Timeline
This timeline shows key texts (literary, cinematic, and TV) and events in the evolution of cultural representations of the vampire. We can’t include everything (adaptations of Dracula alone are countless), but we have chosen items that are the most significant or that we consider particularly interesting. Click on the left and right arrows to move through the history. (We will be continually updating this and are open to suggestions.)
1702
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Voyage to the Levant
1732
Anon, 'Political Vampires', in The Craftsman
1735?-1742
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, The Jewish Spy
1746
Antoine Augustin Calmet, Dissertations on the Apparitions of Angels, of Demons and of Spirits, and on Revenants or Vampires of Hungary, of Bohemia, of Moravia and of Silesia
1762
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 'Letter to Christophe de Beaumont'
1764
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 'Vampires', in Philosophical Dictionary
1773
Gottfried August Bürger, Leonore
1774
Alberto Fortis, Travels Into Dalmatia
1786
John Farrar, 'Of popular illusions, and particularly of medical demonology'
1797
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, The Bride of Corinth
1797-1800
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
1800
Ernst Raupach, 'Wake Not the Dead'
1801
Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
1805
Count Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
1810
John Stagg, The Vampire
1811
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, Fantasmagoriana. Translations from German of stories from Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun's Gespensterbuch (1811), and by Johann Karl August Musäus and Heinrich Clauren
1813
Lord George Gordan Byron, The Giaour
1816
- Lady Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon
- Ghost story telling at the Villa Diodata, with Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, John Polidori, and Claire Clairmont.
1819
- John Polidori, The Vampyre
- Uriah Dereck D'Arcy,The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St Domingo
1820
- John Keats, Lamia
- Cyprien Bérard, Lord Ruthwen, ou Les Vampires
- James Planché, The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles
- Charles Nodier, Le Vampire
1821
- E. T. A. Hoffman, 'Vampirismus'
- Eugène Scribe, Le Vampire
1835
Nikolai Gogol, Viy
1838
Edgar Allan Poe, 'Ligeia'
1843
Théophile Gautier, 'La morte amoureuse'
1845-1847
James Malcolm Rymer, Varney the Vampire
1847
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre
1850
The Phantom World, trans. by Rev. Henry Christmas of Calmet
1847
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
1851
Alexandre Duams, Le Vampire
1852
Dion Boucicault, The Vampire
1857
Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal
1865
Jules Dornay, Douglas le Vampire
1867
William Gilbert, 'The Last Lords of Gardonal'
1870
Sir Richard Burton, Vikram the Vampire
1872
Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
1887
Guy de Maupassant, 'Le Horla'
1890
- Mary Cholmondeley, 'Let Loose'
- Emily Gerard, The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania
1891
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
1894
- Eric, Count Stenbock, 'A True Story of a Vampire'
- Aleksei Tolstoy. 'The Family of Vourdalak'
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Parasite
- Edvard Munch, The Vampire
1896
George Méliès, The Haunted Castle
1897
- Bram Stoker, Dracula
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 'The Good Lady Ducayne'
- Frances Marryat, The Blood of the Vampire
- Phillip Burne-Jones, The Vampire (painting)
- Rudyard Kipling, 'The Vampire'
1900
F. G. Loring, 'The Tomb of Sarah'
1900
Hume Nisbet, 'The Vampire Maid'
1902
Mary E. Wilkins, 'Luella Miller'
1904
M. R. James, 'Count Magnus'
1911
F. Marion Crawford, 'For the Blood is the Life'
1912
E. F. Benson, 'The Room in the Tower'
1922
F. W. Murnau. Nosferatu
Chronology of Primary Texts
This is a table of key primary vampire texts. You can search for authors, titles, key words, and so on. You can also sort the columns by clicking on the arrows in the headings. Drag the cursor sideways or use the arrow buttons or scroll bar to reveal the hidden columns on the left and click on ‘Next’ at the bottom of the table to see the next 10 entries.
