http://feedbooks.com/list/14 Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. In most cases, they are reanimated corpses who feed by draining and consuming the blood of living beings. In folklore, the term usually refers to the undead blood-drinking humans of Eastern European legends, but it is often applied to similar legendary creatures from other regions and cultures. The characteristics of vampires vary widely among these different traditions. Some cultures also have stories of non-human vampires, including real animals such as bats, dogs, spiders, and mythical creatures such as the chupacabra. Vampires are a frequent subject of fictional books and films, although fictional vampires are often attributed traits distinct from those of folkloric vampires. Vampirism is the practice of drinking blood from a person or animal. In folklore and popular culture, the term refers to a belief that one can gain supernatural powers by drinking human blood. The historical practice of vampirism can generally be considered a more specific and less commonly occurring form of cannibalism. The consumption of another's blood (or flesh) has been used as a tactic of psychological warfare intended to terrorize the enemy, and can be used to reflect various spiritual beliefs. In zoology and botany, the term vampirism is used in reference to leeches, mosquitos, mistletoe, vampire bats, and other organisms that subsist on the bodily fluids of others. Source: Wikipedia Varney the Vampire James Malcom Rymer http://feedbooks.com/book/1585 urn:isbn:1587153688 en 1847 Novels Horror Gothic http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.mobi Carmilla Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://feedbooks.com/book/1506 urn:isbn:1587155958 en 1871 Short Fiction Horror Sexuality Gothic "Carmilla" is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. "Carmilla" predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years and has been adapted many times for cinema. http://feedbooks.com/book/1506.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1506.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1506.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1506.mobi Dracula Bram Stoker http://feedbooks.com/book/88 urn:isbn:0743477367 en 1897 Novels Horror Gothic Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/88.png http://feedbooks.com/book/88.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/88.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/88.mobi The Vampire Maid Hume Nisbet http://feedbooks.com/book/1326 en 1900 Short Fiction Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.mobi Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker http://feedbooks.com/book/462 en 1914 Short Fiction Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/462.png http://feedbooks.com/book/462.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/462.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/462.mobi The Vampire Jan Neruda http://feedbooks.com/book/2956 en 1920 Short Fiction Horror Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition. http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.mobi The House of the Vampire George Sylvester Viereck http://feedbooks.com/book/3837 urn:isbn:0982046707 en 1907 Novels Horror Sexuality Gothic The first known gay vampire novel and one of the first psychic vampire stories. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/3837.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3837.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3837.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3837.mobi Blindsight Peter Watts http://feedbooks.com/book/976 urn:isbn:0765312182 en 2006 Novels Science Fiction Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and the fainter one she'll do any good if she is. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge. You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. But you'd give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/976.png http://feedbooks.com/book/976.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/976.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/976.mobi