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So there's a bone we'd like to pick. There seem to be some young people who think that vampires are these trendy, sparkly things. Or that they live among us and drink blood that they can order at a bar like a beer. Please use the following to enlighten them: Vampires first came onto the scene in eighteenth century poetry. Quite possibly the coolest bit of vampire knowledge you didn't know? Back in the mid-Victorian era there were pamphlets known as "penny dreadfuls." They were a tiny bit of gruesome horror writing for an equally tiny price and a guy named James Malcolm Rymer wrote a series of stories about the blood-drenched exploits of one Varney the Vampire. He was not sexy, nor did he sparkle, but man did Varney have a thirst for the red stuff.