| Date | Name | Role | Title | Country | Language | Medium | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1702 | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | Author | Voyage to the Levant | France | French | Treatise | |
| 1732 | anon | Author | 'Political Vampires', in The Craftsman | UK | English | Article | |
| 1735?-1742 | Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens | Author | The Jewish Spy | France | French | Novel | |
| 1746 | Antoine Augustin Calmet | Author | Dissertations on the Apparitions of Angels, of Demons and of Spirits, and on Revenants or Vampires of Hungary, of Bohemia, of Moravia and of Silesia | France | French | Treatise | |
| 1762 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Author | Letter to Christophe de Beaumont' | France | French | Letter | |
| 1764 | Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire | Author | 'Vampires', in Philosophical Dictionary | France | French | Article | |
| 1773 | Gottfried August Bürger | Author | Leonore | Germany | German | Poem | |
| 1774 | Alberto Fortis | Author | Travels Into Dalmatia | Italy | Italian | Travel narrative | |
| 1786 | John Farrar | Author | Of popular illusions, and particularly of medical demonology' | UK | English | Treatise | |
| 1797 | Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Author | The Bride of Corinth | Germany | German | Poem | |
| 1797-1800 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Author | Christabel | UK | English | Poem | |
| 1800 | Ernst Raupach | Author | 'Wake Not the Dead' | Germany | German | Short story | wrongly attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck |
| 1801 | Robert Southey | Author | Thalaba the Destroyer | UK | English | Poem | |
| 1805-15 | Jan Count Potocki | Author | The Manuscript Found in Saragossa | Poland | French | Novel | |
| 1810 | John Stagg | Author | The Vampyre | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1811 | Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès | Translator | Fantasmagoriana | France | French | Short stories | Translations from German of stories from Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun's Gespensterbuch (1811), and by Johann Karl August Musäus and Heinrich Clauren |
| 1812 | Silvestro di Palma | Composer | I Vampiri | Italy | Italian | Opera | |
| 1813 | Lord George Gordan Byron | Author | The Giaour | UK | English | Poem | |
| 1816 | Lady Caroline Lamb | Author | Glenarvon | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1816 | Ghost story telling at the Villa Diodata, with Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, John Polidori, and Claire Clairmont. | ||||||
| 1818 | Mary Shelley | Author | Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1819 | John Polidori | Author | The Vampyre | UK | English | Novella | |
| 1819 | Lord George Gordan Byron | Author | 'A Fragment' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1819 | Uriah Dereck D'Arcy | Author | The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St Domingo | USA | English | Novella | |
| 1820 | Charles Nodier | Author | Le Vampire | France | French | Play | |
| 1820 | Cyprien Bérard | Author | Lord Ruthwen, ou Les Vampires | UK | French | Novel | |
| 1820 | James Planché | Author | The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles | UK | English | Play | |
| 1820 | John Keats | Author | Lamia | UK | English | Poem | |
| 1821 | E. T. A. Hoffman | Author | 'Vampirismus' | Germany | German | Short story | |
| 1821 | Eugène Scribe | Author | Le Vampire | France | French | Play | |
| 1826 | Martin-Joseph Mengal | Composer | Le Vampire | Belgium | French | Opera | |
| 1828 | Heinrich Marschner | Composer | Der Vampyr | Germany | German | Opera | |
| 1828 | Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner | Composer | Der Vampyr | Germany | German | Opera | |
| 1834 | George Blink | Author | The Vampire Bride, or Tenant of the Tomb | UK | English | Play | |
| 1835 | Alexander Pushkin | Author | Wurdulak' | Russia | Russian | Poem | From Songs of the Western Slavs |
| 1835 | Nikolai Gogol | Author | Viy | Russia | Russian | Novella | |
| 1838 | Edgar Allan Poe | Author | 'Ligeia' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1843 | Théophile Gautier | Author | 'La morte amoureuse' | France | French | Short story | |
| 1845-47 | James Malcolm Rymer | Author | Varney the Vampire | UK | English | Serial story | |
