Life After Twilight: Vampire Tales For Teens and Adults
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Fall in love with vampire romance after reading Twilight? Sad that the saga is over? You're in luck, because there are dozens of other great vampire books and series to read!
This resource is not intended to be comprehensive, but it does offer a good mix of romance, adventure, horror, and comedy novels, as well as information about vampire history and lore.
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This resource is not intended to be comprehensive, but it does offer a good mix of romance, adventure, horror, and comedy novels, as well as information about vampire history and lore.
Photo by apesara.
The Twilight Saga
Did you miss a book? Here is the complete Twilight Saga in the correct order.
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My Personal Favorite
My personal favorite vampire book is Sunshine, by Robin McKinley, which has a likable heroine, a unique and intriguing vampire, a thrilling plot, and some truly mouthwatering descriptions of baked goods. Sunshine is appropriate for both teens and adults.
Sunshine
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For Teens: The Vampire Diaries
An older vampire romance series that was recently re-released and is now being made into a TV show on the CW!
Check out The Vampire Diaries on the CW!
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For Older Teens: Vampire Academy
Thrilling urban fantasy with a darker twist and some mature elements make this series a hit with vampire-loving older teens.
For Older Teens: House of Night
A popular YA vampire series with an interesting take on a world where vampires have always been known and openly accepted.
For Teens: Vampire Kisses
Entertaining vampire romance
For Teens: Night World
The classic, underrated YA vampire series, Night World, is being reprinted.
For Teens: Den of Shadows
This popular teen vampire series was started when the author was 13 years old!
For Teens: Blue Bloods
A popular series that reads a lot like Gossip Girl with vampires.
For Teens: Darkangel Trilogy
Lyrically written dark fantasy.
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For Teens: Cirque du Freak
Exciting and macabre, this series is being turned into a movie!
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For Teens: The Morganville Vampires
A scarier take on vampires for teens.
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For Teens and Adults: The Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles have been among the most popular vampire tales for decades. The first, Interview With the Vampire, is a modern-day vampire classic.
For Older Teens and Adults: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Anita Blake is a very popular series with a kickass heroine and a very interesting take on vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural critters. The series isn't recommended for young teenagers, because the books get increasingly higher rated as they progress. However, older Twilight fans will likely love it... and Jean-Claude, Anita's sometime lover and vampire Master of the City.
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For Older Teens and Adults: Women of the Otherworld
Although it focuses on werewolves, this series also has some fantastic vampire characters.
For Older Teens and Adults: Rachel Morgan
This series pairs another kickass female heroine with thrilling plots, interesting worldbuilding, and lots of humor.
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For Older Teens and Adults: Night Huntress
A heroine with a grudge against the undead is forced to train one instead, and finds herself falling for him in these exciting new books.
For Teens and Adults: The Vampire Files
Enjoyable vampire detective series set in 1930's Chicago.
For Older Teens and Adults: Cassandra Palmer
Another kickass heroine
For Older Teens and Adults: Kate Daniels
A promising new urban fantasy series.
For Teens and Adults: Night Watch
Hugely popular in Russia, this series has recently been released in the United States to great acclaim.
Great Vampire Television
Vampires have had starring roles in a number of television shows, most famously in the cult hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel. More recently, Moonlight, Blood Ties, and True Blood have been huge hits with vampire fans. Fans of Twilight are likely to enjoy all of these series very much.
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For Teens and Adults: Blood
Tanya Huff's Blood series is a very popular series that was turned into a popular television show on Lifetime, Blood Ties. It features a strong heroine who's a private inestigator specializing in supernatural crimes, her former partner and lover Mike, and Henry Fitzroy, a romance novelist who turns out to be the bastard son of the 16th century British king Henry VIII ... and a vampire.
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For Older Teens and Adults: The Smoke Trilogy
A spin-off from the Blood series, this trilogy focuses on Henry and his former lover, Tony Foster.
For Older Teens and Adults: Southern Vampire Mysteries
Clever and entertaining, these atmospheric mysteries have a great sense of place and have been turned into a hit television series called True Blood, which airs on HBO.
Don't Forget to Check Out True Blood!
HBO's new show True Blood promises to be a hit with vampire fans everywhere, with its fun marketing campaign and clever premise. The pilot aired September 7, 2008.
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For Teens and Adults: Undead Series
MaryJanice Davidson's Undead series is funny vampire chick-lit, very tongue-in-cheek and entertaining.
