Queer Vampyres

Lesbian Vampire Books by Title

Queer Vampire Books

Believe it or not, there are quite a few of gay vampire books out there.

These are the items that have been found, a general description, and the general rating by the fans. (note: the ratings shows not only how good the story is, but also how well the horror or creatures are portrayed, and openly queer it is.  A really good non-gay item might score very low).

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Fiction

This page focuses on all lesbian vampire items.

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Title Author Description Year Rating
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
Robert Weinberg

The writers represented in this collection have imagined ingenious new means of vampire disposal, envisioned vampires interfacing with computers and piloting time machines, and even proposed more than a few reasons why people might want to be a vampire--or at least have one as a close friend.

1995 A
Bar Stories, The : A Novel after All
lesbian content
Nisa Donnelly

An entertaining series of short stories set in a popular California lesbian bar.

1989 --
Bending The Landscape : Horror
gay content lesbian content bisexual content
Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel

Volume II of the award-winning collection of gay and lesbian short fiction exploring the horror genre.

2001 A
Black Feathers: Erotic Dream
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
Cecilia Tan

A collection of hard-core erotic short stories. Many stories interweave the supernatural and science fiction with the fantasy of daydream.

1998 --
Blood Kiss: Vampire Erotica
lesbian content
Cecilia Tan

A collection of erotic vampire stories.

1994 --
Blood Prophet
gay content lesbian content
John Michael Curlovich

A young vampire finds himself alone when his sire vanishes. Now, he must deal with homophobia, Fundamentalists and a rival type of immortal to find his love and bring him home.

2006 --
Blood Relations
lesbian content bisexual content heterosexual content
Doug Murray

Val searches the downtown scene for thrills. Mariana is an artist whose talent is dying even as her body enjoys immortality. They meet at the Blood Club, and a spark is struck between them. What they don't know is that their meeting was arranged.

1996 C
Blood Sisters: Lesbian Vampire Tales
lesbian content
Bianca de Moss

Sexy stories of Sapphic bloodsuckers!

2006 --
Bloodsong; A Novel
gay content lesbian content
Karen Marie Christa Minns

It wasn't bad enough that her lover was the daughter of a homophobic diplomat, but now she's begun to act strangely, sneaking out at night to do who knows what. Who knows what that new girl has been teaching her?

1997 B-
Carmilla - The Return: A Vampire Novel
lesbian content
Kyle Marfin

For most of Carmilla's life, from the late 1800s to the present, she has been a vampire, and alone. Lauren, a despondent, overeducated (for the job she holds) twenty-something woman from Chicago, is also alone. After an apparently chance encounter between the two women, Lauren moves to northern tip of Michigan, where she eventually runs into an old high school boyfriend. When Carmilla follows her, Lauren begins to suspect that their initial meeting was not as accidental as it seemed.

1998 --
Chilling Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
gay content lesbian content transgender content
Patty G. Henderson

A collection of GLBT horror 'flash fiction,' stories under 1000 words.

2008 A
Christabel
lesbian content
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poem, which was to be the beginning of a medieval tale about a demon or witch.

1819 --
Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories
lesbian content
Pam Keesey

This collection of erotic tales contains original and previously published fiction. Classics such as 'The Vampire' by Cora Linn Daniels, and 'The Bloody Countess' by Alejandra Pizarnik.

1995 A
Darker Passions, The: Carmilla
lesbian content
Amarantha Knight

A shockingly sensual reinterpretation of Sheridan LeFanu's notorious chiller. Captivated by the portrait of a beautiful woman, a young man finds himself becoming gradually obsessed with her remarkable story. Little by little he uncovers the many blasphemies and debaucheries with which the beauteous Laura filled her hours - even as a hungry, otherworldly presence began feasting upon her.

