Let's hear it! Top 20 Vampire Books by Jilli!
Let's see how many I can rattle off the top of my head! The vampire books I prefer, in no particular order:
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Blood Opera Trilogy (Dark Dance, Personal Darkness, Darkness I), Tanith Lee
A Delicate Dependancy, Michael Talbot
Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice (yes, really. I just re-read it the other night)
Sunshine, Robin McKinley
Vampire City, Paul Féval
Vamped, David Sosnowski
Hotel Transylvania, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Vampire Kisses, Ellen Schreiber
Gothique, Kyle Marffin
Lost Souls, Poppy Z. Brite
Midnight Predator, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers
Those Who Hunt the Night (and Traveling With the Dead), Barbara Hambly
Sunglasses After Dark, Nancy A. Collins
Voice of the Blood, Jemiah Jefferson
Bloodsucking Fiends, Christopher Moore
A Morbid Initiation, Phillippe Boulle
Tourniquet: Tales from the Renegade City, Kim Lakin-Smith
(I cheated a bit. I looked at my LibraryThing account for some reminders.)
Excellent good list. Who else has read The Stress of Her Regard?
Okay, Hayden's selection is definitely a contender.
Bereft
Where had I heard this wind before
Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
Summer was past and the day was past.
Sombre clouds in the west were massed.
Out on the porch's sagging floor,
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly striking at my knee and missed.
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret my be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.
Robert Frost
Excellent good list.
Why thank you! You'll note that I left off most of the YA books, anthologies, or non-fiction. And yes, I have lots of all three of those sub-categories.
Who else has read The Stress of Her Regard?
I love that book. I think I need to re-read it soon. And hey! Ties in with your poetry question!
Kim Newman! Go Kim Newman! Heavily Goth, with a touch of SteamPunk. Plus Genevieve, even if I did keep expecting her to have violet eyes.
And yes, I have lots of all three of those sub-categories.
What's on the non-fiction list?
Come away, O human child!
That was my favorite poem when I was a kid!
From sj's recommendation:
Acquainted with the Night
by: Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
O luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
That was my favorite poem when I was a kid!
Did you know that the Waterboys set it to music?
