Queer Vampire Books by Rating

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Fiction

Title	Author	Description	Year	Rating
Bending The Landscape : Horror	Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel	Volume II of the award-winning collection of gay and lesbian short fiction exploring the horror genre.	2001	A
Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories	Pam Keesey	This collection of erotic tales contains original and previously published fiction. Classics such as 'The Vampire' by Cora Linn Daniels, and 'The Bloody Countess' by Alejandra Pizarnik.	1995	A
Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories	Pam Keesey	An anthology of ten sexy, innovative short stories, mostly by contemporary women authors. Includes the 1872 classic 'Carmilla', by J. Sheridan LeFanu, and includes stories of a couple's first visit to New Orleans, and a bored hard-core S/M dominatrix getting confronted by a mortal.	1993	A
Gilda Stories, The	Jewelle Gomez	The adventures of a Black lesbian vampire, starting in Mississippi in 1850 where she was a runaway slave child, and continues to 2050 where she is a hunted vampire in Peru.	1991	A
Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite	In Missing Mile, North Carolina, in search of supple young flesh and thirsting for blood, three beautiful vampires--Molochai, Twig, and Zillah--follow an adopted teen boy named Nothing on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans.	1993	A
Out for Blood	John Peyton Cooke	When a gay man in the last stages of leukemia is offered the chance to become a healthy, immortal, eternally-youthful vampire, he accepts readily. But he soon discovers that a vampire's life isn't all glorious nightlife.	1991	A
Pomegranates Full and Fine	Don Bassingthwaite	Drawn to the Unseelie Court of Toronto to help her friend Riley organize the Highsummer Party, the fairy Tango arrives to discover Riley missing. Her search for clues to his whereabouts leads her to a pack of Sabbat vampires on a grisly murder spree. Tango begins to unravel the many mysteries in Toronto, and in the process makes a very unlikely ally. She will need all the help she can get as Highsummer's Eve draws near!	1995	A
Vampire Lestat, The	Anne Rice	Lestat is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-Revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence.	1985	A
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories	Robert Weinberg	The writers represented in this collection have imagined ingenious new means of vampire disposal, envisioned vampires interfacing with computers and piloting time machines, and even proposed more than a few reasons why people might want to be a vampire--or at least have one as a close friend.	1995	A
Blood Price	Tanya Huff	Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto's homicide detail, now a private investigator, witnessed the first attack by a force of dark magic that would soon wreak its reign of terror on the unsuspecting city. And as death followed unspeakable death, Vicki became more and more deeply enmeshed in an investigation even as she teamed up with the illegitimate son of Henry VIII turned vampire.	1991	A
BloodKiss: To Choose	K. J. Wren	A mortal man finds his fate entwined within the undead lives of three vampires, each one longing to be loved and yearning for security, each wanting him to satisfy their own personal agendas.	2002	A
Chilling Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	Patty G. Henderson	A collection of GLBT horror 'flash fiction,' stories under 1000 words.	2008	A
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice	The first book in the Vampire Chronicles. Louis the vampire has decided to tell his story, once and for all. From his short life to his long undeath. A classic.	1976	A
Last Vampire, The	Whitley Strieber	Miriam Blaylock's insatiable hunger has never ceased. Her incomparable beauty has made her a legend among the Keepers. Her many lovers have come and gone, crumbling into ash and nothingness. She knows the secrets of civilization, and the mysteries of life.	2001	A
Midnight Thirsts	Greg Herren, Michael Thomas Ford, Timothy Ridge and Sean Wolfe	Hungry. Ruthless. Irresistibly erotic. Succumb to desire as dark and mysterious as the men featured in these four tales of sensual - and deliciously sinister-passion...	2004	A
Bite Club : A West Hollywood Vampire Novel	Hal Bodner	Someone in West Hollywood has a macabre passion for beautiful young men. Healthy, gym-toned male bodies keep turning up - tortured, drained of blood, missing parts, and quite dead.	2005	B+
Blood of the Goddess	William Schindler	A Dutch merchant marine arrives in India in 1612 and is abducted by a mysterious stranger with a horrible secret who claims he is the sailor's immortal teacher and lover from a past life.	2001	B+
Blood Pact	Tanya Huff	It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get: the call that told Vicki that her mother was dead of a sudden heart attack. But what started as a personal tragedy soon became the most terrifying case of Vicki's career--when her mother's body disappeared.	1993	B+
Clash of Fangs, A	Roger Hyttinen	Steve falls in love with an exciting and mysterious man. Little does he know that his new boyfriend is a vampire. Soon, bodies drained of blood begin showing up in Chicago dumpsters. Is Steve's new boyfriend responsible?	2001	B+
Dark Destiny	Edward E. Kramer	Journey with us through the darkest realms of the imagination. Visit a Gothic-Punk world where vampires, werewolves and mages walk among us, though they remain shrouded from mortal eyes. Visit a world where supernatural forces and creatures have altered the course of history, society and global politics - a world much like our own.	1995	B+
Dark Kingdoms	Richard Lee Byers	Something truly evil is stirring. Something cunning and malign, that threatens the living and the dead alike.	1998	B+
