(Part 2) Best vampire horror books according to redditors

Apparently he is. And the book doesn't sound quite as cheesy as I was expecting.

A HUNGER LIKE FIRE by Greg Stolze.
http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Hunger-Like-Fire-Requiem/dp/1588468623

It's a pretty food Vampire romp.

Well first of all, there's the book series that the whole show was based on; the Montauk Project book series. However, these are more like guide books without a plot and claiming to be non-fiction, but they are interesting. If you're willing to put up with the authors' many, many tangents in regards to aliens, Nazis and "sex magick", there's quite a bit of useful information about how psychics work, what MKUltra did, how isolation tanks function, what the psychic kids were like, how possessions and "spies" worked, what exactly the Upside-Down (or rather "the Outside" as it was originally called) is and how the "actual" 1983 gate-opening event happened.

There's also two novels based off of those books called Montauk and The Montauk Monster. The former is about a group of teenagers vacationing in Montauk who end up having to deal with the psychic kids, government cover-ups and creatures of the Outside. The latter concerns a cop having to deal with more government cover-ups to solve some disappearances and fight more monsters.

I haven't read either of those two books yet, but they both have rather positive reviews so they seem to be worth a read.

Link for the Requesty

http://www.amazon.com/Sunnydale-Yearbook-Buffy-Vampire-Slayer/dp/067103541X

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan. Pleasantly surprised, as I'm kind of over supernatural stuff - but he's given this a bit of a twist, and I'm in love with his use of language.

The Strain Trilogy Guillermo Del Torro and Chuck Hogan. There are 3 of them.

This is ridiculous.

What happened was that a few years ago (wow, it's been almost ten already) is that lots of people read Anne Rice's latest book and hated it.



She comes back with a 1100 word paragraph. (A repost because I'm not digging through 44 pages of reviews to find the original)

As a (former) Anne fan...

She started alienating a lot of her fan base years ago. Memnoch started it, but I think the coup-de-gras was with Merrick. Her writing quality had deteriorated (lost her muse and tried to force out books? I dunno), she butchered beloved characters (literally and figuratively), and frankly a lot of her readers weren't into the overt religious themes.

At the same time there's a very active fan fiction community based around Anne's work starting around the time Memnoch came out. Basically, there'd been a fan fic community since the early days of the Internet. Around the time this book came out (or a little earlier): she sends cease and desist orders to authors.

Okay, the characters are her intellectual property, she has the right to do that. But it backfires. A lot of the fanfic was/is really good, some of the authors are professional writers. Second...how many authors do this to their fans? Not many, if any others. The main fanfic sites shut down, go underground (they still exist, you have to look for them though).

This whole time she's turning out books that her original, hard-core fans hate. What do people do on the Internet when they hate something? They give their opinion on it.

I honestly think Anne was not used to this, and took offense. And has her fan base (at least for her new work) has deteriorated over the years, the butt-hurt has just gotten worse. It's not bullying when someone in the public sphere puts out work, and gets criticism.

Do people take this criticism too far? Absolutely. There's a huge difference between saying "Your work was awful and here's why" to "Your work sucks and you should die". I also don't doubt that there are people who get obsessive about it. But this is more about Amazon and other sites not enforcing their own community guidelines when it coms to assholes than about authors being persecuted.

All of Lindqvist's work is pretty damn good. Let the Old Dreams Die is a collection of stories and the titular one is a sequel to Let the Right one in. There's also a sequel to Handling the Undead.

I read them in Japanese, but some of his novels have been translated into English:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345505182/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/142151883X/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345504275/

As for anime, there are two other series:
http://myanimelist.net/anime/6594/Katanagatari
http://myanimelist.net/anime/11761/Medaka_Box

Dracula vs Hitler. There's already a book so just adapt it:

https://www.amazon.com/Dracula-Hitler-Patrick-Sheane-Duncan/dp/1942645082

Great, guys. Release the eldritch horrors that the computational demonologists at NSA are trying to protect humanity from. . .

Not exactly fantasy, but I liked Vampire$ by John Steakley.

