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by Someone on September 7th, 2007

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Who do you think writes the best vampire novels?

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  • by Leorog on December 6th, 2007

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    Brian Lumley..takes it to another level

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  • by CaptainHarley adores his life penguin on April 25th, 2008

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    Anne Rice

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  • by Inspector Javert on September 7th, 2007

    Inspector Javert

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

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  • by dame on April 25th, 2008

    dame

    Brian Lumley ,,,seriously

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  • by The Account Formerly Known As Peyton on October 10th, 2007

    The Account Formerly Known As Peyton

    You can't beat the original by Bram Stoker.

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  • by Anonymous on October 10th, 2007

    Anonymous

    MR STOKER all the way

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  • by Christine Lim on October 10th, 2007

    Christine Lim

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

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  • by SarahM on October 10th, 2007

    SarahM

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

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  • by Ripple is back on February 8th, 2009

    Ripple is back

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

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  • by Anon y mouse on February 4th, 2009

    Anon y mouse

    Tom Holland.

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  • by Oh Mighty Evil One on February 4th, 2009

    Oh Mighty Evil One

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

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  • by Dr_Dredd on October 22nd, 2008

    Dr_Dredd

    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.

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  • by Anabela on October 1st, 2008

    Anabela

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

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  • by Symbeline on April 25th, 2008

    Symbeline

    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

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  • by Christine Lim on October 10th, 2007

    Christine Lim

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

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  • by Christine Lim on October 10th, 2007

    Christine Lim

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

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  • by unknown on September 8th, 2007

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    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

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  • by Seraphim Shinobi on September 7th, 2007

    Seraphim Shinobi

    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.

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  • by Jake on September 7th, 2007

    Jake

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

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  • by Anonymous on February 15th, 2009

    Anonymous

    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.

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  • by Blackberry. on February 8th, 2009

    Blackberry.

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

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  • by Go know thyself is THE RED QUEEN on February 8th, 2009

    Go know thyself is THE RED QUEEN

    Im old school...


    Bram Stoker and Anne Rice.

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  • by JulieK on February 8th, 2009

    JulieK

    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.

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  • by WelbyQuentin on February 4th, 2009

    WelbyQuentin

    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.

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  • by David23 on November 25th, 2009

    David23

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

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  • by WoodWitchDame on March 22nd, 2010

    WoodWitchDame

    Have you tried the vampire series ALMOST HUMAN by Melanie Nowak?

    ALMOST HUMAN ~ The First Trilogy
    Volume 1: Fatal Infatuation
    Volume 2: Lost Reflections
    Volume 3: Evolving Ecstasy

    In this paranormal fantasy, chapters alternate perspective between an elder vampire and a young human woman, as they join an ensemble cast of characters to navigate the difficulties of addiction and desire; the perils of zombies and vampires; and struggles with abuse, morality and... college.

    You can get the books on Amazon, or on the Author's website, where you can also read some free sample chapters: www.MelanieNowak.com

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