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A New York Times Style section piece on the vampire craze:
What began with the Twilight Saga, the luridly romantic young-adult series by Stephenie Meyer, followed by "Twilight," the movie, has become a pandemic of unholy proportions.Is it a wonder?
Rarely have monsters looked so sultry -- or so camera-ready. No small part of this latest vampire mania seems to stem from the ethereal cool and youthful sexiness with which the demons are portrayed. Bela Lugosi they are not.
"The vampire is the new James Dean," said Julie Plec, the writer and executive producer of "The Vampire Diaries," a forthcoming series on the CW network based on the popular L. J. Smith novels about high school femmes and hommes fatales. "There is something so still and sexy about these young erotic predators," she said.
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