Anne Rice books

silenthunterstudios said:
That said, I've read a few other vampire movies. They were either too Underworld like to the point of being so corny you couldn't dispel belief, to the other spectrum where they were probably written by a depressed emo punk, like theres any other kind.
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IMHO, "Habit" was the best vampire movie of all time, followed by Romero's "Martin."

As for books, one that few folks know about is called Sunglasses After Dark, by Nancy A. Collins.
 
You'd mentioned Saberhagen above. I know his work from the Berserker stores and from the Book of Swords stories. Excellent author, I'll add his Vampire stories to my list.

FullerH said:
The Berserkers were machines created in an ancient war somewhere in a distant galaxy. One race designed a machine to hunt out and to kill the other side. The problem was that they did not build in an adequate filter, so the machines began to hunt all biological, as opposed to machine, life so tha they could kill it. The Berserkers wiped out both sides in that ancient war and then moved on to seek out other biological infestations to destroy. These Berserker machines make even the new Cylons look like playful kittens, let alone the inept ones in the original show. Also, when I first saw "Star Wars", I knew immediately where they had gotten the idea for the Death Star. It was a Berserker, but run by people. The machine cubes in Star Trek: TNG were also offspring of the Berserker machines. My favorite of all of the Berserker stories is the short story, "Wings Out of Shadow."
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I thought of a pair of Neil Gaiman stories that star a werewolf private detective. The first is from his collection of short stories, Smoke and Mirrors and is called "Bay Wolf[/i]. It is a parody of "Beowulf" and, as usual for Gaiman, is both imaginative and well-written. The second features the same Sam Spade sort of well-worn and world-wise werewolf detective in a graphic novel called Only the End of the World Again in paperback and by Troy Nixey, Neil Gaiman (Editor), P. Craig Russel (Illustrator). It is an H. P. Lovecraft pastische and is very funny.
 
FullerH said:
The Berserkers were machines created in an ancient war somewhere in a distant galaxy. One race designed a machine to hunt out and to kill the other side. The problem was that they did not build in an adequate filter, so the machines began to hunt all biological, as opposed to machine, life so tha they could kill it. The Berserkers wiped out both sides in that ancient war and then moved on to seek out other biological infestations to destroy. These Berserker machines make even the new Cylons look like playful kittens, let alone the inept ones in the original show. Also, when I first saw "Star Wars", I knew immediately where they had gotten the idea for the Death Star. It was a Berserker, but run by people. The machine cubes in Star Trek: TNG were also offspring of the Berserker machines. My favorite of all of the Berserker stories is the short story, "Wings Out of Shadow."
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Thanks for filling me in, I'm going to have to look into finding the other stories, I did not know that there were anymore beyond that one I read.
 
Try looking them up on Ixquick to get a good basic idea of the number. There have been several reissues over the years.
 
My wench and I love the erotic stories she wrote under the name of Anne Rampling!:D
 
Thanks for the suggestions. Ive read ann rice but never really liked her. She is a bit wordy, almost as much as dean koontz. But Ive always liked Dean Koontz, his prose can be very beautiful at times and at others just boring.
 
My partner and a friend are obsessed with "Vampire Hunter D", you might like to check it out...
 
For those who hunt the night
Traveling with the dead (it's a sequel you need to read them in order) both by Barbra Hambly
It's set in the late 1800's in England

Sort of a different type of vampire like book is the Darwath series also by Hambly
 
Saberhagen writes a very good vampire book. Definitely a different point of view. Easier to read than Hambly, though she is definitely worth the effort.
 
Another very good and different vampire author is Kim Newman. His books are, to date:
1)Anno Dracula
2)The Bloody Red Baron
3)Judgment of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959

He has written a number of other books under his name and under a pseudonym, "Yeovil"
 
I am supprised that no one mentioned any of the following:

"Sonya Blue" series (3 books) by Poppie Z. Brite :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

"Salem's Lot" by Stephen King

Any of the earlier "Anita Blake" vampire stories by Lorell K. Hamilton

If you are interested in short stories rather than novels you should check out the many horror fiction websites. There are many as yet unheard of, but quite tallented authors who publish in the various periodicals and anthologys. The web is a great guide as to content and style of these stories and where to find them.
 
apesht45 said:
Any of the earlier "Anita Blake" vampire stories by Lorell K. Hamilton

If you are interested in short stories rather than novels you should check out the many horror fiction websites. There are many as yet unheard of, but quite tallented authors who publish in the various periodicals and anthologys. The web is a great guide as to content and style of these stories and where to find them.
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I've enjoyed the first three Anita Blake books. DO the later books take a turn for the worse?
 
Just finished Interview with a Vampire...Not to type of vampire story I was looking for. It was more of 90210 set in the underworld than a vampire story. (I CAN see why it was made into a movie though... LOT'S of dialogue for the actor's to chew on... no pun intended). I really doubt I'll pick up any more of her books. I want my vampires to be monsters (Midnight Mass) or anti-heroes (Kate Beckinsale from Underworld), not angst-ridden souls.

I also read Dies the Fire, by S. M. Stirling. Highly,highly recommend this end-of-the-world drama. See more on the Wilderness and Survival MB.

Also read the first book in the Harry Potter series Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone (to see if it lived up to the hype). The 1st chapter was so wretchedly horrible, I almost couldn't read it and just about put the book down. After that chapter, it gets much better; and when Harry gets to the school, it really takes off.
 
Another + for Brian Lumley, also you might try the short story "I am legend" by Richard Matheson, its an excellent twist on the old vampire tale. One last thing, you might try the Diary of Rudolph Van Helsing, its a pretty good spin on the original dracula tale as well.


Anne Rice is great and all, ive read all the books up to and including Memnoch, but she just...goes on and on. lol.
 
darkestthicket said:
Another + for Brian Lumley.
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just thought I'd mention; If you are interested in getting into brian lumley, you should start with "Necroscope". BUT if you have a tought time getting through it you may want to read "The Source". It sort of gives you a crash course in the first two, and is much more exciting.
 
Also, if you decide you like Lumley, the Burrower Beneath series is good if you like H.P. Lovecraft style stories, no vampires in it though!
 
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