1997 --
Darkest Thirst, The
lesbian content heterosexual content

The thirst for immortality. The thirst for revenge. The thirst for redemption. The unquenchable thirst for dark desires. The darkest thirst... the thirst for blood. This book contains three queer vampire stories: 'On Line,' 'The Alberscine's Vigil' and 'Nocturne a Tre in B-Double-Sharp Minor'

1998 B
Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories
lesbian content
Pam Keesey

An anthology of ten sexy, innovative short stories, mostly by contemporary women authors. Includes the 1872 classic 'Carmilla', by J. Sheridan LeFanu, and includes stories of a couple's first visit to New Orleans, and a bored hard-core S/M dominatrix getting confronted by a mortal.

1993 A
Dawn Song
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
Michael Marano

As the sun set, the Succubus woke, filling her eyes with the wonder and mystery of a changing sky. She stretched out over the cold gravel and snow and extended her mind out across the city to find suitable quarry.

1998 B-
Dhampir: Child of the Blood
lesbian content
V. M. Johnson

A vampyre of the Clan of Lilith invites us into her life through letters to her newly made 'cub' and to those she calls her 'food.'

1995 --
Dracula: the First Hundred Years
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
Bob Madison

The books, the comics, the films, etc - illustrated in b&w. the image of Dracula is forever shifting and changing, reflecting not himself, but our own fears and secret longings.

1997 --
Drag Queen of Elfland: Short Stories, The
gay content lesbian content
Lawrence Schimel

A collection of queer stories, which includes a few stories dealing with vampires, werewolves and other monstrosities.

1997 --
Dreams and Swords
lesbian content
Katherine V. Forrest

Collection of stories including 'O Captain, My Captain', a story about a vampiritic lesbian space captain.

1987 --
Embracing the Dark
gay content lesbian content
Eric Garber

An anthology of eleven short stories of horror and dark fantasy, with gay men and lesbians at the center of these tales of ghosts, vampires, werewolves and spirits.

1991 --
Fistful of Charms, A
lesbian content heterosexual content
Kim Harrison

The adventures of a trio of supernatural bounty hunters continues as the witch's boyfriend returns with a powerful object that many will kill to possess.

2006 --
Gilda Stories, The
lesbian content heterosexual content
Jewelle Gomez

The adventures of a Black lesbian vampire, starting in Mississippi in 1850 where she was a runaway slave child, and continues to 2050 where she is a hunted vampire in Peru.

1991 A
Good, the Bad and the Undead, The
lesbian content
Kim Harrison

Bounty hunter and witch, Rachel Morgan, must defeat an evil preying upon the most powerful witches around.

2005 --
Hunger, The
lesbian content bisexual content heterosexual content
Whitley Strieber

Miriam is beautiful, sophisticated, and centuries-old. Continually lonely, she finds suitable human lovers, male and female, with whom to share her blood and her life. Unfortunately, these companions are not real vampires and cannot survive forever.

1981 --
I, Vampire
lesbian content
Jody Scott

Misunderstood vampire Sterling O'Blivion was working at a dance studio in Chicago when the Rysemian starships landed and things began to change for the better.

1984 D-
In a Glass Darkly
lesbian content
J. Sheridan LeFanu

First published in 1872, this collection of stories includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience.

1872 --
Interview with the Vampire
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
Anne Rice

The first book in the Vampire Chronicles. Louis the vampire has decided to tell his story, once and for all. From his short life to his long undeath. A classic.

1976 A
Last Vampire, The
lesbian content bisexual content
Whitley Strieber

Miriam Blaylock's insatiable hunger has never ceased. Her incomparable beauty has made her a legend among the Keepers. Her many lovers have come and gone, crumbling into ash and nothingness. She knows the secrets of civilization, and the mysteries of life.

2001 A
Love Bites
lesbian content heterosexual content
Amarantha Knight

Vampire lovers, hookers, groupies and hustlers of all sexual persuasions are waiting to entice you into their sensuous world. A volume of tales dedicated to legend's sexiest demon, the Vampire.

1995 D+
Love in Vein
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
Poppy Z. Brite

The stories present 20 different worlds, from the Old West to modern Japan to the inner city, in which vampire's desires are no longer focused solely, or even primarily, on their victims' jugulars.

1994 --
Masters of Midnight
gay content lesbian content
Michael Thomas Ford, William J. Mann, Sean Wolfe and Jeff Mann

Spend the night with four mysterious men whose kiss is more than deadly, it's forever...

