Icons of Horror: The Vampire

In chronological order of publication, here are some classic and famous books that feature THE VAMPIRE.

Updated October 31, 2023
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Carmilla
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Paper Book
A beautiful gift edition of this cult classic female vampire story, which predated and greatly influenced Dracula.
Bram Stoker Dracula
Mucci, Michael.
Paper Book
Before the dozens of night stalkers slain by Buffy, there was the first and the best: Dracula. And now everyone’s favorite bloodsucker is back, and captured in a thrillingly told, spine-tingling graphic novel. Originally written by Bram Stoker in 1897, Dracula<...
'Salem's Lot
King, Stephen
Paper Book
NOW A NEW FILM STREAMING ON MAX * #1 BESTSELLER * Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book....
Interview with the vampire
Rice, Anne
Paper Book
40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION * From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller...Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth--the education of the vampire" (...
Fevre Dream
Martin, George R. R.
Paper Book
The 40th anniversary of George R.R. Martin's classic southern gothic novel finds it just as gripping today as it was on its release. Abner Marsh has had his dearest wish come true - he has built the Fevre Dream, the finest steamship ever to sail the Mississippi. Abner...
Dead until dark
Harris, Charlaine.
Paper Book
Let the right one in
Ajvide Lindqvist, John
Paper Book
**The international bestseller and the book behind the film and play Let Me In** Let the Right One In Season 1 premieres Saturday, 8th October 2022 on Paramount+ UK. 'The new Stephen King' The Times Oskar and Eli. In very...
The historian : a novel
Kostova, Elizabeth
Paper Book
THE SUMPTUOUS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. 'A smart retelling of the Dracula story' New Yorker 'Quite extraordinary....Kostova is a natural storyteller....She has refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page...
Fledgling
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
'The Octavia Butler novel for our times' THE ATLANTIC 'My book of the year . . . completely devours the genre which gave rise to it' JUNOT DÍAZ The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler. A young...
The strain
Toro, Guillermo del
Paper Book
The high-concept thriller with a supernatural edge from the world-famous director, whose films include Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy. A plane lands at JFK and mysteriously 'goes dark', stopping in the middle of the runway for no apparent reason, all lights off, all doors...
The passage
Cronin, Justin.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller, A #1 Indie Next Pick -- First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a world forever altered....
Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter
Grahame-Smith, Seth.
Paper Book
Indiana. 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. ...
NOS4A2 : a novel
Hill, Joe.
Paper Book
The spine-tingling, bone-chilling novel of supernatural suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Horns--now an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings. "A masterwork of...

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