Bier-bliography

Bier (plural biers): a table or platform on which a coffin or dead body is placed at a funeral.
— Encyclopædia Britannica

Introduction

This is my personal bibliography for vampiric affairs. It curates a selection of folklore studies, university press releases and anthologies. For its citations, it uses the obscure TavernDweller style, which itself is based off the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook. For your convenience, their titles are marked in red, because this page gets dense.

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How to use this

If you’re an absolute beginner to the topic, I recommend starting with The Vampire Encyclopedia by Matthew Bunson. Encyclopaedias are particularly accessible: they allow for non-linear reading, use straightforward language, and maintain a consistent structure. They give out just enough information to inspire interest without overwhelming the reader.

If you’re already acquainted with the topic and want a more dense means of entry, Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber is a solid text. It explains how vampire myths likely emerged and propagated, particularly as a reaction to decomposition.

In terms of foundational figures, the most famous are Augustin Calmet and Montague Summers. Calmet, though dubious of their veracity, wrote numerous dissertations on occult topics, treating vampires and similar undead as a theological question. Summers compiled folklore throughout Europe, producing seminal works such as The Vampire in Europe and The Vampire in Lore and Legend. As this bibliography aims beyond the Anglosphere, Jean Marigny earns a spot here for his own folkloric work and now quietly lives as an emeritus.

Beyond these starting points, you can approach this bibliography any way you see fit, whether chronologically or thematically. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages: reading chronologically highlights how vampire studies have evolved over time, revealing shifts in framing, language, and politics. By contrast, a thematic approach offers a more focused experience. Alternatively, for readers uninterested in nonfiction, the bibliography also includes a collection of vampire-themed anthologies.

Many of these works are rare, out of print, and in some cases borderline impossible to find. Some exist only in private collections or dwell in layers of other folkloric sources. Others may require translation, or survive only as incomplete copies. As a result, I have not read everything on this list and cannot realistically aspire to do so. At times, it's best to think backwards, like Ifnkovhgroghprm, or oh-oh-oy! However, you can locate solid swathes of them in libraries, book retailers and general secondhand stores. For example, I own a physical copy of Basil Copper’s The Vampire in Legend, Fact and Art that I acquired for five financialshires.

As of writing, I don’t have a public email for submissions or discoveries. When I set one up (for reasons unrelated to this project), I’ll announce it. For now, comments can be left on my Neocities.

Disclaimers

I cannot promise that these books are paragons of factual accuracy, nor that they’ll be free of bias. Whether this is of a gendered, ethnic, nationalistic or religious nature, bias is only inevitable. This is especially noticeable in 20th century texts and the incessant “Dracula = Vlad Tepes” trope so pervasive in their time. This bibliography, in my acknowledgements of such bias, is admittedly eurocentric. However, I fully intend to remedy this wherever I can, and provide sources for other continents. Though many indigenous peoples' have suffered catastrophic losses of their traditions, enough material survives for me to collect. Special care is required here, as with less sources, comes the risk of misrepresenting already-marginalised peoples.

As vampires have extensive overlap with ghosts, witches and werewolves, these books are more than likely to mention the latter. I also cannot promise their discussion will be completely accurate, especially with my preference for vampires. For british folklorists and interested fans, vampires also have some overlap with fairies, such as the Scottish Baobh-shìth.

On the matter of subjects, several of these books contain critical discussion of societal gender roles, xenophobia and sexual violence, particularly towards women. The anthologies are prone to sensual, if not overtly erotic scenes. Most of these are of a queer nature, with sporadic heterosexual entries. Some of these sex scenes may waver in consent, so if that disquiets you, err on the side of caution. As no annotations are provided for the sake of consistency, you’re entering these stories blind. As for the authors, like with any other bibliography, their appearance does not amount to personal relation or endorsement. Be diligent and discerning while you read.

I will also not review any of these books. One, it would be an undertaking that'd result in my early death, two they're ridiculously rare and three, I do not enjoy reviewing things. To quote an old blog entry, every time I try, my brain conjures the image of a four-year old me deftly inhaling the fluids of a plastic bubble pipe.

Exclusions

Books solely focused on "vampiric" historical figures such as Elizabeth Báthory or Vlad Tepes: While many of these books stray away from making such comparisons, the ones that do are pseudohistorical and thus, do not belong here.
Books that discuss "vampiric" criminal acts, such as blood-letting or cannibalism: I see true crime as a cruel spectacle that has no place in folkloric discussion. Some of the featured texts make slight detours for true crime, but there's none solely on the topic. However, more respectful, anthropological explorations of cannibalism are much appreciated. For example, I will recommend An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Cătălin Avramescu.
Books that use vampires as metaphors for abusive relationships: I see no educational value in tired metaphors and therapy-speak. More importantly, I do not think the metaphor holds. Abusing other people is a choice; vampirism is not. To make such comparisons flattens the abuser into a one-note creature and, in doing so, absolves them of personal responsibility. This framing can shift blame onto the aggrieved party, implying that such mistreatment is expected and that seeking better treatment is farcical, while sparing the “vampire” from meaningful criticism. Abusive people are neither otherworldly nor incomprehensible; they are entirely human. Those who suffer through their behaviour deserve better than these half-formed explanations.
Books that discuss vampire lifestyle, subcultures and adjacent topics: I prefer folkloric discussion over fandom. This bibliography allows books on peoples' reactions to vampires, but not the mass-market branding of alternative subcultures.
Online articles on vampires: They source from the very texts on this page, so to feature them would be redundant.

Citation Style

I'll let Taverndweller explain this for himself.

"The taverndweller bibliographic style (tbs) is loosely based on the 7th edn. of the MLA Handbook's1 list of works cited style. However, MLA's style, as well as the other main bibliographic styles, are inadequate for online bibliography. If one wants to write, say, Javascript to deal with multiple entries by the same author beginning with "---", one may of course do that. If one wants to let HTML and microdata do the heavy lifting something else is needed. So under my system you will list the author's full name for each entry, but what of it? Modern text editors allow you to copy and paste text from and to a specific place with ease.

Existing microdata schema's are also inadequate for book lists. schema.org's Book class is ridiculous; the term "name" has a specific meaning in most book catalogues, and that meaning isn't the title of the book. Many of schema.org's properties are derived from other classes; only six properties in the Book class are specific to books. All too often, schema.org's properties are clumsily shoehorned into HTML elements. And schema.org's properties lack the granularity needed for bibliographic information.

The tbs has been designed from the ground up to incorporate HTML5 and my own microdata schema. Bbliographic information, markup, and microdata are inextricably combined into a unified whole. It works fine for book lists but is extensible to include the complexities of, say, Bowers. It is as flexible as one needs it to be. And importantly, it is simple. Zed Shaw once wrote "A love affair with complexity is a programming sickness"2. The tbs eschews that sickness.

The tbs consists of four classes: Book, Book Chapter, Periodical, Periodical Article. Each class has it's own properties, and each property has an expected type, or type for short. Most properties are embedded in a element, but Book and Periodical titles are embedded in a element, and date properties are embedded in a element. Below is a brief summation of the expected format of each class. Follow the class links for a complete description and detailed examples."

