Anne Rice and Stephanie Meyer have obviously perpetuated the teeny bopper vampire romance crap, but pretty much everyone since Stoker has ruined vampires and missed the whole point of the original story. The original Dracula is a social/racial commentary filled with class warfare between the prim and proper white Europeans vs the primitive inhuman Gypsies creatures of the night. If written in modern times by Democrats, Dracula would be Mitt Romney, an outsider rich white man who "sucks the blood" of the poor by taking their tax money, labour, and livelihood. Sadly, none if this is even touched upon in adaptations of the freakin' book, simply focusing on the horror as opposed to the political thrill. And don't get me started on the vampire forbidden love exploitation crap........................