Buffy

[Carrol Cox]

First, the Buffy fans on this list persuaded me to check it out, and
it is indeed a delight.

But, it runs afoul of a literary principle I worked out decades ago
while reading the *Lord of the Rings* and Milton's epics.. All conscious
beings are either humans or pure abstractions (the latter represente by
Milton's
God or Tolkien's Balrog), whether they are called elves, goblins,
angels,
devils, etc.

So in literary terms, the vampires in Buffy are humans, not supernatural

creatures.

And since *all* american fiction is multi-racial and includes a
substantial
representation of blacks (Toni Morrison is irrefutable on thisj), the
vampires are African Americans.

????

Carrol