Compilations

Anthologies, poems and short stories on Vampires.

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Compilations

1920s

Willoughby-Meade, G.. Ghost and vampire tales of China. 1925.
Summers, Montague. The Vampire in Europe. Routledge, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1929. Print.
Dawson Scott, Catherine Amy. The vampire. A book of Cornish and other stories. 1925.

1940s

Blaisdell, Elinore, ed. Tales of the Undead: vampires and visitants. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1947.
Fox, Leslie H.. The Vampire and Sixteen Other Stories. Arkham House, 1945.

1960s

Charles M. Collins: ed. A Feast of Blood. Avon Books, 1967. Paperback.
Renou, Louis. Contes du vampire. Gallimard – nrf, Connaissance de l’Orient, 1963. Print.
Tolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich, translated by Nikanov, Fedor, edited by Kuehl, Linda, illustrated by Fowler, Mel. Vampires: Stories of the Supernatural. Hawthorn Books, 1969.

1970s

Raymond T. McNally. A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature. New York Graphic Society, 1974. Hardcover.
Saxon, Kurt. Classic Ghosts and Vampires. Kurt Saxon, 1978. Print.
Carter, Margaret L.. Curse of the Undead. Fawcett, 1970. Print.
Ronan, Margaret & Ronan, Eve. Curse of the Vampires. Scholastic Book Services, 1979. Print.
Hrbkova, Sárka. Czechoslovak Stories. Books for Libraries Press, 1970. Print.
Leslie Shepard: ed. The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories. Jove Books / Citadel Press, 1978. Print.
Féval, Paul (père). Le chevalier Ténèbre ; La Ville-Vampire. 1972. Print.
Dickie, James: ed. The Undead. Neville Spearman / Pan Books, 1971. Print.
Trevisan, Dalton, translated by Rabassa, Gregory. The Vampire of Curitiba and Other Stories. Knopf, 1972.
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. Vampire Lovers: and Other Stories. Fontana, 1970.

1980s

Datlow, Ellen ed. Blood Is Not Enough: Stories of Vampirism. William Morrow / Avon, 1989. Print.
Alan Ryan: ed. The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories. Penguin Books, 1989. Print.
Moore, Steven. The Vampire in Verse: An Anthology. Dracula Press, 1985. Print.
Haining, Peter. The Vampire Terror and Other Mystery Stories. Armada Books, 1981.
Alan Ryan: ed. Vampires: Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987. Print.
Devendra P. Varma: ed. Voices from the Vaults: Authentic Tales of Vampires and Ghosts. Key Porter Books, 1987. Print.

1990s

Brian Lumley. A Coven of Vampires. Fedogan & Bremer, 1998. Print.
Martin H. Greenberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz && Robert E. Weinberg: eds. A Taste for Blood: Fifteen Great Vampire Novellas. Dorset Press, 1992. Print.
Datlow, Ellen (ed.). A Whisper of Blood: Stories of Vampirism. William Morrow / Avon, 1991. Print.
Zanger, Jules, ed. Blood & Roses: The Vampire in 19th Century Literature. Richard Kaslak Publisher, 1992. Print.
Cecilia Tan: ed. Blood Kiss: Vampire Erotica. Circlet Press, 1994. Print.
Schimel, Lawrence && Greenberg, Martin H.: eds. Blood Lines: Vampire Stories from New England. (American Vampire Series). Turner Publishing Company, 1997. Print.
Rowe, Michael && Roche, Thomas S.: eds. Brothers of the Night: Gay Vampire Stories. Cleis Press, 1997. Print.
Tan, Cecilia: ed. Cherished Blood: Vampire Erotica. Circlet Press, 1997. Print.
Kipling, Rudyard; Hoffmann, E.T.A.; Poe, Edgar Allan; Benson, E.F.; Stoker, Bram. Classic Vampire Short Stories. CSA Telltapes Ltd, 1996. Print.
Cooper, Molly, ed., illustrated by Kiwak, Barbara. Classic Vampire Stories: Timeless Tales to Sink Your Teeth Into. Lowell House Classics, 1996.
Edgar Allan Poe. Dead Brides: Vampire Tales. Creation Books, 1999. Print.
Tan, Cecilia: ed. Erotica Vampirica: Sensual Vampire Stories. Circlet Press, 1996. Print.
Schimel, Lawrence && Greenberg, Martin H.: eds. Fields of Blood: Vampire Stories from the American Midwest. (American Vampire Series). Cumberland House Publishing, 1998. Print.
Keesey, Pam: ed. Daughters of Darkness: lesbian vampire stories. Cleis Press, 1993. Print.
Keesey, Pam. Draculas Töchter. Fischer Taschenbuch, 1997.
Eric Garber: ed. Embracing the Dark. Alyson Publications, 1991. Print.
Girls’ Night Out: Twenty‑Nine Female Vampire Stories. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg && Martin H. Greenberg: eds. Barnes & Noble Books, 1997. Hardcover.
Gardner Dozois: ed. Isaac Asimov’s Vampires. Ace Books, 1996. Print.
P. N. Elrod. Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire: Red Death; Death and the Maiden; Death Masque; Dance of Death. Guild America (omnibus edition), 1996. Print.
Poppy Z. Brite: ed. Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica. HarperPrism (HarperCollins), 1994. Print.
Brownworth, Victoria A.: ed. Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women. Seal Press, 1996. Print.
Greenberg, Martin Harry, ed. Midnight Mass & Other Great Vampire Stories. Dove Audio, 1999.
Wilson, Colin. Osmicheskie vampiry; Metamorfozy vampirov: fantasticheskie romany. 1996.
Russell, Ray. Prince of Darkness. Sphere Books, 1992. Print.
Barbara Hambly & Martin H. Greenberg: eds. Sisters of the Night. Warner Aspect, 1995. Print.
Schimel, Lawrence && Greenberg, Martin H.: eds. Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South. (American Vampire Series). Cumberland House Publishing, 1997. Print.
Schimel, Lawrence && Greenberg, Martin H.: eds. Streets of Blood: Vampire Stories from New York City. (American Vampire Series). Turner Publishing Company, 1998. Print.
Jones, Stephen: ed. The Book of Vampires. Robinson Publishing, 1997. Print.
Thomas J. Strauch: ed. The Darkest Thirst: A Vampire Anthology. Design Image Group, Inc., 1998. Print.
Stephen Jones. The Giant Book of Vampires. Robinson / Carroll & Graf, 1992. Print.
Jones, Stephen: ed. The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium. (The Mammoth Book of …). Carroll & Graf / Robinson, 1997. Print.
Chetwynd-Hayes, R., edited by Jones, Stephen, illustrated by Pitts, Jim, cover art by Edwards, Les. The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes. Fedogan & Bremer, 1997.
P. N. Elrod & Martin H. Greenberg: eds. The Time of the Vampires. DAW Books, 1996. Print.
Greg Cox && T.K.F. Weisskopf: eds. Tomorrow Sucks: SF Vampire Stories. Baen Books, 1994. Print.
Robert R. McCammon. Under the Fang. Pocket Books / Horror Writers of America, 1991. Print.
Alan Durant: ed. Vampire and Werewolf Stories. Kingfisher, 1998. Print.
Martin H. Greenberg: ed. Vampire Detectives. DAW Books, 1995. Print.
Dalby, Richard: ed. Vampire Stories. Michael O'Mara, 1992. Print.
Jane Yolen && Martin H. Greenberg: eds. Vampires: A Collection of Original Stories. HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. Print.
Peter Haining: ed. Vampires at Midnight: Seventeen Brilliant and Chilling Tales of the Ghastly Bloodsucking Undead. Warner Books, 1993. Print.
Dresser, Norine, ed. Vampires: Encounters with the Undead. Viking, 1997. Print.
Greenberg, Martin Harry. Vampire Slayers: Stories of Those Who Dare to Take Back the Night. Cumberland House Publishing, 1999.
Martin H. Greenberg: ed. Vampires: The Greatest Stories. MJF Books / Fine Communications, 1997. Print.
John Richard Stephens: ed. Vampires, Wine, and Roses. Berkley Trade (Penguin Group), 1997. Print.
Leder, K. B.. Vampire und Untote: Eine Anthologie von Vampir-Geschichten. 1991. Print.
Dziemianowicz, Stefan R. && Weinberg, Robert E. && Greenberg, Martin H.: eds. Virtuous Vampires. Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. Print.
Robert E. Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, & Martin H. Greenberg: eds. Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood‑Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps. Grammercy Books, 1992. Print.
Dziemianowicz, Stefan R., Weinberg, Robert E. && Greenberg, Martin H.: eds. 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories. Barnes & Noble Books, 1995. Print.

