Assignment I

What do I know about vampires?
I delight in the old legends and stories-- Dracula, Nosferatu, the Vârcolac. All are respectably foul, evil, monstrous, and intelligent. Vampires were never something you would want to love or even meet. Vampires are, should be, monstrous nocturnal demons who tear into their victims, human and animal, without the merest thread of sparkly vegetarian remorse. The Vârcolac? Described in Romanian and Slavic folklore as a "giant demon wolf which emerges from the corpses of babies and consumes the sun and moon." I find this description rather more terrifyingly impressive than "sparkling, regular-sized, eternally beautiful human being who has magical psychic mindpowers and is horribly conflicted because the power of his kiss will surely kill the woman that he loves."

Maybe it's just me.