For Milly Williamson, author of The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the changing cultural depictions of vampires reveals much about human society itself.
It took until 1845, with the appearance of James Malcolm Rymer's serialized horror story "Varney the Vampire, " for the vampire's bite to become a properly rabid act of infection.
There has been a "general shift", she says, from the vampire as exotic foreigner - as depicted in Romantic poetry in the 19th Century and most famously in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula - to the vampire as edgy "outsider".
He describes it as Lord of the Rings meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Muppets, with a little bit of Stars Wars thrown in.
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Sky One is the home of American imports such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Simpsons, where episodes can usually seen first before airing on terrestrial channels.
Angel is also an example of the decent, desirable vampire, who even assists (and flirts) with the vampire slayer.
Alas, the genius money management teams from Standard Life, Ashmore Group, Schroders, Matthews, JPM and even the vampire squid can beat the market.
So how did the vampire go from being the stuff of nightmares to the object of young girls' dreams - from a figure of evil to a desirable outsider?
She accidentally changed the number of children the vampire Bill had back in the Civil War era a mistake her publisher corrected in later editions.
Mr. COTTER: "Santo vs. the Vampire Women" has probably the all-time classic scene where they're in the ring, and Santo's fighting just a difficult match against his opponent.
Tomas Alfredson, who made his name with the hauntingly good vampire film Let The Right One In (2008), sat Oldman down and opened a page in le Carre's book.
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That one vampire bites the human, then there are two vampires and eight humans.
Though the Beatles' Abbey Road was the top-selling LP of 2010, offerings from Arcade Fire, the Black Keys and Vampire Weekend claimed the next three slots.
Twilight stars Harry Potter actor Robert Pattinson as the vampire Edward Cullen and Kristen Stewart as the bookish schoolgirl Bella Swan.
His first feature, the 1983 erotic vampire mood piece "The Hunger, " ended up a relative anomaly (except in sheer style) to such high-octane thrill machines as "Top Gun" (1986), "Revenge" (1990), "The Last Boy Scout" (1991), "True Romance" (1993), "Crimson Tide" (1995), "Enemy of the State" (1998), "Man on Fire" (2004), "Domino" (2005), "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (2009) and "Unstoppable" (2010).
And Buffy spin-off character Angel, the vampire with a soul, was rated ninth in the league.
For some reason, the streaming service thinks that I might like The Vampire Diaries, that Taylor Lautner vehicle Abduction, and the ABC Family series Kyle XY.
With his newly svelte figure, Cheney would be the perfect father figure for Dakota Fanning's vampire character in the Twilight Series.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays the vampire hunter, said she wanted to end her role in the show on a high.
It is a lunge too far to claim (as one Spanish doctor has done in a published medical paper) that the vampire myth derived literally from rabies patients, misunderstood to be the walking dead.
Bella Swan is, of course, the heroine in the Twilight Saga series, the vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by Stephenie Meyer that have been adapted to film with the latest installment, Breaking Dawn, coming out on Nov. 18 starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
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Dollhouse, helmed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Joss Wheedon, will be joined by two more animated series (another signature of the young-skewing network): Family Guy-spinoff Cleveland and Mitch Hurwitz's Sit Down and Shut Up.
" FOX also brings to Prime members a selection of popular TV series including "24, " "The X-Files, " "NYPD Blue, " "Arrested Development, " "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, " "Ally McBeal, " and newly available on digital video, "The Wonder Years.
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Still, the idea of the child-vampire remains a staunch rebuke to the heavy teen-age breathing.
While Anthony Mackie is often cast as the virtuous token black guy in ensemble pictures (see The Gangster Squad, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, or The Adjustment Bureau), here he gets to cut loose a little playing a genuine rogue.
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"Game of Thrones, " "Sons of Anarchy" and "The Vampire Diaries" are also big with marathon viewers.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is the fourth instalment in the vampire series.
"From the 1970s, the vampire has achieved a cool, bad boy, exotic and sexy image", she says.
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