21st Century

Anthology In Blood: Four Vampire Tales from the world of History In Blood. Chris DeFazio, 2014. Print.
Chris DeFazio.
Various. A Real Pain in the Neck: Selected Vampire Stories. Fantasy and Horror Classics, 2011.
Tan, Cecilia, ed. A Taste of Midnight: Sensual Vampire Stories. Running Press, 2006.
Datlow, Ellen (ed.). Blood and Other Cravings. Tor Books, 2011. Print.
Van Pelt, R. T., ed. Blood by Gaslight: Classic Vampire Stories. Dover Publications, 2008.
Robert S. Wilson: ed. Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire SF on the Cutting Edge. Nightscape Press, LLP, 2014. Print.
de Moss, Bianca: ed. Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Tales. Alyson Books, 2006. Print.
Margo Collins: ed. Before the Count: British Vampire Tales, 1732‑1897. Zittaw Press, 2007. Print.
Teejay Lecapois. Black Vampire Anthology. Lulu.com (Lulu Press, Inc.), 2009. Print.
Matheson, Richard and Dawidziak, Mark, ed. Bloodlines: Richard Matheson’s Dracula, I Am Legend, and Other Vampire Stories. Gauntlet Press, 2006.
Cannon, C. L.: ed. Bloodsport: A Fiction-Atlas Press Vampire Anthology. Fiction-Atlas Press LLC, 2020. Print.
Otto Penzler: ed. Bloodsuckers: The Vampire Archives, Volume 1. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. Print.
Curran, Bob. Bloody Irish: Celtic vampire legends. Merlin Publishing, Dublin, 2002. Print.
Otto Penzler: ed. Coffins: The Vampire Archives, Volume 3. Penguin Random House / Vintage Crime, 2010. Print.
Roberto Cueto. Cuentos de vampiras. Celeste Ediciones, S.A., 2001. Print.
Angela Allen: ed. Dark Thirst. Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster), 2004. Print.
Farr, Russell B.: ed. Dead Red Heart: Australian Vampire Tales. Ticonderoga Publications, 2011. Print.
Corum, Kim. Dead Sexy Vampire Erotica: Two Dark and Thirsty Stories. Artrum Media, 2009.
P. N. Elrod: ed. Dracula in London. Ace Books / Penguin Publishing Group, 2001. Print.
Richard Dalby: ed. Dracula’s Brood: Neglected Vampire Classics. HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. Print.
Sims, Michael. Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.
Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne & Lori Herter. Edge of Darkness. Jove Publications / Penguin Publishing Group, 2015. Print.
Cast, P. C., ed. Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite. BenBella Books, 2010.
Anthony Giangregorio: ed. Eternal Night: A Vampire Anthology. Living Dead Press, 2010. Print.
Kilpatrick, Nancy (ed.). Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead. Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing, 2010. Print.
Kilpatrick, Nancy (ed.). Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead. Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing, 2011. Print.
Kaplin, L. M.. Fang Fiction: Vampire Horror Stories. Broken Brain Books, 2022.
Otto Penzler: ed. Fangs: The Vampire Archives, Volume 2. Penguin Random House / Vintage Crime, 2010. Print.
Vampire Writers Support Group: ed. Fresh Blood: Vampire Writers Support Group Anthology No. 1. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. Print.
Faust, Gabrielle: ed. High Stakes: A Vampire Anthology. Evil Jester Press, 2013. Print.
Calloway, C. S. R.: ed. Horror Historia Red: 31 Essential Vampire Tales. Csrc Storytelling, 2022. Print.
Various authors, read by Vance, Simon. Great Classic Vampire Stories: Eight Chilling Tales. Blackstone Publishing, 2012.
Chetwynd‑Hayes, R.. Looking for Something to Suck: The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd‑Hayes. Valancourt Books, 2014. Print.
Somtow, S.P.. Lost Valentines: The Collected Vampire Stories. Diplodocus Press, 2022. Print.
Halston Blake. Love, Death, and Vampires: an Otherworldly Anthology. Independently published, 2020. Print.
Forbes, Miranda, ed. Lust Bites: A Collection of Five Erotic Vampire Stories. Xcite Books, 2010.
Mann, William J., Ford, Michael Thomas, Wolfe, Sean && Mann, Jeff. Masters of Midnight: Erotic Tales of the Vampire. Kensington Books, 2003. Print.
Ridge, Timothy, Ford, Michael Thomas, Wolfe, Sean, and Herren, Greg. Midnight Thirsts: Erotic Tales of the Vampire. Kensington Books, 2004.
Tarn, Barbara G. & contributors: ed. Nightly Bites Volume 1. Kydala Publishing, Inc., 2017. Print & eBook.
Tarn, Barbara G. & contributors: ed. Nightly Bites Volume 2. Kydala Publishing, Inc., 2018. Print & eBook.
Tarn, Barbara G. & contributors: ed. Nightly Bites Volume 3. Kydala Publishing, Inc., 2020. Print & eBook.
Corrick, Daniel: ed. Night’s Black Agents: An Anthology of Vampire Fiction. Snuggly Books, 2023. Print.
Charlaine Harris, Maggie Shayne & Barbara Hambly: eds. Night’s Edge. Harlequin / Pocket Books, 2004. Print.
Nocturnum, Corvis. Out of the Coffin: a Collection of Classic Vampire Stories. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
Golden, Christopher (ed.). Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror. Gallery Books, 2015. Print.
Nicole Givens Kurtz: ed. SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire. Mocha Memoirs Press, 2020. Print.
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur. Stories with Bite: The Vampire Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fantasy and Horror Classics / Read Books Ltd., 2011. Print.
Datlow, Ellen & Windling, Terri (eds.). Teeth: Vampire Tales. HarperCollins, 2011. Print.
Tony Earnshaw. The Many Faces of Van Helsing. Tomahawk Press, 2004. Print.
Balcaen, Dimitri. The Age of Blood: A Collection of 6 Unique Vampire Stories. ReadMore Publishing House, 2025.
Angela Kessler: ed. The Best of Dreams of Decadence: Vampire Stories and Poems to Keep You Up Till Dawn. Roc / Penguin Group USA, 2003. Print.
Barger, Andrew, ed. The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Vampire Anthology. Bottletree Books, 2012.
Christine Feehan, Susan Grant & Susan Squires. The Only One. Leisure Books, 2003. Print.
Nick Rennison: ed. The Rivals of Dracula: Stories from the Golden Age of Gothic Horror. Oldcastle Books, 2016. Print.
Otto Penzler: ed. The Vampire Archives. Vintage, 2009. Print.
BellaDonna Drakul. The Vampire Collection: Short Stories for the Vampire Enthusiast. PublishAmerica / America Star Books, 2007. Paperback.
Byron, George Gordon && Polidori, John William & various. The Vampire of Vourla and Other Greek Vampire Tales, 1819–1846. García Marín, Álvaro: ed. Valancourt Books, 2024. Print.
The Dark Lords. The Vampires: Classic Tales of Bloodlust & Death. Dark Lords / CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. Print.
Marvin Kaye: ed. The Vampire Sextette. Ace Books / Science Fiction Book Club, 2000. Print.
Kilpatrick, Nancy. The Vampire Stories of Nancy Kilpatrick: Nineteen Short Stories from the Queen of the Undead. Mosaic Press, 2000.
Werner, Robin A. and Lewis, Elizabeth M.. Vampire Literature: An Anthology. Broadview Press, 2024. Print.
West, Michael: ed. Vampires Don’t Sparkle!. Seventh Star Press, 2013. Print.
Various Authors: ed. Vampires: Dracula and the Undead Legions. Moonstone Books, 2009. Print.
Córdova, Zoraida & Parker, Natalie C. (eds.). Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite. Square Fish / Macmillan, 2023. Print.
J. Thorn & Zach Bohannon. Vampires of New Orleans: A Short Story Collection. Molten Universe Media, 2022. Print.
Smith, Annabella. Vampires: 75 Stories to Make Your Blood Tingle. Cliff Road Books, 2009.
Erlach, Mickey, ed. Vampire Boys: An Erotic Anthology. STARbooks Press, 2014.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn and Hoffman, Nina Kiriki. Vampire Megapack: 27 Modern and Classic Vampire Stories. Wildside Press LLC, 2012.
Vampire stories. Everest, León, 2000.
Schimel, Lawrence and Greenberg, Martin Harry, eds. Vampire Stories from the American South. Metro Books, 2007.
Poe, Edgar Allan & Blackwood, Algernon. Vampire Stories: Blood‑Curdling Tales of Horror. Arcturus Gilded Classics. Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2025. Print.
Guran, Paula (ed.). Vampires: The Recent Undead. Prime Books, 2011. Print.
Andreyev, Leonid, Gogol, Nikolai, James, M. R., and Benson, E. F., et al. Vampire Tales: The Big Collection (80+ Stories in One Volume: The Viy, The Fate of Madame Cabanel, The Parasite, Good Lady Ducayne, Count Magnus, For the Blood Is the Life, Dracula's Guest, The Broken Fang, Blood Lust, Four Wooden Stakes...). Pandora’s Box / Dark Chaos, 2019.
Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh. Vamps: An Anthology of Female Vampire Stories. BP Books, 2004. Print.
Robert Eighteen‑Bisang & Richard Dalby. Vintage Vampire Stories. Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. Print.
Various Authors; Claire Kohda: intro. White Teeth, Red Blood: Selected Vampiric Verses. Pushkin Press, 2025. Print.
Alan Russo. You Can’t Kill Me, I’m Already Dead: A Vampire Anthology. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. Print.
Byron, Lord and Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 7 Best Short Stories – Vampire. Tacet Books, 2020.

