I’ve often wondered why people would readily accept Vampirism as a fictitious thing. (By way of Literature; Anne Rice’s Chronicles and such) yet they are afraid of Modern Vampires and deem them the misfits of society.

Does it have to do with the fact that they can dismiss the writing and not the reality?

What are your thoughts?

I think it's easier to think of something as just fun when reading it in a book with no thought of it ever coming true

It's generally BECAUSE of Anne Rice's Vampires that Real Vampires are deemed misfits.

It would be interesting to see how many 'Real Vampires' actually existed before the advent of Anne Rice and the Internet. I believe the ones that did ended up in psychiatric care after killing people. Maybe the fact that Real vampires now have a space in which to express themselves keeps the crime rate down?

People are just happy thinking and believing something is fictious, because when they believe that nothing like that could ever happen to them they feel safe in their snug little beds. Besides, if you think about it, it also has to do with the fact that vampires have supernatural abilities which would cause most people to say, "FREAK," which in turn leads to misfit or something like the X-men, sorry for the reference. We live in an age where everything has to be proven by science if it cannot then it is not probable or cannot exist, that is about the size of it.