"The only joy in the world is to begin...." Cesare Pavese

"The only joy in the world is to begin...." Cesare Pavese

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

A vampire novel canon from 1989



Near the back of the January 1989 issue of  The New York Review of Science Fiction, the reader will find Greg Cox's "The Transylvanian Reading List: The 13 Most Important Vampire Novels."



It's especially great to see Doctors Wear Scarlet acknowledged. [I wrote about Simon Raven's masterpiece here several years ago.]


Are there any post-1989 titles worthy of addition? I would nominate Ramsey Campbell's 2015 novel Thirteen Days By Sunset Beach (reviewed here).


Jay

10 January 2023

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  1. Virgintooth by Mark Ivanhoe, The Golden by Lucius Shepard

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