Your next stop: the 'Twilight' zone

"It's not that hard to put [Twilighters] over the edge," said Julie Hjelmeset, the inn's manager. She transformed the double-queen bedroom in the otherwise run-of-the-mill hotel by swapping the white linens and towels for racier black-and-red versions and resting imitation long-stemmed roses on the beds. Bella's Suite fetches double the rate of a regular room -- $149 a night versus $74.

The driving force behind the town's resurgence is the Forks Chamber of Commerce.

It was the head of the Chamber who reached out to the owners of a house to see if they'd be willing to place a "Home of the Swans" sign in their lushly landscaped yard. According to homeowner Kim McIrvin, thousands of visitors have since stopped by the two-story blue bungalow to snap pictures and to imagine Edward sneaking in through the upstairs window.

Following McIrvin's lead, another Chamber member offered to transform her bed-and-breakfast into "the Cullen house." The door to the large mailbox now reads "Cullen," along with the Miller Tree Inn wording that's been there for years, and a sign on the front porch is updated with daily messages from the fictional family's matriarch, Esme.

Marianne Ell, 53, and her daughter, Annie Harker, 14, had driven 10 hours from Vancouver Island, Canada, to stay at the inn and spend a day and a half in Forks.

"It's completely worth it. This town is almost completely devoted to Twilight," said Annie, who was wearing a Forks Fang Club T-shirt and a Love at First Bite cap. Annie is particularly fond of Edward, because he's "mysterious and intriguing."

He was also the reason Annie's mother hadn't been able to sleep for two nights.

"Chivalrous, supportive, protective, kind, thoughtful. A fantasy man," is how Ell described Edward.

"We're staying in his house!" she all but screamed from the inn's breakfast nook.

The Chamber also bought a 1953 Chevy pickup truck, like the one Bella drives in the books. Spray-painted red, with a fake license plate that reads "Bella" affixed to the front bumper, it is parked in front of the Chamber's Twilight-festooned office.

"You can't believe how many people want to stop here and have their picture taken by that truck," said Mike Gurling, the Chamber's visitor center manager. Gurling came up with the Twilight Map given to visitors to guide them around town. He also uses it for the monthly three-hour Twilight bus tour, which he put together and leads. Among the stops: Forks City Hall, which houses the police station; and the Indian reservation in nearby La Push -- prime werewolf territory, where Jacob roams.