A couple of my favorite books are Vampire-related.
For starters, Fred Saberhagen's
The Dracula Tapes can't be beat. It's the story of Bram Stoker's Dracula, told from Dracula's point of view. Quite interesting and informative... and a fun read, too!
[edit] Forgot to add that Stoker later tried this with Frankenstein's Monster, although not with the same level of success. He also turned Dracula into a regular character in a number of sequels, but they didn't IMHO match the feeling of the first one. [/edit]
After that, my favorite Vampire author is P.N. Elrod. She's got the Vampire Chronicles (a detective series set in the late 1920s in Chicago where the main character is a vampire) and a few other offshoots, including some travel into Stoker's World as well (
Quincy Morris, Vampire).
Good reading, and fun, too.
They look at the vampire as just another guy (or gal) with a life (or un-life) to live...
[ 05-05-2003, 09:33 AM: Message edited by: Bungleau ]