Angel is also an example of the decent, desirable vampire, who even assists (and flirts) with the vampire slayer.
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.
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.
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".
And yet somehow despite all the obvious pitfalls with true love between an impoverished teenaged human girl and a century old and super rich vampire man, their marriage as soon as she graduates from high school, her life-ending (and vampire beginning) pregnancy, people around the world have paid money in record numbers to see Breaking Dawn Part 2.
And Buffy spin-off character Angel, the vampire with a soul, was rated ninth in the league.
That one vampire bites the human, then there are two vampires and eight humans.
What do a miserly duck, a 370-year-old vampire, and a Jazz-age racketeer have in common?
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She doesn't want to be berated by readers who hate the ending or want vampire spinoffs.
Edward in Twilight is not really the first "vegetarian vampire", struggling to contain his dark desires.
The Latin term means "vampire squid from hell, " but these animals just look scary.
The Geek Picture of the Day was the undead home of the King Vampire.
Germany's Paion is developing a clot-buster originally found in the venom of vampire bats.
"Game of Thrones, " "Sons of Anarchy" and "The Vampire Diaries" are also big with marathon viewers.
His play Pontianak (a Malaysian vampire) was co-winner of the inaugural 1995 Playbox Asialink Playwriting Competition.
Still, the idea of the child-vampire remains a staunch rebuke to the heavy teen-age breathing.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is the fourth instalment in the vampire series.
The festival boasts names like Amanda Palmer, Kendrick Lamar, Public Enemy, Foxygen, Japandroids, MGMT and Vampire Weekend.
"From the 1970s, the vampire has achieved a cool, bad boy, exotic and sexy image", she says.
Those are the names of the vampire and his girl toy in Stephenie Meyer's best-selling "Twilight" fiction.
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Britain's first popular vampire story was published in 1819 by John Polidori, formerly Lord Byron's personal physician.
James Woods, who apparently has bills to pay, plays an incredibly cool vampire killer named Jack Crow.
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Scary movies have been around since a German vampire named Nosferatu made his silent-screen debut in 1922.
Whereupon Ms Rice took out another advertisement, a message from her most famous character, the vampire Lestat.
Except for Joss Whedon, 45, creator of cult TV hits like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly.
He's planning a follow-up to "Abraham Lincoln" for his next novel, focusing on the vampire character Henry Sturges.
The planes that are now based at the Newquay aero-hub include a Gloster Meteor, and De Havilland's Vampire.
The other remake hitting theaters this weekend is a new version of the 1985 vampire film Fright Night.
Two years, I wrote about vampire mania, and predicted that it was in its twilight (pun intended).
Yet it is significant, she says, that this aspect of vampire lore has risen to prominence since the 1970s.
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