>>25507363Carmilla is the only one I have read, and it's weird in a good way. It's a lesbian vampire, but it's old, not some woke/dark romance slop.
>>25507363Interview with the Vampire
I am Legend, by Richard Matheson.Salem's Lot, by Stephen King.
>>25507363If you are just really into vampires or 19th century Mississippi River vibes you might try Fevre Dream by George RR Martin. It's no literary wonder, but it's a fun page turner. It took me back when people picked up printed reading material when they were bored or waiting. Pulpy throwaway novels, magazines, newspapers. You just read stuff all the time and it wasn't remarkable in any way. Sorry I digress.
What an atrocious fucking cover, holy shit.
The Lesser Dead
They need to remake Dracula so that he's a sexy billionaire
>>25507516Never read the book, huh?
>>25507516uh he's fucking count? count dracula?
>>25507516He's literally Transylvanian royalty who owns a castle and buys a fucking ABBEY in London on a whim and becomes an attractive young man once he's gotten enough blood.READ THE FUCKING BOOK!
>>25507518Well could he count to one billion?
>>25507528Yeah but that's lame. He needs a tech startup.
>>25507404That's what people that buy new books are into now
They Thirst
>>25507517>>25507518>>25507528billionaires own rape islands, saars
>>25507363The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Splattered by Tag Cavello
>>25507383Are the other books worth it? Tbh I only read it for the homo and pedo subtexts
>>25507398I tried to read it (because of the faggiest reason, admittedly - Hidetaka Miyazaki sang its praises) and the early chapter that's a race between two steamboats made me tap out. I couldn't believe THAT was what I was signing for.
No need to bother with other entries.
>>25507383I was on board with this book until suddenly gay vampires out of nowhere ruined it
>>25507528>he owns a castleright, that's gonna be enough for modern 21st century spoiled women lmao
Can't believe Let the Right One In hasn't been mentioned yet.
>>25507600That's why I buy used via third party sellers on Amazon all the time.
>>25508421I prefer its culinary tie-in, lo mein.
>>25507988I really fucking hate how the story is just one scene stretched out forever.
>>25508421Once it let's on that Elli is actually a castrated boy with feminine features because he was castrated as a young boy instead of an actual girl, I stopped giving a shit.
>>25509211All the best parts of the book are in the last ⅓–¼ THOUGH.
>>25507753Big Thomas Mann fan, hm?
>>25507380good sapphic novel that predates Dracula if I remember correctly. >>25507363grrm wrote a vampire novel that is highly acclaimed if that interests you at all
>Ctrl+F >The Strain>Zero results SMDH
>>25507988I want you smelly motherfuckers banned from posting on /lit/. Comicbooks aren't literature.
>>25507363The Book of the Short Sun, especially the second volume, heavily features vampires, but they are not the whole focus of the book. You have to read The Book of the Long Sun, and probably The Book of the New Sun before that, to fully appreciate it, so it's a big commitment, but it's worth it.
the short story "beyond any measure" by Karl Edward Wagner. In his masterwork anthology In A Lonely Place. It was mass reprinted in 2021.
>>25507988gay>>25509422/thread
The Vampire Hunter D novels are fun. The Necroscope books are also fun.
>>25509392I actually read death in Venice and didn't liked it that much, wished it was about a girl instead, tho ever since I came out as bi I appreciate boys more
Necroscope
>>25509422Are vns literature? If so, then the answer to op question is obvious.
>>25507988Dangerously heterosexual. Also the Vampire Hunter D series.
>>25507363A lot of good recommendations already (Carmilla, Let the Right One In, Interview With the Vampire, I Am Legend, 'Salem's Lot, the story in In a Lonely Place; I haven't read Fevre Dream yet but I've head good things about it), and I'd like to add "The Vampire" and "The Family of the Vourdalak", both by Aleksey Tolstoy, "Count Magnus" and "An Episode of Cathedral History" both by M.R. James, and "The Mysterious Stranger" by Karl Adolf von Wachsmann.If you like Dracula, make sure to also read "Dracula's Guest", the scrapped first chapter that's also a great short story in and of itself.
>>25511246>Are VNs literature?No, they aren't. They aren't video games either.
>>25507363The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
>>25507664I second this. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Also recommend Nightblood by T Chris Martindale for the same concept but on a much smaller and more comfy scale
>>25511246>Are vns literature?If Twilight and Dungeon Crawler Carl can be considered literature, I don't see why VNs can't.
