Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV show has a great deal to answer for. That sentence could be taken either way, really, but I'm getting at the rise in Urban Fantasy in literature that has become apparent since the show ended. Granted there are plenty of other Urban Fantasy shows that have had an effect on the general populace as well as genre fans (Charmed, Heroes, et al), but the tales of stake-toting cheerleader really grabbed people's attention, and created the hunger for more of the same.
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The Buffy Effect - The Rise of Urban Fantasy in Literature
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