Vampire/Zombie books

[j. d. worthington]

Weeeellllll... the Seabrook is at least supposed to be nonfiction... and is still considered one of the better books on the subject from the period. (It is a fascinating read, I will admit....)

L.L.: When you mention Alraunes here... are you thinking of the sort Ewers has in his novel, or....?

[Lobolover]

call me Lobo

and-I meant spirits conjured in plant form.Thats whats called an "Alraun" .

[j. d. worthington]

Can't say I recall any such right off the top of my head, but that could just be my spotty memory....

[Lobolover]

and any other good undead/vampiric novel from the classic period does?

[j. d. worthington]

For some vampire suggestions, you might try the following:

Vampire Compendium - Classic Vampire Works by Date

while for werewolves:

Werewolf fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zombies, however, are another matter....

[Lobolover]

ah,yes,Zombies tend to be usd mass-markedly.

Well,if we ARE speaking of Werewolves,theres Clemence Housman and HIS "The werewolf"-marvelous short read.

The only thing I can remember where the undead were used in a good book was "Lilith"-but thats rather a queer mater.

[j. d. worthington]

Yes, the Clemence Housman is an especially good tale, I agree.

There are various writers who have used the zombie theme, but as I've noted elsewhere, it's rather difficult (though not impossible) to ring a reasonable change on a walking corpse that doesn't involve, for instance, it having some form of conscious personality... which makes it more of a revenant of a different kind....

[Lobolover]

well,I did a story with them-burned canibal corpses breeding animals and children corpses for food-as sort of a countrweight for the "vegetarian"(well,moss eating) undead the narrator "befrieds" (he just follows him around)-and this one person,who liked all my other works-thought it was sickening.

[Connavar]

I saw Lumley's Necroscope series newest book in the bookshop.

I know its Vamp series, is it also good horror wise ? Or is urban fantisiezed vamp story that arent horror like at all ?

[Roy1]

Tomes of The Dead is a series

of some of the very best eyeball popping, gut munching, zombie fiction around, groaning with horror and excitement

The books in the series are published by Abaddon.

Each book will explore the zombie genre in new and thrilling ways.

Another Vampire novel is

'Gabriele Caccini –The Vampire Gene Book 1' (author Paigan Stone) has been available to purchase on Amazon and all leading book stores since January 2007. It has recently been nominated for BOOK of The YEAR with ForeWord Magazine and WON the SILVER AWARD FOR BEST HORROR NOVEL FOR 2007. Furthermore it has been placed on the recommended list by the British Fanatsy Society. The BFS awards take place in September 2008 at FantasyCon in Nottingham.

Author Samantha Stone is in the Best Novel category.
Samantha is working on sequels as Gabriele Caccini will now be repackaged and re-launched under the name Killing Kiss in September with The House of Murky Depths.

[Roy1]

And an example of Zombie fiction in Black Static magazine issue 5

The Second Death of Johan Kludge by Tim Casson is much more enjoyable, telling the tale of a man set upon and killed by footpads, only to find himself brought back to life as one of the living dead. The story veers a little towards overly ripe melodrama in its closing moments, but this is otherwise an effective zombie tale told from a relatively unusual point of view.

from Lawrence Conquest's blog review.