"Ah." Well, plenty of the books she's read are kind of terrible, too, but that's why she enjoys them. "We have the Blood Lore series. And the classics, like Bram Stoker. Most of it is just hysterical nonsense, though rumor has it that vampires borrow some of those... aesthetics... just to freak people out." Before they eat them.

She mostly sticks to the older stuff, in part because the post-Wars offerings have taken something of a turn. When all is said and done, she prefers her vampire fiction to be overwrought in an 'oh no, mysterious Others' sort of way and not an 'oh no, here's a plausible portrayal of how they might actually take over' sort of way. There's not much guilty pleasure to be had in speculative fiction.