 The 21st century brought more examples of vampire fiction , such as J.R. Ward 's Black Dagger Brotherhood series , and other highly popular vampire books which appeal to teenagers and young adults . Such vampiric paranormal romance novels and allied vampiric chick @-@ lit and vampiric occult detective stories are a remarkably popular and ever @-@ expanding contemporary publishing phenomenon . L.A. Banks ' The Vampire Huntress Legend Series , Laurell K. Hamilton 's erotic Anita Blake : Vampire Hunter series , and Kim Harrison 's The Hollows series , portray the vampire in a variety of new perspectives , some of them unrelated to the original legends . Vampires in the Twilight series ( 2005 – 2008 ) by Stephenie Meyer ignore the effects of garlic and crosses , and are not harmed by sunlight ( although it does reveal their supernatural nature ) . Richelle Mead further deviates from traditional vampires in her Vampire Academy series ( 2007 – present ) , basing the novels on Romanian lore with two races of vampires , one good and one evil , as well as half @-@ vampires . 