| 1847 | Charlotte Brontë | Author | Jane Eyre | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1847 | Emily Brontë | Author | Wuthering Heights | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1850 | Rev. Henry Christmas | Translator | The Phantom World | UK | English | Treatise | Translation of Calmet |
| 1851 | Alexandre Dumas | Author | Le Vampire | France | French | Play | |
| 1852 | Dion Boucicault | Author | The Vampire | UK | English | Play | |
| 1855-63 | Alexander Afanasyev | Collector | 'The Vampire' [Upir] | Russia | Russian | Folk tale | |
| 1857 | Charles Baudelaire | Author | Les fleurs du mal | France | French | Poems | |
| 1865 | Jules Dornay | Author | Douglas le Vampire | France | French | Play | |
| 1867 | William Gilbert | Author | 'The Last Lords of Gardonal' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1870 | Sir Richard Burton | Author | Vikram the Vampire | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1872 | Sheridan Le Fanu | Author | Carmilla | UK | English | Novella | |
| 1875 | Paul Féval | Author | La Ville-Vampire [Vampire City] | France | French | Novel | |
| 1880 | Milovan Glišić | Author | After Ninety Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic | Serbia | Serbian | Novella | |
| 1887 | Guy de Maupassant | Author | 'The Horla' | France | French | Short story | |
| 1890 | Mary Cholmondeley | Author | 'Let Loose' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1890 | Emily Gerard | Author | The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania | UK | English | Treatise | |
| 1891 | Oscar Wilde | Author | The Picture of Dorian Gray | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1894 | Aleksei Tolstoy | Author | 'The Family of Vourdalak' | Russia | Russian | Short story | |
| 1894 | Edvard Munch | Painter | The Vampire | Norway | n/a | Painting | |
| 1894 | Eric Count Stenbock | Author | 'A True Story of a Vampire' | Germany | German | Short story | |
| 1894 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Author | The Parasite | UK | English | Novella | |
| 1896 | Georges Méliès | Director | The Haunted Castle | France | French | Film | |
| 1897 | Bram Stoker | Author | Dracula | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1897 | Frances Marryat | Author | The Blood of the Vampire | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1897 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Author | The Good Lady Ducayne' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1897 | Philip Burne-Jones | Author | The Vampire | UK | n/a | Painting | |
| 1897 | Rudyard Kipling | Author | The Vampire' | UK | English | Poem | |
| 1900 | F. G. Loring | Author | 'The Tomb of Sarah' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1900 | Hume Nisbet | Author | 'The Vampire Maid' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1902 | Mary E. Wilkins | Author | 'Luella Miller' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1904 | M. R. James | Author | 'Count Magnus' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1907 | George Sylvester Viereck | Author | House of the Vampire | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1911 | F. Marion Crawford | Author | 'For the Blood is the Life' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1912 | E. F. Benson | Author | 'The Room in the Tower' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1913 | Robert G. Vignola | Director | The Vampire | USA | English | Film | |
| 1921 | Hanns Heinz Ewers | Author | Vampyr | Germany | German | Novel | |
| 1921 | K?roly Lajthay | Director | Dracula's Death | Hungary | Hungarian | Film | The film has been lost |
| 1922 | F. W. Murnau | Director | Nosferatu | Germany | German | Film | |
| 1924 | Hamilton Deane | Author | Dracula | USA | English | Play | Adaptation of Dracula |
| 1926 | Edith Wharton | Author | 'Bewitched' | USA | English | Short story | |
| 1927 | Tod Browning | Director | London After Midnight | USA | English | Film | The film has been lost |
| 1928 | Montague Summers | Author | The Vampire: His Kith and Kin | UK | English | Treatise | |
| 1929 | Montague Summers | Author | The Vampire in Europe | UK | English | Treatise | |
| 1931 | George Melford | Director | Dr?cula | USA | Spanish | Film | |
| 1931 | Tod Browning | Director | Dracula | USA | English | Film | |
| 1932 | Carl Dreyer | Director | Vampyr | Germany, France | German | Film | |
| 1935 | Tod Browning | Director | Mark of the Vampire | USA | English | Film | Remake of the 1927 silent film London After Midnight |
