Focus Fiction: Themes - Vampires
M. T. Anderson - Thirsty [YOUNG ADULT FICTION ANDERSON]
- Chris just wants to be a regular kid, but he seems to be turning into a vampire.
Roderick Anscombe - The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula [FICTION ANSCOMBE]
- Although Dr. Dracula ministers to the sick by day, his nights are ruled by secret, savage urges.
Anne Billson - Suckers [FICTION BILLSON]
- A darkly comic tale of hip vampires in contemporary London.
Poppy Z. Brite - Lost Souls [FICTION BRITE]
- Ghost pursues his friends to New Orleans, hoping to save Ann from her new vampiric friends and Nothing from himself.
Tom Holland - Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron [FICTION HOLLAND]
- Lord Byron, famed 19th century poet and rake, exposes the dark, thirsty side of his sensualism.
Jeanne Kalogridis - Covenant with the Vampire: The Diaries of the Family Dracul [FICTION KALOGRIDIS]
- Arkady is honored to care for his eccentric Uncle Dracula, until his newborn son is threatened.
Annette Curtis Klause - The Silver Kiss [YOUNG ADULT FICTION KLAUSE ]
- Simon and Zoe share a bond of loneliness, but he is afraid to reveal his secret and to ask for her help.
Linda Lael Miller - For All Eternity [PBRACK ROMANCE]
- Maeve is a force for peace and justice in the timeless realm of vampires, but her heart hungers for the love of a mortal man.
Kim Newman - Anno-Dracula [FICTION NEWMAN]
- After vampirism has overtaken Victorian Britain, the murder of vampire girls in Whitechapel threatens to unsettle the new regime.
Anthology - Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women [FICTION NIGHT]
- Sixteen stories explore the vampire myth from a variety of female perspectives.
Fred Saberhagen - A Sharpness on the Neck [SCIENCE FICTION SABERHAGEN]
- The descendants of Benjamin Franklin are caught in a Dracula family feud that spans two centuries.
Steven Spruill - Rulers of Darkness [FICTION NSPRUILLAME]
- A hematologist must help her former lover, a police detective, solve a series of bloody murders.
Brian Stableford - The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires [FICTION STABLEFORD]
- In 1895 London, a professor relates his tale of drug-induced time travel to an audience that includes Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, and an East European count.
Bram Stoker - Dracula [FICTION STOKER]
- First published in 1897, this is the original, classic vampire tale.
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