annabellioncourt:

gothiccharmschool:

Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:

• Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
• Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman
• The Blood Opera trilogy (Dark Dance, Personal Darkness, Darkness I), by Tanith Lee
• The Blood Wine sequence (A Taste of Blood Wine, A Dance in Blood Velvet, The Dark Blood of Poppies, The Dark Arts of Blood), by Freda Warrington
• The Delicate Dependency, by Michael Talbot (the recently-published edition from Valancourt Books has a foreword by me!)
• Fevre Dream, by George R. R. Martin
• Lost Souls, by Poppy Z. Brite
• Midnight Blue: the Sonja Blue Collection, by Nancy Collins
• Still Life, by Michael Montoure

And, if you want super-sweet gothy YA vampires, the Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber are adorable. 

-Sunshine by Robin McKinley

-The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

-From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury

-Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (where’s its cult following? because its really damn good for a vampire novel, lacking the over-sentimental-yet-emotionally-devoid clatter of a lot of YA books but not having the same levels of bitter cynicism that adult vampire novels have)