| 1936 | Lambert Hillyer | Director | Dracula's Daughter | USA | English | Film | |
| 1937 | Manly Wade Wellman | Author | 'School for the Unspeakable' | UK | English | Short story | |
| 1938 | Daphne Du Maurier | Author | Rebecca | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1945 | Vítězslav Nezval | Author | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Czechoslovakia | Czech | Novel | Valerie a týden divů |
| 1954 | Richard Matheson | Author | I Am Legend | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1956 | Nobuo Nakagawa | Director | Vampire Moth | Japan | Japanese | Film | |
| 1958 | Terence Fisher | Director | Dracula | UK | English | Film | |
| 1960 | Roger Vadim | Director | Blood and Roses | France | French | Film | Et mourir de plaisir; Based on Carmilla |
| 1964 | Camillo Mastrocinque | Director | La cripta e l’incubo | Italy | Italian | Film | Based on Carmiila |
| 1966 | Marilyn Ross | Author | Dark Shadows | USA | English | Novel | pen name of W. D. E. Ross' adapted from Dark Shadows TV series |
| 1966-71 | Dan Curtis | Creator | Dark Shadows | USA | English | TV series | First appearance of Barnabas Collins 1967 |
| 1967 | Roman Polanski | Director | Dance of the Vampires | UK | English | Film | aka The Fearless Vampire Killers |
| 1968 | Patrick Dromgoole | Director | Dracula | UK | English | TV show | Denholm Elliott as Dracula; Mystery and Imagination (Series 4, Episode 3). |
| 1969 | Derek Marlowe | Author | A Single Summer With L. B. | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1970 | Jaromil Jireš | Director | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Czechoslovakia | Czech | Film | Based on novel by Vítězslav Nezval |
| 1970 | Jesús Franco | Director | Count Dracula | Spain | Spanish | Film | Christopher Lee as Dracula |
| 1970 | Michio Yamamoto | Director | The Vampire Doll | Japan | Japanese | Film | |
| 1970 | Roy Ward Barker | Director | The Vampire Lovers | UK | English | Film | Based on Carmiila |
| 1971 | Anna Procházková | Director | Count Dracula [Hrabě Drakula] | Czechoslovakia | Czech | Film | |
| 1971 | Harry K?mel | Director | Daughters of Darkness | Belgium | English | Film | |
| 1971 | Jes?s Franco | Director | Vampyros Lesbos | W. Germany | German | Film | |
| 1971 | Peter Sasdy | Director | Countess Dracula | UK | English | Film | |
| 1971 | Roy Thomas | Creator | Morbius the Living Vampire | USA | English | Comic | First appeared in?The Amazing Spider-Man?no. 101 (October?1971) |
| 1972 | Vicente Aranda | Director | La novia ensangrentada | Spain | Spanish | Film | |
| 1972 | Vicente Aranda | Director | The Blood Spattered Bride?[La Novia Ensangrentada] | Spain | Spanish | Film | |
| 1972 | William Crain | Director | Blacula | USA | English | Film | |
| 1972-79 | Marv Wolfman | Author | Tomb of Dracula | USA | English | Comic | |
| 1973 | Anne Edwards | Author | Haunted Summer | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1973 | Bill Gunn | Director | Ganja & Hess | USA | English | Film | |
| 1974 | Dan Curtis | Director | Dracula | UK | English | Film | Written by Richard Matheson; Jack Palance as Dracula |
| 1974 | Paul Morrissey | Director | Blood For Dracula | USA | English | Film | |
| 1975 | José Ramón Larraz? | Director | Vampyres | UK | English | Film | |
| 1975 | Stephen King | Author | Salem's Lot | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1976 | Anne Rice | Author | Interview With the Vampire | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1977 | Eugene Wolsk | Producer | Dracula | USA | English | Play | Broadway revival of Hamilton Dean's play, with Frank Langelle; set design by Edward Gorey |
| 1977 | Phillip Saville | Director | Count Dracula | UK | English | TV | BBC, Louis Jourdan |
| 1978 | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | Author | Hôtel Transylvania: A Timeless Novel of Love and Peril | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1978 | George A. Romero | Director | Martin | USA | English | Film | |
| 1978 | Les Daniels | Author | The Black Castle | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1979 | Angela Carter | Author | 'The Lady of the House of Love' | UK | English | Short story | From The Bloody Chamber |
| 1979 | John Badham | Director | Dracula | USA | English | Film | Frank Langella |
| 1979 | Stan Dragoti | Director | Love at First Bite | USA | English | Film | |
