Ahead, check out 23 more literary vampires that don’t suck.

The hero Romuald is lured away from the priesthood to a life of extravagance and lust by vampire Clairmonde.

He’s basically the Wile E. Coyote of vampires.

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SIMON & SCHUSTER

A book about Vlad, a.k.a.

Dracula, sets our narrator and his father on a decades-long quest to uncover the monster.

She’s insatiable and bloodthirsty in more ways than one.

The VampyreShort story by John William Polidori Henry Colburn

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High school drama and gossip intermix with historical oddities like a reincarnated Myles Standish.

If you ever wishedGossip Girlhad more vampires, read this.

The popular procedural series also became aLifetime television show.

La Morte Amoureuse by Theophile Gautier

Library of Alexandria

As the sole Ina with dark skin, Shori struggles with her identity and her place in the world.

Night Worldseries by L.J.

Naturally then, each book in the series centers on a supernatural being falling in love with a human.

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Syracuse University Press

House of Nightseries by P.C.

The series boasts 13 books in total and inspired hitHBO seriesTrue Blood.

Ysidro is a frightening vampire, but toes the line between villanious and anti-hero.

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Ballantine Books

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Anchor

The Historianby Elizabeth KostovaPublished 2005 by Time Warner Books

Time Warner Books

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Quercus

The Hunger by Whitley Streiber

Pocket Books

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Disney Hyperion

Blood Bank (Blood Ties) by Huff, Tanya (2008) Publisher: Daw Books

Daw Books

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Grand Central Publishing

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Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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Roc

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Simon Pulse

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St. Martin’s Griffin

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Razorbill

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Penguin Books

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Lover Awakened by J.R. WardPublisher: Berkley (September 5, 2006)

Berkley

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Berkley

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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy