Quote Originally Posted by badger View Post
... 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.