| 1979 | Tobe Hooper | Director | Salem's Lot | USA | English | TV miniseries | |
| 1979 | Werner Herzog | Director | Nosferatu the Vampire | Germany | German | Film | |
| 1980 | Fred Saberhagen | Author | The Dracula Tape | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1980 | Janusz Kondratiuk | Director | Carmilla | Poland | Polish | Film | |
| 1980 | Suzy McKee Charnas | Author | The Vampire Tapestry | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1981 | Whitley Strieber | Author | The Hunger | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1982 | George R. R. Martin | Author | Fevre Dream | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1983 | Tony Scott | Director | The Hunger | USA | English | Film | |
| 1984 | Emmanuel Carr?re | Author | Bravoure [Gothic Romance] | France | French | Novel | |
| 1984 | S, P. Somtow | Author | Vampire Junction | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1985 | Ricky Lau | Director | Mr Vampire | Hong Kong | Cantonese | Film | |
| 1985 | Tom Holland | Director | Fright Night | USA | English | Film | |
| 1987 | Amanda Prantera | Author | Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years After His Lordship’s Death | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1987 | Joel Schumacher | Director | The Lost Boys | USA | English | Film | |
| 1987 | Kathryn Bigelow | Director | Near Dark | USA | English | Film | |
| 1988 | Robert Bierman | Director | Vampire's Kiss | USA | English | Film | |
| 1989 | Nancy A. Collins | Author | Sunglasses After Dark | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1989 | Paul West | Author | Lord Byron's Doctor | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1989 | Tim Powers | Author | The Stress of Her Regard | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1990 | Annette Curtis Klause | Author | The Silver Kiss | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1991 | Jewelle Gomez | Author | The Gilda Stories | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1991 | L. J. Smith | Author | The Vampire Diaries | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1991 | Lori Herter | Author | Obsession | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1991 | Robert R. McCammon | Author | They Thirst | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1992 | Fran Rubel Kuzui | Director | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | USA | English | Film | |
| 1992 | Frances Ford Coppola | Director | Bram Stoker's Dracula | USA | English | Film | |
| 1992 | Kim Newman | Author | Anno Dracula | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1992 | Poppy Z. Brite | Author | Lost Souls | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1992-96 | Barney Cohen | Creator | Forever Knight | Canada | English | TV series | With James D. Parriott |
| 1993 | Anne Billson | Author | Suckers | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1993 | Guillermo del Torro | Director | Cronos | Mexico | Spanish | Film | |
| 1993 | Laurell K. Hamilton | Author | Guilty Pleasures | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1994 | Christopher Pike | Author | The Last Vampire | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1994 | Michael Almereyda | Director | Nadja | USA | English | Film | |
| 1994 | Neil Jordan | Director | Interview With the Vampire | USA | English | Film | |
| 1995 | Abel Ferrara | Director | The Addiction | USA | English | Film | |
| 1995 | Mel Brooks | Director | Dracula: Dead and Loving It | USA | English | Film | |
| 1995 | Tom Holland | Author | The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1995 | Vivian Vande Velde | Author | Companions of the Night | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1995 | Mary Downing Hahn | Author | Look For Me By Moonlight | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1996 | Robert Rodriguez | Director | From Dusk Till Dawn | USA | English | Film | |
| 1997 | Tananarive Due | Author | My Soul to Keep | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1997-2003 | Joss Whedon | Creator | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | USA | English | TV series | |
| 1998 | Federico Andahazi | Author | Las piadosas [The Merciful Women] | Aregntina | Spanish | Novel | |
| 1998 | Joel Ahearne | Creator | Ultraviolet | UK | English | TV series | |
| 1998 | John Carpenter | Director | Vampires | USA | English | Film | |
