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!
On a peak summer LA day, vampire sex might be a cooling relief.
I have noticed that, Kathy. I still haven't gotten over book dumps of Charlaine Harris's books. I was reading her when she wrote cozies.
it's been overtaken by vampire romances
about two-thirds of a pretty substantial young adult section was devoted to vampires.
This is what I'm saying. Over saturation, diminishing returns.
Just like comic books had to kick their ninja habit for a while, now it's time for bookstores to ween themselves of bloodsuckers.
I'm going to stop by B&N on the way home, and this reminded me that, in addition to getting the Simon's Cat and George Lucas's Blockbusting books, I'm also going to pick up the latest of the Robin D. Owens Heart romance series. They're not vampires, but they are SF/paranormal (everyone on the planet has mental telepathy to a degree, especially with their familiar pets, mostly cats--the first in the series, Heart Choice, has one of my favorite literary cats).
I have a feeling steampunk is going to go mainstream in a big way this decade. So, I can see stories about automata, mad scientists, etc. becoming more and more popular.
