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HOME EDITOR'S CHOICE BUSINESS & FINANCE Vampires turn gentler with eye A selection of our best photos from the past 24 NEWS toward teen girls hours. Slideshow U.S. Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:33pm EDT Politics Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] International Technology By Jill Serjeant Entertainment LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Girls these days Film can't seem to get enough of dark, Music mysterious strangers -- especially if they People have fangs and drink blood. Television Arts The age-old vampire genre is finding a new Industry audience among angst-ridden teenage girls with romance on their minds, and as a Sports 1 of 2 Full Size result, the horrific undead are changing Lifestyle into kinder, gentler creatures who often Oddly Enough curb their thirst for fresh, young blood.

Health Dark, dashing and brooding, today's young male vampires have a special Science allure for young women that goes beyond the escapist, fantasy appeal that the genre enjoyed for decades, and Hollywood is rushing to take Special Coverage MOST POPULAR ON REUTERS advantage of it. Video Articles Video Pictures "There is something about a man who lurks in the dark", said actress Nina Dobrey, who plays high school student Elena Gilbert in the September TV 1. Mystery deepens Your View series "The Vampire Diaries". over disappearing The Great Debate merchant ship Blogs The show will air on the young female-oriented CW network with the 2. Auto inventories tight, U.S. promotional line "Love Sucks." "clunker" interest slips Weather 3. UPDATE 5-Court slaps ban on some Microsoft Reader Feedback And the CW isn't the only media company getting in on the act. HBO's Word sales "True Blood" has become a darling of TV critics, and last year's hit vampire 4. Michael Douglas calls son's arrest devastating movie "Twilight" has spawned the sequel "New Moon" in theaters this fall. 5. Nude drunk loses way in hotel "There is the appeal of the forbidden -- of 'who's that mysterious boy in 6. Home foreclosures set another record in July my class'," said Richelle Mead, author of the best selling young adult book 7. Bride spends first night with crate of vodka series "The Vampire Academy", which has been translated into 22 8. U.S. food companies seek easier sugar quotas languages. 9. Germany and France exit recession "There are also plenty of teens who feel that people don't quite 10. No way to hide for U.S. tax cheats after UBS understand them, and here is the other who is not quite the norm. That is deal very attractive," Mead told Reuters. Most Popular Articles RSS Feed Do More With Reuters Stephenie Meyer's young adult romance novel "Twilight" has sold some 17 BLOGS - FAN FARE RSS million copies, and fans of shy 17-year-old Bella Swan and outsider Country duo Sugarland’s new album strikes sour note Widgets vampire Edward Cullen helped the movie bring in $383 million at global on U.S. chart | Comments [1] Mobile box offices. If Hollywood were high school, Robert Pattinson would Podcasts VEGETARIAN VAMPIRES be … | Comments [1] Newsletters Cameron Douglas girlfriend arrested for smuggling Your View "Twilight" vampires call themselves vegetarian because they only drink the heroin in toothbrush | Comments [2] Make Reuters My blood of animals, and the fanged ones on "True Blood" have managed to “Imaginarium” gives Heath Ledger a magical Homepage integrate themselves into human society by drinking a synthetic blood reappearance | Comments [2] Partner Services substitute, called Tru Blood. More Fan Fare CareerBuilder "You can't have a teen girl falling in love with a total monster," said Mead, Affiliate Network whose books feature a non-killing race of vampires that exist alongside a Professional Products more evil subset. Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media "They had to become a little more accessible versus the vampire movies of the 20th century, when they were quite gruesome. It's a safe scary," she Financial Products said. About Thomson Reuters Compared to old-school vampires, as in Bela Lugosi's classic 1931 movie "Dracula," modern bloodsuckers have complex relationships and emotional entanglements -- often sexless -- with the objects of their desires, said Elayne Rapping, professor of American studies at the University of Buffalo.

Julie Plec, executive producer of "The Vampire Diaries" which is based

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novels of L.J. Smith and set in a high school, said young women want to believe vampires have "epic amounts of knowledge and soul and spirituality and intelligence lurking behind those eyes." Continued...

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