Vampire Genre

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Thrillers and Chillers

• Vampire Genre
• Vista Murrieta High School Library
• Mrs. Jacobs
• Teacher Librarian

Click on the Author name on each slide for links
to biographical information
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by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight Series
I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid
dream.

• In my dream, two people were having an intense
  conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of
  these people was just your average girl. The
  other person was fantastically beautiful,
  sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the
  difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they
  were falling in love with each other while B) the
  vampire was particularly attracted to the scent
  of her blood, and was having a difficult time
  restraining himself from killing her immediately.
  For what is essentially a transcript of my dream,
  please see Chapter 13 ("Confessions") of the book.

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by L.J. Smith
Vampire Diaries
How it all began . . .

• During the time of the Italian Renaissance,
  brothers, Damon and Stefan Salvatore fell in love
  with a beautiful young vampire named Katherine.
  Though Katherine's heart was big enough for both
  brothers, each of them vied to make her his own.
  The battle for Katherine's affection led to her
  eventually death, and left the two boys immortal,
  heartbroken, and forever quarreling.
• Centuries later, Damon and Stefan are destined to
  repeat the betrayal that led to their vampirism.
  They descend on the small town of Fell's Church,
  Virginia, where their paths cross with Elena
  Gilbert, a beautiful and popular high school
  student who bears a striking resemblance to
  Katherine. . . .

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by Jim Butcher
The Dresden Files

• Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well,
  technically, he's the only at what he does. So
  when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends
  mortal creativity or capability, they come to him
  for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually
  full of strange and magical things -- and most of
  them don't play well with humans. That's where
  Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a --
  well, whatever.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.
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by Rachel Caine
Morganville Vampires
On the day Claire became a member of the Glass
someone stole her laundry.

• Claire's hand, reaching into the crappy, beat-up
  washing machine, found nothing but the wet slick
  sides of the drum, and -- like a bad joke -- the
  worst pair of underwear she owned, plus one sock.
  She was in a hurry, of course -- there were only
  a couple of machines on this top floor of Howard
  Hall, the least-valued and most run-down rooms in
  the least-valued, most run-down dorm. Two washing
  machines, two dryers, and you were lucky if one
  of them was working on any given day and didn't
  eat your quarters. Forget about the dollar bill
  slot. She'd never seen it work, not in the last
  six weeks since she'd arrived at school.

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by Cassandra Clare
City of Glass

• When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the
  Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly
  expects to witness a murder - much less a murder
  committed by three teenagers covered with strange
  tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the
  body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call
  the police when the murderers are invisible to
  everyone else and when there is nothing - not
  even a smear of blood - to show that a boy has
  died.

Or was he a boy?
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by Catherine Jinks
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Nina Harrison became a vampire in 1973

• when she was fifteen, and she hasn't aged a day
  since then. But she hasn't had any fun, either
  she still lives with her mum, and the highlight
  of her sickly, couchbound life is probably her
  Tuesday-night group meeting, which she spends
  with a miserable bunch of fellow sufferers, being
  lectured at.

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by Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy
I felt her fear before I heard her screams.

• It's springtime at St. Vladimir's Academy, and
  Rose Hathaway is this close to graduation. Since
  making her first Strigoi kills, Rose hasn't been
  feeling quite right. She's having dark thoughts,
  behaving erratically, and worst of all...might be
  seeing ghosts.

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by Ellen Schreiber
Vampire Kisses

• Raven, 16, doesn't fit in at school or home
• and when a new family moves into the old town
  mansion, she is convinced that the son,
  Alexander, is a vampire.

This goth-girl is obsessed with vampires
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by Daniel Shan
Cirque de Freak

• The freak show was all I could think about that
  night. I tried forgetting it, but couldn't, not
  even when I was watching my favorite TV shows. It
  sounded so weird a snake-boy, a wolf-man, a
  performing spider. I

I was especially excited by the spider....
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by Justin Somper
Vampirates

• Vampirates begins in the year 2505. Sea-levels
  have risen. The seas teem with pirate ships and
  other, more mysterious, vessels . . . 

Whoever controls the oceans rules the world
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By Douglas Rees
Vampire High
Cody Elliott hates everything about Massachusetts

• His dad decides that changing schools would be
  best for him and gives him two to choose fromOur
  Lady of Perpetual Homework and Vlad Dracul Magnet
  School.