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Anyone get into vampire novels?

I've been reading Anne Rice's The Vampire Armand 'cause I found it on sale. I didn't care for the first book in her series, Interview with a Vampire, and in fact didn't finish it. This one is better and makes me a bit curious about the intervening ones, The Vampire Lestat and Memnoch the Devil.

I also just finished Vampire Nation, which is about vampires in communist Romania. It wasn't as well written, but the pages flew by.

Of course, I've also read Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Any recommendations for other vampire novels? I'd like to see some with new ideas for what vampires are, what they're vulnerable too, etc. I'm tired of "the first vampire was Cain, old vampires are stronger than new ones, crucifixes don't work, blah, blah, blah."

 

Schralp
The Vampire Lestat is much better.Memnoch the devil is pretty good to but I like Tale of the Body Thief from that same series.

 

try Vampires of the Mists. It's set in Ravenloft, so it's not quite Shakespeare, but it's still pretty good.

 

Well, Christopher Pike's 'The Last Vampire' series is pretty good.

 

Did anyone read "I, Strahd"? The biography of the original bad man of Ravenloft? If so, was it any good? Worth hunting for?

 

Hmmm. Didn't know about that one, Dorion. In what order does it fall?

I got a kick out of Ravenloft, but I never played a game in that world.

What's the story with Pike's book? Anything noteworthy about 'em?

 

Schralp
I believe they go Interview with the Vampire,The Vampire Lestat,Queen of the Dammed,Tale of the Body Thief,and not sure if Menoch the Devil comes next or The Vampire Armand.
All the books are better than Interview but I find The Vampire Lestat and Tale of The Body Theif to be my two favorites.
I never read PIkes book but will look for it next time I hit the book store.

 

You can't miss Salem's Lot by Stephen King!

Wasn't the movie "From Dusk to Dawn" based on a book by Doystoyeski?

BTW ... This has to be my favorite thread name in all of SP history!

 

Mathetais - I think Doestoyevsky wrote "Reform School Girls!"

 

I know it's already been said, but it bears repeating; The Vampire Lestat is FAR superior to Interview With the Vampire, and Queen of the Damned is right behind it. I don't have anything else really pertinent to say, but I adored that book, so I had to say it.

 

Continuing with Anne Rice. I believe these books fall under the vampire serie:

Interview with the vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen of the Damned
The tale of the body thief
Memnoch the devil
The vampire Armand
Vittorio the vampire
Merrick
Blood and gold
Pandora
Blackwood farm

You might also want to consider the Mayfair witch serie. And of course some separate books like 'The mummy' or 'Servant of the bones'.
(To say nothing of the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, but that is totally off topic )

Brian Lumley has written a lot of vampire books, tried any of them?

[ November 02, 2002, 00:44: Message edited by: Zorac ]

 

The Last Vampire, A realy quick, realy bad rundown on the plot. 5000 year old vampire living in America somewhere discovers that her apparently dead mentor/creater (sort of) is trying to kill her because of some vow he made to Krishna. This guy is the original vampire and got his **** kicked by the afore mentioned Krishna some 4800 years ago and he was forced to make a vow to kill what he created. There are 6 books in the series and though its not realy Pikes best work its still pretty good.

 

I've read Christopher Pike's vampire series...yuck. You would have thought a being that was a few thousand years old would have more maturity than a hormone charged teenager.

Oh man, was that a bad series.

I like the concept of vampires as portrayed by White Wolf's Vampire the Masquerade P&P. Gothic punk is sooo cool for undead beings slugging it out in the streets of the modern city.

Anne Rice does do good vampire novels. Her books make for an interesting read, if nothing else.

My personal favorite, however, has to be Nancy A. Collins's Sonja Blue series. Violence, blood and sex in a world of psychotic bloodsuckers. I prefer this much more to the namby pamby, arty farty vampires of Anne Rice's books.

 

I'm really disappointed in myself for not remembering what it was called. But I read a book that was the Snow White story twisted into an occult vampyre reign of terror instead of a jealous step-mother's revenge. It was really sweet and I can't believ I don't remember the title.

I go to kick myself in the head for my stupidity now.

 

Not precisely a book, but... If you're really into vampires, there's a PNP game where you choose a clan, and get vampiric powers and drink blood and the like. It's divided into two different games, Vampire: The Dark Ages, and Vampire: The Masquerade. TDA takes place in the medieval ages, with vampire lords, monsters with hard to pronounce names (like Szlachta, pronounced shh-lock-ta) and swords and spells and stuff. Masquerade is in the modern ages, with goths, punks, zombie alligators in the sewers of NY, guns, and more spells. They made a computer version. Vampire: the Masquerade - Redemption.

 

Yeah, I've actually read the Vampire: Masquerade players HB, but never played a game. I also liked the Fox series based on the game, but it got the axe. Not enough bloodsucking fans, I reckon.

 

I never realized there was a fox series. Interesting. I shall have to check it out. Maybe I can find old episodes on Ebay or something.