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Originally Posted by epiphyte78
I think you stopped reading/watching vampire stuff in the 70s! 
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Well, to be honest, in the first and greatest Dracula novel, sunlight didn't bother Vlad, nor the other vampires he made, in the least. Anne Rice popularized the notion of vampires who couldn't tolerate sunlight.
Vampire stories have never been about sucking blood. They didn't tell us that in high school literature when we read Dracula and The Castle of Otranto. After Stoker's last novel his friends told him he had gone too far. (In the Lair of the White Worm.)