Dictionaries

Bibliographies, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias on Vampires.

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Dictionaries

1960s

Summers, Montague, 1880–1948. The Vampire in Lore and Legend. University Books, 1961 (Reprint). Print.

1970s

Haining, Peter: ed. The Dracula Scrapbook: Articles, Essays, Letters, Newspaper Cuttings, Anecdotes, Illustrations, Photographs and Memorabilia about the Vampire Legend. Bramhall House / New English Library, 1976. Print.
Pirie, David. The Vampire Cinema. Hamlyn / Crescent Books, 1977. Print.

1980s

Finné, Jacques. Bibliographie de Dracula [Bibliography of Dracula]. L’Age d’Homme, 1986. Print.
Carter, Margaret L.: ed. The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography. UMI Research Press, 1989. Print.
Bérard, Cyprien, Lacassin, Francis. Vampires de Paris : Préf., bibliographie et répertoire des auteurs. Union Générale d’éditions, 1981. Print.
Riccardo, Martin V.. Vampires Unearthed: The Complete Multi-Media Vampire and Dracula Bibliography. Garland, 1983. Print.

1990s

Haining, Peter, 1940–2014. A Dictionary of Vampires. Robert Hale, 1998. Print.
Harvey, Robert J.. Dark Visions: A Price Guide to Collectible Vampire Literature. 1995. Print.
van Loon, Paul; Didden, Jack; Fialkowski, Camila. Das Vampirhandbuch. Arena Verlag, 1998.
Pozzuoli, Alain. Dracula (1897-1997) : guide du centenaire. (—). Hermes, 1996. Print.
Wolf, Leonard. Dracula: The Connoisseur’s Guide. Broadway Books / Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997. Print.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen && Macabre, J.B.. The Complete Vampire Companion: Legend and Lore of the Living Dead. Macmillan General Reference, 1994. Print.
Jones, Stephen. The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide. Titan Books Ltd, 1993. Print.
Pitt, Ingrid. The Ingrid Pitt bedside companion for vampire lovers. B T Batsford Ltd, 1998.
Cox, Greg && Mallett, Daryl F.. The Transylvanian Library: A Consumer’s Guide to Vampire Fiction. (Borgo Literary Guides, No. 8). Borgo Press, 1992. Print.
Melton, J. Gordon. The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Visible Ink Press, 1994. Print.
Melton, J. Gordon. The Vampire Gallery: A Who’s Who of the Undead. Visible Ink Press, 1998. Print.
Bunson, Matthew. The Vampire Encyclopedia. Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1993. Print.
Haining, Peter. The Vampire Omnibus. Orion / Artus Books, 1995. Print.
Proctor, David. The Quotable Vampire. Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1997.
Altner, Patricia. Vampire Readings: An Annotated Bibliography. Scarecrow Press, 1998. Print.
Dunn-Mascetti, Manuela. Vampire: The Complete Guide to the World of the Undead. Viking Studio Books, 1992. Print.
Melton, J. Gordon. VideoHound’s Vampires on Video. Visible Ink Press / Gale Group, 1997. Print.
Skal, David J.. V Is for Vampire: The A–Z Guide to Everything Undead. Plume, 1996. Trade paperback.

