"Literature should be sensual and endlessly sensory," says Man Booker Prize–winning novelist Marlon James. "I like books that make me feel like I’m emerging from a fever."
Dramatic depictions of Vampires have basically been en vogue since 1897, when Bram Stoker published 'Dracula.' But contrary to popular belief, this was not the first written record of a blood-sucking undead being.