Sexy Vampire Books for People Who Liked Nosferatu

Careful…these books might bite.

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Nosferatu is a tense film exploring the fine line between passion and obsession. There’s something alluring about someone being able to read your innermost desires, always knowing what it takes to satisfy your every need

But there’s also something terrifying about that.

Vampire stories are often about sexuality and desire. They explore the confines of society and how women in particular long to break free. Over the years, vampires have changed, but the underlying sexual tension largely remains the same. 

While Nosferatu is a complicated film, at the center is one woman and her struggle to understand her compulsions and needs. Whether you see Ellen as a victim of Orlok or a willing participant, the erotic nature of her relationship with the vampire is undeniable.

Sex is power and the vampire novel understands that implicitly and explicitly.

Here are eight sexy vampire books that explore that forbidden, carnal desire for people who liked Nosferatu.

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Interview with the Vampire

By Anne Rice

It’s impossible to create a list about sexy vampires and not include Interview with the Vampire. While there may not be a lot of explicit sex on the page, Rice’s vampires brim with sexual desire.

Louis and LeStat are sensual creatures, giving in to their most primal cravings. Rice understands that one of the most potent aspects of love and lust is longing.

The subtext is electric, the ache of yearning dripping from every word, making it one of the sexiest vampire books of all time.

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Dark Lover

By J.R. Ward

What makes a vampire sexy? Meet the members of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and find out. Ward takes the epitome of the bad boy—dangerous, secretive, a painful past—and gives them fangs.

These vampires are sexual creatures and they aren’t afraid of their insatiable appetites.

With each book focused on a different brother, we dare you to read this series and not find yourself dreaming of sexy vampires doing very bad things to you.

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Empire of the Vampire

By Jay Kristoff

Imagine a world where the sun went down and never came back up. And in its absence, vampires rose to rule.

Add in a half-vampire sworn to kill his own kind with a legend about a holy relic destined to bring daylight back, and it sounds like your typical fantasy.

But this is Jay Kristoff, so there’s a forbidden romance that’s achingly sweet and a decent amount of sex that is achingly hot.

Vampires of El Norte

Vampires of El Norte

By Isabel Cañas

Sometimes, vampires are just monsters and it’s the people who make the story sexy. But that doesn’t mean the longing and desire aren’t just as delicious.

Cañas takes us back to Mexico in the 1840s, when Texas was still Mexico but the U.S. had already set its sights on the land. Nena is filled with love and longing, and like Ellen in Nosferatu, isn’t able to fully express who she is without turning her back on everything she loves.

But the monsters in this novel aren’t just the kind who drink blood. The result is a layered story with depth that will linger in your blood long after the final page.

Die By the Drop: Shivers and Sins Volume 1

Die By the Drop: Shivers and Sins Volume 1

By Kaia Bennett

Sometimes love is just lust and desire is simply obsession.

Die by the Drop is not for the faint of heart. This is a dark romance with a capital D—and yes, we mean every bit of the innuendo that capital letter intends.

What happens when one witch finds herself the focus of three vampire brother’s attention? Read this book and find out.

Sunshine

Sunshine

By Robin McKinley

Not all humans are meant to be heroines and not all vampires are meant to be monsters. So what happens when two misfit outcasts somehow find each other?

A complicated romance, obviously. But less obvious is the way McKinley unravels these two characters. It’s a familiar world with unexpected elements added.

The vampire isn’t pretty, and the heroine isn’t “nice”, but there is a dash of magic that makes the whole thing, well, magical.

Carmilla

Carmilla

By J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, there was Carmilla. A sensual, sapphic story set deep in the Austrian forest.

If Stoker tapped into the repressed sexual urges and fears of the Victorian era, Le Fanu did it first—and even better.

Two women, trapped together as their desires become nightmares. It’s erotic and sensual, focused wholly on two women as they explore their sexuality uninhibited by the mores of the time.

A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

A Dowry of Blood

By S. T. Gibson

So often vampires are written as creatures of voracious appetites—until they meet the one human who consumes them. Gibson throws the idea that one person would satisfy such a creature for multiple lifetimes.

But because vampires are still human, displaying the best and worst of us, the dynamics between consorts are complicated. Rivals and lovers, this is a story of love and obsession, passion and lies.

And in the center of it all is one woman who has to choose between love and freedom or risk destroying both.