21st Century

Bunson, Matthew. Das Buch der Vampire von Dracula, Untoten und anderen Fürsten der Finsternis ; ein Lexikon. 2001.
Joshi, S. T.: ed. Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture. Greenwood / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Print.
Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology. McFarland & Company, 2010. Print.
Ronecker, Jean‑Paul. Encyclopædia vampirica : encyclopédie illustrée des vampires. Éditions le Temps présent, 2009. Paperback.
Pozzuoli, Alain. La bible Dracula : dictionnaire du vampire. Le Pré aux clercs, 2010. Paperback.
Delmas, Marie‑Charlotte. Petit lexique des vampires. (Chauve‑Souris, No 8). Syros, 2000. Print.
Jay Stevenson. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires. Alpha Books, 2009. Print.
Odell, Colin; Le Blanc, Michelle. The pocket essential vampire films. Pocket Essentials, 2000.
Melton, J. Gordon && Hornick, Alysa, comps. The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography. McFarland, 2015. Print.
Dixon, J. M.. The Weiser Field Guide to Vampires: Legends, Practices, and Encounters Old and New. Weiser Books, 2009. Print.
Curran, Bob. Vampires: A Field Guide to the Creatures that Stalk the Night. New Page Books, 2005. Print.
Brian Righi. Vampires Through the Ages: Lore & Legends of the World's Most Notorious Blood Drinkers. Llewellyn Publications, 2012. Paperback.

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18th Century

Ranft, Michael. De masticatione mortuorum in tumulis. Sumptibus Augusti Martini, 1728. Print.
Calmet, Dom Augustine. Treatise on Vampires and Revenants. Desert Island Books, Brighton, 1751 (reprinted 1993). Print.
Davanzati, Giuseppe Antonio. Dissertazione sopra i vampiri. (—). Fratelli Raimondi, 1774. Print.

19th Century

Collin de Plancy, Jacques-Albin-Simon. Histoire des vampires et des spectres malfaisans: avec un examen du vampirisme. (—). Masson, libraire, quai des Augustins, No. 19, 1820. Print.
Gerard, Emily. Transylvanian Superstitions. The Nineteenth Century, London, 1885. Print.

1900s

Hock, Stephan.. Die Vampyrsagen und ihre Verwertung in der deutschen Literatur. 1900. Berlin. Print.

1950s

Djordjević, Tihomir R.. Veštica i vila Vampir i druga bića. Naučna knjiga, 1953. Belgrade. Print.

1960s

Volta, Ornella. Le vampire : la mort, le sang, la peur. Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1962. Print.
Volta, Ornella. The Vampire. Tandem Books, 1965. Print.
Dégh, Linda.. Folktales of Hungary. University of Chicago Press, 1965. Chicago. Print.

1970s

Desmarais, James Joseph. An historical and descriptive study of the cinematic vampire from 1922 through 1974. California State University, 1975. Thesis.
Geha, Richard E.. A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Idea of the Vampire. University of Glasgow, 1975. Thesis.
Marigny, Jean. Histoires anglo‑saxonnes de Vampires. Librairie des Champs‑Élysées, 1978. Print.
Villeneuve, Roland && Degaudenzi, Jean‑Louis. Le musée des vampires. Henri Veyrier, 1976. Print.
Voltolini, Ornella.. Le Vampire. Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1962. Paris. Print.
Faivre, Tony.. Les Vampires. Le Terrain Vague, 1971. Paris. Print.
Carter, Margaret L.. Shadow of a Shade: a survey of vampirism in literature. New York: Gordon Press, 1975. Print.
Davidson, Sally. The anthropological implications of the vampire and werewolf in Europe and the affiliations of such beliefs with related phenomena worldwide. 1975. Print.
Glut, Donald F.. The Dracula Book. Scarecrow Press, 1975. Print.
Agazzi, Renato. Il mito del vampiro in Europa. Antonio Lalli, 1979. Print.
Bentley, C.F.. The Monster in the Bedroom: Sexual Symbolism in Bram Stoker's Dracula. (Literature and Psychology 22, no. 1). Department of English, University of Rhode Island, 1972. Print.
Masters, Anthony. The Natural History of the Vampire. G.P. Putnam’s Sons / Rupert Hart‑Davis, 1972. Print.
Pattison, Barrie. The Seal of Dracula. Bounty Books, 1975. Print.
Aylesworth, Thomas G.. The Story of Vampires. McGraw‑Hill, 1977. Print.
Ursini, James and Alain Silver. The Vampire Film. A.S. Barnes, 1975. Print.
Copper, Basil. The Vampire in Legend, Fact and Art. Robert Hale, 1973. Print.
Varma, Devendra P.. The Vampire in Legend, Lore, and Literature. Ams Press, 1970. Print.
Hurwood, Bernhardt J.. The Vampire Papers. Pinnacle Books, 1976. Print.
Underwood, Peter. The Vampire’s Bedside Companion: The Amazing World of Vampires in Fact and Fiction. Leslie Frewin Books, 1975. Print.
Garden, Nancy.. Vampires. J. B. Lippincott, 1973. New York. Print.
Wright, Dudley. Vampires and Vampirism. Causeway Books, 1973. Print.
Perkowski, Jan L.. Vampires of the Slavs. Slavica Publishers, 1976. Print.

