Straight Vampire Books by Title

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Fiction

This page focuses on all straight vampire items.

Title	Author	Description	Year	Rating
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
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	--
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+
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 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 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 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
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
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	--
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
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	--
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
Dark Kingdoms	Richard Lee Byers	Something truly evil is stirring. Something cunning and malign, that threatens the living and the dead alike.	1998	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
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-
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	--
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-
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	--
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+
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	--
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
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	--
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+
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	--
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-
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
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+
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
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
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+
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	--
Lovedeath	Dan Simmons	A man exacts revenge from female vampires in Thailand	1993	C
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-
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	--
Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women	Victoria Brownworth	This collection of seductive vampire stories is by turns sexy and subversive.	1996	B+
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	--
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
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	--
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
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-
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	--
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	--
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	--
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	--
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	--
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	--

Non-Fiction

This page focuses on all straight vampire items.

Title	Author	Description	Year	Rating
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	--
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	--
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
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	--
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

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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