| 1998 | Nalo Hopkinson | Author | Brown Girl in the Ring | Canada | English | Novel | |
| 1998 | Sergei Lukyanenko | Author | The Night Watch | Russia | Russian | Novel | |
| 1998 | Stephen Norrington | Director | Blade | USA | English | Film | |
| 1999 | Christine Feehan | Author | Dark Prince | USA | English | Novel | |
| 1999 | Terry Pratchett | Author | Carpe Jugulum | UK | English | Novel | |
| 1999-2004 | Joss Whedon | Creator | Angel | USA | English | TV series | With David Greenwalt |
| 2000 | Darren Shan | Author | Cirque du Freak | UK | English | Novel | pen name of Darren O'Shaugnessy |
| 2000 | E. Elias Merhige | Director | Shadow of the Vampire | USA | English | Film | |
| 2000 | Hiroyuki Kitakubo | Director | Blood: The Last Vampire | Japan | Japanese | Animated film | |
| 2001 | Charlaine Harris | Author | Dead Until Dark | USA | English | Novel | The Southern Vampire Mysteries, 1 |
| 2001 | Lee Demarbre | Director | Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter | Canada | English | Film | |
| 2002 | Guy Madden | Director | Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary | Canada | English | Ballet/Film | |
| 2002 | Noémi Szécsi | Author | The Finno-Ugrian Vampire | Hungary | Hungarian | Novel | |
| 2002 | Rachel Klein | Author | The Moth Diaries | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2002 | Sherilyn Kenyon | Author | Dark-Hunters | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2003 | Ellen Schreiber | Author | Vampire Kisses | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2003 | Len Wiseman | Director | Underworld | USA | English | Film | |
| 2003 | Robin McKinley | Author | Sunshine | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2004 | Cassandra Clare | Author | City of Bones | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2004 | John Ajvide Lindqvist | Author | Let the Right One In | Sweden | Swedish | Novel | |
| 2004 | Kim Harrison | Author | Dead Witch Walking | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2004 | Tanya Huff | Author | Blood Price | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2005 | Elizabeth Kostova | Author | The Historian | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2005 | Hideyuki Kikuchi | Author | Vampire Hunter D | Japan | Japanese | Graphic novel | Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator), Kevin Leahy (Translator) |
| 2005 | J. R. Ward | Author | Dark Lover | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2005 | Lynsay Sands | Author | A Quick Bite | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2005 | Octavia Butler | Author | Fledgling | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2005 | Scott Westerfield | Author | Peeps | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2005 | Carrie Vaughn | Author | Kitty and the Midnight Hour | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2005 | Stephenie Meyer | Author | Twilight | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2006 | Patricia Briggs | Author | Moon Called | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2006 | David Wellington | Author | 13 Bullets | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2006 | Keri Arthur | Author | Full Moon Rising | UK | English | Novel | |
| 2006 | Kresley Cole | Author | The Warlord Wants Forever | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2006 | Marcus Sedgwick | Author | My Swordhand Is Singing | UK | English | Novel | |
| 2006 | Melissa de la Cruz | Author | Blue Bloods | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2006 | Rachel Caine | Author | Glass Houses | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2007 | Benjamin Markovits | Author | Imposture | UK | English | Novel | |
| 2007 | Cynthia Leitich Smith | Author | Tantalize | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2007 | David Slade | Director | 30 Days of Night | USA | English | Film | |
| 2007 | Jeanene Frost | Author | Half Way to the Grave | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2007 | Karen Chance | Author | Touch the Dark | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2007 | P. C. Cast | Author | Marked | USA | English | Novel | With Kristin Cast |
| 2007 | Richelle Mead | Author | Vampire Academy | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2008 | Catherine Hardwicke | Director | Twilight | USA | English | Film | |
