The word "vampire" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it any time you want to refer to a mythical, undead creature that is believed to subsist on the blood of living creatures. For example: "I watched a scary movie last night about a vampire who was terrorizing a small town."
Mitchell concludes that vampire blood isn't enough, he needs the vein-fresh human stuff.
These days, many of us can be found curled up with a copy of The Hunger Games or Divergent, but what's very clear is that your average teenage girl will probably not end up saving the world from a corrupt dictatorship, like Katniss Everdeen, or be caught in a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf, like Bella Swan.
Herrick returns not with lip-smacking vengeance but edgy vulnerability, rescued from the psych-ward and taking up residence as the mad vampire in the attic.
Martin, meanwhile, is "George Romero's vampire film about a disturbed teenager.
Assuming vampires only feed once a month ("a highly conservative assumption given any Hollywood vampire film"), and that each time a vampire feasts upon a human their respective populations increase/decrease by 1, a simple geometric progression suggests that vampires would wipe out humans in approximately 2.5 years (assuming arbitrarily that the first vampire appeared in the year 1400).
For a start, there's the small matter of Edgar Wyndham and the new vampire uprising to be contending with.
It's like you're a werewolf or a vampire and always changing.
There's Adam the teen vampire; Lia stuck in purgatory; the swinging-dogfight-vampire-couple; and Tom the boy werewolf, whose story was left open-ended.
What do you get if you cross a tin opener, a vampire and a cricket team?
Aidan Turner holding back massed vampire armies of three people?
We don't really know whether he is a vampire or a rapist.
