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llf'finilllif Look at the photos. Do you know (a) the author, Read the text again. Match headings A-F with paragraphs
(b) the book, (c) the actor? 1-5. There is one heading that you do not need.
A A 2Lst-century hit
ffi Read the text quickty. what type of text is it? B The first modern vampire books
Choose a, b, c or d. C Addicted to vampire stories
a an articte c a short story D Why fi[ms are more popular than novels
b a personaI account d an interview E The original noveI and fitm
F Why teenagers love vampire stories
I@EEEI Find these words retated to novels in the text.
Then match them with the definitions below.
Novels chapter characters epilogue female lead
plot sequel
1 the people in a novel
2 another book which continues the same story
3 a section ofthe book
[tTl They're young, they're rebellious and they have a taste 4 an extra bit of story at the end
for blood. This description fits not only the ffi in 5 the events ofthe story
6 the main girl or woman in the story
modern vampire novels, but also many of the readers. Some
teenagers love vampire stories so much, it's almost;in
addiction. But what is their appeal? Is it the ffi or the
characters? And why are they so popular with teenagers in
vampire film, Nos/erotu. The
particular (apart from the blood)?
film was so similar to Bram
IZI-I fne modern fashion for vampire stories probably started Stoker's novel that his family
int976,with the publication of Interview with theVampire, took legal action against the
a novel by the American writer Anne Rice. This novel and its film studio - and won. The
ffiffi l known as The Vampire Chronicles and about 8o film studio had to destroy
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million copies have been sold around the world. They are the film, but fortunatelya
different from earliervampire stories in one importantway: few secret copies survived
some of the vampires are likeable characters. For example, the and in the 1990s, the film
main character, Louis, needs to drink blood to survive, but was seen again for the first
he hates harming people. There are two different sides to his time in seventyyears. Like a
personalityand many teenagers can identifirwith this. When true vampire, Noqferotu came
the stories were made into a film, the part of Louis was played back from the dead!And a
by Brad Pitt. lot of the familiar imagery
of vampires which teenagers
EI ffre most successful vampire books of the last ten years
love - pale skin, black hair,
are the four novels intheTwilighf series, by Stephenie Meyer.
The books are about the relationship between the Wffi, red lips - dates back to the
original novel and film.
Bella Swan, and ayoung, sensitivevampire called Edward
Cullen. The first novel, Twilighf, was written in 2003. When IST] Horror stories are particularly popular with teenagers,
the author finished the final Wffiffi she wrote an ffifrffiffi and that is partly the appeal ofvampire novels. But teenagers
... and then another, and then another. She realised she had also enjoy the important themes: the fight between good and
enough ideas for more novels. That is why she wrote the evil, or the difference between what you want to do and what
sequels - and millions of teenagers around the world are glad you shouid do. For example, in the Twilight books, can Edward
that she didl They love the mix of fantasy, horror and romance. show his love for Bella and look after her, orwill the'vampire
The novels have been made into successful films too. side' of his personality win? These issues are interesting for
teenagers, who are just starting to face life's big questions
about love, morality, good and evil. Forteenagers in the real
the popularity of vampire stories is nothing new In 1897, the
world, most problems aren't a matter of life and death, but they
Irish writer Bram Stoker wrote a novel called Dracula. Twenty-
five years later, the film director Max Schreck made the first often feel like it.

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