The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

The reading list for the XVIII - XIXth vampire in literature.
I added links so you can read some of them in different languages, or just rate them in the Vampire Rave database.


Poetry




Year...........................Title..............................................Rate............................Read




1748 "The Vampire" Heinrich August Ossenfelder.....................rate............................English

1773 "Lenore" Gottfried August Bürger..................................rate

1797 "The Bride of Corinth" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.........rate



1810 "The Vampire" John Stagg...........................................rate

1813 "The Giaour" Lord Byron..............................................rate

1816 "Christabel" Samuel Taylor Coleridge..............................rate

1819 "Lamia" John Keats.....................................................rate

1820 "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" John Keats...........................rate

1832 "Songs of the Western Slavs" Alexander Pushkin

1833 "The Vampire Bride" Henry Thomas Liddell Ravensworth.....rate

1845 "The Vampyre" James Maxwell......................................rate

1845 "Strigoiul" Vasile Alecsandri & Costache Negri...................rate

1857 "Metamorphosis of a Vampire" Charles Baudelaire..............rate

1857 "The Vampire" Charles Baudelaire

1876 "Strigoii" Mihai Eminescu...............................................rate

1882 "The Vampyre" Lord Robert Lytton (Owen Meredith)..........rate

1893(prior to) "The Vampire" by Felix Dahn.............................rate

1897 "The Vampire" Rudyard Kipling







Prose:




Year...........................Title..............................................Rate.................................Read



1800 "Wake Not the Dead" Johann Ludwig Tieck

1819 "The Vampyre" John William Polidori

1821 "Vampirismus" Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

1821 "Smarra" Charles Nodier

1824 ""La Vampire ou La Vierge de Hongrie" Etienne Léon Lamothe-Langon

1832 "The Eve of Ivan Kupala" Nikolaj Vasilevič Gogol

1835 "Vij" Nikolaj Vasilevič Gogol

1836 "La Morte Amoreuse" Théophile Gautier

1839 The Family of the Vourdalak (Sem'ya Vurdalaka) Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

1841 The Vampire (Upyr') Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

1849 "La Belle Vampirisée" Alexandre Dumas

1852 "The Dead Baroness" Ponson du Terrail

1860 "The Mysterious Stranger" anon.

1860 "Le Chevalier Ténèbre" (Knightshade) Paul Feval

1861 "Le vampire de Val-de-Grace" Leon Gozlan

1865 "The Vampire Countess" Paul Feval

1867 (written) "The Vampire City" Paul Feval

1867 "The last lords of Gardonal" William Gilbert

1887 "Le Horla" Guy de Maupassant

1870 "Vikram and the Vampire" Sir Richard F. Burton....................rate

1872 "Carmilla" Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

1872 "Ombra" Richard S. Greenough

1873 "The Fate of Madame Cabanel" Eliza Lynn Linton

1879 "Le Capitaine Vampire" Marie Nizet

1880 "Posle devedeset godina" (After Ninety Years) Milovan Glisic

1882 "Klara Milich" Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

1883 "Ken's Mystery" Julian Hawthorne

1884 "The Vampire" Jan Neruda

1884 "Manor" Karl Heinrich Ulrich

1887 "A Mystery of the Campagna" Anne Crawford

1890 "For the Blood is the Life" Francis Marion Crawford

1890 (in magazine)"The Vampire Maid" Hume Nisbet....................................rate

1890 (in magazine)"The Old Portrait" Hume Nisbet

1890 "Let Loose" Mary Cholmondeley

1894 "The True Story Of A Vampire" Stanislaus Eric Stenbock

1895 "The Parasite" Arthur Conan Doyle

1896 "The Good Lady Ducayne" Mary E Braddon

1897 "Dracula" Bram Stoker

1898 "The Stone Chamber" Henry Brereton Marriott Watson

1898 "The Purple Terror" Fred M. White

1899 "Will" Vincent O'Sullivan

1900 "Marsyas in Flanders" Vernon Lee





Drama


Year...........................Title..............................................Rate.................................Read

you can read this on the Coven Of The Forbidden Fruit pages and Transilvanian Dark Romanticism pages also