Vampires

Vampires have reacently recived a makeover thanks to the Twlight series by Stephanie Mayer.  Her vampires don't go out in sun due to their sparkily skin, which is a departure from the more traditonal vampire.  The first famous book about vampires is Dracula by Bram Stroker.  There were many more to fallow, Anne Rice was the first to give vampires a sense of humanity in her books.  Traditonal vampires sleep during the day and come out during the night due to the harmful effect the sun has upon their skin.   Vampires seem to have a culture as mixed as our own and there are many books about them.  Most notably are teen books about vampires and half a dozen writers at least seek to please teen audiances with vampire love stories.  Vampires however are dangerous according to legends and not to be taken lightly.  According to these same legends they are not easy to kill and the most surefire way to kill a vampire is to stab them through the heart with a stake.  Vampires live indefinately off of the blood of their victums, as the price of their eternal life they either have to turn or kill their victums.  Vampires often wind up draining their victums dry.  There are several ways of turning a human one of them being the sharing of blood with the vampire.   Vampires pose a threat to society in most novels and as such are often protrayed as outcasts from it