A ranking of seven fictional vampires I could kill without breaking a sweat, from Nosferatu to Count Duckula. Yes, David from The Lost Boys makes the list, and yes, I have strong opinions about his hair. Proof that most vampire movies are style over substance.
Costume designer Sarah Hinkley spent years dressing other people’s stories on the sets of SVU and Monsterland. Now she’s written her own: The Red Sacrament, a debut vampire novel set in a starving, besieged 1870 Paris. We talked queer vampire fiction, the long shadow of Interview with the Vampire, and why her immortals are petty, risk-averse, and far too tired of each other.
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Marco van Belle’s Feed finally puts the Dearg Due, Ireland’s first vampire, on screen in a handsome indie horror. Grace Collender and Charlotte Bradley bring real texture, yet the film keeps slipping into familiar cabin territory instead of its own mythology. Our full review weighs a fresh premise against safe execution.
Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor return to Trident Falls in Summer Coven, the second Dead & Breakfast paranormal cozy mystery. Two married vampire innkeepers investigate a poisoned pet psychic, a coven of witches, and a missing person. A queer, funny, warm-hearted whodunit for anyone who wants their vampires kind.
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Summer Coven brings Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor’s married vampire detectives back to Trident Falls for a second cozy paranormal mystery, this time knotted up with the Celestine Coven and a poisoned pet psychic. In our Dead & Breakfast interview, the pair explain what it costs to make horror’s oldest monster cosy, and where the fear goes when nobody is scared of the vampire any more.
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Kelly Creagh built a career on gothic dread, borrowing scaffolding from Poe, Leroux and Brontë. A Date with Death drops the dead authors entirely and writes Death straight, as a foul-mouthed skeleton falling for a children’s librarian. In this Kelly Creagh interview, she unpicks the craft of the paranormal romcom, the Poe fingerprints hidden in the jokes, and where the monster romance boom is actually heading.
Jack Rushton is a thirty-nine-year-old vampire who just wants to be left alone with his Radio 4 comedies and his unrequited crush. Instead, he’s been blackmailed by a six-hundred-year-old vampire queen, hunted by a clueless anti-vampire collective, and his teenage sister is developing migraines that might be something far worse. Gayle Ramage’s Jockula is a darkly comic Scottish vampire horror that earns both halves of that descriptor.
Jeff Strand’s Fun Times at the Bloodbath is horror comedy with teeth, a video game horror novel about a playtest no one can quit. The Bram Stoker Award winning author weaponises the attention economy and folds extreme horror into his sharpest comic engine yet. Here is why it gets under your skin.