For Older Teens and Adults: Broken Heart, Oklahoma
Entertaining vampire "mom-lit"
For Older Teens and Adults: The Dark Ones
Sexy, funny vampire chick-lit.
Being Human on BBC America
A British show about a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost sharing a flat, Being Human recently started airing in the United States on BBC America.
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For Older Teens and Adults: Saint Germain
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More Great Vampire Novels for Teens and Adults
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Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett
Hilarious look at vampires from the hugely popular more...1 point
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Post-apocalyptic vampire horror. Seriously cool.1 point
I, Vampire: The Confessions of a Vampire - His Life, His Loves, His Strangest Desires ... (Fawcett Gold Medal) by Michael Romkey
Strange, and best suited for older teens and adult more...0 points
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
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Fatal Infatuation: ALMOST HUMAN ~The First Trilogy~ (Volume 1) by Melanie Nowak
ALMOST HUMAN ~ The First TrilogyIn this paranormal more...0 points
For Teens and Adults: Dracula
The granddaddy of all vampire tales, Bram Stoker's Dracula is still chilling people to their bones more than 100 years after it was first published. The murderous yet seductive Count has also appeared in many classic films.
The Origins of the Vampire Legend
Bram Stoker, the founder of the modern vampire legend, is said to have based Dracula on the lives of two of humanity's most bloodthirsty children, the Romanian prince Vlad the Impaler and the Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Báthory, one of history's most prolific serial killers.However, vampire legends existed long before Bram Stoker's famous Count, and there are many interesting explanations for them. Explanations range from improper understanding of decomposition processes to medical and psychological conditions.
Vampire Non-Fiction
For those interested in vampire lore, these books are informative and entertaining reads.
More Vampire Non-Fiction
These books include discussions of the possible clinical origins of vampire legends, and the vampire subculture in today's society based around popular depictions of the vampire legend.
Still Not Satisfied?
Here are some useful resources to help you find more great vampire stories:
- Amazon.com: vampire
- A community about vampires. Tag and discover new products. Share your images and discuss your questions with vampire experts.
- amazon: vampire romance
- A community about vampire romance. Tag and discover new products. Share your images and discuss your questions with vampire experts.
- Vampire Romance Books
- Sensual and humorous romantic reads to sink your teeth into
- The Vampire Library
- The Vampire Library is a resource for readers of vampire fiction, literature and non-fiction books.
- Vampire Fiction Reviews from LoveVampires.com
- Website Dedicated To Vampire Fiction
- What Should I Read Next?
- Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers' favourite books (over 47,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next.
STILL not satisfied?
Hey, there's always fanfiction!
- Twilight FanFiction Archive - FanFiction.Net
- Twilight fanfiction archive with over 31,793 stories. Come in to read, write, review, and interact with other fans.
- Twilight Fan Fiction - Twilighted
- All-Inclusive, High Quality Twilight Fan Fiction
- Twilight Archives :: Twilight Fanfiction and Fanart
- Welcome to Twilight Archives, the free-registration site for Twilight fan fiction and fan art.
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- Twilight Fanfiction community
Creating Interesting Vampire Characters
The Official Twilight Saga Guide
The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide
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tdpierceall2002
Dec 14, 2010 @ 10:22 pm | delete
- I forgot about the Vampire Files. I used to love reading everything by PN Elrod. (I even named my cat Jack after the main character!) Fun lens. I'll be favoriting this one so I know where to go when I need some new vamp fiction! :)
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Crystal_Booth
Sep 27, 2010 @ 1:12 pm | delete
- I loved The Silver Kiss as a teen. It was the first vampire book I had ever read. Lots of great suggestions here. My favs are Anita Blake and Sookie Stackhouse series.
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Lance
Sep 14, 2010 @ 11:54 pm | delete
- What about Brian Lumley and his "Necroscope series". It is a little older but what a great series!
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Luna Anna Chara
Mar 15, 2010 @ 7:33 pm | delete
- A Quick Bite is the 1st book 4 a hole series called the Argeneau series there R 15 so now and counting!!!!! I love the series it is grate
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Luna Anna Chara
Mar 15, 2010 @ 7:33 pm | delete
- A Quick Bite is the 1st book 4 a hole series called the Argeneau series there R 15 so now and counting!!!!! I love the series it is grate
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