The style world, too, has come under the vampire’s spell, with gorgeous leather- and lace-clad night crawlers in the pages of fashion glossies.

Vampire-like glamour figures strike come-hither poses in a flurry of recent publications. In the current issue of W, Bruce Willis appears about to be raked by the talons of his new wife, Emma Heming.

In June’s Italian Vogue, models pose as spooky night crawlers like those who once haunted Manhattan clubs. The vampire’s attraction is “all about the titillation of imagining the monsters we could be if we just let ourselves go,” suggested Rick Owens, a fashion bellwether.

“Periods of war, economic downturns and cultural turmoil all give rise to the production of vampire and fantasy fiction,” said Thomas Garza, chair of the department of Slavic and Eurasian studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and a specialist in vampire lore.

“There are monsters so much bigger and more realistic in our day-to-day lives,” said Emily Rose, a performance poet in Chicago. “Having somebody clamp onto your neck and drain you — that doesn’t seem so scary anymore.”