Vampire fiction covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in poetry, before becoming the stock figure of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori's The Vampyre (1819). The masterpiece of the genre is Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). This DVD cover for the film shows Lugosi in the role which would type-cast him for the rest of his career. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. ... Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the Gothic revival style, built by seminal Gothic writer Horace Walpole Gothic fiction is an important genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. ... John William Polidori (September 7, 1795 - August 24, 1821) is credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. ... The Vampyre is a short novel written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. ... Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. ...

History

Eighteenth century

Vampire fiction is rooted in the 'vampire craze' of the 1720s and 1730s, which culminated in the somewhat bizarre official exhumations of suspected vampires Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole in Serbia under the Habsburg Monarchy. One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire (1748) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove her that his teaching is better than her mother's Christianity. Furthermore, there have been a number of tales about a dead person returning from the grave to visit his/her beloved or spouse and bring them death in one way or another, the narrative poem Lenore (1773) by Gottfried August Bürger being a notable 18th century example. One of its lines Denn die Toten reiten schnell ("For the dead travel fast") was to be quoted in Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. A later German poem exploring the same subject with a prominent vampiric element was The Bride of Corinth (1797) by Goethe, a story about a young woman who returns from the grave to seek her betrothed: Peter Plogojovitz was a man who lived in the early eighteenth century, in a village named Kisilova in what was then called lower Hungary (NiederUngarn), but is probably now part of Serbia . ... Arnold Paole (d. ... Anthem Serbia() on the European continent() Capital (and largest city) Belgrade Official languages Serbian 1 Recognised regional languages Hungarian, Croatian, Slovak, Romanian, Rusyn 2 Albanian 3 Government Semi-presidential republic  -  President Boris Tadić  -  Prime Minister Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Establishment  -  Formation 812   -  Kingdom established 1217   -  Empire established 1346   -  Independence lost to... The Habsburg Monarchy, often called Austrian Monarchy or simply Austria, are the territories ruled by the Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg, and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine, between 1526 and 1867/1918. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      Christianity is... A narrative poem is an extended poem which tells a story. ... Gottfried August Bürger Gottfried August Bürger (January 1, 1748 - June 8, 1794), German poet, was born at Molmerswende near Halberstadt, of which village his father was the Lutheran pastor. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced [gø tə]) (August 28, 1749–March 22, 1832) was a German writer, politician, humanist, scientist, and philosopher. ...

From my grave to wander I am forced

Still to seek the God's long server'd link,

Still to love the bridegroom I have lost,

And the lifeblood of his heart to drink.

The story is turned into an expression of the conflict between Heathendom and Christianity: the family of the dead girl are Christians, while the young man and his relatives are still pagans. It turns out that it was the girl's Christian mother who broke off her engagement and forced her to become a nun, eventually driving her to death. The motive behind the girl's return as a "spectre" is that "e'en Earth can never cool down love". Goethe had been inspired by the story of Philinnion by Phlegon of Tralles, a tale from classical Greece. However, in that tale, the youth is not the girl's betrothed, no religious conflict is present, no actual sucking of blood occurs, and the girl's return from the dead is said to be sanctioned by the gods of the Underworld. She relapses into death upon being exposed, and the issue is settled by burning her body outside of the city walls and making an apotropaic sacrifice to the deities involved. Paganism is a catch-all term which has come to bundle together (by extension from its original classical meaning of a pre-Christian religion) a very broad set of not necessarily compatible religious beliefs and practices that are usually, but not necessarily, characterized by polytheism and, less commonly, animism. ... Phlegon, of Tralles in Asia Minor, Greek writer and freedman of the emperor Hadrian, flourished in the 2nd century AD. His chief work was the Olympiads, an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad (776 BC to AD 137), of which several chapters are... Parthenon This article is on the term Classical Greece itself. ... Hermes Psykhopompos: sitting on a rock, the god is preparing to lead a dead soul to the Underworld, Attic white-ground lekythos, ca. ... Apotropaic is an adjective that means intended to ward off evil or averting or combating evil and commonly refers to objects such as amulets and talismans or other symbols. ...

