Can Anyone Tell Me Some Basic Facts About Vampires, Like The Ones From Vampire Diaries?

please don’t say the sparkle, or they drink animal blood. because twilight isnt the best source to give me.

Please don’t give me they can be killed by stakes and stuff , that’s just basic stuff.

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Does Anyone Else Suspect That Stephanie Meyer Possibly Got Her Ideas From The Vampire Diaries Series?

The Vampire Diaries was published long before Twilight ever was. I haven’t read the books,but I have flipped through them before and have read all the Twilight books…The plots are too similar.I can’t help but suspect…I don’t like twilight but I don’t bash it either. What do you think ???

POLL: The Vampire Diaries or Twilight?