 | The Darkling: A Treatise on Slavic Vampirism by Jan Louis Perkowski
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $13.96 A little dry for most, but if you really want to know about vampire myth, this is a must.
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 | The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror; Revised Edition with a New Afterword by David J. Skal
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $7.11 A very relevant book on monster movies and the vampire. In spite of his overly Freudian take on things, he is a fountain of knowledge.
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 | Goth Chic: A Connoisseur's Guide to Dark Culture by Gavin Baddeley
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $5.17 Very useful. Full of great pictures and information.
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 | The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $16.50 It's Dracula. The annotations are fun, too.
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 | I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Buy used from: $4.11 A great take on vampirism and a harrowing tale of survival.
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 | Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.56 Stephen King takes the vampire out of the Gothic context and puts it in smalltown America.
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 | Nosferatu (The Ultimate Two-Disc Edition)
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $21.14 Early and seminal vampire film. It's a little slow, but the visuals are quite captivating and the monster's a monster. Eerie, breathtaking and amazing.
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 | TCM Archives - The Lon Chaney Collection (The Ace of Hearts / Laugh, Clown, Laugh / The Unknown)
Buy new: $33.49 / Used from: $23.98 This is a great box. Shows you how a true master of monsters performed his craft in a great documentary and preserves Todd Browning's London After Midnight in great stills. It's a shame he died before he could be...
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 | Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $5.98 A hackneyed but gorgeous film. Lugosi is not particularly scary, but still you can't keep your eyes off him.
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 | Vampyr - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $29.33 Haunting and atmospheric, based on Sheridan Le Fanu's Gothic masterwork Carmilla, this is like that video from the Ring...with a vampire. Oddly scary.
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 | Hollywood's Legends of Horror Collection (Doctor X / The Return of Doctor X / Mad Love / The Devil Doll / Mark of the Vampire / The Mask of Fu Manchu)
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $23.75 Mark of the Vampire might be the least of he films on this phenomenal box set, but it's a great moment in vampire history. Carroll Borland has influenced a generation of Goth chicks.
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 | Black Sunday
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $12.85 Great Italian Gothic. Barbara Steele is mesmerizing as a reincarnated vampiric witch.
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 | Black Sabbath
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $9.24 Karloff in some of the most chilling vampire makeup you'll ever see. It's really something.
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 | Draculas: 4 Film Favorites - Horror of Dracula / Dracula Has Risen from the Grave / Taste the Blood of Dracula / Dracula A.D. 1972 (2DVD)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $10.34 Great deal. Christopher Lee is in my opinion, the greatest Dracula. Aristocrat and savage beast, he reconciles the Slavic revenant with the English gentleman quite nicely.
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 | Countess Dracula / The Vampire Lovers
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.38 Bloodsucking. Torture. Lesbianism. Nudity. Hammer films, great purveyors of British horror and vampire films at their best.
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 | Daughters of Darkness (2-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $7.94 An arthouse vampire film that's not for everyone. Still for intellectual vampire fans, you could do worse.
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 | Blacula/Scream Blacula Scream
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $64.35 He's Dracula, but he's black. William Marshall is awesome.
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 | Fright Night
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.04 Amanda Bearse is hot and the voice of Jack Skellington's a vampire. Come on, like it.
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 | The Lost Boys
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $4.72 Punk/Goth vampires. The first vampires that are moody, obnoxious and stereotypically goth. Still, this has its charms. Great Doors cover at the beginning, Feldman/Haim vampire hunting. It's a ton of fun.
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 | The Monster Squad (Two-Disc 20th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.55 It's like a House of...movie mixed with The Goonies. Too much fun to pass up.
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 | Near Dark
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.97 Vampires as redneck thugs. Scary, moody and awesome. Near Dark? VERY dark.
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 | Let The Right One In
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.14 Vampires in a sweet, sad coming of age story. It's great stuff.
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