From Victoria Winters’ arrival at Collinwood to the adventures of Barnabas Collins and Quentin Collins, here’s how the original Dark Shadows paperback series began. For fans of Dark Shadows, there was a time when spending time with the Collins family didn’t necessarily mean turning on the television. Sometimes it meant opening a paperback. Beginning in […]
What happens when a vampire prince becomes the leading man on a reality dating show? That’s the premise of author Rosie Danan’s upcoming paranormal romantic comedy, The Villain Edit, which combines supernatural romance with the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of reality television. But as Danan recently revealed in an interview with Publishers Weekly, her original plans for […]
The vampire has undergone some remarkable transformations over the centuries, but few have been as influential — or as controversial — as those introduced by Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer. Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, published in 1976, gave readers the tormented Louis de Pointe du Lac and the flamboyant Lestat de Lioncourt, while Meyer’s […]
For nearly six decades, Vampirella has been one of the most recognizable figures in horror comics, thanks to her striking appearance, bloodthirsty adventures and a publishing history that has taken her from the pages of Warren Publishing’s black-and-white magazines to modern comic-book series. Yet despite her longevity, the character has made remarkably few appearances on […]
Vampire fiction is sinking its teeth into November 2026, with a lineup that ranges from supernatural romance and deadly dating apps to comic-book crossovers, gothic horror and the return of some familiar bloodsuckers. Among the month’s new novels, bestselling romance authors Alexandra Vasti and Elena Armas are embracing the undead, each offering a different take […]
What do you get when you bring together two of comedy’s greatest legends and one of television’s most beloved monster slayers? If writer and publisher James Aquilone has his way, the answer will be a whole new era of horror-comedy comic books. Aquilone, who has already helped revive Carl Kolchak through a series of crowdfunded […]
For readers who prefer their vampires monstrous rather than romantic, Australian author Jay Kristoff has created a particularly unforgiving world. In his Empire of the Vampire trilogy, the sun has effectively disappeared, the undead have conquered much of civilization, and humanity’s survival rests in the hands of a disgraced vampire hunter named Gabriel de León. […]
October and vampires have always gone together, but this year the connection extends well beyond Halloween. A new collection of vampire novels is arriving throughout the month, taking the undead into everything from Gothic horror and historical fiction to romantasy, supernatural mystery and romantic comedy. Among the most intriguing is Calvin Cherry’s Stoker, which turns Dracula author Bram […]
Bram Stoker didn’t invent the vampire, the aristocratic vampire, the seductive vampire, the female vampire, the sympathetic vampire or even the idea of an undead lover returning from the grave. In truth, by the time Dracula was published in 1897, writers had spent the better part of a century — and arguably longer — experimenting […]
There’s certainly no shortage of famous vampires. Dracula has been haunting readers for nearly 130 years, while Anne Rice’s Lestat, Stephenie Meyer’s Edward Cullen and countless others have ensured that the undead never stay buried for very long. But some of the most intriguing vampire stories today aren’t necessarily the ones you’ll find stacked on […]
There was a time when you pretty much knew what you were getting when you picked up a vampire novel. There would be blood, darkness, probably a cape or two and, depending on the era, either a terrifying monster or an impossibly attractive immortal yearning for someone he probably shouldn’t be. Not anymore. If the […]
Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe became a global juggernaut, or vampire hunting got cute or ironic, there was Blade. A half-vampire slayer with superhuman strength, tactical brilliance and zero patience for bloodsuckers, Blade redefined the vampire hunter for modern audiences. With roots in 1970s horror comics and a pivotal role in proving Marvel characters […]
Before vampires ruled streaming television and TikTok aesthetics, they were taking over The New York Times bestseller list—one leather-clad warrior at a time. When J.R. Ward’s Dark Lover debuted in 2005, it introduced readers to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, a secret band of vampire warriors protecting their race from extinction. What began as a sexy, […]
Note: This interview with author P.C. Cast and producer David Cormican was conducted back in 2019 when House of Night was in active development as a television series. While that show has yet to move further in the production process, historically it’s interesting to see what the thought process was at the time. Let’s face […]
Harry Turtledove has spent most of his career reimagining history—altering outcomes, bending timelines, and asking how the world might look if one crucial detail changed. With his City of Shadows novels, he turns that instinct inward, away from grand geopolitical shifts and toward the streets of postwar Los Angeles, imagining a city where the supernatural […]
