daveprime - 03 November 2009 07:41 AM
I have been reading the Charlaine Harris novels, and she kinda puts the fear back into vampires. 
While depicted as being able to move through society, she also shows that they are something utterly alien to a standard human and look upon ‘mere mortals’ as Big Macs with a personality. (My kind of evil undead…) 
No more ‘angsty’ “I’m too good to feed!” responses. More like “And i can’t feed on them because.......”? 
And the “I’m too good to feed!” bit doesn’t even really work. They go on about only eating animals and apparently they then look down their noses on any humans that aren’t named Bella Swan. (Gah that series…the prose…)
But in seriousness, I think there were people around before the Twilight craze that claimed to be vampires and were angsty about it. Dave Barry wrote an article about how they had support groups or something (to which he said “you’re vampires! Go out and bite some people!”) and how apparently there were so many that companies would be forced to hire a certain percentage of them.
