THE TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW
There was never a writer quite like the late Richard Laymon, and THE TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW is among the finest of his 30-plus novels
THIRTY DAYS OF NIGHT
Please understand: I like this heavily influential, award-winning graphic novel a fair amount, but don’t love it
THEY THIRST
In this early novel Robert McCammon accomplished something he’d repeat six years later in SWAN SONG: he outdid Stephen King. Just as SWAN SONG outdid Stephen King’s THE STAND, THEY THIRST betters King’s SALEM’S LOT
SHINY NARROW GRIN
Allegedly the first-ever YA vampire romance, and so, as THE SHINY NARROW GRIN is now dubbed by many, the TWILIGHT of its day
THE SPACE VAMPIRES
This interesting sci fi-tinged take on vampirism was made into the crappy movie LIFEFORCE. Don’t let that put you off, though, as the book is a careful and methodical intellectual thriller—though maybe a bit too methodical
SHAKESPEARE UNDEAD
Fans of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER will enjoy this goofy faux-historical novel, which details William Shakespeare’s career as a vampire
SEIZE THE NIGHT
The aim of this 21-story collection is simple enough: to restore the vampire to its rightful place as a figure of horror
‘SALEM’S LOT
This wasn’t the first novel by Stephen King (it followed 1974’s CARRIE), but it was the book that really announced to the world what King was all about, and changed the horror genre forevermore
DRACULA in Pictures
Various graphic novels about Dracula have gained popularity of late
Leaks, Penanggalans and Krasues, Oh My!
Here’s an image as flat-out bizarre as any you’re likely to see: the head of a woman floating in midair, bodiless but for a bloody spine, at the end of which dangles a clump of living organs