My book
The Vampire Lestat, would fall under
the genre of fantasy. Because of the vampires, it’s a book that’s more of a
magic realism. The reason I say this is because other than the vampires there
are no other fantasy creatures.
The
vampires are tied into everyday life in the 1800’s mainly based in Paris. They
live everyday lives. And I don’t believe that they should fall under “Fantasy”.
The reason I think this is because what do you think when you hear the word
fantasy? Most people say fairies, and unicorns.
Because
of Twilight Vampires finally got more
light and were given “Paranormal Fantasy” the only problem is when people hear
this title of genre, they think of Twilight.
I know Stephanie Myer didn’t mean to ruin the iconic image of Dracula, but
because of her “movies”, their terrible b rated quality, and the obnoxious teen
fan base, Vampires lost their scary.
Beautiful pieces of work exist in the Paranormal Fantasy including Anne
Rice’s Vampire Chronicle’s. Anne Rice has created many books in this genre and
she try’s the stay under the veil of fiction and as far away for “teen
paranormal romance” as possible. And “The Vampire Lestat” is a prime example of
that there is no romance. The only love ever mentioned is for knowledge and
family. So I will classify it like she would its fiction. It’s make believe,
that’s it. Genre titles can kill many authors and unlike Nicholas Sparks she’s not
very vocal about her genre preference to be found under.
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