Note: For recommended fiction, please see the sections Stoking the Flames and The Literary Vampire.
Ashley, Leonard, R.N., The Complete Book of Vampires. Barricade Books, NY. 1998.
Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial and Death, Folklore and Reality. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1988.
Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker and the Man Who Was Dracula. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002.
Bunson, Matthew. The Vampire Encyclopedia. Gramercy, NY, 2001.
Copper, Basil. The Vampire in Legend and Fact. Citadel, NY, 1998.
Curran, Bob. Encyclopedia of the Undead: A Field Guide to the Creatures That Cannot Rest in Peace. New Page Books, Franklin Lakes, NY, 2006.
Dresser, Norine. American Vampires. W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.
Everson, William K. Classics of Horror Film. Citadel Press, NJ, 1986.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. The Complete Vampire Companion: Legend and Lore of the Living Dead. Macmillan, NY, 1994.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters. Checkmark Books, NY, 2005.
Hardy, Paul. The Overlook Film Encyclopedia of Horror. Overlook Press, NY, 1998.
Haworth-Maden, Clare. Dracula: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Man, the Myth, and the Movies. Crescent Books, NY, 1992.
Mascetti, Manuela Dunn. Vampire: The Complete Guide to the World of the Undead. Viking Studio Books, NY, 1992.
McCarty, John. The Modern Horror Film. Carol Publishing, NY, 1990.
McClelland, Bruce. Slayers and Their Vampires. University of Michigan Press, 2006.
McNally, Raymond. Dracula Was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania. McGraw-Hill, 1987.
McNally, Raymond and Radu Florescu. Dracula: Prince of Many Faces. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA, 1989.
McNally, Raymond and Radu Florescu. The Essential Dracula. Mayflower Books, Berkley, MI, 1979.
McNally, Raymond and Radu Florescu. In Search of Dracula. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1984.
Melton, J. Gordon. The Vampire Book — The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Visible Ink Press, Canton, MI, 1999.
Miller, Elizabeth. A Dracula Handbook. Xlibris Corp., 2005.
Miller, Elizabeth. Dracula: Sense and Nonsense. Parkstone Press, 2000.
Pattison, Barrie. The Seal of Dracula. Crown Publishing, NY, 1979.
Ramsland, Katherine, Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today. Harper Collins, 1998.
Ramsland, Katherine. Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice. Dutton, 1991.
Ramsland, Katherine. The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. Ballantine Books, 1993
Ramsland, Katherine, Ph.D. The Science of Vampires. Berkley Boulevard Books, NY, 2002.
Schechter, Harold and David Everitt. The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Pocket Books, 1996.
Summers, Montague. The Vampire in Europe. University Books, 1961.
Weiss, Andrea. Vampires and Violets. Penguin Books, NY, 1993.
Wright, Dudley. The Book of Vampires. Dorset Press, NY, 1987.