Every Which Way But Dead	Kim Harrison	Witch bounty hunter Rachael is up to her old tricks, but this time she is keeping the supernatural community safe from a new evil ley-line witch; while still saving herself from an overly affectionate vampire, a demon who wants to own her and a lone werewolf.	2005	B+
Kitty and the Midnight Hour	Carrie Vaughn	A midnight-shift DJ stumbles across a winning formula by hosting an advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged.	2005	B+
Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women	Victoria Brownworth	This collection of seductive vampire stories is by turns sexy and subversive.	1996	B+
Somewhere in the Night: Eight Gay Tales of the Supernatural	Jeffrey McMahan	All of the protagonists of the eight horror tales here are gay, allowing the author both a new twist on chiller standbys, such as vampirism and spirit possession, and an intriguing perspective on the complexities of gay life.	1989	B+
Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood, and Immortality	Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche	A collection of cutting-edge gay male vampire stories. The tales are darkly sensual and engaging, yet complicated in their relationship to eroticism and the myths of blood, devourment, isolation, freedom and ecstasy.	1996	B+
Vampire Thrall	Michael Schiefelbein	An artist is hired by a monastery to illustrate an ancient manuscript. Haunted by visions of a vampire his whole life, the artist finally meets one, and is transformed into his thrall. But supernatural forces strive to tear the two apart.	2003	B+
Vampire Vow	Michael Schiefelbein	A vampire who, as a mortal, loved Jesus vows vengeance against the God that took him from him. Two thousand years later, he continues his vengeance while living in monasteries, and discovers the man who might actually replace Jesus in his heart.	2001	B+
Vampire's Heart, The	Mark A. Roeder	Ever wonder what it would be like to be fifteen-years-old forever? Ever wonder how it would feel to find out your best friend is not what he seems?	2002	B+
Vampires Anonymous	Jeffrey McMahan	What is a vampire to do when his vampire lover decides to become an 'ex-vampire' by joining Vampires Anonymous? Turn to the local pretty-boys for help? Or destroy the group that has taken his lover from him?	1991	B+
Brothers of the Night, Gay Vampire Stories	Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche	'He came to me through shadows and gray, through cold and stench and diffused light, the fog of a wet dream. He appeared as my darkest secret and became my only need. He became flesh from desire and has left me wondering what will happen to me, to my body, how much of my body will be taken over by him, and how much of the blood and souls of others I will need to survive, and what will remain of me' - Robert Thomson, 'Third Night'	1997	B
Dark Destiny - Proprietors of Fate	Edward E. Kramer	From the dawn of time, we have existed alongside creatures of the night - vampires, werewolves, mages and wraiths. Though shrouded from mortal society by an age-old Masquerade, their struggles and actions have changed the face of humanity.	1995	B
Darkest Thirst, The		The thirst for immortality. The thirst for revenge. The thirst for redemption. The unquenchable thirst for dark desires. The darkest thirst... the thirst for blood. This book contains three queer vampire stories: 'On Line,' 'The Alberscine's Vigil' and 'Nocturne a Tre in B-Double-Sharp Minor'	1998	B
Decorated to Death (Simon Kirby-Jones Mysteries)	Dean James	Snupperton Mumsley is astir over the arrival of Zeke Harwood, the obnoxious star of the popular TV decorating show Tr\ès Zeke.	2004	B
Desmond: A Novel of Love and the Modern Vampire	Ulysses Dietz	Desmond is a 250-year-old gay vampire who lives in a huge house, is financially secure, and is surrounded by beautiful things. But he is unhappy. That is, until he meets Tony in a bar, and falls in love. Things get complicated, though, when he tries to tell his new love about his past.	1998	B
In the Blood (2000)	Scott Miller	An unlikely romance between a hematologist and a vampire in the early years of the AIDS pandemic is the focus of Scott Miller's genre-defying riff on vampire legends, American pop culture, and horror fiction. Part romance, part gothic horror, part comedy, part steamy eroticism, In the Blood crosses all boundaries and ends up an entertaining roller coaster ride you won't soon forget.	2000	B
Lord of the Dead	Tom Holland	The famed nineteenth-century poet and rake, Lord Byron, comes to life in a searing blend of fact and fiction. Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive slave, whose pale, slim body arouses his lust. Utterly entranced, his fate is sealed. The supreme sensualist embarks on a life of adventure--that of the world's most formidable vampire.	1995	B
Masters of Midnight	Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe and Jeff Mann	Spend the night with four mysterious men whose kiss is more than deadly, it's forever...	2003	B
Of Princes & Beauties: Erotic Fairy Tails for Adults	Cecilia Tan	A collection of old fairy tales with new twists. Mixed gay and straight themes.	1996	B
Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice	Akasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it's unwise to rile her now that she's had 60 centuries of practice being undead. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well.	1988	B
Smoke and Shadows	Tanya Huff	Tony, former lover of vampire Henry Fitzroy, is our last defense against a dark wizard from another dimension. A wizard who controls a shadow army and who has destroyed at least one other world.	2004	B
Bloodsong; A Novel	Karen Marie Christa Minns	It wasn't bad enough that her lover was the daughter of a homophobic diplomat, but now she's begun to act strangely, sneaking out at night to do who knows what. Who knows what that new girl has been teaching her?	1997	B-
