Ten Inspirations

On blastr.com Kim explains the ‘10 vampire novels that helped inspire Anno Dracula‘.

Here’s the list:

• The Vampyre, Dr John Polidori (1819)
• ‘Carmilla’ (in In a Glass Darkly), J. Sheridan LeFanu (1871)
• Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897)
• I Am Legend, Richard Matheson (1954)
• Doctors Wear Scarlet, Simon Raven (1960)
• ‘Salem’s Lot, Stephen King (1975)
• Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice (1976)
• The Vampire Tapestry, Suzy McKee Charnas (1980)
• Fevre Dream, George R.R. Martin (1982)
• The Empire of Fear, Brian Stableford (1988)

There is a full discussion of these books’ influence on his work in the article.