The first mention of vampires in English literature appears in Robert Southey's monumental oriental epic poem Thalaba the Destroyer (1797), where the main character Thalaba's deceased beloved Oneiza turns into a vampire, although that occurrence is actually marginal to the story. It has been argued (Leatherdale 1993: 46-9) that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel (written between 1797 and 1801, but not published until 1816) has influenced the development of vampire fiction: the heroine Christabel is seduced by a female supernatural being called Geraldine who tricks her way into her residence and eventually tries to marry her after having assumed the appearance of an old beloved of hers. The story bears a remarkable resemblance to the overtly vampiric story of Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872). Robert Southey, English poet Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) (pronounced ) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. ... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (August 28, 1814 – February 7, 1873) was an Irish writer of short stories and mystery novels. ...

Nineteenth century

In a passage in his epic poem The Giaour (1813), Lord Byron alludes to the traditional folkloric conception of the vampire as a being damned to suck the blood and destroy the life of its nearest relations: In mathematics, see epic morphism. ... Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha Painted by Eug̬ne Delacroix (1827) The Giaour is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. ... Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 РApril 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ...

Lord Byron in Albanian Costume, painted by Thomas Phillips in 1813

But first, on earth as vampire sent,
Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent:
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And suck the blood of all thy race;

There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
At midnight drain the stream of life;
Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
Must feed thy livid living corse:
Thy victims ere they yet expire
Shall know the demon for their sire,
As cursing thee, thou cursing them,
Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

Byron also composed an enigmatic fragmentary story concerning the mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst journeying in the Orient - as his contribution to the famous ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in 1816, between him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori (who was Byron's personal physician). This story provided the basis for "The Vampyre" (1819) by Polidori. Byron's own wild life became the model for Polidori's undead protagonist Lord Ruthven. Polidori's Lord Ruthven seems to be the first appearance of the modern vampire: an undead, vampiric being possessing a developed intellect and preternatural charm, as well as physical attraction. A. Asbjorn Jon has recognised that 'the choice of name [for Polidori's Lord Ruthven] is presumably linked to Lady Caroline Lamb's earlier novel Glenarvon, where it was used for a rather ill disguised Byronesque character.^[1]By contrast, the vampire of folklore was almost invariably thought of as a hideous, unappealing creature. Image File history File links Lord_Byron_in_Albanian_dress. ... Image File history File links Lord_Byron_in_Albanian_dress. ... He is a fag and an asshole. ... Year 1813 (MDCCCXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Villa Diodati is a manor in Cologny close to Lake Geneva. ... Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (French Lac Léman, le Léman, or Lac de Genève) is the second largest freshwater lake in Central Europe (after Lake Balaton). ... -1... Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ... John William Polidori (September 7, 1795 - August 24, 1821) is credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. ... The Vampyre is a short novel written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. ... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Lord Ruthven is a fictional character. ... The preternatural or praeternatural are phenomenon which appear outside (Latin praeter) the realm of nature as currently explained by science. ...

An unauthorized sequel to Polidori's tale by Cyprien Bérard called Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires (1820) was adapted by Charles Nodier into the first vampire stage melodrama, Le Vampire. Unlike Polidori's original story Nodier's play was set in Scotland. This in turn was adapted by the English melodramatist James Planché as The Vampire; or, the Bride of the Isles (1820) at the Lyceum (then called the English Opera House), also set in Scotland. Planché introduced the "vampire trap" as a way for the title fiend to appear in a dream at the beginning and then to vanish into the earth at his destruction. Nodier's play was also the basis of an opera called Der Vampyr by the German composer Heinrich Marschner who set the story in a more plausible Wallachia. Planché in turn translated the libretto of this opera into into English in 1827 where it was performed at the Lyceum also. Alexandre Dumas, père later redramatized the story in a play also entitled Le Vampire (1851). Charles Nodier (April 29, 1780 - January 27, 1844), was a French author. ... James Robinson Planché in 1835 James Robinson Planché (February 27, 1796 – May 30, 1880), was a dramatist, officer of arms and miscellaneous writer. ... A Lyceum can be an educational institution (often a school of secondary education in Europe), or a public hall used for cultural events like concerts. ... Der Vampyr (The Vampire) is a Romantic opera in two acts by Heinrich Marschner. ... Heinrich Marschner (b. ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. ...

