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Originally Posted by HumanePain
That is why I try to write my stories as vampirish as possible withOUT any vampires at all. Real people in real circumstances but with spooky surroundings and plots.
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That's classic Gothic Romance. The ghost or vampire always turned out to be a controlling uncle or father keeping an heiress' money from her, and the demon lover turned out to be a fortune seeker who mistreats her. When writing Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte took elements from Mrs Radcliffe's books and turned it into something at once more frightening and more realistic.
Have you read J.S. Le Fanu, "Uncle Silas"? Amazingly creepy book. Probably the only one he wrote without ghosts and vampires, but it still has the supernatural atmosphere.