I hold when my book comes out people will like this one. The Vampires that I am writing are very visceral and in your face. They are more in common with Brian Lumley's Vampires from his Necroscope series. The idea was to merge cosmic horror, gothic horror, and apacolyptic horror together. I set the story in a far distant future where Vampires, Witches, Ghouls, WereWolves, Demons, and Cosmic Horror entities exist.
I did an essay-presentation in uni for Let the Right One in movie. Loved it so much, its in my top 10 movies. When it came to the book I did find myself skipping over non-Oskar/Eli chapters.
Oh Rachel I've been on a Vampire kick and so glad to see your video! So far I've read Certain Dark Things and loved it. Im currently reading First Ligth sequel of Nights Edge and really enjoying it. I have on hold Let the right one in based in your reccomendation.
Very nice selections and have added the Delicate Dependency and Dracula Ascending to my TBR. So far a favorite vampire story was Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker a prequel to Bram Stoker's tale that weaves Bram into the narrative. Very tense and fun tale with some good twists. 🧛♂
I’ve read Dowry of Blood and really enjoyed the book. I am currently listening to Children of the Night by Dan Simmons. It is unusual. Two perspectives. Dracul trying to die and reviewing his past and his baby son brought from Romania by a woman doctor unknowing his parentage to the U.S. and then the son is kidnapped by ? I really am enjoying the audio on this one. Good reading!
i always love your recommendations for subgenres you don't enjoy that much, because the recs usually have that "off the beaten path" vibe i really like! 🧛🩸
I enjoyed a book called Enter Night by Michael Rowe. It's about a widow and her brother in law returning home to a northern Ontario mining town just as a vampire outbreaks in the 1970s. It feels like Canadian Salems Lot but it's shorter so it doesn't meander as much and is to the point.
I'll have to add some of these ro my reading list! I'm an indie author who has written a vampire romance called A CAGE FOR HUNGRY HEARTS. In it, vampires are secret prisoners of Area 51!
I love 'The Lesser Dead', it oozes personality right from the first page, and stuck with me well after finishing it. I prefer the foreign language movie for 'Let the Right One In' over the novel. In the movie the vampire is scary, especially the more you think about it, but in the novel the child molester character is so horrific it sort of overwhelmed the novel for me. I just finished 'Woman Eating' a few weeks ago, really enjoyed it, it has a lot of tension, I always felt like the protagonist was right on the edge of losing it, especially after she got her little friend.
I have A Dowry of Blood and Certain Dark Things. I believe I had them last year and didn't get around to them. Im going to make Certain Dark Things a priority. Thank you! 🎃
Great list- I don't really gravitate towards vampires either although Dracula is one of my favorite classics. I really want to read Let the Right One In! A vampire novel you might not have read and may enjoy is The Gilda Stories, I picked it up on a whim a few years ago and ended up really enjoying it- definitely more literary than horror and has great representation!
Dowry of Blood was/is definitely in my top 5 of Vampire books!! And Empire of the Damned the second part of the Empire of the Vampire trilogy was definitely epic!! You get to hear the Sister side so definitely give it a try! You may like her side of the story much better! Both of those stories voice actor were and are incredible! I love a nice rich and warm seductive voice when it comes to vampires and they both do it so well! Can you do a video of your favorite narrators??? Sometimes when looking for an audiobook, the narrators can make or break a story for me! EX: Wanted to listen to Interview with a vampire but I HATE the sound of Simon Vance's' voice! argh! Thank you for what you do! I get some many great book ideas from your channel!!
Great list. Have you read the David Wellington vampire books? The first one is called 13 Bullets. Very dark, lots of action, very vicious vampires. FBI agent chasing vampires.
Not big on vampire fiction either but I enjoyed the Joe Pitt books by Charlie Huston, starting with "Already Dead" (they're urban fantasy/neo-noir rather than the Lestat type of thing - Pitt is a sort of private eye who's also a vampire and vampirism is a viral disease, not a supernatural curse - which is probably why I tried them in the first place :). (also enjoyed "Let the Right One In" - book > Swedish movie > US remake IMO - and actually just discovered Lindqvist wrote a coda/sequel short-story which i'll have to track down)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my two or three favorite TV series of all time, which makes it a little ironic that I'm very much not fond of vampire books. That said, I Am Legend, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and Let Me In (both movie versions are really good) are among my favorites, but I think that's because each is a different take on the subgenre. I also have Salem's Lot on my list because I find the idea of taking a small town soap opera and adding vampires to the mix to be a wonderful premise.
