Vampires

Why are vampires so popular today? Vampires mostly, but then there's werewolves, zombies, witches/wizards, fairies have even propped up. All of these fantasy books are getting turned into tv shows and movies. Don't get me wrong, I love it. Although I wasn't a big fan of the Twilight movies, I love the books. I love almost all books that include this paranormal romance and whatnot. But now it's seen everywhere. The bookstores are exploding with new stories in this genre, and more and more tv shows are propping up that include vampires and werewolves and love stories between humans and the supernatural. It's the ultimate "want what you can't have" thing. But I think it's more than that. We are in a recession, life is becoming difficult. We want to escape. We want to believe in the impossible. Notice how almost all of this takes place in modern time and at the beginning of the story, people think vampires and the supernatural are all just ghost stories? We want to believe that even in our world today when it is all myths and stories, that it still can be possible that there is excitement, love, a wonderful life out there that we can experience.