Vampire Fiction for the Shortest Day of the Year

December 21, 2013 | M. Elwood

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December 21st is the Winter Solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere this means it's the shortest day of the year. In Toronto we'll only have about 9 hours of daylight. While it's not the best for those of us who like the sun, it's a great day to be a vampire or even to read about vampires.

These are some of the recent vampire novels available from Toronto Public Library:

Blood of the lamb Blood Oranges Box office poison Countess dracula Skarlet

Blood of the Lamb: a Novel of Secrets by Sam Cabot
Audiobook
Talking Book
A priest and a professor team up to recover a document that could destroy the Catholic Church but they discover that they aren't the only ones looking for it--a group of vampires are also trying to track it down.

Blood Oranges by Caitlin R. Kiernan writing as Kathleen Tierney
Part-werewolf, part-vampire Siobhan Quinn is a sarcastic demon hunter in this parody of the vampire genre.

Box Office Poison by Philipa Bornikova
Linnet Ellery, a human lawyer in a vampire law firm, must arbitrate when conflict develops between elven and human actors in Hollywood.

Countess Dracula by Guy Adams
A 1930s movie star considers taking a drastic step to prevent further ageing in this novelisation of a classic Hammer horror film.

Skarlet by Thomas Emson
Jake Lawton fights to clear his name after he's accused of distributing a recreational drug that turns its users into vampires.

Ask staff members at your local branch for more suggestions.

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