Vampires aren’t really my thing either. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King is my favorite I guess, but that’s mainly just because it has such little competition. I did enjoy the first three vampire books from Anne Rice as well. I honestly think my favorite vampire fiction would be the Netflix show Midnight Mass.
I am enjoying a duology by Liz Kerin ('Night's Edge' and 'First Light'), Nicely written, kinda science-y take on vampirism. Perhaps a little too much teenage angst for a person of my years, but good representation and characterization.
@@TheShadesofOrange It is really good. The characters ale interesting. The story and world building are good. And its not about vampires as in dracula. Cronins vampires are a thing of their own.
I have Let The Right One In is my TBR for years, I guess it's finally time to read it. Probably unpopular opinion but I really liked the first books of the Southern Vampire series (aka True Blood on TV). 🙈Also I am now reading The Radleys by Matt Haig and enjoying it so far, but I'm not that far into it to form an opinion. 🧛♀ Btw happy October 1st and, if you're a coffee lover, happy International Coffee Day!
Great list, added a few to my tbr! Let the Right One In and Dowry of Blood are both excellent. If anyone wants a middle grade vampire graphic novel with queer rep, check out The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane.
I liked Bram Stoker's book, and the old Jack Palence Dracula movie was very true to the book. I also read Frankenstein, and didn't especially enjoy it, but I think it was an amazing thing to have been written at that time. A third classic I should read is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which Vladimir Nobokov had on his list of greatest novels. Modern books, I liked Poppy Z. Brite, I think I've mentioned him. There there are the Twilight books .... no, just kidding. Yikes.
I love vampire fiction. I still haven't read any of these, but I've been meaning to read some of these. I've heard very varying opinions on A Dowry of Blood, but I really want to read it.
I'm a trans person who just recently read Let the Right One In and found it more problematic than "interesting" in its "queer representation" (I would not call it that myself) especially because--something you failed to mention--it is done in the context of the novel's fixation with pedophilia and children's bodies that crosses a line in my opinion as a trans person who is acutely aware of how cis people are too often intrusively and inappropriately obsessed with our bodies, to the point it's fetishizing, something that is particularly alarming when it's targeting trans kids.
I hold when my book comes out people will like this one. The Vampires that I am writing are very visceral and in your face. They are more in common with Brian Lumley's Vampires from his Necroscope series. The idea was to merge cosmic horror, gothic horror, and apacolyptic horror together. I set the story in a far distant future where Vampires, Witches, Ghouls, WereWolves, Demons, and Cosmic Horror entities exist.
I did an essay-presentation in uni for Let the Right One in movie. Loved it so much, its in my top 10 movies. When it came to the book I did find myself skipping over non-Oskar/Eli chapters.
Absolutely- the original film was brilliant.
Yeah, this is one of the few 'movie was better than the book' movies for me.
Certain Dark Things! Enjoyed that a lot. I was hoping for a scene that we never got involving Domingo and the people that bullied him.
Oo that would have been good
Love this list! Some great choices.
Oh Rachel I've been on a Vampire kick and so glad to see your video! So far I've read Certain Dark Things and loved it. Im currently reading First Ligth sequel of Nights Edge and really enjoying it. I have on hold Let the right one in based in your reccomendation.
Empire of the vampire is incredible! Beautifully written grimdark, worth the read.
I love vampires! For me it’s nostalgic from my teenage years when I was obsessed with them. 🧛♂️🧛♂️🧛♂️
Nice
Great video thanks! I really like immortal and dark themes. 🙂 I’ve read a bunch of these and enjoyed them and will be adding the others now 🙂
Very nice selections and have added the Delicate Dependency and Dracula Ascending to my TBR. So far a favorite vampire story was Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker a prequel to Bram Stoker's tale that weaves Bram into the narrative. Very tense and fun tale with some good twists. 🧛♂
The Gathering by CJ Tudor is amazing great recs 💜
I really need to get Certain Dark Things. been on my TBR for a while and I love vampires and her writing.
