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The Last Post for Vampires?

07.08.09 | Comment?

Neil Gaiman thinks that vampires might be on the way out. He put it like this in an EW interview: “if they could go back in their coffins 25 years and come out the next time as something really different, that would be cool.”

Among other things NG acknowledges the important role that The Count (as in Sesame Street) has played in establishing vampires as loveable rogues, which is a triumph for preschool popular culture.

So what might the “something really different” be? Discover it and you could be the next big thing.

In the mean time, if you’re a bit sick of studying classic literature (or you’re dreading having to) then here’s a pretty cool thing:

 

Trivia: The Last Post is the bugle call you hear on ANZAC Day.


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