Children of the Night

Vampire Awareness Month

The month of July is Vampire Awareness Month. It’s a month long, internet celebration on all things vampiric. If you want to know more, then: head here. And in honor of Vampire Awareness Month, here are a few recommendations.

Books

• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu
• The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (Even though, I’d say stick with the first three)
• The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause (YA)
• The Vampire Book by J. Gordon Melton (Non-Fiction. A touch dated but still good)
• The Dead Travel Fast by Eric Nuzum (Non-Fiction)
• In Search of Dracula by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu (Non-Fiction)
• Vampires: The Occult Truth by Konstantinos (Non-Fiction)
• Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 
• Jessica’s Guide to Dating the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey (YA)
• Forever and the Night by Linda Lael Miller (Vampire romance, but not tacky and was written before vampire romance was the norm)
• The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, edited by Stephen Jones (Short Story Collection)
• By Blood We Live, Edited by John Joseph Adams (Short Story Collection)
• Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe (Children’s Book)
• American Vampire by Scott Snyder (Graphic Novel)
  
• Covenant With the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis (New for me, I’m in the middle of reading it and am deeply enjoying it)
• How to be a Vampire by Amy Gray (Children’s and Non-Fiction)
  

*I will admit, with books, I’m extremely picky. It’s sad, but with the vampire genre, I find more fail than a lot that I actually enjoy*

Movies

• Nosferatu (1922)
• Dracula (1931)
• Vampyr (1932)
• The Hunger (1983)
• Once Bitten (1985)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
• Interview With the Vampire (1994)
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
• Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• Blade (1998)
• Paris Je’Taime (2006) *Not exactly a vampire film, but I’m including it for a particular part of the movie*
• Let the Right One In (2008)
• Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)

T.V. Shows

• The Munsters
• Forever Knight
• Kindred: The Embraced
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Angel the Series
• True Blood
• The Vampire Diaries
• Split

And, if there’s any more, I’ll add on.

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