Dawn Song	Michael Marano	As the sun set, the Succubus woke, filling her eyes with the wonder and mystery of a changing sky. She stretched out over the cold gravel and snow and extended her mind out across the city to find suitable quarry.	1998	B-
Desmodus	Melanie Tem	About an ancient culture of a humanoid people with vampiric qualities who live in isolation from other humans. When Joel Desmodus uncovers a terrible secret that has been hidden for generations, he must overcome a great personal weakness in order to save an innocent life.	1995	B-
Image of the Beast	Philip Jose Farmer	Herald Childe, a private investigator, sees a sexual mutilation and his life is forever changed. Childe must now find and destroy an inhuman predator on the streets of a polluted and decadent Los Angeles of the future.	1968	B-
Soul Mates: Bound By Blood	Jourdan Lane	A vampire-phobic bartender's life is turned around when he meets the man of his dreams. But will he learn to trust him? And even so, can their love survive many forces trying to tear them apart?	2005	B-
Vampire's Kiss	Sonny Barker	A heterosexual man enters a gay bar for the first time in his life and finds himself drawn to a man with irresistible power. But after sleeping with this man he finds himself obsessed with other men. Is he really queer, or is he becoming a gay vampire?	1970	B-
Fairy Tales : Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men	Peter Cashorali	A collection of classic folk and fairy tales contemporized in order to give gay men tales that tell their stories.	1995	C+
Gift, The	Scott Edelman	A gay couple, shunned by the small town they live in, revive a vampire and must deal both with the 'gift' of immortality offered to them by the vampire. As if this isn't enough, they must also deal with jealousy and the homophobia in the small town they recently moved into.	1990	C+
Hot Blood - Tales of Provocative Horror	Jeff Gelb and Claire Zion	24 tales of dread and debauchery, riveting stories of sex and terror.	1989	C+
Scarlet Thirst	Crin Claxton	A group of lesbian and trans vampires try to determine who is trying to kill them.	2002	C+
Blood Relations	Doug Murray	Val searches the downtown scene for thrills. Mariana is an artist whose talent is dying even as her body enjoys immortality. They meet at the Blood Club, and a spark is struck between them. What they don't know is that their meeting was arranged.	1996	C
Light at the End, The	John Skipp and Craig Spector	Ten murders on the New York subway - all horrible, all inexplicable, no two alike. The city's tabloids blare forth headlines about a 'Subway Psycho.' The cops comb the island looking for a vicious hoodlum or an escaped lunatic. Both are wrong - for both are assuming that the killer is human. Only a handful of people know the truth about the demonic force that has taken over Manhattan's cavernous underground. The terrible way Rudy died one night in the echoing depths of an isolated subway tunnel. The creature he has now become - a cunning creature boasting ancient and unlimited evil. Worst of all, they know the dreadful fate he has in store for millions of innocent people.	1986	C
Lovedeath	Dan Simmons	A man exacts revenge from female vampires in Thailand	1993	C
Merrick	Anne Rice	Merrick Mayfair, a sultry, hard-drinking octoroon beauty whose voodoo can turn the toughest vampire into a marionette dancing to her merry, scary tune. In Merrick, Anne Rice brings back three of her most wildly popular characters--the vampires Lestat and Louis and the dead vampire child Claudia--and introduces them to the world of her Mayfair Witches book series.	2001	C
Tale of the Body Thief, The	Anne Rice	Lestat tells of his recent folly in attempting to return to mortality and decides to end it once and for all. Before he can, he meets a psychic with an interesting proposal.	1993	C
Virago	Karen Marie Christa Minns	It wasn't bad enough that her lover was the daughter of a homophobic diplomat, but now she's begun to act strangely, sneaking out at night to do who knows what. Who knows what that new girl has been teaching her?	1990	C
Posted To Death : A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery	Dean James	A gay American vampire finds peace in a small English village. A murder of a local townswoman brings him out of writing romance novels and into being a detective.	2002	C-
Bound in Blood: The Erotic Journey of a Vampire	David Thomas Lord	Cruising the night has never been so tempting or deadly. The story of a Greenwich Village vampire and his lust for gorgeous men.	2001	D+
Love Bites	Amarantha Knight	Vampire lovers, hookers, groupies and hustlers of all sexual persuasions are waiting to entice you into their sensuous world. A volume of tales dedicated to legend's sexiest demon, the Vampire.	1995	D+
Book of Vampires	Stephen Jones	A collection of 29 vampire stories.	1992	D-
Diary of a Vampire	Gary Bowen	The chilling, arousing, and ultimately moving memoirs of an undead-- but all too human--soul. Bowen's Rafael, a red-blooded male with an insatiable hunger for the same, is the perfect antidote to the effete malcontents haunting bookstores today. Diary of a Vampire marks the emergence of a bold and brilliant vision, firmly rooted in the past and present.	1995	D-
Gay Vampire	Davy S.	A bone-chilling novel that includes: Davy being raped by Barnaby - a blood sucking vampire! A relationship between two brother-in-laws that will shock you.	1969	D-
I, Vampire	Jody Scott	Misunderstood vampire Sterling O'Blivion was working at a dance studio in Chicago when the Rysemian starships landed and things began to change for the better.	1984	D-
In the Blood (1995)	Aaron Travis	A collection of early work from the author. Included is 'In the Blood', a descent into sexual vampirism.	1995	D-
Monsters Galore	Bernhardt J. Hurwood	The terrifying truth about other monsters - including absolutely authenticated ones - who may be stalking you at this very moment. Monsters Galore is an adventure into the netherworld of horror ... after which you may never be the same again.	1965	D-
