Good Vampire/Werewolf horror novels

[ElliottAugust]

I'm not looking for anything complex and full of BS, like Twilight, just simple horror book featuring either a Werewolf or a Vampire. If set in the 19th century it's even better. Also, don't suggest Dracula, because I already read that, and actually is why I'm here.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Not sure whether this would interest you, but I read a science book called Rabid - basically the history of rabies. It contained some stuff about the links rabies has to vampires.

Welcome by the way.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
Way Of The Wolf by E.E. Knight
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

 

[krtek a houby]

I'm not looking for anything complex and full of BS, like Twilight, just simple horror book featuring either a Werewolf or a Vampire. If set in the 19th century it's even better. Also, don't suggest Dracula, because I already read that, and actually is why I'm here.

And a frosty undead hello and welcome to you.

Here's my faves

Anno Dracula - Kim Newman. 19th century vampire romp set mostly in London
Fevre Dream - George RR Martin. 19th century vampires in Mississippi.
Interview With a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned - these are the first three in Anne Rice's trilogy; the series kind of fizzles out after that.

 

[Reno]

My two favourite vampire novels, though both set in the present:

Salem‘s Lot by Stephen King
Children of the Night by Dan Simmons

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I would probably recommend The Dresden Files it's a great series of novels that mix fantasy and old school american private eye detective stories.
not specifically vamp/wolf but does contain them as ongoing elements.

 

[Pickman's model]

Wot no mention of varney the vampire or polidori's vampyre?

 

[rubbershoes]

Let the right one in by John Ajvide Lindqvist

 

[ElliottAugust]

I'm not looking for anything complex and full of BS, like Twilight, just simple horror book featuring either a Werewolf or a Vampire. If set in the 19th century it's even better. Also, don't suggest Dracula, because I already read that, and actually is why I'm here.
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And a frosty undead hello and welcome to you.

Here's my faves

Anno Dracula - Kim Newman. 19th century vampire romp set mostly in London
Fevre Dream - George RR Martin. 19th century vampires in Mississippi.
Interview With a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned - these are the first three in Anne Rice's trilogy; the series kind of fizzles out after that.

 

[krtek a houby]

ElliottAugust

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[Reno]

I’ve never read a werewolf novel and I suppose there isn’t that much of a literary tradition because unlike with vampires, there isn’t a famous novel which popularised the monster. Stephen King‘s Silver Bullet and Gary Brandner‘s The Howling come to mind but in both cases I’ve only seen the movie. The werewolf has been popularised most by films, the most famous (though not the first) being The Wolf Man from 1941.

 

[krtek a houby]

Prompted by ATOMIC SUPLEX on another thread...

I'd say that the best werewolf in written (ok, comic) form is a Swamp Thing standalone (but part of the American Gothic storylines) tale - The Curse.

It's been equally lauded and dismantled in the years following it, but it's certainly unique and (without spoilers) shows the werewolf cliché in a different (moon) light...