Books with vampires and zombies that isn't quite what you may expect from the genres.
Interesting vampires & zombies Public
Created and curated by hexarchate
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A Dowry of Blood by S T Gibson
4 stars
A gorgeous, haunting retelling of Dracula from the point of view of Constanta, one of Dracula's brides. Constanta is saved …
hexarchate says: A letter to Dracula, from one of his brides, detailing why she decided to kill him.
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hexarchate says: Vampirism treated as more of an infection. Definitely not traditional vampires, but that's the word the book uses. Honestly I didn't love the plot or writing, but the vampires were unique.
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Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
4 stars
Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia …
hexarchate says: Not technically vampires, but...they're basically vampires. A really unique take on the culture of vampires and their dynamics with humans and each other.
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4 stars
Two months since the stars fell...
Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous …
hexarchate says: Vampires were better than humans, but went extinct due to a strange genetic condition that causes right angles to lead to seizures. Humans went ahead and brought them back to life. Now one's the captain of a spaceship headed to potential first contact.
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Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
4 stars
Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that …
hexarchate says: Two trans women and a trans man navigate through an apocalyptic east coast in which everyone with testosterone beyond a certain amount becomes a feral, bloodthirsty cannibal. A brutal, gory story in which trans women get to be complex humans, messy, deeply flawed, and wonderful characters.
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Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
4 stars
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Civil War era America derailing …
hexarchate says: An alternate universe where the civil war was interrupted by a zombie apocalypse, and Indigenous and Black Americans are the ones forced to face the zombie threat. A YA book, and I believe the second book is better than the first.
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The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey (The Girl with All the Gifts, #1)
4 stars
Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius."
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell …
hexarchate says: A zombie-like fungal infection has wiped out most of humanity, but some child infected retain their mental functions and are being studied by survivors. Some interesting zombies.
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hexarchate says: More weird vampires than you can shake a stick at. A vampire whose physical form is just a puddle of blood, a watermelon that's been turned into a vampire, vampire shark, cyber vampire, vampire black hole... Set in the same universe as Baccano! and Durarara
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After The People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
4 stars
A collection of stories that tap into the horrors and fears of the supernatural-- as well as the everyday.
hexarchate says: one short story contains a take on vampires that I really love. bonus: there's a really good werewolf story in there as well
