I hate it when authors deliberately spill science all over potentially perfectly good vampire stories.
"Because it's maaaaaaaagic," is a 100% reasonable explanation for things that happen in a work of fantasy and/or horror fiction. Vampires don't have a fatal allergy to ultraviolet radiation; rather, the monstrous vitality in their unnatural corpse-bodies is destroyed by the holy power of the sun. A tanning bed should do exactly nothing to a vampire. Likewise, a silver bullet doesn't kill a werewolf because of some chemical reaction. It kills said werewolf because it's magic.
But, then, I'm also in the "Hannibal Lecter as protagonist" camp, in terms of my preference when it comes to monstrous characters in stories, and I'd love to see a work of vampire fiction written from that perspective... which, of course, probably means that I'll have to write it, myself.
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Date: 2010-06-23 05:06 pm (UTC)"Because it's maaaaaaaagic," is a 100% reasonable explanation for things that happen in a work of fantasy and/or horror fiction. Vampires don't have a fatal allergy to ultraviolet radiation; rather, the monstrous vitality in their unnatural corpse-bodies is destroyed by the holy power of the sun. A tanning bed should do exactly nothing to a vampire. Likewise, a silver bullet doesn't kill a werewolf because of some chemical reaction. It kills said werewolf because it's magic.
But, then, I'm also in the "Hannibal Lecter as protagonist" camp, in terms of my preference when it comes to monstrous characters in stories, and I'd love to see a work of vampire fiction written from that perspective... which, of course, probably means that I'll have to write it, myself.