| 2008 | Claudia Gray | Author | Evernight | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2008 | Daniel Waters | Author | Generation Dead | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2008 | Jocelyn Drake | Author | Nightwalker | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2008 | Karen Chance | Author | Midnight's Daughter | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2008 | Marcus Sedgwick | Author | The Kiss of Death | UK | English | Novel | |
| 2008 | Moira Buffini | Author | A Vampire Story | UK | English | Play | |
| 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | Director | Let the Right One In | Sweden | Swedish | Film | |
| 2008-13 | Toby Whithouse | Creator | Being Human | UK | English | TV series | |
| 2008-14 | Alan Ball | Creator | True Blood | USA | English | TV series | |
| 2009 | Alyxandra Harvey | Author | My Love Lies Bleeding | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2009 | Chloe Neill | Author | Some Girls Bite | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2009 | Faith Hunter | Author | Skinwalker | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2009 | Francisca Lia Block | Author | Pretty Dead | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2009 | Gail Carriger | Author | Soulless | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2009 | Guillermo del Torro | Author | The Strain | USA | English | Novel | With Chuck Hogan |
| 2009 | Michael Thomas Ford | Author | Jane Bites Back: A Novel | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2009 | Nalini Singh | Author | Angels' Blood | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2009 | Park Chan-wook | Director | Thirst | South Korea | Korean | Film | |
| 2009 | Robert Masello | Author | Blood and Ice | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2009 | The Spierig Brothers | Director | Daybreakers | Australia | English | Film | |
| 2009-17 | Kevin Williamson | Creator | The Vampire Diaries | USA | English | TV series | and Julie Pec |
| 2010 | Carlos Fuentes | Author | Vlad | Mexico | Spanish | Novel | |
| 2010 | Justin Cronin | Author | The Passage | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2010 | Karen Essex | Author | Dracula in Love | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2010 | Mia James | Author | By Midnight | UK | English | Novel | |
| 2010 | Seth Grahame-Smith | Author | Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2010 | Syrie James | Author | Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker? | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2010-21 | Scott Snyder | Creator | American Vampire | USA | English | Comic | With Stephen King |
| 2011 | Deborah Harkness | Author | A Discovery of Witches | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2011 | Marcus Sedgwick | Author | Midwinterblood | UK | English | Novel | |
| 2011 | Mary Harron | Director | The Moth Diaries | Canada | English | Film | |
| 2011 | Paul Magrs | Author | 666 Charing Cross Road | UK | English | Novel | |
| 2012 | Neil Jordan | Director | Byzantium | Ireland | English | Film | |
| 2013 | Brooklyn Ann | Author | Bite Me, Your Grace | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2013 | Jim Jarmusch | Director | Only Lovers Left Alive | USA | English | Film | |
| 2013 | Julie Kagawa | Author | Dawn of Eden | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2014 | Ana Lily Amirpour | Director | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | USA | Persian | Film | |
| 2014 | Gary Shore | Director | Dracula Untold | USA | English | Film | |
| 2014-16 | Jordan Hall | Creator | Carmilla | Canada | English | Web series | with Steph Ouaknine, and Jay Bennett |
| 2015 | Holly Black | Author | The Coldest Girl in Coldtown | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2016 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Author | Certain Dark Things | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2017 | Spencer Maybee | Director | The Carmilla Movie | Canada | English | Film | |
| 2019 | Emily Harris | Director | Carmilla | UK | English | Film | |
| 2019 | P. J. Parker | Author | Origin of the Vampyre | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2019 | Renée Ahdieh | Author | The Beautiful | USA | English | Novel | |
| 2019- | Jermaine Clement | Creator | What We Do in the Shadows | USA | English | TV series | |
| 2020 | Sarah Andersen | Author | Fangs | USA | English | Graphic novel | |
| 2022 | S. T. Gibson | Author | A Dowry of Blood | USA | English | Novel |