vampire books for the girlies who prefer their vampires dark and gothic rather than full of rom-com swagger.
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last updated August, 2026
The Brides
Charlotte Cross
Tapeworm: A Vampire Novel
A.P. Thayer
The Vampyres
C.R. Kane
The House of the Vampire
George Sylvester Viereck
Milkteeth
Caitlin Starling
Tillinghast
Clare Cavenagh
Filth Eaters
Ito Romo
The Vampire Tapestry
Suzy McKee Charnas
Vampires at Sea
Lindsay Merbaum
Thirst
Marina Yuszczuk
Dracul
Dacre Stoker
Covenant with the Vampire (The Diaries of the Family Dracul, #1)
Jeanne Kalogridis
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, #1)
Seth Grahame-Smith
Empire of the Vampire
Jay Kristoff
Vertigo Peaks
Dion Anja
Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler
Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)
Kim Newman
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
Hungerstone
Kat Dunn
Stainless
Todd Grimson
White Teeth, Red Blood: Selected Vampiric Verses
Various Various
The Blood of the Vampire (Valancourt Classics)
Florence Marryat
The Vampyre
John William Polidori
Blood on Her Tongue
Johanna van Veen
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Victoria Schwab
Lucy Undying
Kiersten White
A Long Time Dead
Samara Breger
Woman, Eating
Claire Kohda
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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