" wink (1911) by Władysław Reymont.
* "The Room in the Tower" (1912) by E.F. Benson.
* "Bewitched" (1927) by Edith Wharton.
* "The Dark Castle" (1931) by Marion Brandon.
* "Revelations in Black" (1933) by Carl Jacobi.
* There were no Asper Ladies (1946) by Eugene Ascher.
* "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" (1949) by Fritz Leiber.
* I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954).
* "The Longest Night" by Ray Russell (1960).
* "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" (1973) by Robert Aickman.
* 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (1975).
* "The Night Flyer" by Stephen King.
* The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (1980).
* The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (1981).
* They Thirst by Robert McCammon (1981).
* Castle Dubrava (1982) by Yuri Kapralov.
* The Curse of the Vampire (1982) by Karl Alexander.
* Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin (1982).
* The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford (1983).
* Little Dracula series by Martin Waddell & Joseph Wright (1986–2001).
* The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories edited by Alan Ryan (198 cool .
* The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers (1989).
* Vampire$ by John Steakley (1990).
* The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause (1991).
* The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (1991).
* Lost Souls (1992) by Poppy Z. Brite.
* Suckers by Anne Billson (1993).
* Darkness on the Ice by Lois Tilton (1993).
o Dark Angels (1995). A second anthology on the same theme.
* The books I, Strahd, Memories of the Vampire (1993) and I, Strahd, the War with Azalin by P.N. Elrod tells the tale of the vampire lord Strahd von Zarovich who occupies the castle Ravenloft.
* The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires by Brian Stableford (1996).
* "The Kiss" (1996) by Kathryn Reines.
* Dracula the Undead by Freda Warrington (1997). Commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula for the centenary of the latter's first publication.
* Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (199 cool .
* Cowboy and The Vampire: A Very Unusual Romance by Clark Hays (1999).
* Sunshine by Robin McKinley (2003).
* What Big Teeth You Have: A Vampire Tale by Jimmy Autrey (2004).
* Let the Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komma In in the original Swedish) by John Ajvide Lindqvist (2004). Translated into English 2007.
* The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005).
* Fledgling by Octavia Butler (2005).
* The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo (2006).
* The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole (2006).
* A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole (2006).
* No Rest for the Wicked by Kresley Cole (2006).
* Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole (200 cool .
* "Morrigan's Cross", "Dance of the Gods" and "Valley of Silence" (The Circle Trilogy) by Nora Roberts (2006).
* Fangland by John Marks (2007).
* The Society of S (2007) and The Year of Disappearances (200 cool by Susan Hubbard.
* The Tumbleweed Dossier by Sugar Ray Dodge (200 cool .
* Death by the Drop by Timothy W. Massie (200 cool .
* Twelve by Jasper Kent (2009).
Bad Vampire Fiction
* Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series
* Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy series
* David Wellington's Thirteen Bullets (novel), 99 Coffins, "Vampire Zero" (Laura Caxton, James Arkeley series)
* Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed series (2007–).
* Elaine Bergstrom's Austra Vampires series (1989–).
* Nancy A. Collins's Sonja Blue series (1989–).
* MaryJanice Davidson's Undead series (2004–).
* P. N. Elrod's Vampire Files series (1990–).
* Christine Feehan's Dark series (1999–).
* Christopher Golden's Saints and Shadows Saga (1994–2003).
* Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series (1993–).
* Tanya Huff's Blood Books series (1991–1997).
* Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt casefiles series (2005–).
* Jasper Kent's Danilov Quintet (2009–).
* E. E. Knight's Vampire Earth series (2003–).
* Sienna Mercer's My Sister the Vampire series.
* Christopher Moore's A Love Story series (1995–2007).
* Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series (1992–).
* Caridad Pineiro's The Calling series (2004–).
* Marilyn Ross's Barnabas Collins series (1966–1971).
* Darren Shan's The Saga of Darren Shan series (2000–2006).
* Maggie Shayne's Wings in the Night series (1993–).
* Whitley Strieber's Hunger series (1981–2002).
* JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series (2005–).
* Freda Warrington's Bloodwine series (1992–).
* Gene Wolfe's Urth: Book of the Short Sun trilogy (1999–2001).
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain series (1978–).
* Guillermo del Toro with Chuck Hogan The Strain (La trilogía de la oscuridad) (2009 - ).
* The Little Vampire series, by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1979).
* The Darkangel series by Meredith Ann Pierce (1982–1990).
* The Vampire Diaries series by L. J. Smith (author) (1991-1992).
* Companions of the Night (1995) by Vivian Vande Velde.
* Amelia Atwater-Rhodes's novels In the Forests of the Night (1999), Demon in My View (2000), Shattered Mirror (2001), Midnight Predator (2002), Persistence of Memory (200 cool .
* Saga of Darren Shan also known as the Cirque Du Freak series (2000–4) series by Darren Shan.
* Ellen Schreiber's Vampire Kisses series (2005–).
* Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (2005).
* The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld (2006).
* Facade of Shadows by Rick Chiantaretto (2006).
* Blue Bloods and Masquerade: A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa de la Cruz (2006, 2007).
* Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy series (2006–).
* Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2007).
* The House of Night series by P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast (2007–).
Note: Please ignore the smilies, those were an accident, ones which I do not feel like going back to get rid of.
Vampire Comics/Manga Series
Note: This list is a lot shorter...
Good:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dark Horse Comics, 2007).
Tomb of Dracula (Marvel Comics, 1972)
I...Vampire (DC Comics, 1981)
Morbius, the Living Vampire (Marvel, 1971)
Blade (Marvel, 1973)
30 Days of Night (IDW Publishing, 2002)
Batman: Vampire (Marvel, 2007)
Bad:
Vampirella (Warren Publishing, 1969)
Chibi Vampire (Monthly Dragon Age, 2003)
Vampire Knight (LaLa, 2005)
Blood Alone (MediaWorks, 2005)
Dracula vs. King Arthur (Silent Devil Productions, 2005)
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures (Dabel Brothers Productions/Marvel Comics, 2007)
