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Article: VAMPIRES LEAP FROM COFFINS TO NEW POPULARITY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 30, 1994
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Byline: NANCY PATE
Forget the wooden stake. Don't bother with the crucifix or worry with the holy water. As for the garlic, it's just going to make people turn up their noses at you.
Face it there's no protection from vampires this year. The immortal bloodsuckers have turned into popular-culture leeches. No need to travel to Transylvania. They're hanging out at the movies, on television, at the bookstores, in role-playing games and comic books.
And as Halloween approaches, along with the premiere next month of the film adaptation of Anne Rice's ``Interview With the Vampire,'' fang fever is at a peak.
``More people are being ...