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. Penny Dreadful can refer to: The 19th century British penny dreadful publications. ... Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood was a mid-Victorian gothic horror story by James Malcolm Rymer, first published in 1845. ... Sir Francis Varney is the main character in the book, Varney the Vampyre, by James Malcolm Rymer. ...

Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), is suspected by his housekeeper of being a vampire, in the final chapter of that novel. Heathcliff may refer to any of these : Heathcliff is a character from the book Wuthering Heights Heathcliff (musical) is a musical based on Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is a comic strip about a cat of the same name Dr. Heathcliff Cliff Huxtable, the lead character on The Cosby Show This is... Emily Brontë (July 30, 1818 - December 19, 1848) was a British novelist and poet, best remembered for her one novel Wuthering Heights, an acknowledged classic of English literature. ... For other uses, see Wuthering Heights (disambiguation). ...

Another famous vampire of this period is Sir Alan Raby who is the lead character of The Vampire (1852), a play by Dion Boucicault. Poster for a production of Boucicaults farce Contempt of Court, c. ...

Fascinating erotic fixations are evident in Sheridan le Fanu's classic novella Carmilla (1872) which features a female vampire with lesbian inclinations who seduces the heroine Laura whilst draining her of her vital fluids. Le Fanu's story is set in the Duchy of Styria. Such central European locations became a standard feature of vampire fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (August 28, 1814 – February 7, 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. ... Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. ... Styria was a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806, and a crownland of Austria-Hungary until it dissolved in 1918. ...

Another important example of the development of vampire fiction can be found in three seminal novels by Paul Féval: Le Chevalier Ténèbre (1860), La Vampire (1865) and La Ville Vampire (1874). Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (17 September 1817 - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... Year 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

Dracula

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) has been the definitive description of the vampire in popular fiction for the last century. Its portrayal of vampirism as a disease (contagious demonic possession), with its undertones of sex, blood, and death, struck a chord in a Victorian Britain where tuberculosis and syphilis were common. A decade before in 1888, the press had sensationalized Jack the Ripper's sexualized murders of prostitutes during his reign of terror in East London. Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or TuBerculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ... Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum. ... For the toll-free telephone number see Toll-free telephone number Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. ... A lust murder is a homicide in which the offender stabs, cuts, pierces, slashes, or otherwise mutilates the sexual organs or areas of the victims body. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... East London area East London is the name commonly given to the north eastern part of London, England on the north side of the River Thames. ...

The name Count Dracula was inspired by a real person, Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad the Impaler). Ţepeş was a notorious Wallachian (Romanian) prince of the 15th century, also known by as Vlad III Dracula. Unlike the historical personage, however, Stoker located his Count Dracula in a castle near the Borgo Pass in Transylvania, and ascribed to that area the supernatural aura it retains to this day in the popular imagination. Count Dracula is a famous fictional vampire, who appears in Bram Stokers Gothic horror novel Dracula. ... Portrait of Vlad III Vlad III Dracula (Also known as Vlad Ţepeş /tsepesh/ in Romanian or Vlad the Impaler) born November/December, 1431 - died December 1476, and reigned as Prince of Wallachia 1448, 1456-1462 and 1476. ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... Portrait of Vlad III in the Innsbruck Ambras Castle Vlad III Basarab (other names: Vlad Å¢epeÅŸ IPA: in Romanian, meaning Vlad the Impaler; Vlad Draculea in Romanian, transliterated as Vlad Dracula in some documents; Kazıklı Bey in Turkish, meaning Impaler Prince), (November or December, 1431 – December 1476). ... Borgo Pass retains its atmospheric appearance Borgo Pass is the road that linked Transylvania with Bukovina (Moldavia), still the main route today through the eastern range of the Carpathian Mountains. ... Map of Romania with Transylvania in yellow Transylvania (Romanian: or ; Hungarian: ; German: ; Bulgarian: ; Serbian: / or / ) is a historical region in central and western Romania. ...

