Which came first chronologically?

Which? Did you mean Dracula or Frankenstein? Because Frankenstein was about 70 years earlier - Mary Shelley was Regency period (she was born at the end of the 18th century), and Stoker was a Victorian Irishman.

Jilli, how do you feel about Brust's Agyar?

I haven't read it in about 10 years. I remember liking it, but I really need to track down a copy and re-read it.

I'm so glad to see Brite on your list! I like her a lot; she distrubs me, but she writes very well.

I've been trying to find Exquisite Corpse for a couple of years, and never run into it. Have you read it?

I'm so glad to see Brite on your list! I like her a lot; she distrubs me, but she writes very well.

I like her writing, but for me, nothing she has written comes close to Lost Souls, except (surprisingly) for the novel she did for The Crow franchise.

I've been trying to find Exquisite Corpse for a couple of years, and never run into it. Have you read it?

I have, and I'm kinda meh about it. To me, it comes across as her writing thinly-disguised RPF porn that hits all her kinks AND managing to get paid for it. Yes, Poppy, we know. Yes, you're fascinated by serial killers. You really, REALLY want to be a queer Asian man in his 20s. That's nice. Now write about something else.

beth b -- thank you! And guess what? My local library has both SWV and UD+UW.

Two rather silly vampire novels to look for.

And actually I remembered wrong. Times of day were not deadly to him, but when he could transform:

..His power ceases, as does that of all evil things, at the coming of the day....

... he can only change himself at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset. These things we are told, and in this record of ours we have proof by inference. Thus, whereas he can do as he will within his limit, when he have his earth-home,his coffin-home, his hellhome, the place unhallowed, as we saw when he went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby, still at other time he can only change when the time come. It is said, too, that he can only pass running water at the slack or the flood of the tide. ...

So in his resting place he change anytime, outside it only at sunrise, noon and sunset exactly.

That also explains how he can cross running water - only at the flod tide. So Stoker did play the game more or less fairly - very definite strengths and weakness for his vampires.

Any thoughts on Dan Simmons' Carrion Comfort? I much preferred the novella and found it ineffably cool and vital. The novel seemed a bit padded, compared to the economy of the shorter form, but maybe I should read the novel again now and see if it fares any better.

Because Frankenstein was about 70 years earlier - Mary Shelley was Regency period (she was born at the end of the 18th century), and Stoker was a Victorian Irishman.

Oh, okay. Maybe I'll read Franky first, then.

JohnSweden totally with you. The novella was far superior to the novel in my opinion. Ditto with Orson Scott Card's Lost Boys.

P-C, they're both brilliant, but also definitely period pieces.

Gar, that answers that. Perfect! Thanks.