YA

Black River

Ruby Jean Cottle

Atria Books, $29.99

Vampires have been seducing writers for centuries, and just like sucking blood from an open vein, we readers have greedily consumed their stories. Our appetite for the ageless, doomed and desirable remains insatiable, and while most of us wouldn’t willingly invite one into our homes, we’re more than happy to invite them into our hearts and minds.

There’s another reason the idea of the vampire perseveres – they are the perfect canvas on which creators can project countless variations. From cool to camp, and folkloric to psychotic, literary OGs include John Polidori’s The Vampyre , Bram Stoker’s Dracula , Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla , to the more recent, such as Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda, Jay Kristoff’s Empire of th

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