1980s

Dresser, Norine. American Vampires: Fans, Victims, Practitioners. W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. Print.
Stevenson, John Allen. “A Vampire in the Mirror: The Sexuality of Dracula”. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA), 1988. Print.
Veeder, William. Carmilla: The Arts of Repression. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 1980. Print.
Carter, Margaret L.. Dracula: The Vampire and the Critics. UMI Research Press, 1988. Print.
Oinas, Felix. East European Vampires & Dracula. University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. Print.
Van Aken, Johannes. Histoire vraie du vampirisme. Vernoy / Famot, Genève, 1980. Print.
Giovannini, Fabio. Il libro dei vampiri : dalla leggenda alla presenza quotidiana. Edizioni Dedalo, 1985. Print.
Cammarota, M. D. Jr.. I vampiri : arte, cinema, folklore, letteratura, teatro, storia & altro. Fanucci, 1984. Print.
Olivier, Jean-Michel. Lautréamont : le texte du vampire. L’Âge d’Homme, 1981. Print.
Créméné, Adrien, Zemmal, Françoise. La mythologie du vampire en Roumanie. Éditions du Rocher, 1981. Print.
Marigny, Jean. Le Vampire dans la littérature anglo‑saxonne. Didier‑Érudition, Paris, 1985. Print.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn. On vampires and other things. 1985. Print.
Rouet, Christophe. Origine et évolution du mythe de Dracula. Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1984. Print.
Blythe, Hal, Sweet, Charlie. Poe’s Satiric Use of Vampirism in “Berenice”. Poe Studies, 1981. Print.
Perkowski, Jan L.. The Darkling: a treatise on Slavic vampirism. Cambridge, MA: Slavica, 1989. Print.
Dean, John. The Immigrant of Darkness: The Vampire in American Fiction. Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, 1985. Print.
Riccardo, Martin V.. The Lure of the Vampire. Adams Press, 1983. Print.
Waller, Gregory A.. The Living and the Undead: From Stoker's Dracula to Romero's Dawn of the Dead. University of Illinois Press, 1986. Print.
Frost, Brian J.. The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature. Popular Press / Bowling Green State University Press, 1989. Print.
Parker, Berlinda Zellner. The Narcotic Gaze: Ocular Imagery and the Vampire Motif in “Christabel,” “Carmilla,” and “Dracula” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bram Stoker, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Ireland). Florida Atlantic University, 1982. Print.
Seed, David. The Narrative Method of Dracula. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 1985. Print.
Senf, Carol A.. The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988. Print.
Hurwood, Bernhardt J.. Vampires. Pinnacle Books, 1981. Print.
Kaplan, Stephen, Kane, Carole. Vampires Are. ETC Publications, 1984. Print.
Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality. Yale University Press, 1988. Print.
Marrero, Robert G.. Vampires, Hammer Style. RGM Publications, 1982. Print.
Kiessling, Nicolas. Variations of Vampirism. Poe Studies, 1981. Print.
Senn, Harry. Were-Wolf and Vampire in Romania. Columbia University Press, 1982. Print.

