I loved the characters in The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice the best.

Darren shan books are good, even though they are young teenagers books, they vampires a little different to what we normally think of. the character are really personal too.

I personaly think that Bram Stoker wrote the best vampire novel. Ever.

I think it's Anne Rice, well the first few in The Vampire Chronicles, anyway. "Interview With The Vampire", "The Vampire Lestat", and "The Tale of the Body Thief" being the best of the series. I just finished reading "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostkova. I really liked it. Here is a review of it from Amazon.com. If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula--Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century--was still alive. The story turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul's collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator's long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also. As well as numerous settings, both in and out of the East Bloc, Kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight--one from 1930, when Professor Bartolomew Rossi begins his dangerous research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi's student Paul takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972. The criss-crossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and losses that shaped Dracula's beleaguered homeland--sometimes with the Byzantines on top, sometimes the Ottomans, sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the Orthodox church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the Soviet Union. Although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read--even the minor characters are distinctive and vividly seen--its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. Our narrator recalls that after reading descriptions of Vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she tried to forget the words: "For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth." The reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong enough dose of European history to temper the usual comforts of the closing words. --Regina Marler

Brian Lumley and Anne Rice. They have completely different takes and are great reads!

I'd go with most of the other too - Anne Rice

I'd go with most of the other too - Anne Rice

I'd go with most of the other too - Anne Rice

MR STOKER all the way

You can't beat the original by Bram Stoker.

Brian Lumley..takes it to another level

Brian Lumley ,,,seriously

Anne Rice

Les Daniels, Brian Lumley and of course, Bram Stoker. That doesn't include some of my favourite shorter vampire story authors I enjoy like Suzy McKee Charnas, Sheridan LeFanu, Mary E Braddon or James Malcolm Rhymer. I really like the older stuff a lot more, sends me into a really different place. XD

A new and incredibly talented author is Steven van Patten! "Brookwater's curse" (volumes 1 and 2) seriously ROCK!!!

I've enjoyed Carrie Vaughn's "Kitty" series. It's mainly about a werewolf, but there are strong vampire supporting characters. So far, there are 4 books in the series: Kitty and the Midnight Hour Kitty Goes to Washington Kitty Takes a Holiday (I forget the fourth -- sorry!) Another writer I enjoy is Kelley Armstrong. Her "Women of the Underworld" series follows werewolves, witches, and vampires.

No other vampire novel I've read has scared me more than Stephen King's " 'salem's Lot." And I want my vampires to scare me, so , of vampire novels I've read, King is King.

I have only read the Twilight series, so I cannot say who is the best, but I think Stephenie Meyer is pretty good.

Tom Holland.

classical take on vampires i would have to say the master of them all Bram Stoker. but more of a modern take i would have to say that there are two Ann Rice and Laural K Hamilton.

Im old school... Bram Stoker and Anne Rice.

I have only read Ann Rice, so I'll say her.

Anne Rice......actually any of her books.

Stephanie Meyer has got to be the best. Ive read Anne Rice but Stephanie brings on a whole new twist. I could easily move on to other books when I read Rice, but I just have to keep reading Stephanie over and over.

Sara C. Roethle, and Laurell K. Hamilton (only the first nine in the Anita Blake series).