Recommend books with vampires as main theme. Both fiction and non-fiction. Already read Dracula, Carmilla and The Vampyre.
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Recommend books with vampires as main theme. Both fiction and non-fiction. Already read Dracula, Carmilla and The Vampyre.
Yeah, you've already read Dracula. But have you checked out that New Annotated Dracula?
Maybe Theology, Horror, and Fiction by Greenaway would be up your alley.
Thank you, I did not. Just about time for revisit as I read it like, a decade ago.
twilight
The fourth book is unironically pretty fun with all the vampire lore.
The Secret History of Vampires (Lecouteux)
The Vampire in Lore and Legend (Summers)
Varney the Vampyre
Vikram & the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry (Richard F. Burton)
Thank you
How much better is it compared to shit like twilight or other contemporary vampire fiction? What makes it worth a read in other words?
>How much better is it compared to shit like twilight or other contemporary vampire fiction? What makes it worth a read in other words?
Bump for interest, I asked the same question in a thread the other day and no one could answer
>I want somebody who has red both the trashfire that is Twilight and fun romp that isn't YA romance to tell me the difference between these things.
>Why has nobody red both?
Truely, a mystery for the ages.
Alternatively, read Sonja Blue saga by Nancy A. Collins for some good vampire literature.
>>Why has nobody red both?
But I did read both. :^(
My condolences.
But Lifeforce By Colin Wilson is a good romp.
>My condolences.
I firmly believe you have to also read the worst trash to be able to appreciate the best literature.
Do you also eat actual, literal garbage to appreciate the best food?
No, because I've read enough to not fall for dumb analogies.
I want to know what normies love and why they love it. So I read genre trash. Okay, I don't actually read it but listen to audiobooks. My reading time is reserved for good literature. But genre trash audiobooks are great for when you're drawing or painting.
Okay, agreed, when listening on the background it can be any old tosh.
Post your drawings and paintings.
Unless they're Japanese cartoon slop
Eh, alright.
>Unless they're Japanese cartoon slop
No. I'm a simple man and I do simple things with pen and ink.
Chad
YGMI
What's the inspiration for the black cat?
Interesting that in some they're the spectator and others they're the victim. Sometimes both ; Cane Toad Cats, I like that one best. Cane Toad, shows your skill best, perspective and scale are done well.
My second is, Catback, simply because it reminds me of Halloween.
Thank you, my frens, but this thread is about vampire books and not my art.
On a related note: I still haven't been able to find the audiobook for The Werewolf of Paris.
All the good and obscure stuff is on private trackers, check IQfy if you really want it.
Really nice artwork and art style, anon, have you shown these anywhere publicly?
>anon draws cat like I draw rabbit
If you know a Vietnamese cat I will get very worried about the universe
But what about sea bunny?
vampire bunnies only itt
Rice's Interview with the Vampire does a good job portraying the vampire not as a monster but as a character working his way through his life and dealing with what he is. It's fun. But it's also filled with a lot of thirst. I've read the four Twilight novels and the Interview and the latter is more "literature". I still want to read some more of Rice's series but it will probably get kinda bad. Vampire genre shit is fun, though, but only if you don't take it too seriously. Vampires are honestly pretty neat. I wish there were better books about them.
Kizumonogatari
Rice's Interview with the vampire
The Vurdulak's Family
How long until we get some translation published in NYRB?
It's gothic, Valancourt will release it sooner or later.
By the way, that novella is part of this anthology: https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Historia-Red-C-Calloway/dp/1955382190
I didn't care for Dracula. I'm not gonna critique the book, it just wasn't for me. anyone got recs for a vampire book where the vampire is treated as an actual character and not just a source of conflict? I'd seen Dracula compared to Frankenstein and I was extremely disappointed that he ceased to have a real presence in the book after he left Transylvania. I would've liked more stuff like him talking to Harker, more stuff about his history and his interior life. I don't necessarily mind that he wasn't treated sympathetically, but I do mind that he was hardly a character at all.
Salem’s Lot
The Hunger
Couple of Aickman stories
The Strangers
Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal
Vampire of the Mists
The Blood of the Vampire
Fevre Dream
spooky ._.
Don't be so antisemitic.
Anno Dracula By Kim Newman is tangential at best, but still a fun read.
The Vamoire the Masquerade clan novels are surprisingly readable and all about vampires. The dark ages ones are decent too.
They are -- to some degree -- slop, but so are all vampire stories really.
No one has mentioned Let The Right One In yet, so there
i'm a vampire baby
sucking blood from the earth