1990s

Bacon, Michael. A Dream of Dracula : In Search of the Living Dead. Center for Inquiry, 1999. Print.
DeWees, Amanda Raye. Blood lines : domestic and family anxieties in nineteenth-century vampire literature. 1998.
Greenberg, Louis Paul. Bloodlust : family, sex, gender and belief in the contemporary vampire novel. 1997.
Gault, Julia Annabel. Bloodlust : homoeroticism and homophobia in nineteenth century vampire narratives. 1999.
Gordon, Joan && Hollinger, Veronica: eds. Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Print.
Miller, Catriona. Blood spirits: a Jungian approach to the vampire myth. University of Stirling, 1998.
Davison, Carol Margaret; Simpson-Housley, Paul. Bram Stoker’s Dracula : Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997. Dundurn Press, 1997.
Greeley, Tracey. Bram Stoker's Dracula : the text as vampire killer. 1997.
Thorne, Tony. Children of the Night: Of Vampires and Vampirism. V. Gollancz / Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. Print.
Dunn-Mascetti, Manuela. Chronicles of the Vampire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1991. Print.
Flynn, John L.. Cinematic Vampires: The Living Dead on Film and Television, from the Devil's Castle (1896) to Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). McFarland & Company, 1992. Print.
Joslin, Lyndon W.. Count Dracula goes to the movies : Stoker’s novel adapted, 1922-1995. McFarland & Company, 1999.
Plumb, Jane. Dark Angels: A Study of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. University of Warwick, 1998.
Harmening, Dieter. Der Anfang von Dracula : zur Geschichte von Geschichten. 1997. Print.
Prüssmann, Karsten. Die Dracula-Filme von Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau bis Francis Ford Coppola. 1993. Print.
Marigny, Jean. Dracula. Autrement, Paris, 1997. Print.
Shepard, Leslie; Power, Albert. Dracula : celebrating 100 years. Mentor Press, 1997.
Grivel, Charles. Dracula : de la mort à la vie. Éditions de l’Herne, 1997.
Cueto, Roberto; Díaz Maroto, Carlos. Drácula. De Transilvania a Hollywood. Nuer, 1997.
Leatherdale, Clive. Dracula : du mythe au réel. Dervy, 1998.
Andreesco, Ioanna. Où sont passés les vampires ?. Payot, 1997.
Jung, Uli. Dracula : filmanalytische Studien zur Funktionalisierung eines Motivs der viktorianischen Populär-Literatur. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1997.
Holte, James Craig. Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations. Praeger, 1997.
Kelley, Bill && Timpone, Anthony. Dracula, the Complete Vampire. 1992. Print.
Marrero, Robert. Dracula: the Vampire Legend on Film. Fantasma Books, 1992. Print.
Phillips, Charles; Kerrigan, Michael. Forests of the Vampire: Slavic Myth. Time-Life Books, 1999.
King, Maureen C.. From Dracula to the “New Evil”: The Social and Sexual Politics of Vampire Fiction. 1993. Print.
Wachtel, Nathan. Gods & Vampires: Return to Chipaya. Volk, Carol: trans. University of Chicago Press, 1994. Print.
Lana, Victor. Gothic feminism in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. St. John’s University, 1994.
Lecouteux, Claude. Histoire des vampires : autopsie d’un mythe. Imago, 1999.
Skal, David J.. Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen. W.W. Norton & Company, 1990. Print.
Rossignoli, Giuseppe. Il vampiro nei film italiani. De Rubies, 1991. Print.
Tardiola, Giuseppe. Il vampiro nella letteratura italiana. 1991. Print.
Marcus, Jana. In the Shadow of the Vampire: Reflections from the World of Anne Rice. Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1997.
Perez, Dominique. La figure du vampire de Stoker à Rice : étude comparée de deux œuvres : *Dracula* et *Entretien avec un vampire*. Université Lumière (Lyon), 1998.
Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail. La figure du vampire et ses métamorphoses dans la littérature et les arts : journée d'étude : forum des Cordeliers : 1991. 1992. Print.
Teti, Vito. La melanconia del vampiro: mito, storia, immaginario. 1994. Print.
Ruggieri, Maria Cristina. La Réinterprétation du mythe du vampire dans le cinéma américain des années 80-90. Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998.
Markale, Jean. L’énigme des vampires. 1991. Print.
Bilger, Nathalie. L'évolution de la présence d'images de sang dans les films de vampires révélatrices des changements sociaux facteurs d'anomie : ou comment comprendre notre société à travers ses œuvres d'art. Université de Franche-Comté, 1999.
Dunn-Mascetti, Manuela. Le livre des vampires. Solar, 1993. Print.
Buican, Denis. Les métamorphoses de Dracula: l’histoire et la légende. 1993. Print.
Marigny, Jean && Bozzetto, Roger. Les Vampires: Dracula et les siens. Omnibus, Paris, 1997. Print.
Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Les Vampires : les films mystérieux = Die Vampire : Filmserie von Louis Feuillade. 1990. Print.
Montaclair, Florent. Le vampire dans la littérature et au théâtre : du mythe oriental au motif romantique. Presses du Centre Unesco de Besançon, 1998.
Tournier, Michel. Le vol du vampire: notes de lecture. Mercure de France, 1994. Print.
Riccardo, Martin V.. Liquid Dreams of Vampires. Llewellyn Publications, 1996. Print.
McMullen, Angela Sue. Lost in the savage garden : a nihilistic interpretation of Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles. 1999.
Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga. Lust for Blood: The Consuming Story of Vampires. Viking Press, 1995. Print.
Lemerle, Sébastien. Morte amoureuse. Autour de l'imaginaire du vampire aux XVIIIᵉ et XIXᵉ siècles. 1996.
Auerbach, Nina. Our Vampires, Ourselves. University of Chicago Press, 1995. Print.
Bhalla, Alok. Politics of Atrocity and Lust: The Vampire Tale as a Nightmare History of England in the Nineteenth Century. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1990. Print.
Halberg, Cynthia Jean. Problems and solutions : a case study of Anne Rice's vampire Lestat. 1997.
Gelder, Ken. Reading the Vampire. (Popular Fictions Series). Routledge, 1994. Print.
Hobbs, Michelle. Reshaping the Archetype : Mythmaking and Matriarchy in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1997.
McClelland, Bruce Alexander. Sacrifice, Scapegoat, Vampire: The Social and Religious Origins of the Bulgarian Folkloric Vampire. 1999. Print.
Cybulski, Angela Marie. Signs of enervation and emancipation: The vampire myth as a metaphor for gender roles and the dynamics of interpersonal relationships in the Victorian novel (Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker). California State University, Long Beach (Master’s thesis), 1999.
Stuart, Roxana. Stage Blood: Vampires of the 19th Century Stage. University of Wisconsin Press / Popular Press, 1994. Print.
Davis, Kathy S.. Sympathy for the devil: female authorship and the literary vampire. The Ohio State University, 1999.
Heldreth, Leonard G. & Pharr, Mary (eds.). The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature. University of Wisconsin Press / Bowling Green State University Press, 1999. Print.
Ashley, Leonard R. N.. The Complete Book of Vampires. Barricade Books Inc., 1998. Print.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen & Macabre, J. B.. The Complete Vampire Companion. Macmillan, 1994. Print.
Gottlieb, Richard M.. The European Vampire: Applied Psychoanalysis and Applied Legend. Folklore Forum (Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University), 1991. Print.
Habacker, Kristine Moriah. The image of the vampire in the works of three nineteenth century Russian writers. 1996.
Arata, Stephen D.. The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization. Indiana University Press, 1990. Print.
Spivey, Mark Thomas. The postmodern vampire archetype : a pastoral perspective for healing the wounded in Generation X. 1996.
Medovoi, Leerom. Theorizing Historicity, or the Many Meanings of Blacula. 1998. Print.
Powell, Carolyn Anna. The secular sacred: sex, transgression and the numinous in popular vampire fiction. University of Southampton, 1998.
Cox, Greg. The Transylvanian Library: a consumer's guide to vampire fiction. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1992. Hb. and Tr. Pb.
Haining, Peter; Tremayne, Peter. The un-dead : the legend of Bram Stoker and Dracula. Constable, 1997.
Dundes, Alan: ed. The Vampire: A Casebook. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., 1998. Print.
Von Leupoldt, Carsten. The vampire as vehicle for humanity: Gothic tradition, sensual sexuality and eternal disillusion in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. University of Wales, Bangor, 1997.
Lapin, Daniel. The Vampire, Dracula and Incest: The Vampire Myth, Stoker's Dracula, and Psychotherapy of Vampiric Sexual Abuse. 1995. Print.
Clemons, Gregory A.. The vampire figure in contemporary Latin American narrative fiction. 1996.
Rickels, Laurence A.. The Vampire Lectures. University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Print.
Reynolds, Sandra S.. Through the eyes of a vampire : the effects of rhetorical context in two of Ann Rice's vampire chronicles. 1996.
McQueen, Michael Anthony. Vampire films and the social construction of whiteness. Florida Atlantic University, 1999.
Kock, Hauke. Vampire: Fürsten der Finsternis – Wahrheit und Legende. Carlsen Verlag, 1998.
Rondina, Christopher; Daniels, Berta. Vampire Legends of Rhode Island. Covered Bridge Press, 1997.
Nigel Suckling. Vampires. Dorling Kindersley, 1995. Print.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. Vampires Among Us. Pocket Books, 1991. Print.
Weiss, Andrea. Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film. Penguin Books, 1993. Print.
Toufic, Jalal. Vampires: An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film. Station Hill Press, 1993. Print.
Jarrot, Sabine. Vampires, de l'Autre à un autre soi-même : l'étude des mutations des caractéristiques du vampire littéraire du XIXᵉ au XXᵉ siècle comme appréhension de l'évolution de la société. Université de Besançon, 1999.
Chandler, Anthony N.. Vampires incorporated : self-definition in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998.
Silhol, Léa; Bernès, Sébastien. Vampire : portraits d'une ombre. Éditions de l’Oxymore, 1999.
Frayling, Christopher. Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula. Faber & Faber, 1991. Print.
Pütz, Susanne. Vampire und ihre Opfer: Der Blutsauger als literarische Figur. Aisthesis, 1992. Print.
Dorn, Margit. Vampirfilme und ihre sozialen Funktionen: Ein Beitrag zur Genregeschichte. 1994. Print.
Corradi Musi, Carla. Vampiri europei e vampiri dell’area sciamanica. 1995. Print.
Jänsch, Erwin. Vampir-Lexikon: Die Autoren des Schreckens und ihre blutsaugerischen Kreaturen : 200 Jahre Vampire in der Literatur. 1995. Print.
Phillips, Charles; Kerrigan, Michael. Wald der Vampire : die Slawen. Time-Life Books, 1999.

