Vampires: The Recent Undead

The undead are more alive today than ever. Immortal? Indeed! Nothing has sunk its teeth into twenty-first century popular culture as pervasively as the vampire. The fangsters have the freedom to fly across all genres and all mediums - there''s even apps for vamps. Whether roaming into romance, haunting horror, sneaking into science fiction, capering into humor, meandering through mystery - no icon is more versatile than the vampire. Slake your insatiable thirst with the best sanguinary stories of the new millennium: terrifying or tender, deadly or delicious, bad-ass or beneficent, classic or cutting-edge.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

This Is Now by Michael Marshall Smith

Sisters by Charles de Lint

The Screaming by J.A. Konrath

Zen and the Art of Vampirism by Kelley Armstrong

La Vampiresse by Tanith Lee

Dead Man Stalking by Rachel Caine

The Ghost of Leadville by Jeanne C. Stein

Waste Land by Stephen Dedman

Gentleman of the Old School by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

No Matter Where You Go by Tanya Huff

Outfangthief by Conrad Williams

Dancing with the Star by Susan Sizemore

A Trick of the Dark by Tina Rath

When Gretchen was Human by Mary Turzillo

Conquistador de la Noche by Carrie Vaughn

Endless Night by Barbara Roden

Dahlia Underground by Charlaine Harris

The Belated Burial by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Twilight States by Albert Cowdrey

To the Moment by Nisi Shawl

Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977 by Kim Newman

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Vampires Anonymous by Nancy Kilpatrick

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan