Popular vampires post-Anne Rice

[Little_Nemo]

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Tom Holland’s Lord of the Dead, 1998, was the first I read, and probably the best, in what has become a Lord Byron as vampire sub-genre. Uses a lot of Byron’s real history.

Tim Powers, The Stress of Her Regard, 1989, and winner of a Mythopoeic award, also has vampires, as well as djinni and succubi. The story centers around the English romantic poets, so maybe it inspired the later Lord Byron as vampire themes. I havent’ read it yet, but I will later this week, since a sequel to it is imminent.

The association of Lord Byron and vampires goes back to John Polidori - eighty years before Dracula was published.