They are like Cheez Its

Vampires I mean. This sparkly vamp crap aside (yes I've read the whole series and it is like watching "Worlds Deadliest Stunts". You know it will be bad but you watch anyways) lately I have noticed that nearly everyone writes about vampires at one time or another. Case in point, my author crush. I have yet to read anything by her that I haven't either like or loved (serious the Promethean series is the shiz, go read it, love it and rejoice that if she ever gets more written they will be awesome!) except my current read. She doesn't do anything new with vamps as creatures or as a culture (thank god they actually ignite in sunlight) and that's cool, it's a Victorian urban fantasy anyways. I just ask, what it the appeal to writerswhen it comes to vamps?

I've read Dracula. (BTW the last 10 pages are a cop out imho.) I've read Anne Rice, Richard Matheson, the last especially did a great job so as a reader perhaps I, in my own little part fuel the cycle (they do and always have sold very well), but I do wonder what is so alluring? The sex? The violence? Immortality? Easily understandable boundaries? Maybe everyone just wants to secretly pull a Bella Lugosi and wear a cape? It is one of modern life's great mysteries.

/cycles through 2007 short story folder

/comes across a vampire story

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So.......how about those Battle Chickens?

Lol