The Twilight series of vampire movies – about people who must suck life out of others to feed the black hole at their own center — is just the latest pack of emotionally engaging fantasies that can give people a better handle on being filled with “spirit” — nothing foofy: think of “a spirited animal” — a quality of aliveness...

The 36 year old Stephenie Meyer, the ‘parachute’ author who suddenly came up with one of the most popular sagas around (heaven knows how that happened) is planning to rease a 192-page novella that centers around and has the story told from the view of one of the more recently developed characters in the Twilight named ‘Bree’, a newly-turned vampire...