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Writing about vampires was always something taboo. There are very few books in the twentieth century written about vampires. Then suddenly, the twenty-first century rolls along. BAM! Books about vampires everywhere you turn.

Why do you think this is so?
What are some of your favorite vampire novels? (I <3 Twilight!)

In literature, every now and then there will be a movement that will resort to past techniques and adapt them. In the same way, sometimes writers resorted to past atmospheres and ideas that they could ressusitate by subjecting them to different styles or by eliminating some rules. Its almost always necessary to use as an influence something to which you feel attracted. Then, eventually, you might be able to turn it into your own by ading individuality to it.


Vampires were not an uncommon theme in the twentieth century. They were repreented in different ways, as vissions started to differ. In some cases, their symbolism was exploited and trasfered to abstract creatures that lacked solidness. Some transformed them to mortal humans but without eliminating their ussual character and their deceiving abilities. You see, they were practically brought to live once people realized that, in a sense, they could really exist. It was not necessary for someone to have teeth to suck the life out of the persons they deceived.

There may have been some novels circling the actual vampire figure in the twentieth century, but I don't think they were as common, or the characters nearly as well developed as today. But the theme of betray and deceitl has always been a common theme in literature, because it's something everyone has undergone. For proof in writing, remember Medea. Her husband who had undergone countless trials with her, who swore to always love her, decided to run off with another young, beautiful woman. To get revenge on her unfaithful husband, she murders her children.

I think a lot of these responses are correct answers to the question. Another idea I would like to point out, that isn't nearly as philosophical or interesting as some of the other responses, but, I believe, equally as true, is the idea of immitation.

People write about what they know. Once one person put out a vampire novel, and then two or three, other people started reading them, and so on and so forth until it just became popular. We don't necessarily COPY what we read, but for many of us, reading others' works is what gives us our ideas. I believe we refer to that as "inspiration". So I think a lot of today's vampire novels were put into the heads of the authors by reading similar works in the past. At least, I'm sure that it happens occassionally.

As for favorite vampire novels, I very much enjoy Laurell K. Hamilton's "Anita Blake" series. They are some of the best novels I've read in a long time. Apart from that, I am also a big fan of Anne Rice's "Interview With the Vampire" and "The Vampire Lestat". She sort of lost me on the third one in the series and I never have finished it. But I believe that those first two were very well done.

Well i think the reason people didnt write about vampiers, was cause maybe then thought they were real and that people would find them crazy for writing such nonsens. It could also be b/c of churchers, and if you wrote about those then you were consider to be a witch, vampier or maybe even worship satan. But idk im just throwing out ideas.
I really dont read any vampier books, so I dont have a fav. But i did read one i liked, where this girl went in the past to do something. Been so long since i read it.

I'm actually not a vampire fan. Though I've never read Stephenie Meyer's works. One day, I will. In fact, I just don't like vampires at all. Why? I guess it's because I don't believe they exist. (B-But it's FICTION, Nishin!) Yes, yes, I know. But I think it's partyl to blame those who obsess over the vampire characters.

I loved James Patterson's Violets are Blue, though. They weren't REALLY vampires. They just THOUGHT they were and went through all means --such as dental surgery-- to become more like a typical vampire. (Not only that, but Kyle Craig goes EVIL. Oooohh, he's smex.)

Usually I'm not for any media involving vampires. It tends to be cliche and extremely unoriginal. Of course, with any popular literary genre, there are exceptions, and there are those books that you secretly read into the middle of the night, getting all giddy over the things that you've sworn apathy towards. Personally, Twilight would be the latter. It has all the things that make me groan and wish I could recommend the author take the Mary-Sue Litmus Test, and yet it has something about it that resonates with you. It feels ...real, somehow. The characters stick to you.