Vampire Literature - Fiction Series

Fiction Series

There are several recent series in vampire fiction, of variable literary quality. They tend to either take the form of direct sequels (or prequels) to the first book published or detail the ongoing adventures of particular characters.

• David Wellington's Thirteen Bullets, 99 Coffins, Vampire Zero, 23 Hours (Laura Caxton, James Arkeley series)
• Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed series (2007–).
• Elaine Bergstrom's Austra Vampires series (1989–).
• L.J. Smith's The Vampire Diaries
• Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series (2000–). It should be noted that not all of these novels concern themselves largely with vampires, but a war between vampires and wizards figures heavily in the story.
• Kresley Cole's The Immortals After Dark series (2006-)
• Nancy A. Collins's Sonja Blue series (1989–).
• MaryJanice Davidson's Undead series (2004–).
• P. N. Elrod's Vampire Files series (1990–).
• Christine Feehan's Dark series (1999–).
• Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series (2007–).
• Christopher Golden's Saints and Shadows Saga (1994–2003).
• Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series (1993–).
• Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mysteries (2001–).
• Kim Harrison's Hollows series (2004–).
• Tanya Huff's Blood Books series (1991–1997).
• Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt casefiles series (2005–).
• Jasper Kent's Danilov Quintet (2009–).
• Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter (2002–).
• E. E. Knight's Vampire Earth series (2003–).
• Brian Lumley's Necroscope series (1986–).
• Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy and soon to be coming Bloodlines (Richelle Mead novel) series
• P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast's House of Night series
• Sienna Mercer's My Sister the Vampire series.
• Christopher Moore's A Love Story series (1995–2007).
• Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series (1992–).
• Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series (1976–2003).
• Marilyn Ross's Barnabas Collins series (1966–1971).
• Fred Saberhagen's Vlad Tepes series (1975–2002).
• Darren Shan's The Saga of Darren Shan series (2000–2006).
• Maggie Shayne's Wings in the Night series (1993–).
• D.N. Simmons' Knights of the Darkness Chronicles series (2010–).
• Jeanne C. Stein's Anna Strong series
• Whitley Strieber's Hunger series (1981–2002).
• JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series (2005–).
• Freda Warrington's Bloodwine series (1992–).
• Gene Wolfe's Urth: Book of the Short Sun trilogy (1999–2001).
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain series (1978–).
• Guillermo del Toro with Chuck Hogan The Strain (La trilogía de la oscuridad) (2009 - ).

White Wolf, a maker of role playing games, releases novels set in the fantasy world of its Vampire: The Masquerade' game. These series of novels were released in 13-book sets, each corresponding to one of the 13 clans of vampires in their game universe.