Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. While Bram Stoker's Dracula, published in 1897, is the long considered the quintessential vampire novel, there are few other fictional vampires that predated Stoker's creation, including Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) and the short story "The Vampyre" by John Polidori (1819). But vampire literature has evolved greatly since the 19th century; from Edward Cullen in Twilight (yes, a classic) to Louis de Pointe de Lac in Interview with the Vampire, vampires have been a staple of popular novels for decades—and just the right genre to read this fall.