A Historical Walk Down The Archives Of Vampire Books

1047 AD, the first appearance of the word vampire was found in Old Russia

It all started in 1819:

Vampire books first started with the success of John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” in 1819. This book established the charismatic and sophisticated vampire of fiction. Is is arguably the most influential vampire book and work of the early 19th century. “The Vampyre” inspiring such works as “Varney the Vampire” and eventually and the well known “Dracula”.

Fast Forward to 1897:

later in 1897, Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula created quite a stir and remembered as the quintessential vampire novel. It single handedly provided the basis of modern vampire fiction.

1908

Now to Gustave Le Rouge’s Le prisonnier de la planète Mars (1908) and its sequel La guerre des vampires (1909), a native race of bat-winged, blood-drinking humanoids are found residing on Mars.

1954

I Am Legend by author Richard Matheson about one man’s survival of a pandemic that causes vampirism. He must fight to survive attacks from the creatures of the night, discover the secrets of their biology, and develop effective serum to cure them.

1966–71

Gothic romance writer Marilyn Ross’s Barnabas Collins series. set the trend for seeing vampires as poetic tragic heroes rather than as the traditional evil beings placed on the earth to suck the blood of humans.

1976
Vampire Chronicles series of novels by Anne Rice went deep into understanding the vampire’s wants, needs and love.

1981

The novel The Hunger examined the biology of vampires, suggesting that their special abilities were the result of a physical part of their blood. The book debated that not all vampires were undead humans, but some were a separate species that had evolved alongside the human race.

1992

Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula series return to Stoker’s Count Dracula

Below is a complete listing of vampire literature

The Vampire by Heinrich August Ossenfelder (1748).
The Giaour by Lord Byron (1813).
Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816).
“The Vampyre” by John William Polidori (1819).
“La Morte Amoureuse” by Théophile Gautier (1836).
“The Family of the Vourdalak” by Count Alexis Tolstoy (1843).
Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer (or Thomas Peckett Prest) (1847).
“The Mysterious Stranger” by Anonymous. Translated from the original German, this vampire tale appeared in the English magazine Odds and Ends in (1860).
Le Chevalier Ténèbre (Knightshade) by Paul Féval (1860).
La Vampire (The Vampire Countess) by Paul Féval (1865).
Carmilla (1872) by Sheridan le Fanu.
La Ville Vampire (Vampire City) by Paul Féval (1874).
“The Fate of Madame Cabanel” by Eliza Lynn Linton (1880).
Manor by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1884).
The True Story of the Vampire by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock by (1894).
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897).
“The Tomb of Sarah” by F. G. Loring (1900).
The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck (1907).
The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (1911).
“For the Blood is the Life” (1911) by F. Marion Crawford.
“Wampir” (“The Vampire”) (1911) by Władysław Reymont.
“The Room in the Tower” (1912) by E.F. Benson.
“Bewitched” (1927) by Edith Wharton.
“The Dark Castle” (1931) by Marion Brandon.
“Revelations in Black” (1933) by Carl Jacobi.
There were no Asper Ladies (1946) by Eugene Ascher.
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (1949) by Fritz Leiber.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954).
“The Longest Night” by Ray Russell (1960).
“Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal” (1973) by Robert Aickman.
‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (1975).
“The Night Flyer” by Stephen King.
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (1980).
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (1981).
They Thirst by Robert McCammon (1981).
Castle Dubrava (1982) by Yuri Kapralov.
The Curse of the Vampire (1982) by Karl Alexander.
Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin (1982).
The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford (1983).
Little Dracula series by Martin Waddell & Joseph Wright (1986–2001).
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories edited by Alan Ryan (1988).
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers (1989).
Vampire$ by John Steakley (1990).
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause (1991).
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (1991).
Lost Souls (1992) by Poppy Z. Brite.
Suckers by Anne Billson (1993).
Darkness on the Ice by Lois Tilton (1993).
Daughters of Darkness (1993) edited by Pam Keesey. An anthology of lesbian vampire stories (1993).
Dark Angels (1995). A second anthology on the same theme.
The books I, Strahd, Memories of the Vampire (1993) and I, Strahd, the War with Azalin by P.N. Elrod tells the tale of the vampire lord Strahd von Zarovich who occupies the castle Ravenloft.
The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires by Brian Stableford (1996).
“The Kiss” (1996) by Kathryn Reines.
Dracula the Undead by Freda Warrington (1997). Commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracula for the centenary of the latter’s first publication.
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (1998).
Cowboy and The Vampire: A Very Unusual Romance by Clark Hays (1999).
Sunshine by Robin McKinley (2003).
What Big Teeth You Have: A Vampire Tale by Jimmy Autrey (2004).
Let the Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komma In in the original Swedish) by John Ajvide Lindqvist (2004). Translated into English 2007.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005).
Fledgling by Octavia Butler (2005).
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo (2006).
The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole (2006).
A Hunger Lke No Other by Kresley Cole (2006).
No Rest for the Wicked by Kresley Cole (2006).
A Vampires Vedas by Antoinette Medina (2007).
Internal Anomaly by C.L. Hunter (2007).
Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole (2008).
“Morrigan’s Cross”, “Dance of the Gods” and “Valley of Silence” (The Circle Trilogy) by Nora Roberts (2006).
Fangland by John Marks (2007).
Asetian Bible by Luis Marques (2007).
The Society of S (2007) and The Year of Disappearances (2008) by Susan Hubbard.
The Tumbleweed Dossier by Sugar Ray Dodge (2008).
Death by the Drop by Timothy W. Massie (2008).
Twelve by Jasper Kent (2009).
Release by Nicole Hadaway (2009).
Blood for the Living by Kate Nevermore (2009).

