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Last post 02-10-2010 20:35 by kel3006. 16 replies.
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  • 06-08-2009 22:01 Post ID: 562,862 

    • emma_t
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    VAMPIRE NOVELS

     Hi everyone,

    I'm reading a load of vampire fiction on discovering I love it and am writing about vampire communities in literature for my undergraduate dissertation, I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions for vampire novels I haven't read. This si the list of books I already own and have or planning to read:

    Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite

    Stainless

    The Twilight saga by Stephanie meyer

    The Vampire chronicles by Anne Rice

    Salems lot by stephen King

    I am open to all suggestions and am willing to swap if you have those books

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  • 06-08-2009 22:12 Post ID: 562,869  In reply to

    • wyres
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    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

    Welcome to the Forums Emma and happy swapping.

    How about the books by PC and Kristin Cast  http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/kristin-cast/ They start with Marked.

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  • 06-08-2009 23:08 Post ID: 562,892  In reply to

    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

    I am reading Sunshine by Robin McKinley at the mo.

    You could also look up Storm Constantine.

  • 06-09-2009 9:19 Post ID: 562,929  In reply to

    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

     I like a good Vampyre novel once in a while, but the key word is good!  I stick to the more abstract stuff that loses the romantic angle that seems to appeal to a more female demographic.  For a more interesting (imo) look at Vampyre lore try:

    The Strain - Guilmero Del Toro, the director of Hellboy and Pan's Labrynth brand new book very good and grungy

    The Joe Pitt novels by Charlie Huston.  A vampire society remains hidden in New York, Joe Pitt is a vampire trying to keep his head down and acts like a PI for the supernatural.

     

    Both of these novels are excellent and different takes on a genre bogged down in sterotype and flowery language.

    I am currently reading:Shadow Prey by John Sandford (Crow revenge!)
  • 06-09-2009 9:22 Post ID: 562,930  In reply to

    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

     Not sure how much these could help you but if ur looking for a good book i recommend the authors -

    • Sherrilyn Kenyon
    • JR Ward
    • Kresley Cole
    • Charlaine Harris (just read the Sookie Stackhouse series recently, is very good)
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  • 06-09-2009 9:26 Post ID: 562,934  In reply to

    • ftleftie
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    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

     What about The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova.   It is a fictional history of Dracula and is quite a big read, but interesting. 

  • 06-09-2009 10:51 Post ID: 562,964  In reply to

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    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

     yer ive already done dracula and i have the historian waiting for me

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  • 06-09-2009 11:09 Post ID: 562,974  In reply to

    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

    What about Kim Newman?

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  • 06-09-2009 17:06 Post ID: 563,138  In reply to

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     I'm suprised no-one mentioned anne rice as she is very very popular. Ive got a rather big hardback copy of 'The Vampire Armand' which is a bit too heavy to list on my swaps,that your welcome to have for the cost of postage if it's any use.

     

    *EDIT* I am silly for not reading the first post properly

  • 06-10-2009 13:31 Post ID: 563,413  In reply to

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    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

     

    Hi Windra, would it be possible for you to send me a photo of it? i listed the vampire chronicles as what im reading ive read 2 out of the 6 i own and i have 4 more left to get. my e-mail is...... if you could send me a photo I am very interested in having it X

    edited : by moderator to remove email address.Please use the contact facility, rather than list personal email details.

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  • 06-10-2009 14:01 Post ID: 563,417  In reply to

    • bartleby
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    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

     For a post-modern take on Vampires you should read 'Let The Right One In' by John Ajvide Lindqvist.  Can't recommend it highly enough.  Haven't seen the movie, but the book is atmospheric, moody and terrifying.  Brilliant.

    I can also highly recommend a movie - Guillermo del Toro, before he made Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth, made a movie called Cronos, about a clockwork vampire.  Beautiful and brilliant.

  • 06-10-2009 17:37 Post ID: 563,513  In reply to

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    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

    bartleby:

     For a post-modern take on Vampires you should read 'Let The Right One In' by John Ajvide Lindqvist.  Can't recommend it highly enough.  Haven't seen the movie, but the book is atmospheric, moody and terrifying.  Brilliant.

    I can also highly recommend a movie - Guillermo del Toro, before he made Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth, made a movie called Cronos, about a clockwork vampire.  Beautiful and brilliant.

     

     Long time no "see" Gareth!  Hope you're well!

    Can I recommend Kelley Armstrong - not about vampires per se, but her Women Of The Otherworld series looks at a range of supernatural beings - werewolves, witches, necromancers and occasionally vampires too.

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  • 07-31-2009 18:57 Post ID: 585,234  In reply to

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     I love the Sookie Stakhouse/Southern Vampire/True Blood series by Charlaine Harris and The Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong so would like to second the recconmendations of those.

    I've read and enjoyed Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson.

    I've just finished Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamlinton which is the first in the Anita Blake vampire hunter series but I didn't really like it.

  • 07-31-2009 19:08 Post ID: 585,254  In reply to

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     You could try Richelle Mead's Succubus series and Nina Harper series as well.

    Richelle Mead:

    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/richelle-mead/

    Nina Harper:

    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/nina-harper/

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  • 08-15-2009 18:49 Post ID: 593,125  In reply to

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    Re: VAMPIRE NOVELS

    Anne Rice vampire chronicles is good im reading them at the min also Carpathians series by Christine Feehan tho ive only read the first one. True blood series is out to ive watched 1-8 and im now hooked on that too.Stick out tongue

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