Vampires have been around for a while, just not Dracula. I think people were happy to get away from him and have new stories with teen and young adult vampires. Drac was too dead, white, and male, and no longer as sexy as our grandmothers thought. Now that he’s back, does that mean the industry has run out of new ideas again?
Actually a lot of those new stories have Dracula making an appearance at some point.