More than a century after his arrival in the pages of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the Count has never stayed buried. He rises again and again, reinterpreted, reimagined, and rewritten for new readers and new eras. While Dracula has become a cinematic icon and a Halloween fixture, his roots are deeply literary—and it is in literature […]
Move over, brooding immortals—there’s a new vampire in town, and she’s more interested in fixing up a bed-and-breakfast than unleashing ancient curses. Meet Tiffenie, the 300-year-old hot mess at the heart of Undead and Unwed, a genre-blending new novel by Sam Tschida (Siri, Who Am I?, Errands and Espionage), hitting shelves just in time for […]
FROM MARVEL: This May, BLOOD HUNT takes hold of the Marvel Universe with its own main limited series by Jed MacKay, Pepe Larraz, and Marte Gracia, as well as a bloodbath of tie-in issues, spinoff limited series, and one-shots. As eternal night descends, an overwhelming army of bloodsucking terrors will emerge from the shadows, united […]
This article / [Article Title] was originally published on The Public Domain Review [hyperlink to article on The Public Domain Review] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/” From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake Geneva villa in 1816, as well as Frankenstein’s monster, there arose that other […]
Written by tony Moorman and illustrated by Oliver Meinerding, Lost Fang is a picture book for kids and adults. It’s a story about a child vampire searching for his lost fangs and losing his patience along the way. Only in the end does he realize that all good things come to those who wait. Lost […]
The name Dracula brings with it a long and varied history, and fans/scholars of the king of the vampires are well aware of the the historic precedent to the character in the form of Vlad the Impaler. But back in the pages of Castle of Frankenstein magazine (which is actually in the public domain), writer […]
One of Vampires & Slayers‘ other projects is a comic strip titled Media Geek & Friends, which essentially has some fun with pop culture. In the latest installment, “Media Geek & The Fang Club,” MG and his pal, Roddy (an intelligent, talking simian born as the result of being a chimp bitten by a radioactive […]
When you put the idea of Stephen King and vampires together, usually it’s ‘Salem’s Lot, his 1975 novel, that comes to mind. But what many don’t realize is that there’s actually a prequel to that novel in the form of Jerusalem’s Lot, a short story publication in the the 1978 collection Night Shift and currently the inspiration for […]
Humanoids has published Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula, written and drawn by acclaimed cartoonist Koren Shadmi. The biography, which chronicles the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi, is Shadmi’s second collaboration with Humanoids in the media biography space after The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of […]
The prolific Mark Millar’s, whose filmed adaptations of his comic work includes Kick-Ass and the single-season Netflix series Jupiter’s Legacy, is now turning an idea that was developed for the streaming service and presenting it first as the vampire comic Night Club. In his newsletter, Millar describes the premise this way: “What would you do […]
Dark Commandos is the live action web series about a team of vampires carrying out missions for the government. Their leader is Non Gage (played by actor Justin Neal Thompson on the series) and in words and comics, here’s a bit more about him. Known simply as “Non”, he is the leader of the Undead […]
The big news in the world of Anne Rice is the fact that her various novels, particularly those making up The Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches are being turned into television series on AMC. Offering up a detailed look at characters making up the former is YouTube user Shockwave, who created the […]
The excitement is building for AMC’s adaptation of Interview with the Vampire/Vampire Chronicles, based on the novels of Ann Rice. Admittedly dated as it’s a couple of years old, this YouTube documentary, Blood Genesis, provides an overview of the world of Lestat and other denizens of The Vampire Chronicles. The most recent news on the […]
Although there’s been a reboot or continuation of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the works for the past several years, there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of movement. However, that’s not the case when it comes to the world of fiction, Disney Hyperion announcing a new YA trilogy to be […]
Actor William Marshall may have left us in 2003, but of his many roles the one that continues to live on all these years later is that of the vampire Blacula, as featured in the 1972 film of the same name and its 1973 sequel, Scream Blacula Scream. Now the character is returning in a […]
Johnny B. Truant’s Fat Vampire book series is being adapted for Syfy by Harley Peyton as a 10-episode series, tentatively titled Reginald the Vampire. It’s going to star Jacob Batalon, best known for playing Ned Leeds in Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films Homecoming, Far from Home and this December’s No Way Home. The show is described […]
In the pages of Marvel Comics’ Wolverine, the title character continues his battle with Dracula and his vampire army. Back in issue #5, Logan was captured by the King of the Vampires, who began using his unique blood to transform the undead back into daywalkers, thus dramatically increasing his power over humanity. Wolverine escapes, and […]