By Tirdad Derakhshani Inquirer Staff Writer I'm a vampire, he's a vampire, won't you be a vampire too? Gee, thanks, Count. Thanks, but no. Despite being a lifelong vampire aficionado (um, does that sound creepy?), I'd rather be a vampire hunter right now. We're crypt-deep in vampires, thanks in part to an avalanche of mega-selling books and films, including Twilight, True Blood, the Underworld Trilogy, and their rapidly mutating spawn. Pop-cult trends don't usually last this long. After nearly two years, vamp craze continues to rage. Not even PBS's leading TV philosopher, Count von Count, could have anticipated how thoroughly we'd be saturated by the latest hyped-to-the-hilt pop-cult product phenom. What's next? Barney and SpongeBob SquarePants with gleaming white fangs? The publishing industry has been in a tizzy over... [read full story]
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