I guess this is almost a bit of a rant, I'm just really annoyed and also confused about something.
I went to WHSmith's ebook store online, clicked on Science Fiction (when I found it) and was bombarded with Vampire novels. What?!? I checked again. Same result. Out of the first 15 books, only 5 were actual Sci-Fi. I've complained to them, naturally, asking why they felt Vampire novels sat in Science Fiction so easily, when, from my own viewpoint, Vampires were a staple of the Horror Genre, which suprisingly, seemed to feature far less vampire novels.
I checked Waterstones, they had a bias towards Sci-fi novels (wish they would move the Star Wars/Star Trek novels into their own categories though, I don't want to wade through pages of those looking for non-franchised novels).
Does anyone else think this? Where should vampire novels go? I certainly have my ideas
Surely it's not too hard to put them and urban fantasy (whatever that is) into their own group where people can look at leisure. I like my SF hard, military or space opera.... Not flippin' vampires falling in love with teen schoolgirls.
My reference point for Vampire novels being horror comes from the fact that Nosferatu is still considered the best classic vampire horror film...
