John Adams - By Blood We Live

Things in the Lot go on pretty much as they always have. The sheriff found that fellow Lumley’s car the next day, out of gas, the battery dead. Neither Tookey nor I said anything about it. What would have been the point? And every now and then a hitchhiker or a camper will disappear around there someplace, up on Schoolyard Hill or out near the Harmony Hill cemetery. They’ll turn up the fellow’s packsack or a paperback book all swollen and bleached out by the rain or snow, or some such. But never the people.

I still have bad dreams about that stormy night we went out there. Not about the woman so much as the little girl, and the way she smiled when she held her arms up so I could pick her up. So she could give me a kiss. But I’m an old man and the time comes soon when dreams are done.

You may have an occasion to be traveling in southern Maine yourself one of these days. Pretty part of the countryside. You may even stop by Tookey’s Bar for a drink. Nice place. They kept the name just the same. So have your drink, and then my advice to you is to keep right on moving north. Whatever you do, don’t go up that road to Jerusalem’s Lot.

Especially not after dark.

There’s a little girl somewhere out there. And I think she’s still waiting for her good-night kiss.

What follows is a selected bibliography of vampire fiction. This list focuses primarily on vampires in fantasy, science fiction, and horror novels published within the last thirty years or so, and largely ignores young adult, tie-in (Buffy, Angel, etc.), romance, and erotica titles, although some crossover is inevitable. This list also looks beyond the obvious origins of the vampire genre; if you’re not already intimately familiar with John William Polidori’s Lord Ruthven (The Vampyre, 1819), Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (Carmilla, 1872), or Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Dracula, 1897), then start there. Titles noteworthy for their high literary value are marked with an asterisk.

To learn more about the stories in By Blood We Live, visit the anthology’s website at johnjosephadams.com/by-blood-we-live.

Acevedo, Mario

– The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (et seq.)

Aldiss, Brian W.

– Dracula Unbound

Altman, Steven Elliot

– Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires

Andersson, C. Dean

– I Am Dracula

Armstrong, F. W.

– Devouring

Armstrong, Kelley

– Bitten (Women of the Otherworld) (et seq.)

Arthur, Keri

– Full Moon Rising (et seq.)

Aycliffe, Jonathan

– The Lost

Baker, Scott

– Ancestral Hungers

– Dhampire

Banks, L. A.

– Minion (The Vampire Huntress Legend) (et seq.)

Barbeau, Adrienne and Michael Scott

– Vampyres of Hollywood

Bellamy, Dodie

– The Letters of Mina Harker

Bennett, Nigel and P. N. Elrod

– His Father’s Son

Bergstrom, Elaine

– Shattered Glass (et seq.)

– Mina (as Marie Kiraly)

– Blood to Blood: The Dracula Story (as Marie Kiraly)

Bishop, David

– Operation Vampyr (et seq.)

Bledsoe, Alex

– Blood Groove

Bodner, Hal

– Bite Club

Bradbury, Ray

– From the Dust Returned *

Brand, Rebecca

(see also Charnas, Suzy McKee)

– The Ruby Tear

Briggs, Patricia

– Blood Bound (et seq.)

Brite, Poppy Z.

– Lost Souls

Butcher, Jim

– Storm Front (The Dresden Files) (et seq.)

Butler, Octavia

– Fledgling *

Cacek, P. D.

– Night Players

– Night Prayers

Cecilione, Michael

– Thirst

Charnas, Suzy McKee

(see also Brand, Rebecca)

– Stagestruck Vampires and

Other Phantasms

– The Vampire Tapestry

Clark, Simon

– Vampyrrhic

Clegg, Douglas

– The Priest of Blood (The Vampyricon)

Conner, Michael

– Arkangel

Curtin, Joseph

– Daughters of the Moon

Davidson, MaryJanice

– Undead and Unwed (et seq.)

Dedman, Stephen

– Shadows Bite Del Toro, Guillermo and Chuck Hogan

– The Strain (et seq.)

Dietz, Ulysses G.

– Desmond

Doherty, Robert

– Area 51: Nosferatu

Due, Tananarive

– My Soul to Keep (et seq.)

Elrod, P. N.

– Quincy Morris, Vampire

– Bloodlist (et seq.)

– Red Death (et seq.)

Farmer, Philip Jose

– Image of the Beast *

Farren, Mick

– Darklost (et seq.)

Ford, John M.

– Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History

Fox, Andrew

– Fat White Vampire Blues (et seq.)

Friedman, C. S.

– The Madness Season

– Black Sun Rising (et seq.)

Garton, Ray

– Live Girls

Golden Christopher

– Of Saints and Shadows (et seq.)

Gunn, Derek

– Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder (et seq.)

Hambly, Barbara

– Those Who Hunt the Night

– Traveling With the Dead

– Renfield

Hamilton, Laurell K.

– Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter) (et seq.)

Harris, Charlaine

– Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire) (et seq.)

Harris, Narrelle M.

– The Opposite of Life

Harrison, Kim

– Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows) (et seq.)

Hawkins, Kerri

– Blood Legacy: The Novel

Hendee, Barb and J. C. Hendee

– Dhampir (et seq.)

– In Shade and Shadow (et seq.)

Hudson, Charlie

– Already Dead (et seq.)

Huff, Tanya

– Blood Price (et seq.)

Jefferson, Jemiah

– Voice of the Blood

– Wounds

– Fiend

Jewell, Elizabeth

– Dark Callings: Bloodlines

Jones, Matt R.

– Hollywood Vampires: UnholyWar (et seq.)

Kenyon, Sherrilyn

– Fantasy Lover (Dark Hunter) (et seq.)

Kiernan, Caitlín R.

– The Five of Cups

Killough, Lee

– Blood Hunt (et seq.)

Kilpatrick, Nancy

– Child of the Night (Power of the Blood) (et seq.)

King, Stephen

– ’Salem’s Lot *

Knight, E. E.

– Way of the Wolf (Vampire Earth) (et seq.)

Kohler, Karen

– Slayer (et seq.)

Kostova, Elizabeth

– The Historian *

Kupfer, Allen C.

– The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing

Lash, Batton

– The Vampire Brat

Laws, Stephen

– Fear Me

Laymon, Richard

– Bite

– The Traveling Vampire Show

Lee, Tanith

– Dark Dance (Blood Opera) (et seq.)

– Vivia

– Sabella

– The Blood of Roses

Lindqvist, John Ajvide

– Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One In) *

Lumley, Brian

– Necroscope (et seq.)

– Vampire World I: Blood Brothers (et seq.)

Lukyanenko, Sergei

– Night Watch (et seq.)

Marks, John

– Fangland

Martin, George R. R.

– Fevre Dream *

Martinez, A. Lee

– Gil’s All Fright Diner

Matheson, Richard

– I Am Legend *

McCammon, Robert

– They Thirst

McKinley, Robin

– Sunshine

McMullen, Sean

– Voyage of the Shadowmoon

– Glass Dragons

Mellick, Carlton, III

– The Faggiest Vampire

Merz, Jon F.

– The Fixer (et seq.)

Meyer, Stephenie

– Twilight (et seq.)

Mitchell, Mary Ann

– Sips of Blood (et seq.)

Moore, Christopher

– Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (et seq.)

Mosiman, Billie Sue

– Red Moon Rising

– Malachi’s Moon

– Craven Moon

Navarro, Yvonne

– AfterAge

Newman, Kim

– Anno Dracula (et seq.)

Powers, Tim

– The Stress of Her Regard (et seq.)*

Pratchett, Terry