I trust your judgment, so you have any vampire book recommendations that aren’t Anne Rice books? (Not that I dislike Rice’s work, it’s just that that’s everyone’s go-to when I ask this.)

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.