Who would have thought that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. With Twilight and True Blood making vampires hotter than ever and the new Sherlock Holmes blockbuster due for release, you couldn't pick a more topical title than this book.