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30+ Of Your Favorite Vampire Stories

S. Zainab Williams

Executive Director, Content

S. Zainab would like to think she bleeds ink but the very idea makes her feel faint. She writes fantasy and horror, and is currently clutching a manuscript while groping in the dark. Find her on Twitter: @szainabwilliams.

This giveaway is sponsored by Knopf, publisher of Prince Lestat & The Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice.

rice_lestatatlantis_ccFrom Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power.

At the novel’s center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of Lestat’s undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history, and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe.


They slither out of the coffin, pale and hunched. They’re winged carriers of the apocalypse. They go to high school and fall in love. We asked you to share your favorite vampire stories, and you responded. Here are more than 30 of your favorites!

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

The Night Huntress by Jeanine Frost

“Dracula’s Guest” by Bram Stoker

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez

Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Vampire Trilogy by Christopher Moore

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Shambleau by C.L. Moore

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

Prudence by Gail Carriger

The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Pandora by Anne Rice

The Passage by Justin Cronin

Blade by Tim Bowler

The Vampire Tapestry by Suzie Mckee Charnes