2003 B
Minimax
lesbian content
Anna Livia

The story of a feminist, featuring boisterous array of supporting characters, including a vampire.

1991 --
Moonshadows - Fantasies of Love and Magick
lesbian content heterosexual content
S.G. Johnson

Four short stories dealing with lesbian themes in sci-fi, fantasy and horror.

1995 D-
Mortal Companion
gay content lesbian content bisexual content heterosexual content
Patrick Califia

When sweet, small-town librarian Mary Beth, meets an ancient seductive vampire, her world changes forever. No one could have suspected the depths of depravity she would descend into. Nor could they have predicted the jealous response of his sister.

2004 --
Mother Julian and the Gentle Vampire
lesbian content
Jack Pantaleo

After drinking Mother Julian's sacred blood and is converted, Little Gift then becomes a vampire in reverse: She must give her blood or she will die. Her blood has the ability to instill self-esteem and heal broken lives. Living now in present-day San Francisco and dubbed, Lesbiana, the story weaves flashbacks to Old England and Mother Julian's radical insights.

2000 --
Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women
lesbian content heterosexual content
Victoria Brownworth

This collection of seductive vampire stories is by turns sexy and subversive.

1996 B+
Rainbow Arc of Fire: Autumn Saga
gay content lesbian content
Gregory Earl Sanchez

A super-powered couple accidentally unleashes a flood of monsters on an unsuspecting city.

1997 D-
Sardia: a Story of Love
lesbian content
Cora Lynn Morrison Daniels

A mysterious and beautiful woman has the vampiric ability to mesmerize people and drain them of their vital energy. Through this ability, she has infatuated a man in an attempt to ruin his marriage and secure his money.

1891 --
Scarlet Thirst
gay content lesbian content transgender content
Crin Claxton

A group of lesbian and trans vampires try to determine who is trying to kill them.

2002 C+
Shadows After Dark
lesbian content
Ouida Crozier

An alternate dimension populated by vampires who cross dimensions to find a cure for AIDS. On her travels, the heroine meets and falls in love with another woman, who is horrified to learn that her mysterious, darkly exotic lover is a vampire.

1993 D-
Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
Greg Herren

A bone-chilling anthology of gay and lesbian psychodrama. These stories introduce you to the doomed and the damned, including a gay travel writer with a one-way ticket to horror; a murdered lesbian who plots bloody revenge from the grave; a young gay man's fear of Jewish vampires; and many others.

2004 --
So Dead, My Love
lesbian content
Patty G. Henderson

An artist's obsession with the mysterious Karnov family leads to the rising of an enigmatic vampire foretold of in prophecy. Will she join her vampiric lover or turn from her to face the light?

2009 --
Soapsuds
lesbian content
Finola Hughes and Digby Diehl

An actress lands a job playing against a vampire-fighting lesbian cop.

2005 --
Strange City
lesbian content heterosexual content
Staley Krause and Stewart Wieck

For millennia they have preyed on us from the shadows. Vengeful werewolves hunger for our flesh. Ravenous vampires crave our blood, while eerie wraiths seek out our very souls. Our reality shatters at the whims of mages - and even our dreams are not safe from the changelings' mad caprices. For millennia they have ruled over us from the shadows, secure in their invisibility.

1996 --
Swords of the Rainbow
gay content lesbian content
Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez

A remarkable collection of fantasy, sword and sorcery, and science fiction tales with gay and lesbian themes.

1996 --
Taste for Blood, A
lesbian content
Diana Lee

Ryan was born when Vikings raided the British coast and the clans of Scotland feuded with blood lust. Raped, killed and reborn as a vampire at the tender age of sixteen, she is now over eight hundred years old

2003 --
Taste of Midnight: Vampire Erotica
lesbian content
Cecilia Tan

Fall into the darkness and sensuality that is the vampire's world. In these pages you will find goddesses with secrets and vampires with needs of their own.

1998 --
Undead and Unwed
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
Mary Janice Davidson

First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.

