Pop Monsters: The Modern-Day Craze for Vampires and Werewolves

It's a popular culture phenomenon of monstrous proportions! Vampires and werewolves are taking up more shelf space in bookstores, more airtime on television, more starring roles in the movies, and feature in more computer games than they ever have in their long history of interaction with our species. Twenty-first-century teenagers seem to have been "bitten" by this fad for things undead and lycanthropic on an epic scale. Vampires are such a big part of youth culture, they have influenced f...