Moonshadows - Fantasies of Love and Magick	S.G. Johnson	Four short stories dealing with lesbian themes in sci-fi, fantasy and horror.	1995	D-
Need	Sean Michael	When a hustler meets a vampire, who knows what will happen?	2005	D-
Rainbow Arc of Fire: Autumn Saga	Gregory Earl Sanchez	A super-powered couple accidentally unleashes a flood of monsters on an unsuspecting city.	1997	D-
Shadows After Dark	Ouida Crozier	An alternate dimension populated by vampires who cross dimensions to find a cure for AIDS. On her travels, the heroine meets and falls in love with another woman, who is horrified to learn that her mysterious, darkly exotic lover is a vampire.	1993	D-
Winter of the Soul: Gay Vampire Fiction	Gary Bowen	Welcome to the world of the vampire, sensuous lover, dark guest, shape-changer and demon, whose lusts know no bounds, and in whose embrace no man is safe.	1995	D-
Dragula	Ben Sheldon	A vampire in drag frequents the gay establishments of San Francisco in search of blood victims.	2004	F
Ragged Angels	Della Van Hise	A science-fiction convention is a common enough place to meet vampire wannabes, but to actually meet a vampire? Stefan, a man who has recently lost his daughter is surprised to meet a vampire. Offering him the gift of immortality, he wrestles with his own demons before accepting their gift.	1997	D-
As One Dead	Don Bassingthwaite and Nancy Kilpatrick	Bianka has come to lead the Camarilla to freedom through rebellion, to give them a chance to recover their lost pride. Lot can't allow that to happen. It is his duty to the Sabbat to ensure that the Camarilla remain prisoners. Two fierce sects. Two missions that could destroy the uneasy peace in the city. One great, unexpected love that could destroy two vampires.	1996	--
Baked to Death: A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery	Dean James	When a man vying to become King of a medieval faire is poisoned during dinner, it is up to gay, vampire detective Simon-Kirby to solve the crime.	2005	--
Bar Stories, The : A Novel after All	Nisa Donnelly	An entertaining series of short stories set in a popular California lesbian bar.	1989	--
Black Feathers: Erotic Dream	Cecilia Tan	A collection of hard-core erotic short stories. Many stories interweave the supernatural and science fiction with the fantasy of daydream.	1998	--
Bleeding Hearts: Diary of a Country Vampire, The	T. P. Keating	Medication can keep Connie's minor vampire heritage, but not the world, at bay.	2005	--
Blood Debt	Tanya Huff	Vicki, a female private eye who was until recently human; Mike, a Toronto homicide detective who is her ex-partner and current lover; and Henry, a vampire who writes bodice rippers Henry calls upon Vicki and Mike to help him lay to rest the angry ghosts who are haunting him and demanding he find their killer and mete out blood vengeance.	1997	--
Blood Kiss	Cecilia Tan	The seven erotic vampire stories in this book include gay, lesbian, S/M, and transgendered themed stories. Renee Charles' 'Cinnamon Rose' is a sardonic first-person tale of a 20th century vampire/hair stylist. In 'Wanting,' Amelia G writes about a Goth/Glam lesbian vampire and her willing victim. Gary Bowen's 'The Brass Ring' is about a man whose lover turns him into a woman.	1994	--
Blood Kiss: Vampire Erotica	Cecilia Tan	A collection of erotic vampire stories.	1994	--
Blood Lines	Tanya Huff	A 450-year-old vampire, a female private investigator, and a tough homicide detective team up to catch a mummy set to terrorize the city of Toronto. Fearing for his sanity, 450-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy calls upon his sometime-lover and comrade, ex-cop Vicki Nelson, whose friend and former partner is in the middle of a murder investigation involving a museum mummy.	1992	--
Blood Lust	Ron Dee	How can you say no to the lover of your dreams... a lover who knows your most secret fantasies... and can fulfill them. Even if you know his thrilling kiss may be your last...	1990	--
Blood Lust : Erotic Vampire Tales	M. Christian and Todd Gregory	Some vampires have more on their mind than blood. This collection presents an array of stories that celebrate the sexy, forbidden side of the children of the night!	2005	--
Blood of Kings, The : A Novel	John Michael Curlovich	A hunky sophomore decides to audit a summer class on Egyptology taught by a magnetic professor, and discovers a quest to invigorate an ancient line of kings.	2004	--
Blood Pact	Tanya Huff	It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get: the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother was dead of a sudden heart attack. But what started as a personal tragedy soon became the most terrifying case of Vicki's career--when her mother's body disappeared.	1993	--
Blood Prophet	John Michael Curlovich	A young vampire finds himself alone when his sire vanishes. Now, he must deal with homophobia, Fundamentalists and a rival type of immortal to find his love and bring him home.	2006	--
Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Tales	Bianca de Moss	Sexy stories of Sapphic bloodsuckers!	2006	--
Blood Trail	Tanya Huff	The unique investigative duo from Blood Price--P.I. Vicki Nelson and 450-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy--once again join forces to solve a crime of supernatural proportions in modern-day Canada. As silver bullets take their toll, Vicki and Henry fear they won't be able to stop a crazed killer. When a pack of werewolves is discovered on a London, Ontario, farm, Henry Fitzroy, a Toronto-based vampire and writer of romance novels, calls upon private investigator Vicki Nelson to help him trace the trail of destruction to the killers.	1992	--
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story	Christopher Moore	Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly blood-oriented thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.	1995	--
