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INTERVIEWSWITHTHEVAMP IRES 1They violate one of our taboo-devouring culture's last prohibitions: drinking human blood They sleep during the day and have their teeth sharpened into fangs But what's really weird about today's high-IQ bloodsuckers is their perky rhetoric of personal growth ... BY Carol Lloyd Photo By Charles Gatewood ° I Extract The Blood and Drink It on The Spot. "Lounging in Tight Black Clothing On Her Black couch, self-styled vampire Danielle Willis displays an array of syringes and pamphlets on the "art of drawing blood." Breezily, the pale, icy-eyed woman offers to extract a little of her own and give it to me in a vial with A Drop of Anti-coagulant. in the Vampiric Underworld, I Know this is a gift of generism, but I decline. WHEN BRAM Stoker Wrote "Dracula" in His Dublin Home 100 Years AGO Chances Are He Never Dreamed His Monster Would One Day Return As The Godfathe . R of a burgeoning youth subculture on the other side of the world Yet in the past decade - thanks in large part to Anne Rice and her millions of insatiable readers - the vampire has beat his bloody trail across the Atlantic to become the preeminent Mythological Creature of Late 20th Century America. in Litrate, "Live Action" Games Like "Vampire: The masquerade,"