2004 --
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; and, Sleeping Beauty or Coma
gay content lesbian content transgender content
Charles Busch

Two plays. Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is set in the 'twin cities' of Sodom and Gomorrah, an adult male actor plays a 14-year-old maiden who's sacrificed to the Succubus, an evil blood-drinker with a 'westal wirgin' habit. But the victim doesn't die, instead becoming the Succubus' sister in tainted immortality. The rivals battle for supremacy over the centuries, with the decisive battle fought in modern--day Las Vegas.

1986 --
Virago
lesbian content
Karen Marie Christa Minns

It wasn't bad enough that her lover was the daughter of a homophobic diplomat, but now she's begun to act strangely, sneaking out at night to do who knows what. Who knows what that new girl has been teaching her?

1990 C
Zora: La Vampira
lesbian content bisexual content heterosexual content

An Italian comic summarized as 'A woman is seduced by a lesbian vampire'.

1975 --

Non-Fiction

Surprisingly there are a few non-fictional accounts of gay vampires.

This page focuses on all lesbian vampire items.

For a page that shows all orientations, please go here

Title Author Description Year Rating
Horror Reader, The
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
Ken Gelder

Twenty-nine non-fiction essays and excerpts from previously published sources

2000 --
Lesbian Words: State of the Art
lesbian content
Randy Turoff

These writers dissect our culture, our collective past and our ambiguities.

1995 --
Monsters in the Closet : Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film)
gay content lesbian content
Harry M. Benshoff

Horror fiction has always portrayed society's greatest fears as monstrous incarnations of 'the other,' so it should be no surprise that there has always been a clear homoerotic subtext in horror films--from Frankenstein to Interview with the Vampire.

1997 A
Our Vampires, Ourselves
gay content lesbian content bisexual content heterosexual content
Nina Auerbach

A study that moves the changing historical image of the vampire from the margins to the heart of Anglo-American culture. Beginning with Byron and Polidori, Rymer and LeFanu, Auerbach shows how the character of the vampire offered an intimacy--often homoerotic--that threatened the class structure and the authority of husbands and fathers. Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' ended this tradition, introducing a tyrannical vampire to late Victorian readers who where haunted by a monster of their own making--the clinical version of the homosexual. She then examines a vast range of material from the 20th century. She concludes on a note of hope, seeing the vampire reborn in a female tradition in the work of Anne Rice and others.

1995 --
V Is For Vampire: The A -Z Guide To Everything Undead
gay content lesbian content bisexual content heterosexual content
David J. Skal

This informative and entertaining pop-culture reference guide covers all aspects of vampirism--from the infamous lore about garlic, mirrors, and wooden stakes to fascinating descriptions of little-known books and films on the subject. Skal's look at the dark creature will recapture the imagination of millions and covers hundreds of topics related to vampires.

1996 --
Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead
gay content lesbian content heterosexual content
J. Gordon Melton

Contains the cultural history of the vampire; a historical timeline; addresses of vampire societies all over the world; a 55-page filmography; vampires in plays, opera, and ballet; a 13-page list of vampire novels; and an extensive index. The A to Z entries, each with a short bibliography, include vampire lore in more than 30 different geographic regions and a comprehensive 'who's who,' and cover topics ranging from fingernails to sexuality, the Camarilla to Szekelys.

1998 --
Vampires & Violets: Lesbians in Film
lesbian content
Andrea Weiss

A revelatory survey of lesbian identity in film--from the cross-dressing stars like Garbo, Dietrich, and Hepburn to the vampire movies of the late '60s, Silkwood and The Color Purple. With wit and political acumen, Weiss reveals the concealed world of a host of movies both popular and forgotten.

1993 --
Vamps: an Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale
lesbian content heterosexual content
Pam Keesey

A research book on strong female characters. Many are lesbian, many are vampire, but not all. 'Vamps is an insightful look into the long history of the so called 'bad girl'' -- The Vampire Athenaeum

1997 A

Honorable mentions:
If you want general vampire non-fiction, I've found the book "Vampires, Burial and Death" by Paul Barber to be really informative. It's basically a look into the history and folklore of vampires, and discusses where the beliefs came from - sadly, nothing queer in it though.

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