Believe it or not, there are quite a few of gay vampire books out there. These are the items that have been found, a general description, and the general rating by the fans. (note: the ratings shows not only how good the story is, but also how well the horror or creatures are portrayed, and openly queer it is. A really good non-gay item might score very low). Can't find your book? If it doesn't have vampire's on it, try looking here. |
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This page focuses on all bisexual vampire items.
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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 |
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 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 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+ |
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 |
Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Volume Three |
Clive Barker | Five stories of otherworldly murder and terror. |
1984 | -- |
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+ |
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+ |
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 | -- |
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 | -- |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | -- |
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 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 | -- |
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 | -- |
Zora: La Vampira |
An Italian comic summarized as 'A woman is seduced by a lesbian vampire'. |
1975 | -- |
This page focuses on all bisexual vampire items.
For a page that shows all orientations, please go here
Title | Author | Description | Year | Rating |
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 | -- |
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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