Once again I will note that I am totally over both zombies and vampires and they need to be put on hiatus. It's a new fucking decade! We need some new tropes.

I am personally hoping for the return of the Archfiend (Diabolik, Fantomas, Fu Manchu, Dr. Mabuse., etc.).

Zombies, feh! I spit out the taste of their rotting flesh.

Vampires can go away until they stop sparkling.

Once again I will note that I am totally over both zombies

Okay, but you should still check out my friend's zombie book in May. Because it is awesome.

It's a new fucking decade!

And the books I am reading were published in the last one!

I am personally hoping for the return of the Archfiend (Diabolik, Fantomas, Fu Manchu, Dr. Mabuse., etc.).

Fin Fang Foom?

Once again I will note that I am totally over both zombies and vampires and they need to be put on hiatus.

Whereas I say that they don't need to be put on hiatus, they just need to be written WELL. Because honestly? There's a vast lack of GOOD vampire books. Trust me, I've read a lot of what's out there. Most of it? Dire. Really fucking dire.

Fin Fang Foom?

I'm pretty sure he's just a monster.

Okay, but you should still check out my friend's zombie book in May. Because it is awesome.

Maybe. I still have to reach Amy's finished zombie book, which I know is guaranteed awesome.

Whereas I say that they don't need to be put on hiatus, they just need to be written WELL.

No, I think we've reached an actual saturation point where there needs to be a cleansing diet of non-zombie, non-vampire books. There's just too much of it and it's eating its own tail. It's accelerated geometrically through the potential storylines until they're all recycled.

The Oughts will be the Zombie/Vampire decade. This decade? Something else. Apart from my opinion, it's almost inevitable with trends in horror. It always cycles off to something new.

Maybe HBO could go do a series based on Storm Constantine's books. At least that would be different. Not horror but exotic enough to appeal to the gothy tastebuds.

Maybe HBO could go do a series based on Storm Constantine's books. At least that would be different. Not horror but exotic enough to appeal to the gothy tastebuds.

What, the Wraetheau series? I don't think it would translate well as a tv series. Also, I think it would need a lot of re-writing to make it appealing for mass-market.

The last time I was in Target, about two-thirds of a pretty substantial young adult section was devoted to vampires.

One of the best books I read last year was a zombie book: The Forest of Hands and Teeth.

My problem with the current volery of vampires is that I like my vampires "straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, 'soon my electro-ray will destroy Metropolis' bad." To me the essence of the vampire story is "what would you do to live forever?" It also has the element that can be so compelling in the zombie story: Can you kill the monster with the face of your loved one or will you hope, risking your life and that of others, that some spark of the person you loved remains? So many of the modern vampires seem to be just one more special interest group.

Also, I cannot understand the appeal of vampire sex. Vampires would be room temperature. Eww.

Then don't go anywhere near the romance section of the bookstore--it's been overtaken by vampire romances. I remember when they were a novelty, now you can't get away from them!

Vampires would be room temperature.

Sauna sex. Check.

On a peak summer LA day, vampire sex might be a cooling relief.