by John Joseph Adams, Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice, Harry Turtledove, Tad Williams, Michael A. Burstein, Barbara Roden, Garth Nix, Carrie Vaughn, Nancy Kilpatrick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, David Wellington, Norman Partridge, Sergei Lukyanenko, Michael Marshall Smith, Nancy Holder, Jane Yolen, Joe Hill, Tanith Lee, Gabriela Lee, Caitlín R. Kiernan, L. A. Banks, Brian Stableford, Kevin J. Anderson, Elizabeth Bear, Lilith Saintcrow, Kelley Armstrong, Eric Van Lustbader, Barbara Hambly, Bruce McAllister, Ken MacLeod
From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity's darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our ver…