Staff Picks: New Teen Vampire Fiction

Sat, 08/17/2024 - 5:43pm by nicole

If you're looking for a paranormal read with some bite to it, here are some of AADL's newest vampire stories for teens!

Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris | Request Now
When some of Raven's fellow marching-band members are killed by vampires, she reluctantly discovers she is a slayer. Now she's at a slayer academy, learning things like the origin of vampires and how to make serious weapons out of thin air. Raven is determined to get revenge, but then she meets Khamari. He's intelligent and reasonable...and turns out to be the actual vampire prince. He knows things about Raven that could change everything-- and he's also hiding something big, even from his own kind. Now, with the whole world at stake, Raven and Khamari have to team up and take down an ancient evil. This story is perfect for readers who like dark academia!

Go Hunt Me by Kelly Devos | Request Now
Alex Rush is ready for the trip of a lifetime. She and her friends have made some creepily awesome films together throughout high school, so with only a few months left before they go their separate ways for college, they’re determined to make the best one yet: an epic short film that reimagines the story of Dracula, filmed on location at a remote castle in Romania. But when they get there, it’s not quite the majestic setting they planned for. Menacing weapons line the walls, the twisted halls are easy to get lost in, and with no connection to the outside world, the group is unexpectedly off the grid. After just a few hours spent under its roof, Alex and her friends have no trouble imagining how this dark, terrifying castle inspired one of the most enduring horror novels of all time. Only soon they no longer have to use their imaginations to understand the location’s terrifying history—just as they get the film’s first shot rolling, one of Alex’s friends disappears, and she’s nearly certain she saw a cloaked stranger lurking in the shadows. As more members of the group begin to meet an untimely demise, Alex is desperate to stop the bloodshed, even if it means facing a monster she never thought would be let loose.

Mere Mortals by Erin Jade Lange | Request Now
This hilarious, fresh take on a classic vampire tale follows a pair of hundred-year-old teenage vampires who are turned mortal and must face the greatest nightmare of all: high school. Charlie and her brother, Reg, have been vampires for…a very long time. For a century, they enjoyed the glitz and glamour of life as members of the wealthiest vampire clan. But now, after one careless mistake, they’ve been expelled from the vampire community and dumped in the middle of Nowhere, Iowa, to live as mortals. Suddenly Charlie has to deal with zits, tears, and—worst of all—high school. But things start to change when she and Reg find a group of friends, including the deliciously good-looking Dexter. And though Charlie would give anything to be vampire again, she begins to appreciate some of the new experiences that humanity brings too. But nothing could make them forget the life they’ve left behind. When they’re offered a second shot at immortality, Charlie is desperate to seize it. It’ll just mean a total betrayal of all her new friends, who will have their minds wiped of their memories of her. She can handle that if it means she can live forever…right?

Baby Teeth: A Novel in Verse by Meg Grehan | Request Now
It starts when Claudia offers Immy a yellow rose. Immy has been in love before -- many times, across many lifetimes. But never as deeply, as intensely as this. Claudia has never been in love like this before either. But then, this is her first time with a vampire. The forbidden thirst for blood runs deep in Immy. And within her mind clamor the voices, of all the others she has been, their desires, and their wrongs.