Twilight's vampires aren't real-life
February 11th 2010 05:39
Stephenie Meyer
Emmet Spain, a 29-year-old Australian who has just successfully negotiated the obstacle course which leads to the publication of a first novel, may have ended, once and for all, the raging debate about the legitimacy of Twilight.
For those who have been on an extended break touring Ursa Major, Twilight is a publishing phenomenon built around a Stephenie Meyer novel about love between a teenage girl and a teenage, you know, vampire. They really like each other, which means he is torn between the desire to kiss her neck and, you know, sink his teeth into it.
Some people have suggested that this stretches the boundaries of the accepted vampire behavioural paradigm, while others have said who cares they’re not real. Are they?
Emmet Spain is of the boundary stretching persuasion, and calls the supporters of the Twilight version of things “puppy dog vampires”.
``Essentially vampires don't need love. They feed on life and they're brutal creatures,'' he said, a truism which surely puts a cross into the hearts of Twilight fans.
If you want real vampires, Spain provides them in his novel, Old Haunts.
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