Blue Moon	Laurell K. Hamilton	One never forgets an ex-fianc\ée. And when Richard calls Anita Blake at three in the morning, she knows it won't be good news. It seems Richard had gotten himself thrown in jail on a rape charge. But Anita knows that though he is a monster, Richard's no rapist. And it's up to her to prove his innocence--before the blue Moon creates even bigger problems for Richard.	1998	--
Bound in Flesh	David Thomas Lord	A new type of vampire has been created and vampires Jean-Luc Courbet and Claude Halloran are responsible. Ex-cop Mike O'Donald now seeks vengeance as the two terrorize Sin City.	2006	--
Carmilla - The Return: A Vampire Novel	Kyle Marfin	For most of Carmilla's life, from the late 1800s to the present, she has been a vampire, and alone. Lauren, a despondent, overeducated (for the job she holds) twenty-something woman from Chicago, is also alone. After an apparently chance encounter between the two women, Lauren moves to northern tip of Michigan, where she eventually runs into an old high school boyfriend. When Carmilla follows her, Lauren begins to suspect that their initial meeting was not as accidental as it seemed.	1998	--
Cherished Blood: Vampire Erotica	Cecilia Tan	This is about vampires whose physical needs go beyond the need for blood. This collection includes gay, lesbian, transgendered, kinky, and bisexual vampires.	1997	--
Christabel	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	A poem, which was to be the beginning of a medieval tale about a demon or witch.	1819	--
Circus of the Damned	Laurell K. Hamilton	Anita Blake is an expert on creatures of the night. She has dined with shape-shifters, danced with werewolves, and been wooed, but not won, by Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of the city. Now there's a new vampire in town named Alejandro and he wants Anita for his servant. His attempts to win her lead to a war of the undead.	1995	--
Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Volume Three	Clive Barker	Five stories of otherworldly murder and terror.	1984	--
Cocksure : Erotic Fiction	Bob Vickery	A collection of short gay erotic stories.	2002	--
Darker Passions, The: Carmilla	Amarantha Knight	A shockingly sensual reinterpretation of Sheridan LeFanu's notorious chiller. Captivated by the portrait of a beautiful woman, a young man finds himself becoming gradually obsessed with her remarkable story. Little by little he uncovers the many blasphemies and debaucheries with which the beauteous Laura filled her hours - even as a hungry, otherworldly presence began feasting upon her.	1997	--
Dead Until Dark : Southern Vampire Mysteries	Charlaine Harris	A small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana meets the vampire of her dreams amid a rash of murders.	2001	--
Desires Unleashed: Knights of the Darkness Chronicles	D.N. Simmons	Two detectives from the Supernatural Unit Investigation Team track down a threat in a world where humans and the supernatural live side-by-side.	2004	--
Dhampir: Child of the Blood	V. M. Johnson	A vampyre of the Clan of Lilith invites us into her life through letters to her newly made 'cub' and to those she calls her 'food.'	1995	--
Doctors Wear Scarlet; A Romantic Tale	Simon Raven	A young British scholar travels to Greece to work on his doctoral thesis and meets a female vampire from an ancient pagan culture.	1960	--
Dracula: the First Hundred Years	Bob Madison	The books, the comics, the films, etc - illustrated in b&w. the image of Dracula is forever shifting and changing, reflecting not himself, but our own fears and secret longings.	1997	--
Drag Queen of Elfland: Short Stories, The	Lawrence Schimel	A collection of queer stories, which includes a few stories dealing with vampires, werewolves and other monstrosities.	1997	--
Dreams and Swords	Katherine V. Forrest	Collection of stories including 'O Captain, My Captain', a story about a vampiritic lesbian space captain.	1987	--
Embracing the Dark	Eric Garber	An anthology of eleven short stories of horror and dark fantasy, with gay men and lesbians at the center of these tales of ghosts, vampires, werewolves and spirits.	1991	--
Erotica Vampirica: Sensual Vampire Stories	Cecilia Tan	Tales of vampire mythos where sex and sexuality are no longer sublimated or hidden. These vampires are more than just allure and smoke, they burn with lust and the physical need to sate their hunger.	1996	--
Faked to Death: A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery	Dean James	Simon, along with his adoring young aide, Sir Giles, attends a crime writer's conference at Kinsale House presided over by its domineering chatelaine, Lady Hermione. The thoroughly nasty literary agent shared by all should be the murderer's object, but she has too much on her clients, and it's the Dorinda imposter who ends up squashed by a stone urn pushed from the terrace.	2003	--
Fistful of Charms, A	Kim Harrison	The adventures of a trio of supernatural bounty hunters continues as the witch's boyfriend returns with a powerful object that many will kill to possess.	2006	--
For a Few Demons More	Kim Harrison	A fiendish serial killer stalks the Hollows, claiming victims across society, and the resulting terror ignites a vicious Inderland gang war.	2007	--
Gay Ghouls, The	Chet Roman	What a surprise it was for young Chadwick Schaeffer Bellingham to discover that he was now the young master of an estate. But, even more of a surprise was in store for him when he met the other residents. It seems that either insanity or psychic powers run in his family. Not that it matters which, since someone wants him dead and has the power to make it happen.	1970	--
Good, the Bad and the Undead, The	Kim Harrison	Bounty hunter and witch, Rachel Morgan, must defeat an evil preying upon the most powerful witches around.	2005	--
