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series3 books1989

Dark fantasy and historical fantasy, dark in tone, about vampires, set in 19th century.

“Tim Powers's The Stress of Her Regard reimagines the lives of Byron, Shelley, and Keats through a secret history in which they are stalked and inspired by a nephilim, a shape-shifting vampiric being that acts as a deadly muse.”
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Start with The Stress of Her Regard →

DraculaUniverse

universe144 books1897

Horror.

“Around that single novel a whole crypt of continuations has grown, raised by many writers across a century.”
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Start with Dracula →

includes Dracula Sequence, Dracula Adaptations, Quincey Morris (Dracula spin-off), Dracula's Children, The Return of Dracula, Theological College of St. Van Helsing

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Fantasy and urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
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Start with City of Bones →

includes The Infernal Devices, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Magnus Bane, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Last Hours, The Dark Artifices, The Eldest Curses

The Gardella Vampire Hunter ChroniclesSeries

series14 books2007

Paranormal romance.

Start with The Rest Falls Away →

NecroscopeSeries

series26 books1982

completed

Horror, about undead, set in contemporary.

“Harry turns that gift against Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire buried since the Middle Ages, and against Ferenczy's agent Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who has learned to tear secrets from corpses in pursuit of world domination.”
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The Danilov QuintetSeries

series6 books2008

Set in eastern europe.

“Facing defeat by the French during the Napoleonic Wars, Russian Captain Aleskei Danilov enlists the help of twelve mysterious mercenary soldiers, the Oprichniki, only realizing too late their true nature as vampires.”
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Start with Twelve →

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