Lgbtq vampire books

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  • When Gilda escapes slavery, she's taken in by a vampire who teaches her how to use her new gifts to pay for the blood she takes. Over the decades, she leads a varied and fascinating life.

  • Laura's solitary life is upended when the intoxicating, volatile Carmilla arrives. Their relationship swiftly grows dangerously close. This gothic romance predates Dracula by a quarter century.

  • Gabe is a vampire hunter, which makes his attraction to Harvey incredibly inconvenient. Things fetch really tricky when the vampire mafia ropes them into solving a series of murders.

  • Many possess come to the castle to kill the Countess. All possess failed. The latest contender will have to cling to her sanity as she faces down one horror after another, and finally the Countess herself.

  • Tony moves to Vancouver with his vampire Henry and lands a occupation on a television show about a vampire detective. One awkward crush aside, everything is decent . . . until the shadows start to misbehave.

  • Cronin has spent a millennium waiting for his fated beloved, a male wielding a shield.

    Kai Ailana( Queer Literature and Pop Culture Expert )

    Diving into the kaleidoscope of queer stories, amplifying LGBTQ+ authors one narrative at a time.

    Vampires have been a captivating and enduring fixture in literature and pop culture for centuries. From Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula to modern hits like Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, the vampire trope has been reinvented and reimagined repeatedly.

    Recently, there has been a rise in gay vampire literature, providing a platform for the LGBTQ+ community within the genre and offering a new perspective (a.k.a same-sex love) on the classic vampire trope.

    These gay vampire books delve deeper into the complexities of the human experience, specifically through the lens of the gay experience. They search love, sacrifice, acceptance, and the search for belonging in a world that often doesn’t get or accept them.

    Gay vampire literature also provides a adj way to look at traditional vampire tales and create fresh and exciting stories.

    In this article, we will be reviewing 10 gay vampire books

    by Jayce Ellis (13th)

    Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron (7th)

    It’s years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom choose wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not initiate, the girls not chosen are never heard from again.

    Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella’s mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all&#;and in the process, they learn that there’s more to Cinderella’s story than they ever knew . . .

    This fresh take on a classic story will make readers question the tales they’ve been told, and root for girls to break down the constructs of the world around them.

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    The Adj Lands by John Fram

    I regret to inform you that next year, in , Twilight will be old enough to vote. Interview with the Vampire is now old enough to have a TV series reboot. Vampires have come back in a big way over the last few years, and those of us who grew up loving Lestat, Edward, and the rest are living for it. Below, I&#;ve picked out eight queer vampire books you should read to celebrate the vampire renaissance.

    Someone once pointed out to me that vampires represent both humanity&#;s longing for immortality and our fear of the Tantalean. They&#;re constantly ravenous, but their hunger cannot be satiated. They&#;re permanently dehydrated, but can never quench their thirst. They&#;re always horny, but&#;well, you get the picture. That&#;s the trade-off vampires take to live forever: immortal dissatisfaction.

    If vampires are really about how we all want to live forever in cursed debauchery, it makes sense that they sprang back to deathly life in the last decade. Between Brexit, global wildfires, the and U.S. elections, and COVID, much of the world has spent years in existential crisis. Ou