Vampire novels where the vampire stays a monster

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No brooding and nobody sparkle. The thing in the dark is a predator, and the best it can offer you is a quick end.

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The 8 books on this stack

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  • Suzy McKee Charnas 1980

    Why it's on the stack

    You read it holding your breath · you end up rooting for the wrong people

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    "The Vampire Tapestry is a 1980 fantasy novel by American author Suzy McKee Charnas.

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  • Christopher Buehlman 2014

    Why it's on the stack

    Properly scary · pitch-black comedy

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die.

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  • Elizabeth Kostova 2005

    Why it's on the stack

    One more chapter, then another · the truth comes out bit by bit

    It shares this with 2 more books on this stack

    To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters.

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  • Grady Hendrix 2020 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    It tells it straight · fierce and defiant

    It shares this with 1 more book on this stack

    Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on…

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  • Justin Cronin 2010

    Why it's on the stack

    You read it holding your breath · you won't want to come back

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    She is. Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row.

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  • John Ajvide Lindqvist 2008 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Properly scary · tender and sad at once

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    Oskar is a bullied, lonely, teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rocks the neighborhood.

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  • Richard Matheson 1970 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Unsettling from the first page · an epidemic changes everything

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . .

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  • Stephen King 1959

    Why it's on the stack

    Properly scary · it stays with you

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets and solid church steeples.

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