Secondhand Vampire Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4262

Secondhand Vampire Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4262

Twenty vampire novels covering the genre’s history: Dracula, four of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, the four Twilight books plus the Bree Tanner novella, the first and third Anita Blake novels, Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, Richard Laymon and Poppy Z. Brite. Gothic, romantic and gory by turns, so there is a vampire here for every taste.

1. The Vampire Lestat — Anne Rice — Lestat wakes in the 1980s, becomes a rock star and tells his own story, from a wolf hunt in old France to the theatres of Paris. The second Chronicle, and the one that made him a star.
2. Interview with the Vampire — Anne Rice — Louis tells a young reporter how Lestat made him a vampire in 1791 New Orleans, and how the two of them made a five-year-old girl one as well. The book that turned vampires into the heroes of their own stories.
3. The Queen of the Damned — Anne Rice — Lestat’s music wakes Akasha, the first vampire, after six thousand years, and she has a plan for the world’s men. Book three, with the origin of the whole species in it.
4. Dracula — Bram Stoker — Jonathan Harker’s diary from a Transylvanian castle, a ship that runs aground with its dead captain lashed to the wheel, and Lucy growing paler each morning. Told in letters and journals, which still makes it feel real.
5. The Immortal Rules — Julie Kagawa — Allie lives in a city where vampires farm humans for blood, and she hates them. Dying in the street, she is offered a choice, and takes it. Blood of Eden book one.
6. Drawing Blood — Poppy Z. Brite — Trevor returns to the house where his father, a cartoonist, killed the rest of the family and left him alive. A haunted-house novel with no vampires, from the author of the cult vampire novel Lost Souls.
7. The Traveling Vampire Show — Richard Laymon — Summer 1963: three teenagers sneak out to a one-night show that promises a real, live vampire. Mostly a story about that one long day, and it won the Bram Stoker Award.
8. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner — Stephenie Meyer — A newborn vampire in the army raised against the Cullens, who doesn’t know she is on the wrong side. A novella that runs alongside Eclipse.
9. Shadow Kiss — Richelle Mead — Rose is seeing ghosts, falling for her instructor and weeks from graduation when the academy is attacked. Vampire Academy book three, with an ending that devastated its readers.
10. New Moon — Stephenie Meyer — Edward leaves, and Bella spends months in a fog until Jacob Black and his secret pull her out. Twilight book two, in the film tie-in cover.
11. Twilight — Stephenie Meyer — Bella moves to rainy Forks and sits next to a boy in biology who looks as if he wants to kill her. He does, in a way. The book that started a decade of vampire romance.
12. Eclipse — Stephenie Meyer — An army of new vampires is coming for Bella, and the Cullens and the wolves must fight side by side. Meanwhile she has to choose. Book three, special edition.
13. Memnoch the Devil — Anne Rice — The Devil himself recruits Lestat and takes him on a tour of Heaven, Hell and the Crucifixion. The fifth and strangest Chronicle.
14. Circus of the Damned — Laurell K. Hamilton — Two master vampires are fighting for control of St Louis, and both want Anita Blake as their human servant. Book three.
15. Breaking Dawn — Stephenie Meyer — A wedding, a honeymoon and a pregnancy that shouldn’t be possible and may kill her. The last Twilight book, and the wildest.
16. Hollow — Celina Myers — Mia keeps waking from sleepwalking with no memory of the night and signs that something is very wrong. A first novel from a TikTok horror storyteller, praised by L.J. Smith.
17. The Historian — Elizabeth Kostova — A girl finds an old book and a bundle of letters in her father’s library, all addressed “My dear and unfortunate successor”. The trail leads across Cold War Europe to the tomb of Vlad the Impaler.
18. Draculas — Blake Crouch, J.A. Konrath (as Jack Kilborn), Jeff Strand & F. Paul Wilson — A dying millionaire buys an ancient skull with fangs and bites himself with it, and a small hospital pays for it overnight. Four horror writers, no romance, a great deal of blood.
19. Twilight Fulfilled — Maggie Shayne — A woman is sent to destroy the ancient king from whom all vampires descend, and finds she can’t do it. From a long-running vampire romance series.
20. Guilty Pleasures — Laurell K. Hamilton — Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes vampires for the state. Then the vampires hire her to find out who is killing them. The first Anita Blake novel.