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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 lesbian vampire items.
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| Title | Author | Description | Year | Rating |
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories  
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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 |
| Bar Stories, The : A Novel after All
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Nisa Donnelly | An entertaining series of short stories set in a popular California lesbian bar. |
1989 | -- |
Bending The Landscape : Horror 
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Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel | Volume II of the award-winning collection of gay and lesbian short fiction exploring the horror genre. |
2001 | A |
| Black Feathers: Erotic Dream
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Cecilia Tan | A collection of hard-core erotic short stories. Many stories interweave the supernatural and science fiction with the fantasy of daydream. |
1998 | -- |
| Blood Kiss: Vampire Erotica
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Cecilia Tan | A collection of erotic vampire stories. |
1994 | -- |
| Blood Prophet
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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 Relations
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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 |
| Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Tales
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Bianca de Moss | Sexy stories of Sapphic bloodsuckers! |
2006 | -- |
| Bloodsong; A Novel
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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- |
| Carmilla - The Return: A Vampire Novel
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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 | -- |
Chilling Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 
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Patty G. Henderson | A collection of GLBT horror 'flash fiction,' stories under 1000 words. |
2008 | A |
| Christabel
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge | A poem, which was to be the beginning of a medieval tale about a demon or witch. |
1819 | -- |
| Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories
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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 |
| Darker Passions, The: Carmilla
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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 | -- |
| Darkest Thirst, The
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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 | |
| Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories
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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 |
| Dawn Song
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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- |
| Dhampir: Child of the Blood
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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 | -- |
| Dracula: the First Hundred Years
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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
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Lawrence Schimel | A collection of queer stories, which includes a few stories dealing with vampires, werewolves and other monstrosities. |
1997 | -- |
| Dreams and Swords
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Katherine V. Forrest | Collection of stories including 'O Captain, My Captain', a story about a vampiritic lesbian space captain. |
1987 | -- |
| Embracing the Dark
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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 | -- |
| Fistful of Charms, A
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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 | -- |
| Gilda Stories, The
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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 |
| Good, the Bad and the Undead, The
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Kim Harrison | Bounty hunter and witch, Rachel Morgan, must defeat an evil preying upon the most powerful witches around. |
2005 | -- |
| Hunger, The
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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 | -- |
| I, Vampire
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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 a Glass Darkly
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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 | -- |
| Interview with the Vampire
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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
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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 |
| Love Bites
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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+ |
| Love in Vein
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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 | -- |
| Masters of Midnight
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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 |
| Minimax
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Anna Livia | The story of a feminist, featuring boisterous array of supporting characters, including a vampire. |
1991 | -- |
| Moonshadows - Fantasies of Love and Magick
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S.G. Johnson | Four short stories dealing with lesbian themes in sci-fi, fantasy and horror. |
1995 | D- |
| Mortal Companion
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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
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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 | -- |
| Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women
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Victoria Brownworth | This collection of seductive vampire stories is by turns sexy and subversive. |
1996 | B+ |
| Rainbow Arc of Fire: Autumn Saga
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Gregory Earl Sanchez | A super-powered couple accidentally unleashes a flood of monsters on an unsuspecting city. |
1997 | D- |
| Sardia: a Story of Love
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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 | -- |
| Scarlet Thirst
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Crin Claxton | A group of lesbian and trans vampires try to determine who is trying to kill them. |
2002 | C+ |
| Shadows After Dark
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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- |
| Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual
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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
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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
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Finola Hughes and Digby Diehl | An actress lands a job playing against a vampire-fighting lesbian cop. |
2005 | -- |
| Strange City
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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 | -- |
| Swords of the Rainbow
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Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez | A remarkable collection of fantasy, sword and sorcery, and science fiction tales with gay and lesbian themes. |
1996 | -- |
| Taste for Blood, A
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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
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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 | -- |
| Undead and Unwed
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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 Lesbians of Sodom; and, Sleeping Beauty or Coma
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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 | -- |
| Virago
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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 |
| Zora: La Vampira
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An Italian comic summarized as 'A woman is seduced by a lesbian vampire'. |
1975 | -- |
This page focuses on all lesbian vampire items.
For a page that shows all orientations, please go here
| Title | Author | Description | Year | Rating |
| Horror Reader, The
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Ken Gelder | Twenty-nine non-fiction essays and excerpts from previously published sources |
2000 | -- |
| Lesbian Words: State of the Art
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Randy Turoff | These writers dissect our culture, our collective past and our ambiguities. |
1995 | -- |
| Monsters in the Closet : Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film)
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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 |
| Our Vampires, Ourselves
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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
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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
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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
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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 | -- |
| Vamps: an Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale
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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 |
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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