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Honestly, if you're going to write vampire books, I'd suggest going out and reading some good non-fiction references, to get some ideas about different forms of the vampire myth throughout the world. Anthony Masters' A Natural History of the Vampire is a good one, as is Paul Barber's Vampires, Burial, and Death.
I see a few people have noted that vampires being destroyed sunlight is a modern invention (specifically, it first appears in the original film of Nosferatu). Vampires needing to sleep in/on "native earth" is a modern invention as well, created by Stoker for Dracula.
On the fiction side of things, I highly, highly recommend that anyone writing a vampire novel read Stephen Brust's Agyar. It's a wonderful, wonderful vampire novel that never once mentions the word "vampire".
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