Supernatural Fiction Readers discussion

Hi,I'm looking for old school horror featuring werewolves and or vampires.Just good creepy tales.

Not at all interested in today's human/creature romance trend.

Can anyone suggest titles? :]

St. Martin's Moon is my latest. Universal-style werewolves, on a haunted lunar colony. Not horror, but creepy in a Southern Gothic sort of way, I've been told.

Mark of the Werewolf is another with werewolves in the modern day.

Agyar is an excellent take on vampires.

Thank you for those suggestions.

Christine, are you just interested in novels, or are you open to short stories, too? (I know that many modern readers don't get into the short format; but historically, a lot of supernatural fiction has been written in that mode.)

I have a unique vampire short story, too, if you are. Vampires at Christmas, called 'Bite Deep'. I have some trouble imagining a vampire short story, to be honest. They strike me as sort of spidery, lurking and waiting for prey, not the sort of activity level for a short story. I have some ideas for vampire stories but I can't see them being less than novella length, although I could easily be wrong about that.

I do prefer novels,but won't rule out short stories.

The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories is a treasure trove of short vampire fiction, written from the early 1800s to the late 20th century; most of the stories are of the classic type that would be up your alley, Christine. (My review is here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/55144670 .) You might also like Stephen King's "One for the Road," a spin-off of Salem's Lot; it doesn't have the objectionable features of much of his writing that you mentioned on another thread. It's included in the collection Young Monsters.

I'm not as well read in werewolf fiction, but the latter collection also has a good PG werewolf yarn, "The Young One" by Jerome Bixby. Clemence Housman's novella The Were-Wolf, written in 1896, is an early classic of the sub-genre which I'd highly recommend as well. It's included in A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture, but you might be able to find it for free online as well (it's in the public domain).

Werner wrote: "The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories is a treasure trove of short vampire fiction, written from the early 1800s to the late 20th century; most of the stories are of the classic type that would be up..."

Wow,thank you Werner,those all sound very good!I already put Young Monsters,A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture and one I found~ The Beast Within/a History of the Werewolf by Adam Douglas on reserve at my library.Unfortunately they do not have The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories so I will have to try to get it through the Inter Library Loan System.

Hope you like them, Christine!

If you're still looking, i do a pulp-horror series with werewolves, vampires, zombies, witches, etc. First novel is free on kindle