| Author | Message | ||
     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Best vampire novel My vote would go to The Last Vampire by T M Wright | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Dracula's Guest is only a short story, but I like it a lot. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin. I'm not a fan of vampire fiction really, but I thought this was a superb read. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I was moochin about Borders in Cardiff lunchtime and spotted a book about some sort of vampire community. The picture on the cover featured a slightly plump lady the wrong side of thirty who looked like she still lived with her parents and had a future that possible involved too many cats and a cackle. She had an open mouth revealing rather naff fangs. Raaaaar! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.188.238 |
Not sure which is my absolute favourite (obviously Dracula is a strong contender), but the last vampire novels I really enjoyed were The Golden by Lucius Shepard and The Lost by Jonathan Aycliffe. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.188.238 |
Another one I enjoyed (despite some silliness toward the end) was Children of the Night by Dan Simmons. It leans more toward being a 'popcorn thriller' than the others I listed, but is fun if you're in the mood for that sort of thing. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
"Neck-Romancing for Fun and Profit" (geddit? har har) | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.129.211 |
I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson. The only vampire novel that's better and more original than DRACULA. Though I've not read the T.M. Wright novel and will do so. George R.R. Martin's FEVRE DREAM is excellent. And Poppy Z. Brite's LOST SOULS is very good indeed. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
I haven't read the Matheson book. Did he do a follow up? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
I have four: I AM LEGEND - Richard Matheson SOME OF YOUR BLOOD - Theodore Sturgeon THROAT SPROCKETS - Tim Lucas DRACULA - Bram Stoker With an Honourable Mention to Robert R. McCammon's THEY THIRST | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.180.184 |
How did I forget I am Legend and Some of Your Blood? I haven't read the Martin and Wright novels, so thanks for the tips. Here's another good one: Salem's Lot. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.130.233 |
On Your Bike: The Autobiography of Norman Tebbit. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.108.241 |
Some of Your Blood gets my vote, but I like all of Zed's choices. (I'm not sure I can count Throat Sprockets as a vampire novel, but it's very good indeed.) | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.97.200.24 |
I suppose Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons also could be considered a vampire novel of sorts. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I've tried to finish that book 3 times now, and failed at each attempt. It's just too damn big. :-/ | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Definitely "Throat Sprockets", with "They Thirst" getting an honourable mention but I have to say, "Salem's Lot" was one of the stories that brought me into the horror fold, so I'll always retain affection for it. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.97.200.24 |
Yeah some find the beginning of the book sort of hard to get through. I thought it moved really well. I guess some might find the opening a bit slow, but it pays off. I think I remember Simmons saying that his then editor (who was 22-23 at the time!) had made suggestions to edit over a third of the novel away- which I think was insane. He placed it elsewhere and got the whole monster out there. Speaking of Simmon's monsters, I read The Terror recently and that certainly moved really, really well for such a massive tome! In lesser hands I don't know... | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.67.254 |
Hands down, for me, it's Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
I am Legend Lost Souls The first 3 Anita Blake Vampire Novels before they went Anne Rice-tastic Salems Lot Dracula The Hunger Actually can't think of many more than that. Most vampire fiction I find a bit tedious. The Vampire Lestat is one of only two books I've thrown at the wall and then kicked across the room. It was shit on toast. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243 |
What was the other one, Jon? | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
I did the same with THE BONE COLLECTOR. What a horrible book. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.59.138 |
I am Legend and Salem's Lot. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
I seriously did love Interview with a Vampire when I read it, about 26 years ago. Back then it seemed like one of the best books I'd ever read and would read. I just got so lost in it. I liked I am Legend but didn't love it. Salem's Lot just blew my socks off; just saying to Mark today how I miss that old Stephen King fellah, the one whose books used to have so much oomph. Ally; another good movie for you; My First Summer of Love. Astounding film, and sometime to be found for £3 in morrisons cheapo rack (where I got mine). If you love that Roeg fractured, hyper-real, semi-mystical feel in your films it's for you. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Great lesbo porn! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
Um, that too...  Ha! They're little more than young teens, too! >sigh< | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243 |
Based on the excellent novel MY SUMMER OF LOVE by Helen Cross, who lives a couple of miles from me! And no, there wasn't a restraining order. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243 |
The novel isn't so erotic – it's about political alienation really. A very dark satire. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.69.54.137 |
The other book was Pamela by Joseph Stephenson.Absolute drivel. I actually quite liked Interview With The Vampire. It's what it spawned that was awful. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243 |
Jon, I gave you a perfect feed there and you wasted it. What happened to your stand-up comic's instincts? | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.164.76 |
Still "Dracula" with me. Also "I Am Legend." "Interview with the Vampire." "Fevre Dream." I wrote about "Don Quixote"--not a vampire, but a darn good book anyway--this week at http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/ |