Talk:Stephenie Meyer/@comment-50.13.22.208-20121112194103/@comment-7600752-20140310060807

Yes. Vampires glitter because their skin/flesh has turned to a stone-like substance. The rocklike stony stubstance glitters like crystal or diamonds when exposed to the sun. It's not the venom that makes them shine. In Anne Rice's vampire books, the vampires are also turning into a stone-like substance. But it takes about one thousand years and they don't sparkle or glitter. But once their skins become like this...the sun no longer burns them.