Decent vampire/fantasy series

see the film "Interview with the Vampire" if you can't find ant books. I know it's no t the same thing, but it is a good film

*ant books?

any books!

I like the Laurell K Hamilton vampire etc. books, here Anita Blake series. I don't like the Merry Gentry series, that's terrible IMO - but Anita Blake is ok. She's a vampire hunter

Another vote for the Anita Blake books, but don't bother with anything after Narcissus In Chains as they jump the shark completely (author underwent a bit of a change in her personal circumstances and the books got very, very dull.) You might also like Charlaine Harris' other series about the woman who can find dead bodies - Grave Secret, Grave Surprise etc. There's four of them and they are pretty good.
Also Kelley Armstrong's Women Of The Otherworld books are not bad - they are not specifically about vampires, but women with various supernatural powers and traits eg witches and werewolves.

Kelley Armstrong's books was the other series I was going to recommend - I haven't read more than the first 4 though.

There's a Russian series that is written by Sergei Lukyanenko that is really good although I haven't read the last one yet as it has only just come out in English. They're called:

The Night Watch
The Day Watch
the Twilight Watch
The Last Watch
The New Watch

Kim Harrison the hollows book series is good,it's about vamps,witches and werewolves

All the Ann Rice vampire series in which "interview with a vampire" is set.
And also her Mayfair witches seties.
They ate all partly set in the west indies plantations and the glamorous decaying athmosphere of New Orleans.

I just want to second the Anne rice recommendations. Interview with a vampire, and the sequels, are fantastic. I read them about ten years ago and am still dying to visit New Orleans.

The Passage and its follow up, the name of which has currently escaped me.

Connie Suttle does some really good vampire ones.

Ann Rice. that is all

Light vampire novels?

The Tanya Huff ones. Main protagonist is a private detective who has a vampire helper. Easy reads, noting taxing there.

Blood Price (1991)
Blood Trail (1992)
Blood Lines (1992)
Blood Pact (1993)
Blood Debt (1997)
Blood Bank - a short story collection

If you don't mind anything too taxing to read

Jeaniene Frost - Night Huntress Novels. I enjoyed them anyway

JR Ward - Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Once you get past the names, they're good and very raunchy!

Dare I say it - but the Twilight series? I know its meant to be a big favourite of teens, but apparently the 2nd largest readership group is women aged 38-42 (a-hem!)

Elizabeth hunter - the elemental mysteries series.

Really great books, vampires who are attached to one of the four elements which give them specific powers. If you read the blurb for the first one it goes on about a library! It's a book where the blurb doesn't do it justice and its full of sexual tension as well as being quite funny.
The books are:
A hidden fire
This same earth
The force of wind
A fall of water

Then there's her elemental World Series, I haven't read those yet!

How about the Gane of Thrones books? fantasy, not vampire.

Just remembered another vampire series that was good.

Freda Warrington's Blood Wine series:
A Taste of Blood Wine
A Dance in Blood Velvet
The Dark Blood of Poppies

Or try The Hunger games trilogy. Really great page turner but not at all heavy going.

The follow up to the passage is the twelve.

Is Guillermo del toro's the strain any good?

Umm Sherilyn Kenyon's dark hunter series... Not vampires strictly... But similar.