Moon Over Manifest

[indysteel]

The irony of this thread for me is that just two weeks ago, I was roaming around Barnes & Noble's young reader section hoping to find some recent award winners. Sadly, our local store has been overrun by teen vampire books. They even have their own section. Now I know nothing about the quality of those books, but it saddened me how little else the store had for young readers.

[badger]

The irony of this thread for me is that just two weeks ago, I was roaming around Barnes & Noble's young reader section hoping to find some recent award winners. Sadly, our local store has been overrun by teen vampire books. They even have their own section. Now I know nothing about the quality of those books, but it saddened me how little else the store had for young readers.

I know!! what is the teen fascination with vampires?!?

[Catrin]

... what is the teen fascination with vampires?!?

S*x, at least according to E. Micheal Jones. I've an interesting book called "Monsters from the Id. The Rise of Horror in Fiction and Film" (2000). It starts with the French Revolution and winds up in Hollywood. The author's thesis is that horror stories come out of sexual repression and fear of death - that monsters such as vampires and so forth repackage those repressed fears and urges in a more palatable public way.

Regardless of what one thinks of his conclusions, it is an interesting read. What makes it more interesting to me is this was published in 2000, prior to the current vampire "fad".

BTW, I love well written sci-fi and fantasy fiction, as well as mysteries. The problem is the "well-written" bit, that can be hard to find.

[Veronica]

Wasn't there a soap opera about vampires - Dark Shadows - in the sixties or early seventies I think?

I can remember my grandmother telling me I couldn't watch it when she did. But she would let me watch Another World with her. I was only like 5 or 6.

Veronica

[Catrin]

Wasn't there a soap opera about vampires - Dark Shadows - in the sixties or early seventies I think?

I can remember my grandmother telling me I couldn't watch it when she did. But she would let me watch Another World with her. I was only like 5 or 6.

Veronica

It was in the late 60s's/early 70's. I loved it and would sneak out of school sometimes to watch it. Basically it was a gothic soap-opera that developed something of a cult following - probably because the acting was so bad I have tried to watch it as an adult but couldn't make myself sit through it - it was that bad.