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A vampire is an undead monster from the legends of various cultures and often featured in fiction. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that French Wiktionary be merged into this article or section. ... Vampires (or vampyres) are mythological or folkloric creatures believed to be the reanimated corpses of human beings who subsist on human or animal blood. ...

Vampire may also refer to:

• Electricity vampire, an electrical appliance that consumes electricity when turned off and supposed to be dead.
• Energy vampire (psychic vampire), a being said to have the ability to feed off the "life force" of other living creatures
• Vampire bat, flying animals that feed on blood
• Vampire tap, a device for physically connecting a station to a network that uses 10BASE-5 cabling
• Vampire number, a mathematical concept
• Vampire theorem prover, an automated theorem prover
• Vampire (car), current holder of the British Land Speed Record
• Vampires MC, an American motorcycle club

Standby power, also called Vampire power refers to the electric power consumed by electronic appliances in a standby mode. ... In New Age terminology, an energy vampire or psychic vampire is a being said to have the ability to feed off the life force (called, variously, chi, prana, or vitality) of other living creatures. ... Genera Desmodus Diphylla Diaemus Vampire bats are bats that feed on blood (hematophagy). ... CentreCOM AUI Vampire Tap A vampire tap is a device for physically connecting a station (i. ... A vampire number (or true vampire number) is a composite natural number v, with an even number of digits n, that can be factored into two integers x and y each with n/2 digits and not both with trailing zeroes, where v contains all the digits from x and... Vampire is an automatic theorem prover for first-order classical logic developed in the Computer Science Department of the University of Manchester. ... The Vampire is a turbojet-propelled car that currently holds the outright British land speed record of 300. ... © 2006 Vampires Motorcycle Club, Inc. ...

Armed forces

• de Havilland Vampire, the second jet engined aircraft commissioned into the Royal Air Force during World War II
• HMS Vampire (disambiguation), naval ships from the United Kingdom or Australia
• "Vampire", a US naval verbal warning of inbound missiles, usually repeated three times and followed by count, heading and speed.

The de Havilland Vampire, or DH.100, was the second jet-engined aircraft commissioned into the Royal Air Force during World War II (the first being the Gloster Meteor), although it did not see combat in that conflict. ... At least three ships of Royal Navies of the United Kingdom and Australia have been named HMS Vampire or HMAS Vampire: Vampire (D68), launched in 1917, was a V-class destroyer. ...

Books and plays

• Vampire$, a 1991 novel by John Steakley
• The Vampyre, an 1819 short novel by John William Polidori
• Vampire (play), a 1973 drama by British playwright Snoo Wilson

Vampire$ is a novel by John Steakley. ... The Vampyre is a short novel written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. ... Snoo Wilson (1948-), born Andrew Wilson, began writing and directing plays as a student at the University of East Anglia in the late 1960s. ...

Film and television

• Vampyr a 1932 Danish film by Carl Theodor Dreyer starring Julian West
• Vampires (film), a 1998 film adaptation of Vampire$, directed by John Carpenter
• Vampires (1986 film), a 1986 film directed by Len Anthony and starring Duane Jones
• Les Vampires, a 1915 10-part silent film series directed by Louis Feuillade
• Vampyres (film) A 1974 erotic lesbian vampire film directed by José Ramón Larraz.
• Vampire (Buffyverse) vampires as depicted in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and related TV and writings
• Vampire (Underworld) Vampires in the Underworld (2003 film) film and its sequel.
• Vampire (Blade) Vampires in the Blade Trilogy
• Killer Bikini Vampire Girls film series:
  • Return of the Killer Bikini Vampire Girls
  • Killer Bikini Vampire Girls Strike Back
  • Killer Bikini Vampire Girls 3: A New Hope
  • Death of the Killer Bikini Vampire Girls

Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg (who appeared under the screen name Julian West). ... Vampires (also known as John Carpenters Vampires) is an action / horror film directed by John Carpenter in 1998. ... Vampires (also known as Abandon) is a 1986 horror film directed by Len Anthony. ... Les Vampires is a 1915 10-part silent movie. ... Vampyres (1974) is an erotic and bloody lesbian vampire film directed by Spanish film director José Ramón Larraz on location in England. ... José Ramón Larraz (1929) is Spanish filmmaker. ... In the fictional world of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, a vampire is a demon of a species which inhabits and animates a human corpse. ... Amelia, a vampire elder Vampires on the film Underworld are a race of immortals that live off of blood. ... Underworld is a 2003 horror/action movie (see 2003 in film) about the secret history of vampire and werewolves, where the latter are referred to as Lycan as an abbreviated form of lycanthrope. ... The leaders of the vampire House of Erebus. ... The Blade Trilogy DVD box set The Blade Trilogy is a movie trilogy starring Wesley Snipes. ...

Games

In games set in the universe created by White Wolf Game Studio:

• Vampire (World of Darkness), a fictional creature from the games and books from White Wolf Game Studio
• Vampire: The Masquerade, a roleplaying game
• Vampire: The Dark Ages, a roleplaying game
• Vampire: The Requiem, a roleplaying game
• Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, a collectible card game
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption, a 2000 computer roleplaying game
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, a computer roleplaying game

In Japan, the horror fighting game Darkstalkers is known as Vampire.-1... Vampire: The Masquerade (Revised Edition) cover. ... Vampire: The Dark Ages is a role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Game Studio in 1996. ... This articles content is specific to the fictional setting known as the World of Darkness. ... Vampire: the Eternal Struggle, published as Jyhad in the first edition and often abbreviated as VtES, is a multiplayer collectible card game set in the World of Darkness, published by White Wolf, Inc. ... Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is a role-playing computer game played from the first-person shooter perspective and is developed by Troika Games using Valve Softwares Source engine. ... Darkstalkers (Japanese: ヴァンパイア, Vampire) is a fighting game series created by Capcom, where various mythical and fantastic monsters (as well as from horror fiction) fight each other. ...

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