Short note on popularization and profanation of vampire character in modern literature and media

I would like to suggest you a very short essay that i drafted a couple of years ago basing on the stuff i have read on the internet. That is a pretty naive compilation of known facts, so i hope not to violate anyone's work. 

The first association when speaking about vampires nowadays appears to be  "Twilight", no matter the novel or movie, then come “The vampire diaries”. 

The audience of both mostly consists of  teenage romantic girls dreaming of a prince willing to marry them and bring to a new happy life which will last forever. And these products are not only ones, permanently new literature works are produced in grea quantity, it does not seem possible even to count them. The vampires in such novels and films are sparkling vegetarian creatures living as usual people in human world. They are no more considered as dismaying monsters arised from darkness or even hell. And not even as tragical outcasts who could be accepted and understood  in their almost alien nature. They are considered being cool now, other word hardly can be found here, the horror element definitely vanishes. I would like to clarify how it became possible.

As all the cultural phenomenons the vampire figure's development happens in a logical manner. 

From the beginning of time vampire legends have existed on earth, their traces as dreadful living dead can be found in ancient China, Greece and Persia. Though the word "vampire" is a modern one, bloodsucking monsters have frightened imagination of people all over the world for a long time, according to mythology.  With the integration of mythology into the literature the transformation of the character begins. The most important here is the period  XVIII-XIX centuries, when literature gained independence from Church and literature works became more personalised.  Some significant poems and novels have been written at that time, but the most important without any exaggeration is the acknowledged classical masterpiece created by Bram Stoker - "Dracula". 

The author combined folklore with real historical personality of Vlad Tepes, giving him the most recognisable features of vampires: drinking blood, ability to manipulate different animals, to change their shape etc. Very important in this novel are also female characters, Lucy and Mina.
As the first one was performing weakness being the victim of Dracula, the second one appeared strong and helped to destroy the Count.  For many years later the figure of Dracula stayed canon of vampire genre. Especially in the cinema, where the most significant was Bela Lugishi's appearence in the Role - the noble aristocrat in black. The film by F.F, Coppola even sharpened that look. 
In the end of 20th century comes Ann Rice with her Vampire Chronicles, revolutioning the image of Vampire and bringing a new explosion to vampire genre. The title character, Lestat possesses a human nature, but as well both sides of it: a tragic and savage, even evil one.

The second title character, Louis, suffers from his new essence, refusing to drink human blood. With developmemt of cinema production vampire soap-opoeras start  to capture the attention of spectators, music also gives vampires publicity. Later internet rushes into our lives making a lot of things easier, including creative writing and spreading the new-written novel all over the world with help of fans. So the vampires become more and more popular and usual in our lives, losing their horror heritage.