You’ll find no fewer than three Dracula retellings below, where ancient immortals and eternal Victorians sharpen their fangs alongside the modern-day deathless. The books below run the gamut from YA to erotica, and from more unconventional tales to clear and deserving Twilight heirs. Butler’s Fledgling, but what about Jewelle Gomez’s time-hopping epic, The Gilda Stories, or Claire Kohda’s literary vampire novel, Woman, Eating? Sure, you’ve probably heard of Octavia E. We’ve gone wide with everything from classics, new additions, and under-read phenoms.

If you’re searching for your next favorite story of seduction, horror novel, literary interpretation, dark romance, or urban fantasy, you’ve come to the right place: at least one of the vampire books included below is sure to fit the bill. More than 200 years after John Polidori’s gothic novel ignited our fascination with bloodsucking immortals, readers still can’t get enough of vampire fiction. I know that most would say that The Historian is no literary feat, but I think it’s definitely worth a read for historical fiction buffs or Dracula enthusiasts.Dracula. Kostova writes passably in the male voice but I suspect for most guys it would be even less convincing than it was for me. Otherwise, it’s a trek into an – albeit romanticized – hunt for Dracula that’s satisfying, entertaining, and even suspenseful at times. It’s a pretty rapid read, given it’s length, but anyone who lacks patience for historical topics should shy away. It pulls the reader along with little cliffhangers and an understated romance. Part historical fiction, the novel takes the reader though temples, old archives, Cold War Europe, and copious amounts of Byzantine and Ottoman history.

This discovery sets her off on a journey to delve into the mystery of whether or not the famed vampire really is still alive, as her father and his mentor had suspected many years ago. The primary thread through the story is a young woman who discovers her father’s research into Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler or by others as Dracula, when he was a graduate student. I finished it a couple days ago, but I finally have time to come up with a quick review now. The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, was longer than I thought it would be (the pages are thin). By Jennifer Marie Lin on Jan 16th, 2007 (Last Updated Sep 21st, 2018)

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