The phrase "age vampire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who drains the energy or vitality of others, often in a metaphorical sense related to age or youth.
Example: "She has a way of making everyone around her feel exhausted; it's as if she's an age vampire, sucking the life out of the room."
Alternatives: "energy leech" or "life drainer".
The answer became clear only with "Breaking Dawn": older (fully grown) women who read teen-age vampire novels are insane, I among them.
I set out to discover why older (as in fully grown) women had fallen, en masse, under the spell of Stephenie Meyer's teen-age vampire.
In the theatrical third act, in which the action moves to the reflective confines of a vast swimming pool (water – and floating – are recurrent motifs), I sensed a nod toward the adolescent traumas of Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson's Swedish coming-of-age vampire tale set in 1982, but similarly depicting its protagonists as somehow lost in time.
And the volume's title story depicts an aging vampire named Clyde who is in danger of losing his wife ("the first and only other vampire I'd ever met") because he can no longer shudder himself out of his old man's body and fly the way he used to.
And what would our civilization be without books about something other than teen-age vampires angels?
The beach read is not necessarily a guilty pleasure, an evergreen category with no geographical or seasonal limitations, though teen-age vampires and female protagonists working thankless jobs in the publishing and/or fashion industry are common themes.
"Vamps" -- which stars Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as a pair of coming-of-age vampires -- did premiere in Los Angeles on one screen, meaning its total $500 gross came from roughly 12 showings of the film between Friday and Sunday.
It's a dynamic space, and the potential for screening off areas of seating allow the space to be tailored for slightly smaller artists, too, such as Queens of the Stone Age and Vampire Weekend, with adjusted capacities of 5,000, 7,000 or 9,000.
The floridly-named Lenah Beaudonte, vampire age nearly 600, wakes up aged 16 at the start of Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel (Macmillan £9.99) to catch up on 21st-century education at a smart Rhode Island prep school.
IN this anti-aging age, perhaps it's unsurprising that vampires — ancient, but with forever-young skin — are a cultural obsession.
