Last week, I recommended some queer gothic novels and said I’d make a list of sapphic vampire books to prevent them from entirely taking over that post. It’s true, I love a sapphic vampire story. (I mean, I’ve fallen asleep to a vampire ASMR video for the last week!)

The first sapphic vampire novel was Carmilla, which was published before Dracula, and there has been no shortage of sapphic vampire stories on screen and on the page that have followed in its bloody footprints. Carmilla, especially, has been reclaimed by queer creators in many retellings, including the 2010s web series by the same name, which I recently rewatched and still love.