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Communion Blood: a Novel of Saint-Germain Chelsea Yarbro This tale of the vampire Count Saint-Germain, takes place during the Inquisition in 17th- century Rome. The Count receives a call for help from Niklos Aurilios, a vampire who inherited the estates of his greatest friend and fellow-vampire, the late Atta Olivia Clemens. Niklos's ownership of the property is threatened by Ahrent Julius Rothofen, who claims to be the long-lost son of Olivia's husband, though in fact Olivia had no husband--but to reveal that fact would open her life to deeper scrutiny than Niklos and Saint-Germain will allow.

Dracula Bram Stoker This is the quintessential vampire story featuring the Carpathian Count Dracula. A naive young Englishman, Jonathan Harker, travels to Transylvania to do business with a client, Count Dracula. After showing his true and terrifying colors, Dracula boards a ship for England in search of new, fresh blood. Unexplained disasters begin to occur in the streets of London before the mystery and the evil doer are finally put to rest.

Fangland: a Novel John Marks Evangeline Harker, a producer for the TV news show The Hour, accepts an assignment to go into Romania to do a segment on the legendary criminal figure, Ion Torgu. Back in New York, Evangeline's family and coworkers realize that she has disappeared, no one can locate her,and mysterious coffin-like boxes are being delivered to the television studio.

Fledgling: a Novel Octavia Butler Shori, a 53-year-old vampire who looks like an 11-year-old girl, awakes alone in a forest, badly burned and scarred, with no memory of what has happened to her.

Guilty Pleasures Laurell Hamilton This is the first book featuring Anita Blake, vampire hunter. She may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law (as long as they behave themselves). Now, someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees to help figure out who and why.

The Historian Elizabeth Kostova A 16-year-old American girl, in 1972 Amsterdam, comes across an ancient book in the library of her father, a former historian and now a diplomat. The book is blank except for an illustration of a dragon and the word Drakulya. Thus begins a search for the truth behind the myth of Dracula, a search that crosses continents as well as generations in this story told through narratives, flashbacks, and letters.

The Hunger Whitley Strieber Miriam Blaylock is a vampire! Miriam is beautiful and also has the ability to live forever,which inevitably destroys her unknowing lovers. We learn that her lovers are living in herattic, un-dead but not alive until the end of time. Miriam's latest lover John has suddenlylost his sublime body tone and now it’s time for her to find another.

Interview with a Vampire Anne Rice This book tells the story of the brooding vampire, Louis. Louis is lonely and melancholy after he becomes a vampire at the age of 25, following the death of his brother. He is taken in hand by the vain vampire Lestat who is both vengeful and bloodthirsty. This story begins in New Orleans in 1791 and follows Louis' experiences for 200 years as one of the "living dead."

Lost Souls Poppy Z. Brite Three vampires roll into New Orleans for Mardi Gras and then disappear again, but only after their leader, Zillah, has gotten a young girl pregnant. Fifteen years later, their child, who calls himself Nothing, is living with adoptive parents and wonders why he feels so different.

Minion L.A. Banks Damali Richards is an African-American vampire slayer. As spoken-word artists, she and her team watch over the clubs in which they perform. One night the group encounters a vicious pack of vampires and pits Damali against an old enemy who will do anything to take her down.

Renfield: Slave of Dracula Barbara Hambly In this story we are told the history of Renfield, a character from Bram Stoker’s Dracula.By reading Renfield's notes, disturbing dreams, and letters to his wife we begin to understand the intelligent but delusional Renfield.

Salem’s Lot Stephen King “Salem's Lot” is a small town in southern Maine. It is the kind of town where everybody knows everybody else. Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home to write a novel, but there is something going wrong in the town, and it is connected with the "haunted house" of his childhood memories.