Vampire Literature

The Vampire Encyclopedia, Bunson, Mathew, © Copyright 1993

Major works in vampire literature since 1800.

Date
Title
Author
1800
"Wake Not the Dead"
Johann Ludwig Tieck
1805
The Marquise of O
Heinrich von Kleist
1818-21
The Serapion Brethren
E.T.A. Hoffmann
1819
"The Vampyre; A Tale"
John Polidori
1820
Lord Ruthven ou Les Vampires
Cyprien Berard
1820
Smarra, ou les Demons de la Nuit
Charles Nodier
1827
La Guzla
Prosper Mériméé
 1833
"Viy" 
Nicolai Gogol 
1836 
"La Morte Amoureuse" 
Théophile Gautier
1838 
"Ligeia" 
Edgar Allan Poe 
1847 
Varney the Vampyre
James Malcolm Rymer 
1847 
"Family of the Vourdalak" 
Alexis Tolstoy 
1848 
"The Pale-Faced Lady" 
Alexandre Dumas 
1860 
"The Mysterious Stranger" 
Anonymous 
1870 
Vikram and the Vampire
Sir Richard Burton 
1872 
"Carmilla" 
J. Sheridan Le Fanu 
1875 
The Vampire City
Paul Feval 
1881 
"The Man-Eating Tree" 
Phil Robinson 
1887 
"The Horla" 
Guy de Maupassant 
1894 
"The Parasite" 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
1894 
"Kiss of Judas" 
X.L. 
1894 
"The True Story of a Vampire" 
Count Eric Stenbock 
1897 
Dracula
Bram Stoker 
1900 
"The Tomb of Sarah" 
F. G. Loring 
1904 
"Count Magnus" 
M. R. James 
1907 
"A Vampire" 
Luigi Capuana 
1911 
"For the Blood Is the Life" 
Marion Crawford 
1911 
Alraune
Hans Heinz Ewers 
1912 
"The Room in the Tower" 
E. F. Benson 
1912 
"The Transfer" 
Algernon Blackwood 
1912 
The Vampire
Reginald Hodder 
 1919
"An Episode in Cathedral History" 
M. R. James 
1919 
"Mrs. Amsworth" 
E. F. Benson 
1922 
Vampire
Hans Heinz Ewers 
1925 
"Four Wooden Stakes" 
Victor Rowan 
1927 
The Demon Lover
Dion Fortune 
1933 
"Shambleau" 
C. L. Moore 
1933 
"Revelations in Black" 
Carl Jacobi 
1939 
"The Cloak" 
Robert Bloch 
1941 
"Over the River" 
P. Schuyler Miller 
1949 
"The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" 
Fritz Leiber 
1954 
I am Legend
Richard Matheson 
1957 
"The Living Dead" 
Robert Bloch 
1961 
Some of Your Blood
Theodore Sturgeon 
1972 
The Dracula Archives
Raymond Rudorff 
1974 
An Enquiry into the Existence of Vampires
Marc Lovell 
1975 
Salem's Lot
Stephen King 
1975 
The Dracula Tape
Fred Saberhagen 
1976 
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice 
1977 
Bloodright
Peter Tremayne 
1978 
Hotel Transylvania
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 
1980 
Unicorn Tapestry
Suzy McKee Charnas 
1980 
Sebella, or the Bloodstone
Tanith Lee 
1981 
The Keep
F. Paul Wilson 
1981 
The Hunger
Whitley Strieber 
1981 
They Thirst
Robert McCammon 
1981 
Vampires of Nightworld
David Bischoff 
1982 
 The Delicate Dependency
Michael Talbot 
1982 
Darkangel
Merideth Ann Pierce 
1982 
Fevre Dream
George R. Martin 
1984 
I, Vampire
Jody Scott 
1984 
Vampire Junction
S. P. Somtow 
1985 
The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice 
1988 
The Queen of the Damned
Anne Rice 
1990 
Out of the House of Life
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 
1991 
Under the Fang (Collection)
Robert McCammon, ed.
1991 
The Ultimate Dracula (Collection)
 Leonard Wolf, ed.
 1992
The Tale of the Body Thief
Anne Rice 

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