Hommage to Vampires

What is it about vampires?
They've really taken over media lately, we can't go anywhere without seeing them, hearing about them or reading about them. They're everywhere.
Books; Twilight, Sookie Stackhouse Series etc.
Movies; Underworld, 30 Days of Night, Interview With A Vampire, Twilight
Shows; True Blood, Vampire Diaries
Music; (Vampire Weekend, teeheehee)
The story of vampires has been around long before Twilight, starting maybe even before Dracula but has mostly come and gone. Right now, is definitely a hot time for the vamps. What is so attractive about the idea of a Vampire, a person, who is dead who drinks people's blood and who is allergic to garlic? It doesn't sound too great when you say it like that.
For me, I love me my vampires because hey, they're sexy! But when you think about it, pretty much everyone in the media is sexy. An ugly vampire definitely wouldn't be as attractive to me, I might not even read about it or watch it. The way they're portrayed in movies and books can be partly blamed for this obsession. In movies and books, they are closely related to sex, something everyone loves. There's the superficial reasons for them being so popular. The danger is another thing, they have super strength and are pretty bad ass. People that come out only after dark are mysterious which makes us want to know as much about them as we can.
After so many books and movies there's been every sort of love affair, woman and woman, people from apposing families, people with a big age gap, so what's next? A person and a supernatural being! To keep the novelty in the things that we read and watch people have to come up with something new, some new love story to be immersed in. I think the world found that in the recent books, namely Twilight, but also in the Sookie Stackhouse series.
I know what I like about them, but next time, think about what you do. Don't just accept that they're hot stuff.