Thankfully there's more to vampires than soppy teenagers brooding in a forest. Rather we've injected a bit of bite into the genre by asking 10 authors to write their own vampire story. Their aim is to expand the boundaries of vamplit. There's a troubled chef, an interview with Nosferatu, a bank clerk in crisis, a dystopian England and a lovestruck killer. In addition, we've commissioned three artists to do the same. Let's just hope they make it through to sunrise.

The Vampire 10: Amy Taylor, Berni Stevens, Bobby Nayyar, H. P. Tinker, Nicholas Royle, Paul Burston, Paul McDonald, Penelope Skinner, Rajinder Kaur, Ricky Oh.

The Artists: Ginny Skinner, Nikola Kapetanovic and Shantell Martin.