Replacing The X-Files as the hottest TV tie-in property was Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the novels Night of the Living Rerun by Arthur Byron Cover, Return to Chaos by Craig Shaw Gardner, and Blooded and Child of the Hunt, both by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder. Holder was also responsible for the first book in the spin-off series, The Angel Chronicles, a young adult collection of three stories. Richie Tankersley wrote the second volume.

Once again proving that old vampires never die, Forever Knight: These Our Revels by Anne Hathaway-Nayne was based on the cancelled Canadian series, and actress Lara Parker revived her witch character Angelique from the old TV show Dark Shadows for the origin novel Angelique’s Descent, described as “a tale of erotic love and dark obsessions”.

Based on the graphic book and movie series created by James O’Barr, The Crow: Quoth the Crow by David Bischoff was about a dark fantasy writer forced to confront the evils he created to ultimately save his wife. Poppy Z. Brite’s The Lazarus Heart had less to do with the series and was an original novel about a resurrected New Orleans photographer, framed for the murder of his lover, and the bizarre cast of characters he encountered. Clash by Night by Chet Williamson was another Crow novel and involved the destruction of a day-care centre by an extreme militia group and the ghost of a woman seeking revenge.

Ray Garton found himself reduced to writing the Sabrina, the Teenage Witch TV novelization All That Glitters under his own name, and the busy Nancy Holder also added to the series with Spying Eyes.

From California’s Lucard Publishing, Dracul: An Eternal Love Story by Nancy Kilpatrick was a vampire novel based on a stage musical and came with an optional CD cast recording of the original San Diego performance.