Currently reading So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison. A girls night out turns deadly possibly dealing with vampires 🧛♀️ 🤔 so far so good 🙂
Thank you for the recommendation 😊
These sound amazing, Certain Dark Things I have read and loved it
I’ve read Dowry of Blood and really enjoyed the book. I am currently listening to Children of the Night by Dan Simmons. It is unusual. Two perspectives. Dracul trying to die and reviewing his past and his baby son brought from Romania by a woman doctor unknowing his parentage to the U.S. and then the son is kidnapped by ? I really am enjoying the audio on this one. Good reading!
I'll have to look that one up
i always love your recommendations for subgenres you don't enjoy that much, because the recs usually have that "off the beaten path" vibe i really like! 🧛🩸
Oh thanks
I enjoyed a book called Enter Night by Michael Rowe. It's about a widow and her brother in law returning home to a northern Ontario mining town just as a vampire outbreaks in the 1970s. It feels like Canadian Salems Lot but it's shorter so it doesn't meander as much and is to the point.
I read Enter Night recently and really enjoyed it. I agree with your Canadian Salem's Lot take. Definitely similar vibes to King's novel.
Yeah as a Canadian, I really should read it
As always, Excellent and informative video! Thanks! My favorites are Dracula and They Thirst by Robert McCammon.
Thanks
I'll have to add some of these ro my reading list! I'm an indie author who has written a vampire romance called A CAGE FOR HUNGRY HEARTS. In it, vampires are secret prisoners of Area 51!
I liked A Dowry of Blood and The Passage. Good recs, thanks. 🦇
I love 'The Lesser Dead', it oozes personality right from the first page, and stuck with me well after finishing it.
I prefer the foreign language movie for 'Let the Right One In' over the novel. In the movie the vampire is scary, especially the more you think about it, but in the novel the child molester character is so horrific it sort of overwhelmed the novel for me.
I just finished 'Woman Eating' a few weeks ago, really enjoyed it, it has a lot of tension, I always felt like the protagonist was right on the edge of losing it, especially after she got her little friend.
Agree about the personality of Lesser Dead
Ooooh, the video I didn’t know I needed… taking copious notes 😳🥰
Yay! Happy to put some vampire books on your radar
I really liked "The Quick" it's quite unique with multiple characters we follow and slowburn narrative.
I've heard good things about that one
I love The Delicate Dependency! an all time favorite.going to re-read it this month. underrated imo.
Agreed!
Reading So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison and loving it 🧛♀️
I really enjoyed Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin! Definitely my favorite novel of his outside of the ASoIaF universe.
I thought this acted as a great antidote to Interview with the Vampire, both having the New Orleans setting but being very different approaches.
I just got a copy of that one
My fav vampire in literature is Jukka Sarasti from Blindsight
Empire of the vampire is so amazing!!!
Yesssss freaking amazing.
@@aislinnortiz1367 did you read book 2 yet??
C.j.Tudor The Gathering is a vampire book that doesn’t suck
I didn't know that one was a vampire book
Thank you 🧛♂️
@@TheShadesofOrange strong theme of bigotry/intolerance and colonialism/imapacts thereof. Was a great read.
I loved it too!
I have A Dowry of Blood and Certain Dark Things. I believe I had them last year and didn't get around to them. Im going to make Certain Dark Things a priority. Thank you! 🎃
Great list- I don't really gravitate towards vampires either although Dracula is one of my favorite classics. I really want to read Let the Right One In! A vampire novel you might not have read and may enjoy is The Gilda Stories, I picked it up on a whim a few years ago and ended up really enjoying it- definitely more literary than horror and has great representation!
I appreciate the rec
Oh! And Children of the Night is a slow burn that heats up and is kind of Medically driven given all the info of the body digesting blood.
Oo boy. I'll need to prioritize that one
Dowry of Blood was/is definitely in my top 5 of Vampire books!! And Empire of the Damned the second part of the Empire of the Vampire trilogy was definitely epic!! You get to hear the Sister side so definitely give it a try! You may like her side of the story much better! Both of those stories voice actor were and are incredible! I love a nice rich and warm seductive voice when it comes to vampires and they both do it so well!
Can you do a video of your favorite narrators??? Sometimes when looking for an audiobook, the narrators can make or break a story for me! EX: Wanted to listen to Interview with a vampire but I HATE the sound of Simon Vance's' voice! argh!
