The year 2008 saw the book-to-screen translation of two human/vampire love stories: True Blood and Twilight.

True Blood, a television show, which is (like Twilight) based off of a book series - the entire first season of the HBO show was based upon a single volume of the series called Dead Until Dark (The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 1) by Charlaine Harris - has also developed a rather devoted fan-base.

Sookie Stackhouse is a young, intelligent, and extra-sensory perception wielding southern lady. Much like Bella Swan in Twilight, Sookie has rejected the advances of men she has known (that...