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Top 5 Abstinent Vampires: No. 5 — Angel and Edward Cullen (Tie)
by Tracy V. Wilson | October 26, 2009
When I was in elementary school, after years of trick-or-treating in a Wicked Witch of the West costume, I decided to be a vampire for Halloween. With the very silly exceptions of Bunnicula and Grandpa and Lily Munster, vampires were monsters back then, and monsters were what Halloween was for. I ran around in a cape, plastic fangs and a drawn-on widow’s peak, hollering, “I van to suck your blood.” Because that’s what vampires do.
Rather, that’s what vampires did. Now it seems like the average vampire has, for one reason or another, decided to abstain from drinking blood. Monsters are still what Halloween is for, though, so I’m going to spend this week looking at these abstinent vampires (and whether they’re still at all monstrous).
I spent a couple of years early in my career writing about food safety, so whenever anybody says the word “parasite,” my thoughts usually leap to food-borne critters that can spawn all manner of digestive discomfort. But if you pair “parasite” with “fiction,” I go straight to the big ones — like vampires or mynocks. There are plenty of littler life forms that can take over human hosts and wreak all kinds of havoc in science fiction and fantasy, though. I called on the office’s sci-fi brain trust, and we hashed out a list of our five favorites.
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