Has Twilight unintentionally created a stigma against Vampire fiction?

Question

There seems to be an "anti twilight" backlash going on in popular fiction right now.

Twilight has been relegated to Teen Girl fantasy.

My question is,do you feel other Vampire authors such as Anne Rice, And Poppy Z Brite have been affected by the anti twilight crowd?

Or in an odd way do you feel Twilight helped Vampire fiction?

Answer 1

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This is just how trends go. Something starts out edgy and a little wierd, eventually mainstreams, and finally goes too far, before dying out.

Vampires as protagonists started out as a very fringe thing, with some later vampire flicks portraying the 'monster' in a more sympathetic light. Then you had Anne Rice, followed by the RPG "Vampire: the Masquerade" and Poppy Z. Bright. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the series, not the earlier B-movie), with the sexy 'good' Vampire-with-a-soul, Angel, marked the mainstreaming of the sub-genre. Twilight is just the whole sub-genre "jumping the shark" as they say.

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Super answer. Thank you all. I gave you all a thumbs up. To Las Vegas: please, please read the Sookie Stackhouse books. They are very very different from the show, both the show and the novels are great. Books are NOT for kids.

Answer 2

Yes and no. I wrote something about vampires and it had nothing to do with Twilight, I got praised for the actual writing and I got abused for copying Twilight, being to much like Twilight and even from Twilight haters telling me I was a fangirl.

It has definitely made them more desirable. I think it's made other vampire books more popular because there are heaps of questions every day about books like Twilight, for example, people want more because of it (well Twilight fans anyway).

But then authors get hated on for what I said, being to in common with it, trying to be better then it and because it's overused. I recently read the Sookie Stackhouse Novels because I liked the TV series and I noticed heaps of similarities. I soon learned, it was made before Twilight but got hated on because it was copying it, Huh?

Sorry if I don't make sense, just trying to voice my opinion because I have a lot of them.

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Answer 3

I think Twilight became the high point (by way of popularity, I mean) of vampire fiction. It's the climax, so everything is going to fall off for vampires form here. A lot of people are moving away from vampire fiction because they feel it's been overdone now. Something else is bound to come along and be just as popular as vampire fiction is now (or has been for a while now). I read one article that thought it would be angels and demons, though they didn't actually explain why.

Anyway, my answer is Yes, Twilight unintentionally created a stigma against vampire fiction, but it's not Twilight's fault. Vampire fiction was big for a while, and it was bound to fall eventually. Stephenie Meyer was just smart enough to hop on the bandwagon at just the right moment and in the right manner for Twilight to become the insanely popular sensation it is today.

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I wrote a vampire story recently in which the vampire was absolutely evil. No good. No chance of redemption. No effort to love the main girl. He was a sick, twisted, blood-sucking freak. It's the most popular of all the writing I've posted online. And the only person who has mentioned Twilight did so as an example of my story's antithesis.

I'm not sure what this adds to or detracts from my previous argument. I just thought I should throw it out there.

Answer 4

I was an Anne Rice reader back in the 90's.. but I never got into the Vampire Chronicles. I devoured the Witching Hour series like a stoner with an unlimited bag of Doritos, tho.

Between the film "Bram Stokers Dracula" in, I think, '91, Tom Cruise as a Vampire, the whole vamp / goth kids scene (something I didn't know there was a difference between until the South Park episode.. thank you, guys!), 'Buffy", and the sophomoric, teen-angst ridden twilight garbage; yeah, I thought that the whole Vampire-Pop scene had finally run its course, I was beyond sick of it.

Until last year, when HBO began running True Blood. I haven't read the books they are based upon, but with the predictably amazing HBO production & direction, they've woven so many threads of mythology, believable physiology, and parallel metaphors to very real modern social strife.. it's incredible. I'm f'ing addicted to that show. If Sam gets sacrificed this week, I'm gonna be pissed.

Zombie Chic will be next. I'm just wondering how you make zombies all sexy... a requirement for pop icon status.

Answer 5

yes i think they do