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

Hey everyone, this week I'm recommending The Laughing Corpse, by Laurell K. Hamilton. It's the second book in the Anita Blake series, and I'm recommending it because even with all the vampires and werewolves and zombies running around, it's a crime novel, and you can't talk about book beginnings without mentioning crime novels.

Whether it's the classic writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, the contemporary masters like Grisham and Connelly, or even the supernatural genres like the Dresden Files or Anita Blake, most crime stories have a formulaic beginning: the first chapter is almost always the main character at a crime scene, or if they're a private detective, sometimes meeting a client with hidden motives.

This has become a formula because it works. It immediately starts the action and plot of the book, and gives the author the opportunity to show, rather than tell, the character's skills and attitude toward their work. In the case of the crime scene it also gives the readers a hook, either an extra grisly murder scene to raise the stakes, an unusual or improbable killing to raise intrigue, or both. Or, in the case of the client meeting, it gives the readers a chance to feel, along with the main character, whatever unease or suspicion they might have about the client.

A lot of books have both kinds of openings as their first two chapters, and The Laughing Corpse is one of them that I think does them to great effect. It's also just a great book on its own, and the Anita Blake book that really hooked me into the series. It gets weird later on, but I enjoyed the first dozen or so books quite a bit, and they have many great qualities.

If you want to try listening to The Laughing Corpse on your next ride to work or while you're getting some exercise or doing daily quests in a game, Audible has a free 30-day trial that gives you one book credit, which you keep even if you cancel the trial right away. If you use this link, you can even support the show while you do it. Thanks for listening!

I think I probably came to this a bit too late.

I'm currently reading several books; something I actually try to avoid but it just kinda happened this time.

The Court of the Red Czar by Simon Sebag Montefiore is an absolutely fascinating, gripping and wonderfully written history of Stalin, his family and his close associates. I very much like this book, even though it's quite a volume (~900 pages). Interesting things that have popped up so far is the effect Nadya's suicide had on Stalin, his intelligence, despite lacking much formal education, his down-right cold bloodedness (this wasn't really a surprise to be honest) and the inherent violence and nastiness in the Bolshevik system; I always assumed the Terror was born of Stalin's paranoia (it was), but it had its roots in Lenin's Dictatorship of the Proletariat, insofar as this desensitized the leadership to the suffering of the people. Fascinating stuff! Though probably not to everyone's taste. :)

Kraken by China Mieville. I'm only a few chapters into this and so far it is by far and away my least favourite of his books. I don't like the "chatty Londoner" dialogue (smacks of trying to sound too clever), the characters are all horrible and the syntax of the prose is very disjointed. I'll continue and see how it develops.

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan. I started this (vampire & zombie books are my guilty "mental popcorn" books) and meh... It's pretty lame. The clashing perspectives, the sudden change in voice (third person to first person with flashes of second person thrown in... I mean WTF? Did they not have an editor?) and the general cheesiness put me off. I will pick it up again and try to get past the second chapter.

Ragtime by E L Doctorow was a disappointment. I very much liked his The March, but this just didn't do it for me.

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Hi, Everyone,
I finished my 3rd novel, Vampires of Niagara, and published on the amazon.com kindle store. Here's the link: [Vampires of Niagara] (https://www.amazon.com/Vampires-Niagara-Aaron-Fuller-ebook/dp/B01LMCEQUY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473289273&sr=1-1&keywords=vampires+of+niagara) I want to thank everyone, especially the moderators who run the monthly writing contests! The kick in the can to keep writing and improving works! Thanks!

So, tired of vampires who are not murderous killers but maybe still like them as protagonists? Well, STRAIGHT OUTTA FANGTON is the horror comedy for you. "Clerks meets Blade" according to the Bookwyrm Readers. Peter Stone is a poor black vampire exiled from the city of Detroit by his creator and working the graveyard shift. When he finds a newborn undead in the bathroom of his gas station, he has to make a choice whether to break his exile to help her--and stumbles into a conspiracy against all undead.

https://www.amazon.com/Straight-Outta-Fangton-Comedic-Vampire-ebook/dp/B01KNHICCC/

http://www.amazon.com/Strain-The-Trilogy-Guillermo-Toro/dp/0061558249

or a library... or maybe try a place like that bay where Jack Sparrow goes...

not trying to be a smartass, just have no desire to cause problems for the sub.

