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This is a list of vampires found in literary fiction; film and television; comics and manga; video games and board games; musical theatre, opera and theatre; and originating in folklore or mythology. It does not include the concept of dhampirs .
This list covers the many types of vampires, vampire-like legendary creatures of global folklore or people that were supposedly vampires. It does not include any vampire that originates in a work of fiction .
An important later example of 19th-century vampire fiction is the penny dreadful epic Varney the Vampire (1847), featuring Sir Francis Varney as the vampire. In this story, we have the first example of the standard trope in which the vampire comes through the window at night and attacks a maiden as she lies sleeping.
Only vampire hunters, like the titular D—a half-vampire, half-human dhampir—can hope to stand up to the vampire’s supernatural might, and in the ‘85 film, D agrees to hunt down a 10,000 ...
The Third Edition GURPS supplement Blood Types lists 47 different "species" of vampires describing 30 of them from both folklore and fiction in 23 listings (several are simply different names for the same type of vampire; for example the Burma's Kephn is considered a male version of the Penanggalen)
The movie that started it all — at least, in terms of vampires depicted in movies. An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," the movie features Max Schreck as a truly odious worm of ...
A portmanteau film introduced by Karloff with three segments, the second of which is based on Alexei Tolstoy's vampire short story "The Family of the Vourdalak" (1839) about a father (played by Karloff) who returns to the family home as a vampire. Kiss of the Vampire: 1963 United Kingdom: Don Sharp: Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza
Famous vampires in pop culture. Bela Lugosi’s “Dracula” essentially set the bar for all other vampire movies. The black-and-white movie established Dracula as a wealthy, debonair vampire ...