American author from New England, Justin Cronin is a former professor of English and creative writing teacher who is known for his science-fiction and horror books. More precisely, Justin Cronin found great success with The Passage series, a post-Apocalyptic Vampire trilogy published between 2010 and 2016, and adapted for television on the FOX network. How…
From American science-fiction author Steve Alten, the MEG series is about a famous fictional underwater killer: the Megalodon. The story revolves around a deep-sea diver and paleontologist Jonas Taylor who discovers a species long thought extinct, the prehistoric predators known as Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. When he crosses paths…
Before Cirque Du Freak…Before the war with the vampaneze… Before he was a vampire. Larten Crepsley was a boy. This is the Saga of Larten Crepsley telling us the first two hundred years of Larten’s life. The Saga of Larten Crepsley is a prequel series to Cirque du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan and…
Dexter is the creation of American crime novelist Jeff Lindsay, made famous thanks to the Showtime television series of the same name, where he is portrayed by Michael C. Hall. Dexter Morgan is a forensic blood-spatter analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department by day and a serial killer by night. Convinced the legal system failed…
Like the Landry series, The Cutler Series is actually not written by V.C. Andrews but by Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter hired by her estate to continue to write novels to be published under her name (Virginia Andrews’s name is considered a valuable commercial asset). V.C. Andrews had started writing the first book in the series,…
Published between 1985 and 1990, The Casteel book series was the second novel series written by V.C. Andrews, after The Dollanganger series. Andrews wrote the first two books and started the third, but didn’t finish it. The series was completed by Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter hired by her estate following her death to continue to…
Written by Darren O’Shaughnessy under his pen name Darren Shan (author of The Demonata series), Cirque du Freak : The Saga of Darren Shan narrates the life of Darren Shan, a normal human boy who is coerced by the vampire Larten Crepsley into becoming his assistant and a half-vampire. The Saga of Darren Shan is…
After the success of the new adaptation of Flowers in the Attic and its sequel, Lifetime continued to adapt V.C. Andrews’ books, first with an adaptation of The Casteel series and then with The Landry series, with V.C. Andrews’ Ruby Movie Series Event. The Ruby Series (or The Landry Series) is actually not written by…
New York Times Best-Selling Author, Charlaine Harris is a writer who specializes in mysteries, often with an urban fantasy twist, and who got especially famous after her Southern Vampire Mysteries series was adapted for TV (on HBO!) under the title True Blood. Another famous series by Charlaine Harris adapted this time for the Hallmark Channel…
Also known as The Southern Vampire Mysteries or The True Blood Novels, The Sookie Stackhouse Novels is a horror fantasy romance series for adults written by Charlaine Harris. It’s about Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress who is also a telepath. She lives in the town of Bon Temps in northwestern Louisiana. Vampires and other supernatural creatures…
The story of The Vampire Chronicles, the famous book series by Anne Rice, is about Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman who was turned into a vampire in the 18th century. Also known as The Brat Prince, Lestast is an antihero at the beginning, but he doesn’t see himself as monstrous as people might have…
Written by V.C. Andrews, the Dollanganger series (aka the Flowers in the Attic series) is a gothic horror and family saga spinning a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions. The first book in the series, Flower in the Attic, is a worldwide best-seller that has been adapted twice for television. V.C. Andrews died…
