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Meh...it seems to be a little bit pretentious if you ask me. Which you didn't. :)
Thanks for sharing the list, Kirsten. I'm surprised I've only read about half of them. I'm going to read Clarimonde on Project Gutenberg. How about you? Any you're planning to try?
Charlene wrote: "Meh...it seems to be a little bit pretentious if you ask me. Which you didn't. :)"I agree. ;)
I agree with Kristen -- the list is very pretentious. Most of those novels were written over a hundred years ago. I prefer my vampires evil and bad-ass, so my suggestions are all on the dark side. The top contender for that list would be Brian Lumley's Necroscope series, followed by Davide Wellington's series, and Guillermo del Toro's/Chuck Hogan's The Strain trilogy.
Scott wrote: "I agree with Kristen -- the list is very pretentious. Most of those novels were written over a hundred years ago. I prefer my vampires evil and bad-ass, so my suggestions are all on the dark side..."
I've read a couple of the David Wellington ones, they were good. Still need to dip into the Lumley and Del Toro series. Ray Garton's Live Girls is also fantastic.
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Don't need to ask me.....it's way too pretentious.
I'm not so sure I'd go as far as pretentious. A lot of times when I see some of these lists it's not so much pretentious, as reflect the background of the author. Also, it's a British list. Maybe they aren't exposed to the others. I like Carmilla and the Polidori work, but they're not as good as Dracula. I also really enjoyed The Passage by Justin Cronin, and after watching the first season of The Strain, I really want to watch it.
Kirsten wrote: "I'm not so sure I'd go as far as pretentious. A lot of times when I see some of these lists it's not so much pretentious, as reflect the background of the author. Also, it's a British list. Maybe t..."I liked the Passage series as well.
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I've read some of these. I LOVE clairmonde!! the ones I haven't read are on my to read list.
Kirsten wrote: "I'm not so sure I'd go as far as pretentious. A lot of times when I see some of these lists it's not so much pretentious, as reflect the background of the author. Also, it's a British list. Maybe t..."Kirsten, you may be right about that.
But a list that doesn't include:
I am Legend
Salem's Lot
The Delicate Dependency
Anno Dracula
Enter, Night
is missing out on a lot of more contemporary but just as excellent vampire stories.
Thanks for sharing the list with us. It's always fun to discuss best of lists. :)
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I concur with my esteemed colleague.
Charlene wrote: "Kirsten wrote: "I'm not so sure I'd go as far as pretentious. A lot of times when I see some of these lists it's not so much pretentious, as reflect the background of the author. Also, it's a Briti..."It is ... I ran across a Best Detective list that included Miss Morland from Northanger Abbey as one of the top 10. Boy, did that list stoke comment!
Latasha, I would love to hear what you think of them, when you get to them. :)And thank you, Jon!
Kirsten, I'm sure that was a hot discussion, for sure!
I just read this article about Christopher Rice's picks of Halloween Reads. I noted his mother Anne is not on there. Enter, Night is at the top:http://www.nola.com/haunted/index.ssf...
I say we make a Listopia here on Goodreads of our favorite Vampire books, whose down?
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There must be half a dozen already.
This one'll be different! It'll have blackjack and hookers!
And there won't be any Twilight jokes becauae that horse has decomposed.
Lol, I didn't think that one all the way through but Ashe is right, it'll be different. Just gotta make it stand out more and be less like the others..somehow.
Blackjack and hookers, man, I already covered that. We'll have cards with blood on them.
Ashe wrote: "How is I Am Legend not on this list?"Definitely! I totally forgot about that one. For some reason, I keep associating that one with zombies, but it's definitely vampires.
I Am LegendLet The Right One In
Dracula
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Blood And Gold
The Silver Kiss < this is the one that started it all for me. I read it when I was very young and that was it. I've been in love with vampires ever since.
and I agree with Andrew, I just didn't want to repeat him.
It's a sad day (in my little world) when The Historian and The Moth Diaries make a Best Vampire Books list, and I Am Legend, Let the Right One In, and Salem's Lot don't.
Z. wrote: "It's a sad day (in my little world) when The Historian and The Moth Diaries make a Best Vampire Books list, and I Am Legend, Let the Right One In, and Salem's Lot don't."
Charlene wrote: "Z. wrote: "It's a sad day (in my little world) when The Historian and The Moth Diaries make a Best Vampire Books list, and I Am Legend, Let the Right One In, and Salem's Lot don't.""Amen!
Z. wrote: "It's a sad day (in my little world) when The Historian and The Moth Diaries make a Best Vampire Books list, and I Am Legend, Let the Right One In, and Salem's Lot don't."Oh man, how did I forget Let the Right One In. So goddamn good.
My favorites are salem's Lot, Let the Right One In, and Fevre Dream.
'Salems Lot is one of the best vampire books ever written.I'll second Lumley's Necroscope series, I Am Legend and Fevre Dream and though maybe not true bloodsucking vampires, add Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort
For What it's worth...Dracula - Bram Stoker
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Vampire Tapestry - Suzie McKee Charnass
Fevre Dream - George R R Martin
Salem's Lot - Stephen King
The Hunger - Whitley Streiber
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
Anno Dracula - Kim Newman
The Light at the End - Skipp and Spector
Vampyrric - Simon Clark
Bonus entry at #11 - They Thirst
William wrote: "For What it's worth...Dracula - Bram Stoker
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Vampire Tapestry - Suzie McKee Charnass
Fevre Dream - George R R Martin
Salem's Lot - Stephen King
The Hunger - Whitley ..."
Now that's a list!
Here are a few no one has mentioned yet which I think are deserving of, if not a place on the top ten list, then at least an honorable mention:The Golden (Winner of the 1994 Locus Award for best horror novel.)
Lost Souls (The novel that brought author Poppy Z. Brite to the attention of many in the horror community.)
Some of Your Blood (A different, and unique, vampire novel.)
Fledgling (Often described as 'more than a vampire novel'.)
Doctors Wear Scarlet (Presents Greece, rather than Transylvania, as the ancestral home of the vampire.)
Bloodsucking Fiends (A personal favorite.)
Children of the Night (Dan Simmon's vampire novel.)
Blood Games (Considered one of the best of the Saint-Germain novels; think 'I, Claudius' with a vampire in the role.)
Sunglasses After Dark (A progenitor in the urban fantasy genre.)
Suckers (Darkly humorous.)
I Am LegendThe Passage
Let the Right One In
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
The Strain
'Salem's Lot
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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by John William Polidori*
Clarimonde: The Vampire Courtesan by Théophile Gautier
Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu*
Vampire City by Paul Féval
The Fate of Madame Cabanel by Eliza Lynn Linton
Dracula by Bram Stoker*
The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat
The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova*
*ones I've read
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