21st Century

Blagojević, Gordana. A Contribution to the Vampire Studies among Serbs or Vampire Stories from Luznica. Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2004.
Theresa Bane. Actual Factual Dracula: A Compendium of Vampires. Llewellyn Publications, 2014. Print.
D'Agostino, Thomas && Nicholson, Arlene. A History of Vampires in New England. (Haunted America). History Press, 2010. Print.
Curran, Dr. Bob && Daniels, Ian. American Vampires: Their True Bloody History from New York to California. Red Wheel/Weiser, 2012. Print.
Keller, James R.; Morgan, Gwendolyn A.. Anne Rice and sexual politics : the early novels. 2000.
Simon Bacon. Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture. Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, 2017. Print.
Tabet, Sam. Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror. University of Wales Press, 2025. Print.
Jackson, Kevin. Bite: A Vampire Handbook. Portobello Books Ltd, 2009. Print.
Click, Melissa A., Aubrey, Jennifer Stevens & Behm‑Morawitz, Elizabeth: eds. Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2010. Print.
Abbott, Stacey. Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World. University of Texas Press, 2007. Print.
Bacon, Simon. Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. Print / eBook.
Holly E. Reynold. Defining ambiguous : lesbianism and the vampire in "Christabel" and Carmilla. The College of William and Mary, 2017.
Nicolas Michaud & Janelle Pötzsch (editors). Dracula and Philosophy: Dying to Know. Open Court Publishing Company, 2015. Paperback.
Isabel Ermida. Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts. Brill / Brill Rodopi, 2016. Print.
Gibson, Matthew. Dracula and the Eastern Question: British and French Vampire Narratives of the Nineteenth‑Century Near East. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.
Crișan, Marius-Mircea, ed. Dracula: An International Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Miller, Elizabeth. Dracula: Légende gothique, mythe du vampire et naissance de l'iconographie de l'horreur. Parkstone International, 2019. Print.
Valente, Joseph. Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood. University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Du Chéné, Céline && Marigny, Jean. Dracula, prince des ténèbres. Larousse, Paris, 2009. Print.
Browning, John Edgar & Picart, Caroline Joan "Kay" S.. Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race, and Culture. Scarecrow Press, 2009. Print.
Rhodes, Gary D.. Drakula halála (1921): The Cinema’s First Dracula. 2010. Print.
Polidori, John William, Le Fanu, Sheridan, and Gautier, Théophile, et al. Early Vampire Stories: The Origin of the Vampire Myth in Literature. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
Bahna, Vladimír. Explaining Vampirism: Two Divergent Attractors of Dead Human Concepts. 2015. Print.
Manuela Dunn Mascetti. Explorez le monde des vampires : par-delà la saga des Twilight. Éditions Gründ, 2010. Print book.
Lindgren Leavenworth, Maria & Isaksson, Malin. Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2013. Print.
Schott, Gareth & Moffat, Kirstine (eds.). Fanpires: Audience Consumption of the Modern Vampire. New Academia Publishing, 2011. Print.
Bell, Michael Edward. Food for the dead : on the trail of New England's vampires. Carroll & Graf, 2001.
Hobson, Amanda & Anyiwo, U. Melissa: eds. Gender in the Vampire Narrative. Sense Publishers, 2016. Print.
Herrmann, Andrew F.. Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies, and Us: The Undead as Autoethnographic Bridges. 2014. Print.
Coker, Cait, Palumbo, Donald E. & Sullivan, C. W. III: eds. Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2020. Print.
García Marín, Álvaro. Haunted Communities: The Greek Vampire, or the Uncanny at the Core of Nation Formation. Monstrosity from the Inside Out, 2019. Print.
Baker, David & Green, Stephanie & Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, Agnieszka: eds. Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture: Letting the Wrong One In. (Palgrave Gothic). Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Print.
Boylan, Andrew M. && Hogg, Anthony. Journal of Vampire Studies. 2024. Print
Blair, John. Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World. Princeton University Press, 2025. Print / eBook.
Marigny, Jean. La fascination des vampires. Klincksieck, Paris, 2009. Print.
Édouard Brasey & Stéphanie Brasey. La bible des vampires. Le Pré aux Clercs, 2015.
Bartlett, W. B. & Idriceanu, Flavia. Legends of Blood: The Vampire in History and Myth. Praeger, 2006. Print.
Marigny, Jean. Les femmes vampires. José Corti, Paris, 2010. Print.
Bone, Kristin L.. Location and the Vampire: The Impact of Fictional Stories upon Associated Locations. In Crișan, Marius-Mircea (ed.), Dracula: An International Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Tom Pollard. Loving Vampires: Our Undead Obsession. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016. Print.
Butler, Erik. Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732‑1933. (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture). Camden House, 2010. Print.
Jillian Marie Wingfield. Monsters, dreams, and discords : vampire fiction in twenty-first century American culture. University of Hertfordshire, 2019.
Gelder, Ken. New Vampire Cinema. British Film Institute / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. Print.
Izdebska, Agnieszka. Nostalgic Aliens and Troublesome Citizens – on Vampire Stories Once Again. Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2019, 62(1): 27–39.
Overstreet, Deborah Wilson. Not Your Mother’s Vampire: Vampires in Young Adult Fiction. Scarecrow Press / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. Print.
Aspasia Stephanou. Our Blood, Ourselves: The Symbolics of Blood in Vampire Texts and Vampire Communities. University of Stirling, 2011.
Thomas, Julia. Over Its Undead Body: Dissecting the Vampire. 2018. Print.
Stéphan Valentin. Pourquoi nous adorons les histoires de vampires. Éditions Jouvence, 2010. Print.
Gerhards, Lea. Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television. Library of Gender and Popular Culture. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Print.
Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha. Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Print.
Powell, Anna. Psychoanalysis and Sovereignty in Popular Vampire Fictions. Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
Dungan, Sophie. Reading the Vegetarian Vampire. (Palgrave Gothic). Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing, 2022. Print / eBook.
Browning, John Edgar. Redeeming the Un-Dead in American Media and Culture Before 9/11. 2015. Print.
Wilkins, Christina. Religion and Identity in the Post‑9/11 Vampire: God Is (Un)Dead. Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing, 2018. Print / eBook.
Outi Hakola. Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films. Intellect Ltd, 2015.
Michelle A. Belanger. Sacred Hunger: The Vampire in Myth and Reality. Llewellyn Publications, 2005. Print book.
Bohn, Michelle L.. Shadow of the Vampire: Understanding the Transformations of an Icon in Popular Culture. Texas State University San Marcos, University Honors Program, 2007. Print.
Parker, Kendra R.. She Bites Back: Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011. Lexington Books / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. Print.
McClelland, Bruce A.. Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead. University of Michigan Press, 2006. Print.
Łuksza, Agata. “Sleeping with a Vampire: Empowerment, submission, and female desire in contemporary vampire fiction”. Feminist Media Studies (Taylor & Francis), 2015. Print.
Six, Abigail Lee. Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations. Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature. Routledge, 2019. Print.
White, Luise. Speaking with Vampires : Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. University of California Press, 2000.
Bacon, Simon: ed. Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2022. Print.
Tachibana, Asami. The Angel in the House and the Vampire in the Grave: Representations of the Female in Dracula. 2018. Print.
Debra Dudek. The Beloved Does Not Bite: Moral Vampires and the Humans Who Love Them. Routledge, 2018. Print
Wilson, Amy Williams. The Bite, the Breast and the Blood: Why Modern Vampire Stories Suck Us In. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018. Print.
P-Chong Koh. The bold and the beautiful : reading the male vampire in contemporary film and popular culture. 2017.
Kane, Tim. The Changing Vampire of Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Growth of a Genre. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006. Print.
Härcher, Cindy. The Development of the Vampire in English Literature from the 19th Century to the Present. GRIN Verlag, 2015. Print.
Holte, James Craig (ed.). The Fantastic Vampire: Studies in the Children of the Night – Selected Essays from the Eighteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Greenwood Press, 2002. Print.
Rhodes, Gary D.. The First Vampire Films in America. 2017. Print.
Bräunlein, Peter J.. The Frightening Borderlands of Enlightenment: The Vampire Problem. 2012. Print.
Jessica Anne Hughes. The Good, the Bad, the Thirsty: De-mystification in the Postmodern Vampire Film. Edinburgh University Press, 2013. Print.
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