Books About Vampires

[Stieg]

Oh, that GRRM novel is titled Fevre Dream.

any books out there about Werewolves or that has werewolves in it??? i know its a Vampire thread i was just curious cuz i'm more of a Lycanthrope person

Here are few exceptional ones:

The Howling by Gary Brandner (yes, the novel the film is loosely based on)
Wolf's Hour by Robert R McCammon
Shapes by Steve Vance
The Hyde Effect by Steve Vance
Night of the Werewolf by Harry Shannon (great creature feature shoot'em up)
Saint Peter's Wolf (can not recall the author or if I even enjoyed the book but it had made quite a noise when it was released which I immediately snapped up.)


SPOILERISH recommendation:


Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry (has a werewolf amongst other ghouls and creatures of the night)

[Alexei]

any books out there about Werewolves or that has werewolves in it??? i know its a Vampire thread i was just curious cuz i'm more of a Lycanthrope person

Hmmm, I am not sure, but I have heard something about a book called Blood and Chocolate, there was even a film, based on it. I think it was about werewolves. But I didn't menage to read the book or watch the film, so i am not sure.

[Stieg]

Ultima,

S.P. Somtow's Moon Dance is back in print. It's been described as an epic werewolf novel. Essentially the "Gone with the Wind" of lycanthrope horror.

[Alexei]

On March 15 the second volume of The Legacy of the Dark kind by Raven dane was finally published!
This is the cover of the book:


And these are two extracts from the book:

A burning cigarette bounced across the tarmac, flaring briefly in a mini meteor shower of tiny sparks. Jazriel paused at the edge of an unknown world. Modern Europe, an alien land. He had been incarcerated in Isolann for more then sixty years. ..

He sat back on the Ducati, his face and clothing filthy from travelling across the back roads of the Upper Balkans, a world little changed since the Second World War and therefore familiar. The unknown lay before him in the darkness, as dangerous as the edge of a bottomless abyss.

The vampire gazed on in fearful wonder as vast ground-shaking machines and cars as swift as arrows roared past him on a massive route of many lanes, a confusion of engine-thunder, stinking exhaust fumes and flashing bright lights. The huge lorries battered him with the earthquake power of their passing, he felt insignificant, lost, abandoned. A piece of roadside rubbish, an unwanted dog left to the mercy of the traffic.


***
Motorway madness

Jaz leant at an insolent angle against his new bike, yet another high powered Ducati. A metallic purple one this time. Took a long languid draw on a cigarette and waited. The fury of the police officers was volcanic. Just as he had planned. Running from their hard-driven patrol car to the hard shoulder of the motorway, their nerves were shredded, bodies shivering from adrenaline overload from the hair-raising chase. They struggled to be heard against the roar of the onrushing traffic, the brutal buffeting from passing jugganauts.

"Why the hell were you riding up the motorway on the wrong side?" shouted one patrolman, " Are you raving mad? High on something?." The man was fighting loss of self-control, barely able to stop his fists from battering the exceptionally handsome face of the black clad young man. It had taken an hour to trap the crazed bike rider, an hour of terrifying cat and mouse along one of Britain's busiest motorways.

The vampire gave an elegant shrug of disinterest, he had played chicken with this patrol car for long enough and was already bored with the game. He dropped his cigarette onto the road, ground it out with his heel, retrieved another from a packet in his breast pocket and lit it up.

...

"Time to play…."

[Misterman]

Sorry to be a pedantic pain as a new forum member, but I have just read Raven Dane's Blood Lament. It is awesome, brilliant....I loved it. But the passage Motorway Madness is not part of the book. It is an entirely new piece of work posted by the author on Jazriel's myspace profile to keep Jaz fans (like me! ) happy till they get the new book.
I met her a fortnight ago at a local book signing for Blood Lament. She assured me she is working hard on the next in the Legacy of the Dark Kind series, Blood Alliance. Phew !

[Alexei]

Sorry to be a pedantic pain as a new forum member, but I have just read Raven Dane's Blood Lament. It is awesome, brilliant....I loved it. But the passage Motorway Madness is not part of the book. It is an entirely new piece of work posted by the author on Jazriel's myspace profile to keep Jaz fans (like me! ) happy till they get the new book.
I met her a fortnight ago at a local book signing for Blood Lament. She assured me she is working hard on the next in the Legacy of the Dark Kind series, Blood Alliance. Phew !

I didn't know. I can't find it and so I have read only Blood Tears. They are not available in my country. And I just try to share what I know, that's why i post it here.
Well, tell me more about Blood Lament, please! It seems I will never read it

You have met Raven Dane? Wowwwwww!

[DeathAngel]

hey those vamp books are out there
one of the popular ones: Vampire huntress series by LA Banks
I've read a couple of them
a lot of inapropriate goodness, but it's fresh and nice
Anne Rice, ancient but still good
and Salems Lot, Stephen King, a classic; and a good moive too
too bad they don't make as many movies as they do books
I think they shoudl've done the whole Anne Rice series
they're awesome...
yummay

[EAP]

I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Sunshine - Robin McKinley
Fevre Dreams - George R. R. Martin

[Alexei]

I think they shoudl've done the whole Anne Rice series
they're awesome...
yummay

With this disaster they menage to transform Queen of the Damned? I am a bit scared what was going other books to look like.

[Misterman]

Alexei, I am so sorry you have trouble getting the books you want. I found a Danish online book seller that has both Blood Tears and Blood Lament for sale. Its called Saxo.com Would that be more helpful for you?

[Alexei]

Alexei, I am so sorry you have trouble getting the books you want. I found a Danish online book seller that has both Blood Tears and Blood Lament for sale. Its called Saxo.com Would that be more helpful for you?

Not much, really. Well, who knows, may be I shall find it someday. There always has a way.

[Stieg]

More great vampire titles without the operatic and romanticism of Anne Rice and her ilk. These are exceptional horror novels besides beating the tar outta most anything written by King and Koontz...

Summer of Night by Dan Simmons (GREAT coming of age tale)
Children of the Night by Dan Simmons (the author revisits vampire lore this time set in Romania)
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (not the bloodsucking variety but still remarkably ghoulish)

The Keep by F Paul Wilson (forget the semi-lame, semi-disasterous very weird loosely based film, GREAT BOOK!)

Vampire$ by John Steakley (forget the lame disasterous loosely based film adaptation by John Carpenter starring James Woods, the book is a highly entertaining romp where the hunters become the hunted, GREAT BOOK!)

I loved them all more than anything written by Anne Rice (can't stand her btw).

[AC_fan]

I am not a vampire book's fan, but I read one recently that I liked: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. That is the first book of a trilogy.

[Stieg]

The vampire genre undoubtably has contributed some great works to literature. I just don't dig what one horror author accurately dubbed this current trend that began with Rice of "tortured romantic aesthetes".

Vampires and werewolves in literature are now turning in genre-bending fantasy/thrillers. Popularized by Hamilton, Huston, etc.

[BroadwayBaby]

Twilight, New Moon, and soon to be out Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer are AWESOME! and they're translated into different languages for people who English isn't their first language, and they are awesome, I cannot wait for the 3rd (and it's really funny because my cousin got me Twilight for christmas one year and I thought I would hate it and now it's like my obsession...)