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Read a really good short story last night over dinner, one which joins what I now have to consider a genre: the "Stealth Vampire" story. The defining characteristics of these stories are:
1) The word "vampire" is never used.
2) The story is structured in such a way that the average reader won't realize that there are vampires in it until 25-50% of the way through the story.

On the one hand, I'm curious how many of these exist. On the other hand, it's always more fun to read such stories without knowing, a priori, that they are in this genre, as merely knowing that much is a large "spoiler". As a compromise position, I'm going to list the ones I've found so far beneath a cut. If you don't mind spoilers, and are able to add to my list, I'd appreciate that.

_Agyar_, Steven Brust
"Snow, Glass, Apples", Neil Gaiman
"Ever After", Susan Palwick
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