For straight-up fantasy I cannot recommend The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercombie enough. The entire trilogy is hard to put down once you start reading.

For something more fantasy/horror, try The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin. Another very engrossing series.

The Mist by Stephen King, a novella in the collection Skeleton Crew, is about small group of people taking refuge in a supermarket when a monster-filled mist rolls into town. It's fantastic, but the ending leaves a bit to be desired.

The Wayward Pines trilogy by Blake Crouch is about a secret service agent investigating a disappearance in a small Idaho town where everything is too good to be true. It's a small spoiler to include this book here because the creatures don't show up right away, but it's great.

Relic (plus one sequel) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, is about a creature lurking in a museum.

The Alien spinoff novels are fun (but also a bit cheesy and derivative at times).

If you're into dinosaurs, there's always the Jurassic Park books. (or my book, for something a little more pulp-y).

If you're into sharks, there's Jaws (a classic) and The Meg (also pulpy).

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I've heard good things about Artful

I thought this one was pretty good... Can't remember if there were multiple races in the book though.

https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Hunger-Like-VAMPIRE-REQUIEM/dp/1588468623/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519523115&sr=8-1&keywords=A+hunger+like+fire

The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon. Wonderful book. It's starts out all Wonder Years, and then plunges into hell.

The Montauk Monster ?

labor day.

this would be cool. used would be cool.


“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Wow. I don't have much to offer on the first request as zombies terrify me, but I just read the wikipedia page on the New Flesh series and I think I need a hug.

Have you looked at Steakley at all, specifically Vampires? His vampires are very much on the "dead" side of "undead" and the books are extremely unforgiving.

You might also like Lumley's Necroscope -- check out a sample if you can, since the blurb doesn't really match the terrifying, disturbing, unflinching book I recall. Learning he's considered to be Lovecraftian is not surprising to me at all.

Oh yes!
And his Apocalypse Codex

It's a black comedy but gets really dark

Spell cat by tara lain: https://www.amazon.com/Spell-Cat-Aloysius-Tales-Book-ebook/dp/B01MFXQ4BK

A brush with catastrophe: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XVJSSW7/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_8HGOzbAHQ2VCP

Cataclysmic shift: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075265BRC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_KJGOzb2TKHJ3S

Mate hunt by amber kell: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E6F1I56/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_QKGOzbHPKC3EW

Pack of the panther: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HR03O7W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_rNGOzbW5YHDRM

Blackwood farm by Anne rice: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375411992/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_xOGOzbZ59E2PP

Blood canticle Anne rice: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/037541200X/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Z0599RE024PDP5FAW2YG#


Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head... there's a lot of them out there, some are better than others.

Zaregoto: Book1 and Book 2, Death Note: Another Note, and XXXHolic: Another Holic from the best mystery author IMO, NisioisiN


Also note, that NisioisiN is the author of the monogatari series (Bakemonogatari, Kizumonogatari, Nisemonogatari, Nekomonogatari, Kabukimonogatari, Hanamonogatari, Otorimonogatari, Onimonogatari, Koimonogatari, Tsukimonogatari, Koyomimonogatari, Owarimonogatari., Zuko-Owarimonogatari, Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari)

There are a lot of mystery/horror novels in syosetu.com, it's just nobody translates them, just like there are a lots of BL novels that aren't translated

EDIT 1: I would like to add Ballad of a Shingami series

EDIT 2: .Hack// Another Birth series

EDIT 3: Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria

"Let the Old Dreams Die" http://www.amazon.com/Let-Dreams-John-Ajvide-Lindqvist/dp/0312620535/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449028825&sr=8-1&keywords=let+the+old+dreams+die

Collection of scary/creepy/weird/lovecraftian short stories.

MONDAY

I recommend: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062068253/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2KB6ZYT0WQ3W3&coliid=I2VOAB8DCP5XLQ

I wanna win: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060263415/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2KB6ZYT0WQ3W3&coliid=I2QE48MT13BX2Z