Thank you for what you do! I get some many great book ideas from your channel!!
I love Simon Vance so I don't think you'd love my picks for that video lol
Great list. Have you read the David Wellington vampire books? The first one is called 13 Bullets. Very dark, lots of action, very vicious vampires. FBI agent chasing vampires.
No I haven't
Not big on vampire fiction either but I enjoyed the Joe Pitt books by Charlie Huston, starting with "Already Dead" (they're urban fantasy/neo-noir rather than the Lestat type of thing - Pitt is a sort of private eye who's also a vampire and vampirism is a viral disease, not a supernatural curse - which is probably why I tried them in the first place :).
(also enjoyed "Let the Right One In" - book > Swedish movie > US remake IMO - and actually just discovered Lindqvist wrote a coda/sequel short-story which i'll have to track down)
That series sounds fun
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my two or three favorite TV series of all time, which makes it a little ironic that I'm very much not fond of vampire books.
That said, I Am Legend, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and Let Me In (both movie versions are really good) are among my favorites, but I think that's because each is a different take on the subgenre. I also have Salem's Lot on my list because I find the idea of taking a small town soap opera and adding vampires to the mix to be a wonderful premise.
Vampires aren’t really my thing either. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King is my favorite I guess, but that’s mainly just because it has such little competition. I did enjoy the first three vampire books from Anne Rice as well. I honestly think my favorite vampire fiction would be the Netflix show Midnight Mass.
I am enjoying a duology by Liz Kerin ('Night's Edge' and 'First Light'), Nicely written, kinda science-y take on vampirism. Perhaps a little too much teenage angst for a person of my years, but good representation and characterization.
Love those books!
@@TheShadesofOrange Come to think of it, they were probably a recommendation from you!
Twelve by Jasper Kent is a great historical horror novel that really departs from the usual formulas.
Thanks. I'll try to track that one down
Great upload
I really enjoyed Dowry of Blood. I want tk read The Delicate Dependency.
I enjoyed The Radleys by Matt Haig soon to be in cinemas now
Hey, I love your list. Also I can’t recommend The Passage by Justin Cronin.
You don't recommend it?
@@jaredreyes1016 oh sorry I meant I can’t recommend it enough 😂
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I've heard good things
@@TheShadesofOrange It is really good. The characters ale interesting. The story and world building are good. And its not about vampires as in dracula. Cronins vampires are a thing of their own.
I have Let The Right One In is my TBR for years, I guess it's finally time to read it. Probably unpopular opinion but I really liked the first books of the Southern Vampire series (aka True Blood on TV). 🙈Also I am now reading The Radleys by Matt Haig and enjoying it so far, but I'm not that far into it to form an opinion. 🧛♀
Btw happy October 1st and, if you're a coffee lover, happy International Coffee Day!
I really want to read the Southern Vampire Books
Have you read interview with a vampire?
Yes!
Great list, added a few to my tbr! Let the Right One In and Dowry of Blood are both excellent. If anyone wants a middle grade vampire graphic novel with queer rep, check out The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane.
Another great video with more additions to my list now. Your channel is starting to get expensive lol. 🦇🦇🦇
Sorry about that!
I liked Bram Stoker's book, and the old Jack Palence Dracula movie was very true to the book. I also read Frankenstein, and didn't especially enjoy it, but I think it was an amazing thing to have been written at that time.
A third classic I should read is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which Vladimir Nobokov had on his list of greatest novels.
Modern books, I liked Poppy Z. Brite, I think I've mentioned him.
There there are the Twilight books .... no, just kidding. Yikes.
Lol yeah no Twilight zone
I love vampire fiction. I still haven't read any of these, but I've been meaning to read some of these. I've heard very varying opinions on A Dowry of Blood, but I really want to read it.
I'm a trans person who just recently read Let the Right One In and found it more problematic than "interesting" in its "queer representation" (I would not call it that myself) especially because--something you failed to mention--it is done in the context of the novel's fixation with pedophilia and children's bodies that crosses a line in my opinion as a trans person who is acutely aware of how cis people are too often intrusively and inappropriately obsessed with our bodies, to the point it's fetishizing, something that is particularly alarming when it's targeting trans kids.
My sincere apologies. I have always known it as a positive example of a trans coded book. Now I know better
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