Twilight at 20: the many afterlives of Stephenie Meyer’s vampires

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Stephenie Meyer’s novel, Twilight. Times2 charts the many spin-offs and debates ahead of a new Netflix series

The Twilight book series has sold over 160 million copies, been translated into 38 languages and adapted into five blockbuster films.

Vampires are perennially popular, largely because we make and remake them to help us address our social concerns and fears. As author Nina Auerbach argues in her 1995 book Our Vampires, Ourselves: “We make the vampires we need for the times we live in.”

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