When "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer told an MTV interviewer last year that she doesn't plan to write more vampire books anytime soon, "Twi-hards" struck back on the Internet.

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She doesn't want to be berated by readers who hate the ending or want vampire spinoffs.

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Somebody suggested maybe we need to put one of those vampire savers on the pacemaker to make certain we didn't use too many watts.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt ("Can't Hardly Wait"), Sarah Michelle Gellar of Fox's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, " David Spade (NBC's "Just Shoot Me") and martial arts movie star Jackie Chan were on the list.

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In its original imagining, though, the premodern vampire differed from today's in one crucial respect: His condition wasn't contagious.

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