ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the premise that vampires have the ability to turn off their emotions and creates multiple scenarios to test the limits of love and its connection to moral action. In the new cycle of the vampire genre, these vampire-human lovers offer moral guidance about how to live and love well and how to act ethically because of this love. More significantly, Angel introduces a new semantic element: the vampire who does not bite to kill. In Buffy, the Twilight saga, and The Vampire Diaries (TVD), forbidden kisses, longing glances, painful separations, and sensuous dreams become momentous occasions. The Vampire Diaries similarly employs and overturns techniques from the horror genre, again interweaving aspects of romance. Perhaps one of the most significant syntactic additions into the Beloved Cycle originates from the romantic triangle in which two male monsters love the same female human.