Grave Passions: Tales of the Gay Supernatural	William J. Mann	A collection of the most chilling tales of passion currently being penned by today's most provocative gay writers. Unnatural transformations, otherworldly encounters, and deathless desires make for a collection sure to keep readers up late at night for a variety of reasons!	1997	--
Guilty Innocent, The: Knights of the Darkness Chronicles	D.N. Simmons	Even the guilty can be innocent...a heinous set-up leads to the arrest of a very powerful vampire. Now, those who know him best must risk their lives to discover the truth before it is too late.	2005	--
Guilty Pleasures	Laurell K. Hamilton	Introducing Anita Blake, vampire hunter extraordinaire. Most people don't even bat an eye at vampires since they've been given equal rights by the Supreme Court. But Anita knows better--she's seen their victims. . . . A serial killer is murdering vampires, however, and now the most powerful vampire in town wants Anita to find the killer.	1995	--
Haunted Hillbilly, The	Derek McCormack	A gay tailor befriends an up and coming country western singer, convincing him that the right clothes will propel him to fame.	2004	--
Herd of Tiny Elephants, A	Stan Leventhal	A collection of short stories about male relationships. The stories span many literary styles including: romance, fantasy, science-fiction, horror, westerns and erotica.	1988	--
Hotel Transylvania : A Novel of Forbidden Love	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro	Le Comte de Saint-Germain, the newest member of Louis XV's court, catches the eye of Madeleine de Montalia, but the young lady has attracted others as well, not all of whom mean her well.	1978	--
House of the Vampire	George Viereck	A young writer finds that his dreams come true when he is asked to live with an artistic genius.	1907	--
Hunger, The	Whitley Strieber	Miriam is beautiful, sophisticated, and centuries-old. Continually lonely, she finds suitable human lovers, male and female, with whom to share her blood and her life. Unfortunately, these companions are not real vampires and cannot survive forever.	1981	--
In a Glass Darkly	J. Sheridan LeFanu	First published in 1872, this collection of stories includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience.	1872	--
Killing Dance, The	Laurell K. Hamilton	With a price on her head and professional killers on her trail, Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, turns to the men in her life for help. Which, in her case, means an alpha werewolf and a master vampire. She needs as much protection as possible, human or otherwise. But Anita is beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one.	1997	--
Kiss Me, Kill Me	Michael Karol	A journey from the slave ships of the 1600s to the plantations of colonial Virginia and finally to modern-day New York, as a man tries to deal with an ancient horror that apparently has unfinished business with him.	2003	--
Laughing Corpse, The	Laurell K. Hamilton	Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter for Animators, Inc., is offered a cool mil to raise a 283-year-old corpse. But she knows that 'the older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it.' Only a human sacrifice is 'big' enough to raise this old soul--and Anita's no murderer.	1994	--
Love in Vein	Poppy Z. Brite	The stories present 20 different worlds, from the Old West to modern Japan to the inner city, in which vampire's desires are no longer focused solely, or even primarily, on their victims' jugulars.	1994	--
Lovers Who Stay with You	David MacMillan	A collection of 28 short erotic vampire stories blending the vampire, romance, and erotic genres.	2003	--
Lunatic Cafe, The	Laurell K. Hamilton	The local pack of werewolves comes to preternatural expert Anita Baker for help after a number of their pack come up missing--probably because she is dating the leader of the pack. Anita has survived a lot, from jealous vampires to killer zombies, but this love thing may kill her yet. From the author of Circus of the Damned.	1996	--
Man Hungry	Gary Bowen	A collection of lusty stories containing all different types of men in horror, science fiction and fantasy genres.	1996	--
Mark Julian Vampire P.I.: The Case of the Choirboy Killer	Kyle Cicero	A 'Choirboy Killer' attacks the gays in New York City. It is up to the gay vampire detective and his sex-changing Incubus secretary to stop him.	2009	--
Memnoch the Devil	Anne Rice	As the book opens, Lestat is convinced that he is being followed, and not by anything of this world. He believes that it is the Devil who dogs him, and that he intends to cast Lestat into Hell to be castigated for his sins. Soon Lestat confronts his pursuer who, though he looks like an Ordinary Man, identifies himself as Memnoch--the Devil. He has come after Lestat not to drag him into damnation but to recruit him to Memnoch's ongoing struggle with God.	1996	--
Minimax	Anna Livia	The story of a feminist, featuring boisterous array of supporting characters, including a vampire.	1991	--
Mortal Companion	Patrick Califia	When sweet, small-town librarian Mary Beth, meets an ancient seductive vampire, her world changes forever. No one could have suspected the depths of depravity she would descend into. Nor could they have predicted the jealous response of his sister.	2004	--
Mother Julian and the Gentle Vampire	Jack Pantaleo	After drinking Mother Julian's sacred blood and is converted, Little Gift then becomes a vampire in reverse: She must give her blood or she will die. Her blood has the ability to instill self-esteem and heal broken lives. Living now in present-day San Francisco and dubbed, Lesbiana, the story weaves flashbacks to Old England and Mother Julian's radical insights.	2000	--
Not at Night!: A Collection of Weird Tales	Herbert Asbury	24 creepy tales from the early days of Weird Tales. Included are contributions by H.P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, Frank Belknap Long, and many others.	1928	--
Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires	Anne Rice	Two-thousand-year-old Pandora is the child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. When David meets Pandora, he persuades her to write the story of her life.	1998	--
Queer Fear	Michael Rowe	An anthology of horror stories where all of the protagonists are clearly gay.	2000	--
Running Dry: A Novel	M. Christian	Ernst Doud is a middle-aged 154-year-old non-human painter living quietly in Los Angeles when he receives a cryptic letter from a lover he last saw in 1913, precisely at the moment he killed him-or so he had always thought.	2006	--
Sailors' Tales (Matrosengeschichten)	Karl Heinrich Ulrichs	A collection of short stories including 'Manor', the earliest gay vampire story written.	1884	--
Sardia: a Story of Love	Cora Lynn Morrison Daniels	A mysterious and beautiful woman has the vampiric ability to mesmerize people and drain them of their vital energy. Through this ability, she has infatuated a man in an attempt to ruin his marriage and secure his money.	1891	--
Seed of Lost Souls	Poppy Z Brite	The original short story from which the novel Lost Souls grew. Includes a foreword and an essay/book review about vampires, both by the author, as well as an interview with Poppy from around the time Lost Souls was published.	1999	--
Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual	Greg Herren	A bone-chilling anthology of gay and lesbian psychodrama. These stories introduce you to the doomed and the damned, including a gay travel writer with a one-way ticket to horror; a murdered lesbian who plots bloody revenge from the grave; a young gay man's fear of Jewish vampires; and many others.	2004	--
So Dead, My Love	Patty G. Henderson	An artist's obsession with the mysterious Karnov family leads to the rising of an enigmatic vampire foretold of in prophecy. Will she join her vampiric lover or turn from her to face the light?	2009	--
Soapsuds	Finola Hughes and Digby Diehl	An actress lands a job playing against a vampire-fighting lesbian cop.	2005	--
Space Vampires, The	Colin Wilson	A group of astronauts discover a group of humans in space. After bringing them home they discover that these are really a new type of vampire that feed on more than just blood.	1977	--
Strange City	Staley Krause and Stewart Wieck	For millennia they have preyed on us from the shadows. Vengeful werewolves hunger for our flesh. Ravenous vampires crave our blood, while eerie wraiths seek out our very souls. Our reality shatters at the whims of mages - and even our dreams are not safe from the changelings' mad caprices. For millennia they have ruled over us from the shadows, secure in their invisibility.	1996	--
Studies of Death: Romantic Tales	Eric Stenbock Stanislaus	A collection of stories containing 'The True Story of a Vampire', one of the first gay vampire stories ever written.	1894	--
Swamp Foetus	Poppy Z. Brite	A collection of erotic horror stories follows the adventures of solace-seeking lonely-hearts on a North Carolina highway, behind a dusty Georgia carnie show, in a Baton Rouge mausoleum, and an alley in Calcutta	1994	--
Swords of the Rainbow	Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez	A remarkable collection of fantasy, sword and sorcery, and science fiction tales with gay and lesbian themes.	1996	--
Tap Tap	David Lozell Martin	After an old friend shows up at his door, Roscoe's enemies, old and new, start dying and he's suspected of murder. Peter turns out to be a vampire and in love with Roscoe.	1995	--
Taste for Blood, A	Diana Lee	Ryan was born when Vikings raided the British coast and the clans of Scotland feuded with blood lust. Raped, killed and reborn as a vampire at the tender age of sixteen, she is now over eight hundred years old	2003	--
Taste of Midnight: Vampire Erotica	Cecilia Tan	Fall into the darkness and sensuality that is the vampire's world. In these pages you will find goddesses with secrets and vampires with needs of their own.	1998	--
To the Grave	Marc Lewallen	When Jacob's sweet and slightly naive roommate starts dating an impossibly sexy stranger new to Chicago his life begins to get complicated and his friends start turning up dead.	2004	--
Twice Bitten: Love in Vein II	Poppy Z. Brite	Collected here are sumptuous stories that prove that the dark desires are everywhere--from the New Orleans Goth scene to the punk bars of Amsterdam, from the dark side of glistening Las Vegas to the secret lovers who dwell in Lugosi's tomb.	1998	--
Undead and Unwed	Mary Janice Davidson	First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.	2004	--
Vampire Armand, The	Anne Rice	David Talbot asks Armand about his life. Armand begins his personal tale with his childhood in Kiev and ultimately fifteenth century Constantinople. He was a mortal sold as a boy toy to Marius, a Venetian painter, who happened to be a vampire. Soon after that, he receives the gift of the dark. His haven within Marius' palazzo is destroyed by fellow vampires, killing in the name of God. However, Armand escapes and his escapades continue in nineteenth century Paris and twentieth century New Orleans.	1998	--
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; and, Sleeping Beauty or Coma	Charles Busch	Two plays. Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is set in the 'twin cities' of Sodom and Gomorrah, an adult male actor plays a 14-year-old maiden who's sacrificed to the Succubus, an evil blood-drinker with a 'westal wirgin' habit. But the victim doesn't die, instead becoming the Succubus' sister in tainted immortality. The rivals battle for supremacy over the centuries, with the decisive battle fought in modern--day Las Vegas.	1986	--
Vampire Transgression	Michael Schiefelbein	When vampires break the ultimate rule by living together, they find that they must fight the forces of the Dark Kingdom to stay alive.	2006	--
