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Books: Vampire

Horror on the page: what each book is, who wrote it and how scary it gets.

Book · 1975

'Salem's Lot

A writer goes home to Jerusalem's Lot and finds the neighbours have started keeping very strange hours.

Book · 1897

Dracula

A young solicitor's business trip abroad turns into something he never signed up for.

Book · 1954

I Am Legend

A post-apocalyptic horror novel about a world overrun by a disease that turns people into something vampiric.

Book · 1976

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice’s debut novel lets a vampire tell his life story to a reporter, with plenty of room for unease.

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