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A Dark Vampire Curse
Nikki St. Crowe
À La Folie
Nova Kane
American gothic tales
Joyce Carol Oates
Angels Flight
Nalini Singh
Anno Dracula
Kim Newman
Archangels Legion
Nalini Singh
Ashes of Midnight
Lara Adrian
Ashes to Ashes (Blood Ties, Book 3)
Jennifer Armintrout
Beast
Clarissa Wild
Bite
Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davidson, Angela Knight, Vickie Taylor, Laurell K. Hamilton
Bite me if you can
Lynsay Sands
Black delta night
Jessica Speart
Black Magic Sanction
Kim Harrison
Blood Born
Linda Howard, Linda Jones
Blood bound
Patricia Briggs
Blood Brothers
Arianna Fraser
Blood Feud / The Capture
Hannah Howell, Lynsay Sands
Blood Games (Chicagoland Vampires)
Chloe Neill
Blood Prophecy
Alyxandra Harvey
Blood Sex Michael
Angela Cameron
Blood Son
Erica Orloff
Blood Truth (4) (Black Dagger Legacy)
J. R. Ward, Jim Frangione
Bonded by Blood
Laurie London
Break The Night
Edith Layton
Broken Fae
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab
Cannibal
I. V. Ophelia
Carmilla and Laura
SD Simper
Changeling moon
Dani Harper
Chaos Ascends
Sophie Gabrielle
Club dead
Charlaine Harris
Come to Castlemoor
Jennifer Wilde
![Complete Tales and Poems [71 stories, 64 poems, 1 essay]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12391522-L.jpg)
Complete Tales and Poems [71 stories, 64 poems, 1 essay]
Edgar Allan Poe
Daddy Cool
Donald Goines
Dark Ghost
Christine Feehan
Dark hunger
Sara Reinke
Dark Legacy
Christine Feehan
Dark Legend
Christine Feehan
Dark Tales
Shirley Jackson
Darker after Midnight
Lara Adrian
Darker After Midnight
Lara Adrian
Darkest Craving
Gena Showalter
Darling Wildfire
Devyn Rivers
Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris
Dead by dusk
Heather Graham
Dead sexy
Amanda Ashley
Deadly intentions
Candice Poarch
Death's Abyss
SD Simper
Delicious
A. J. Merlin
Demon Blood
Meljean Brook
Devour me
Lydia Parks
Devour the Dark
Nikki St. Crowe
Everdark
Elle Jasper
Evermore
Lynn Viehl
Forbidden Nights with a Vampire (Love at Stake, Book 7)
Kerrelyn Sparks
Frostbitten
Kelley Armstrong
Game of Revenge
Amber Nicole, Jenn Bullard
Give me your heart
Lisa Henry
Goddess of the Rose
P. C. Cast
![Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [21 stories, 34 poems]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11763627-L.jpg)
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [21 stories, 34 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
Laurell K. Hamilton
Hard Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires, #4)
Chloe Neill
Heir of Novron
Michael J. Sullivan
Her Soul for Revenge
Harley Laroux
Her Soul to Take
Harley Laroux
Hot Vampire Next Door - Season Three
Nikki St. Crowe
Hunger
Barbara J. Hancock
Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole
Hungers of the heart
Jenna Black
Hunting Adeline
H. D. Carlton
Just Like Home
Sarah Gailey
Killing Passion
Mika D. Mon
Kiss of Steel
Bec McMaster
Le jardin des supplices
Octave Mirbeau, Brian Stableford
Lord of the Vampires
Gena Showalter
Lord of the Vampires (Royal House of Shadows, #1)
Gena Showalter
Lost Souls
Poppy Z. Brite
Lost Vampire
Kate Baxter
Lothaire
Kresley Cole
Lothaire
Kresley Cole
Lothaire
Kresley Cole
Lothaire Kresley Cole
Kresley Cole
Love in Vein II
Poppy Z. Brite
Lover At Last A Novel Of The Black Dagger Brotherhood
J. R. Ward
Lover Avenged
J. R. Ward
Lover Awakened
J. R. Ward
Lover Enshrined: Number 6 in series (Black Dagger Brotherhood)
J. R. Ward
Lover Eternal
J. R. Ward
Lover Unbound
J. R. Ward
Lover Unleashed
J. R. Ward
Midnight
Sister Souljah
Midnight Rising (The Midnight Breed, Book 4)
Lara Adrian
Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer
Narraciones extraordinarias (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
Nature of the Beast
Hannah Howell, Adrienne Basso, Eve Silver
Night's Cold Kiss
Tracey O'hara
Nightriders / The Highland Bride
Hannah Howell, Lynsay Sands
No Rest for the Wicked
Kresley Cole
Once A Villain
Saige Parker
One Bite With A Stranger
Christine Warren
One Foot in the Grave
Jeaniene Frost
One with the night
Susan Squires
Origins of an Academy Bully
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Other Half of the Grave
Jeaniene Frost
Owned by the Lost Boys
A. J. Merlin
![Poems and Tales [12 stories, 16 poems]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11690587-L.jpg)
Poems and Tales [12 stories, 16 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, Paul, Harry Gilbert
Primal Instincts (Primal #4)
Susan Sizemore
Queen of Shadows
Dianne Sylvan
Raven
Sylvain Reynard
Rawblood
Catriona Ward
Reaver
Larissa Ione
Resurrecting midnight
Eric Jerome Dickey
Scary Stories
Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Avallone, Theodore D. Gottlieb
Seize the night
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Fred Berman
Selected Prose and Poetry
Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Annabel Lee / Bells / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Lenore / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Raven / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
Sex, Lies and Vampires
Katie MacAlister
Shades of Midnight
Lara Adrian, Lara Adrian
Short Stories
Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck
Silver Under Nightfall
Rin Chupeco
Sin undone
Larissa Ione
Sins of the Night
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Skin of a Sinner
Avina St. Graves
Skin Trade
Laurell K. Hamilton
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror
Carissa Broadbent
Slewfoot
Brom
Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires, #1)
Chloe Neill
Splattered Ink
Sarah E. Whitney
Stealing Innocents
Lisa Henry
![Stories & Poems [12 stories, 11 poems]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9379895-L.jpg)
Stories & Poems [12 stories, 11 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, David Plunkert
Stygian (The Dark-Hunter World)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sweet Ruin
Kresley Cole
Taken By the Night
Kathryn Smith
![Tales of Mystery and Imagination [22 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12391530-L.jpg)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination [22 stories]
Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery and Terror (Black Cat / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / Oblong Box / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words With a Mummy / Sphinx / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Beast
J. R. Ward
The Birdcage
Arianna Fraser
The Bleeding Dusk
Colleen Gleason
The blood keeper
Tessa Gratton
The Chosen
J. R. Ward
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black
The Collector
Cameron Cruise
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Crown of Gilded Bones
Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Dark Vampire
Kate Baxter
The Darkest Pleasure
Gena Showalter
The Evil Image
Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe, Daniel Defoe, John Aikin, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Alcock, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Sheridan Le Fanu, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Montague Rhodes James, A. E. Coppard, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Sexton, Stephen King
The Guardians
John Grisham
The Guardians
Meljean Brook
The Hunters
Shiloh Walker
The Keepers
Heather Graham
The last true vampire
Kate Baxter
The midnight hunt
Radclyffe
The Seduction of Phaeton Black
Jillian Stone
The Serpent & the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent
The Songbird and the Heart of Stone
Carissa Broadbent
The Thief (Black Dagger Brotherhood Series)
J. R. Ward
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Untamed Vampire
Kate Baxter
The Vampyre
John William Polidori
The Wicked and the Willing
Lianyu Tan
The Wild Road
Marjorie M. Liu
The Wisdom of Blood
A. G. Howard
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes - Volume I - Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque I
Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodbury
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes - Volume Six - Tales-Horror and Death (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Morella / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Shadow / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes
Eric LaRocca
Thrill of the Hunt
Dana LeeAnn
To Bleed a Crystal Bloom
Sarah A. Parker
Vampire mistress
Joey W. Hill
Veil of midnight
Lara Adrian
Vicious
A. J. Merlin
Voracious
V. K. Forrest
Warlord Wants Forever
Kresley Cole
Warlord Wants Forever
Kresley Cole
Warm Bodies
Isaac Marion
Warrior Fae
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Welcome back to the night
Elizabeth Massie
When Twilight Burns
Colleen Gleason
White Is for Witching
Helen Oyeyemi
Wicked All Night
Jeaniene Frost
Wings So Wicked
Emily Blackwood
![Works [71 stories, 36 poems] (Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination / Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Raven and Other Poems)](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11774526-L.jpg)
Works [71 stories, 36 poems] (Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination / Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Raven and Other Poems)
Edgar Allan Poe
Zodiac Academy 7
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Zodiac Academy 9
Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Mentioned
Referenced or discussed, not shown in detail.
A Rose In Winter
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
American Witch in Paris
Michele Hauf
Biting the Bride
Clare Willis
Blonde Who Came in from the Cold
Ally Carter
Blood Red (Aphrodisia)
Sharon Page
Blood Therapy
Lynda Hilburn
Caleb
Sarah McCarty
Claimed
Rebecca Zanetti
Colin
Grae Bryan
Darkness Avenged
Alexandra Ivy
Deadly harvest
Heather Graham, Phil Gigante
Deadly illusions
Brenda Joyce
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