Wired Hard: Erotica of a Gay Universe	Cecilia Tan	What happens when you combine gay male sensibilities, homoerotic fantasies, and futuristic, fantastic fiction? You get Wired Hard. Another erotic science fiction anthology.	1994	--
World on Blood, The	Jonathan Nasaw	This is a story of one of the oddest twelve-step groups around. A mildly supernatural, sensual story of twelve vampires in San Francisco trying to kick their habit of drinking blood.	1997	--
Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories	Poppy Z. Brite	(formerly Swamp Foetus) A collection of erotic horror stories follows the adventures of solace-seeking lonely-hearts on a North Carolina highway, behind a dusty Georgia carnie show, in a Baton Rouge mausoleum, and an alley in Calcutta	1994	--
Zora: La Vampira		An Italian comic summarized as 'A woman is seduced by a lesbian vampire'.	1975	--
Bloody Bones	Laurell K. Hamilton	Hired to exhume two-hundred-year-old graves in the wake of a land dispute, Anita Blake becomes involved in local murders involving three dead teenagers and a bloodless corpse that makes her suspect that an evil force is preying upon the town.	1996	--
Burnt Offerings	Laurell K. Hamilton	'You can't trust anyone who sleeps with monsters'. That's what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only 'The Executioner' could save them from the inferno.	1998	--

Non-Fiction

Title	Author	Description	Year	Rating
Piercing the Darkness Undercover with Vampires in America Today	Katherine Ramsland	A woman goes undercover into the vampyre scene and collects their stories. Many of the stories we hear about in depth are from gay vampyres and their interests in blood sports and seduction.	1998	A
Monsters in the Closet : Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film)	Harry M. Benshoff	Horror fiction has always portrayed society's greatest fears as monstrous incarnations of 'the other,' so it should be no surprise that there has always been a clear homoerotic subtext in horror films--from Frankenstein to Interview with the Vampire.	1997	A
Vamps: an Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale	Pam Keesey	A research book on strong female characters. Many are lesbian, many are vampire, but not all. 'Vamps is an insightful look into the long history of the so called 'bad girl'' -- The Vampire Athenaeum	1997	A
Blood Read : The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture	Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger	Over the past century the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations--from Bram Stoker's original Dracula to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Blood Read examines a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars and shows how these transformations reflect ongoing changes in postmodern culture.	1997	--
Horror Reader, The	Ken Gelder	Twenty-nine non-fiction essays and excerpts from previously published sources	2000	--
In The Shadow Of The Vampire: Reflections From The World Of Anne Rice	Jana Marcus	This inside look at the bizarre social phenomenon surrounding Anne Rice novels is as fascinating as her breathtaking stories. Includes photographs and interviews from the 1995 and 1996 'Gatherings,' hosted by Anne Rice each Halloween.	1997	--
Lesbian Words: State of the Art	Randy Turoff	These writers dissect our culture, our collective past and our ambiguities.	1995	--
Our Vampires, Ourselves	Nina Auerbach	A study that moves the changing historical image of the vampire from the margins to the heart of Anglo-American culture. Beginning with Byron and Polidori, Rymer and LeFanu, Auerbach shows how the character of the vampire offered an intimacy--often homoerotic--that threatened the class structure and the authority of husbands and fathers. Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' ended this tradition, introducing a tyrannical vampire to late Victorian readers who where haunted by a monster of their own making--the clinical version of the homosexual. She then examines a vast range of material from the 20th century. She concludes on a note of hope, seeing the vampire reborn in a female tradition in the work of Anne Rice and others.	1995	--
V Is For Vampire: The A -Z Guide To Everything Undead	David J. Skal	This informative and entertaining pop-culture reference guide covers all aspects of vampirism--from the infamous lore about garlic, mirrors, and wooden stakes to fascinating descriptions of little-known books and films on the subject. Skal's look at the dark creature will recapture the imagination of millions and covers hundreds of topics related to vampires.	1996	--
Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead	J. Gordon Melton	Contains the cultural history of the vampire; a historical timeline; addresses of vampire societies all over the world; a 55-page filmography; vampires in plays, opera, and ballet; a 13-page list of vampire novels; and an extensive index. The A to Z entries, each with a short bibliography, include vampire lore in more than 30 different geographic regions and a comprehensive 'who's who,' and cover topics ranging from fingernails to sexuality, the Camarilla to Szekelys.	1998	--
Vampires & Violets: Lesbians in Film	Andrea Weiss	A revelatory survey of lesbian identity in film--from the cross-dressing stars like Garbo, Dietrich, and Hepburn to the vampire movies of the late '60s, Silkwood and The Color Purple. With wit and political acumen, Weiss reveals the concealed world of a host of movies both popular and forgotten.	1993	--

Honorable mentions:
If you want general vampire non-fiction, I've found the book "Vampires, Burial and Death" by Paul Barber to be really informative. It's basically a look into the history and folklore of vampires, and discusses where the beliefs came from - sadly, nothing queer in it though.

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