DEATH AND THE MAIDEN; Buffy the vampire slayer is back from the dead for a new series - to the relief of millions of teenage fans.

From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) | Date: December 23, 2001| Author: Foulkes, Nick | Copyright information

Byline: NICK FOULKES

Buffy Anne Summers (1981-2001): Beloved sister, devoted friend. She saved the world. A lot.' This pithy epitaph, carved into sun-dappled granite in a West Coast cemetery, has a definite ring to it. It may not have the resonance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's inscription for Ozymandias: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' But, for millions, Buffy the vampire slayer, of the eponymous television show, means far m...

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