Vampire Fiction Series

There are several recent series in vampire fiction, of variable literary quality. They tend to either take the form of direct sequels (or prequels) to the first book published or detail the ongoing adventures of particular characters.
Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series
David Wellington’s Thirteen Bullets, 99 Coffins, Vampire Zero, 23 Hours (Laura Caxton, James Arkeley series)
Lara Adrian’s Midnight Breed series (2007–).
Elaine Bergstrom’s Austra Vampires series (1989–).
Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files series (2000–). It should be noted that not all of these novels concern themselves largely with vampires, but a war between vampires and wizards figures heavily in the story.
Nancy A. Collins’s Sonja Blue series (1989–).
MaryJanice Davidson’s Undead series (2004–).
P. N. Elrod’s Vampire Files series (1990–).
Christine Feehan’s Dark series (1999–).
Joey W Hill Vampire Queen series (2007–).
Christopher Golden’s Saints and Shadows Saga (1994–2003).
Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series (1993–).
Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) series (2001–).
Kim Harrison’s Hollows series (2004–).
Tanya Huff’s Blood Books series (1991–1997).
Charlie Huston’s Joe Pitt casefiles series (2005–).
Jasper Kent’s Danilov Quintet (2009–).
Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter (2002–).
E. E. Knight’s Vampire Earth series (2003–).
Brian Lumley’s Necroscope series (1986–).
Sienna Mercer’s My Sister the Vampire series.
Christopher Moore’s A Love Story series (1995–2007).
Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula series (1992–).
Caridad Pineiro’s The Calling series (2004–).
Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series (1976–2003).
Marilyn Ross’s Barnabas Collins series (1966–1971).
Fred Saberhagen’s Vlad Tepes series (1975–2002).
Darren Shan’s The Saga of Darren Shan series (2000–2006).
Maggie Shayne’s Wings in the Night series (1993–).
Whitley Strieber’s Hunger series (1981–2002).
JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series (2005–).
Freda Warrington’s Bloodwine series (1992–).
Gene Wolfe’s Urth: Book of the Short Sun trilogy (1999–2001).
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s Saint-Germain series (1978–).
Guillermo del Toro with Chuck Hogan The Strain (La trilogía de la oscuridad) (2009 – ).
White Wolf, a maker of role playing games, releases novels set in the fantasy world of its Vampire: The Masquerade’ game. These series of novels were released in 13-book sets, each corresponding to one of the 13 clans of vampires in their game universe.

Preteen and Teenage Vampire Series

The Little Vampire series, by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1979).
The Bunnicula series by Deborah Howe and James Howe (1979).
The Darkangel series by Meredith Ann Pierce (1982–1990).
The Vampire Diaries series by L. J. Smith (author) (1991-).
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause (1992).
The Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike (1994–).
Companions of the Night (1995) by Vivian Vande Velde.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes’s novels In the Forests of the Night (1999), Demon in My View (2000), Shattered Mirror (2001), Midnight Predator (2002), Persistence of Memory (2008).
Saga of Darren Shan also known as the Cirque Du Freak series (2000–4) series by Darren Shan.
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman (2003).
Ellen Schreiber’s Vampire Kisses series (2005–).
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (2005).
The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld (2006).
Facade of Shadows by Rick Chiantaretto (2006).
Blue Bloods and Masquerade: A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa de la Cruz (2006, 2007).
Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series (2006–).
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2007).
The House of Night series by P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast (2007–).
Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (2005–2008).
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks (2009).

All books, novels and literature mentioned above are all great representations of vampires throughout the centuries, decades and years.

Additional Books and Information:
The Vampyre
Varney the Vampire
Dracula
I am Legend
Salem’s Lot