Recs if you like Good Lady Ducayne...

I'm a sucker for them

A focused guide to vampiric literary lineages, from gothic whispers to modern pop culture bloodbaths, to show how the genre has mutated and evolved over centuries in the dark.

Reading order in comments.

An ever growing list from someone who studied vampire lit

The OG vampire books (mainly from the 19th century). A lot of these are ‘proto-vampire’ stories before Dracula cemented how the vampire was perceived in popular culture.