Name your three top vampires stories of all time?

[Kiersten, Mod]

Name 3 of your favorite vampires or vampire related stories.

[Jenn]

Twilight Phantasies by Maggie shayne, the undeAd next door by Kerrelyn sparks, and tall dark and hungry by Lynsay sands

[G.G.]

Angel of Vengeance by Trevor Munson
Interview with a vampire by Anna Rice
Jack from the Vampire's Secret by Raven Hart

It's kind of hard to choose only 3 though. :(

[Kiersten, Mod]

I know. Feel free to break the rules. I won't tell. =)

[Shannon]

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

If I have to choose one by Chloe Neill, it would be Biting Cold. I love all of her books, though.

One Grave at a Time is one of my favorites, but again I love the whole Cat and Bones series.

It is hard to choose just three!

[Kiersten, Mod]

For me, Interview With The Vampire was the first big vampire story that got me standing to attention.

The second, and I don't know if this counts, but I'm counting it, was Buffy The Vampire Slayer. And I'm talking about the ORIGINAL MOVIE, before the TV show was even a thought in Joss Whedon's mind.

The third(Don't slap me) is Twilight (Way before the movies, when it was respectable!)

[Kiersten, Mod]

I just remembered, before Interview with the vampire, I was hooked on Lost Boys. I burned out that tape. LOL!

[Shelby]

Captured by Erica Stevens
Vampire Academy by Rachelle Mead
A Bite's Tale by Veronica Blade

[Krysta]

Kiersten,
I watched the movie version of Interview with a Vampire and loved it!
Then I got hooked on Buffy but as the TV show.
I had never seen the movie (though I knew it was inspired by a movie) until one morning, I woke up at like 2am to watch it and I was disappointed.
I Love Joss Whedon though.

As for Twilight...I never liked it. I read all 4 books, and after that, I refused to watch the movies.

[Kiersten, Mod]

Krysta wrote: "I had never seen the movie (though I knew it was inspired by a movie) until one morning, I woke up at like 2am to watch it and I was disappointed."

It's one of those thing you have to have watched beforehand. LOL! I, too, have recently seen it again, and laughed at how cheesy it was. Still, for me, it's a classic.

[Krysta]

Kiersten wrote: "It's one of those thing you have to have watched beforehand."

I only got hooked on Buffy by chance.
I used to babysit and the girl I was watching slept in until like 8 or so... Well I got to her house at like 5:45am and Buffy was on at 6 and 7, so I started watching it and got hooked!

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You totally have to have watched the Buffy movie before the television series came out. I LOVED it back in the day. Of course, I was all about Vampire Diaries as a teen when I read the series. I'm hoping to read Vampire Academy soon. I really want some new vampire books with well-developed characters. And a love triangle wouldn't hurt ;) Surprisingly, Twilight was all right. At least it was original for the time and had some good new elements.

[Jessica's]

Night huntress series
Midnight breed series
Dark Protectors series

[Kiersten, Mod]

Jessica, I'm a huge fan of the first two you listed. I'll have to look into that last one. =)

[Neilinha]

My favorite vampires are
Damian from Vampire Diaries
Ethan from Chicagoland Vampires
Stephan from Mercy Thompson

[Cmkage]

Vampire Academy/Bloodlines

Night Huntress series

Guild Hunter

I just realized that considering how many uf and pnr series I read, there aren't as many vampire series among them as I thought. Weird.

[Evie]

Zsadist from J.R Ward's BDB series.
Hunter from Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed.
Sebastian Wroth from Kresley Cole's IaD.

[Loretta]

Lynn Viehl's Darkyn Series is pretty impressive.
Of course, J.R. Ward's BDB is always yummy!
And then there are the deliciously wicked vamps in the Anita Blake series from LKH.

but is the nearest and dearest to my heart.

[Teya]

Eric Northman from Sookie Stackhouse chronicles (and his Pam)
Thomas Raith from Dresden Files series, he's so perfetly damned in a clasically romantic way
Jane Jameson from Molly Harper's Nice girls don't... book - she may not be the sexiest or the most kick-ass heroine, but I love those books.

And if that would be a movie list, I'll write: "Only lovers left alive". I have no idea if this was made into a book, but the story is perfect :)

[Erryn_x]

I can't put them in order...but,

I really like Vampire Academy (Richelle Mead), Vampires in Brown County (J. S. Scott) and The Vamp Chronicles (Christin Lovell)

It's SO hard to choose between all the ones I've read :3 tehe xx

[GinBee, Founder & Mod]

Oh this is really hard! Can I go first three that goot me hooked instead?

Buffy was the TV show that did it!
Novel wise Anita Blake was the girl (remember reading those when you could only get them in obscure import bookshops in the UK, pre Amazon days and she wasn't published over here at that time!). Laurell K Hamilton
The Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon is a long standing thing too.

Also should mention reading Dracula back in the 1980s too!

[Danniella]

Oka, these are my top 3...
The Last Vampire by Christopher Pike
Blood and Ice by Robert Masello
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

I also loved The Morganville Vampires, Volume 1 by Rachel Caine
Marked by P.C. Cast
(House of Night novels)
and
Dracula by Bram Stoker

[Charlene]

This is a tough question, but here we go -




Dracula, Bram Stoker
Raphael, D.B. Reynolds (Vampires in America series)
Dante in Twilight Hunger, Maggie Shayne (Wings In The Night series)

[Megan]

Shelby wrote: "A Bite's Tale by Veronica Blade"

Agreed! Especially because there's more than just vampires :)

My other two choices would have to be The Morganville Vampires series by Rachel Caine and Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber.

[Cindy (Squin)]

- Definitely not GOOD vampires, and not a PNR by any means, but this book has definitely stuck with me!

- I love the Cat & Bones series - I've re-read this series once already.

- The Black Dagger Brotherhood series - I could re-read this series over and over!

[Chris]

Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice

The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice

Salems Lot - Stephen King

[Rosalin]

Twilight by stephenie meyer
A Shade of Vampireby bella forrest
Captured by erica stevans

[[deleted user]]

Chris wrote: "Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice

The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice

Salems Lot - Stephen King"

Totally agree with those three and to which I would add, The last Vampire (Thirst) by Christopher Pike.

[Heather]

The Vampire Lestat inInterview with the Vampire The Vampire Lestat etc

the vampire from I, Vampire: The Confessions of a Vampire - His Life, His Loves, His Strangest Desires ...

And my own vampire, Aidan O'Neill in Smoke in Moonlight!

I love so many vampires tho, the Twilight and Dead Until Dark ones are good,too. And The Brotherhood vamps.

Good suggestions on this thread-I will have to check some out!