[–] ColaEuphoria 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
Left 4 Dead. I am so fucking sick of zombies now.
[–] SteelKidney 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Anne Rice's Vampire books. Pretty sure Twilight wouldn't have happened if Meyers hadn't been influenced by Rice.
[–] mcwilshire 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Creed et al. probably wouldn't have existed without Nirvana.
[–] middle_path 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Bram Stoker's Dracula. It is amazing, but everyone wanted to copy it. Fun fact - Vampires prior to Bram did not have fangs, they used to have to make an incision with something else to let the blood flow.
[–] CttCJim 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
they also were more like ADD zombies. Bram Stoker's work and also Varney the Vampire are held as the origins of the "Victorian Vampire" archetype.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varney_the_Vampire
Varney actually predates Dracula, but didn't have as good of marketing.