Stoker likely drew inspiration from Irish myths of blood-sucking creatures. He was also influenced by Le Fanu's Carmilla. Le Fanu was Stoker's editor when Stoker was a theatre critic in Dublin, Ireland. Like Le Fanu, Stoker created compelling female vampire characters such as Lucy Westenra and the Brides of Dracula. The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branches of Celtic mythology. ... Dublin city centre at night WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ... Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. ... The Brides of Dracula are the three seductive female vampires, minions of the infamous King of Vampires, Count Dracula - who inhabit his castle in Transylvania with him, in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. ...

Stoker's vampire hunter and vampire expert Abraham Van Helsing was the archetype of all subsequent such characters in vampire literature. Helsing and Van Helsing redirect here. ...

Twentieth century

Most 20th-century vampire fiction draws heavily on Stoker's work. Early films such as Nosferatu and those featuring Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee are examples of this. Nosferatu, in fact, was so clearly based on Dracula that Stoker's widow sued for copyright infringement and won. As a result of the suit, most prints of the film were destroyed. She later allowed the film to be shown in the U.K. This article is about the 1922 silent film. ... Bela Lugosi as Dracula United States stamp. ... Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922) is an English actor known for his professional longevity and his distinctive basso delivery. ...

Though most later works of vampire fiction do not feature Dracula as a character, there are typically clear thematic ties. These include the association of the vampire with great wealth and erotic power, as well as frequent use of Gothic settings and iconography. Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the Gothic revival style, built by seminal Gothic writer Horace Walpole The gothic novel was a literary genre that belonged to Romanticism and began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. ...

Prior to the mid-1950s, vampires were usually presented as supernatural beings with mystical powers. Discussion of the transmission of vampirism was sketchy at best. This changed with the publication of I Am Legend by author Richard Matheson in (1954). The story of a future Los Angeles, overrun with undead cannibalistic/bloodsucking beings changed the genre forever. One man is the sole survivor of a pandemic of a bacterium that causes vampirism. He must fight to survive attacks from the hordes of nocturnal creatures, discover the secrets of their biology, and develop effective countermeasures. This was the first piece of fiction with an analytical slant towards vampires. Cover for the first edition of I Am Legend. ... Richard Burton Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American author and screenwriter, typically of fantasy, horror or science fiction. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about large epidemics. ... Phyla Actinobacteria Aquificae Chlamydiae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Lentisphaerae Nitrospirae Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Verrucomicrobia Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are unicellular microorganisms. ... Vampirism is a term used differently in popular culture and in zoology. ...

The 1981 novel and 1983 film The Hunger examined the biology of vampires, suggesting that their special abilities were the result of physical properties of their blood. The novel suggested that all vampires were not undead humans, but some were a separate species that had evolved alongside humans. This interpretation of vampires has since then been used in several science-fiction stories dealing with vampires, most famously the Blade movie series. The Hunger is a 1983 English language horror film. ... A blade is the flat part of a tool or weapon that normally has a cutting edge and/or pointed end typically made of a metal, most recently, steel intentionally used to cut, stab, slice, throw, thrust, or strike an animate or inainimate object. ...

The latter part of the twentieth centry saw the rise of multi-volume vampire epics. The first of these was gothic romance writer Marilyn Ross's Barnabas Collins series (1966-71) loosely based on the contemporary American TV series Dark Shadows. It also set the trend for seeing vampires as poetic tragic heroes rather than as the traditional embodiment of evil. This formua was followed in the popular Vampire Chronicles (1976-2003) series of novels by Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's massive Saint-Germain series (1978-). Ross, Rice and Yarbo set the trend for multi-volume vampire sagas which are now a stock feature of mass-market fiction (see below for list). Rice's work also saw the beginning of the convergence of traditional gothic ideas with the modern gothic subculture. Less formulaic is Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series (1992-) which returns to Stoker's Count Dracula and gives the genre a somewhat post-modern spin. Dan Ross was a bestselling Canadian novelist who wrote over 300 books in a variety of genres and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Clarissa Ross, Ann Gilmer, Dan Roberts, and W.E.D. Ross. ... Barnabas Collins was one of the feature characters in the ABC soap opera serial Dark Shadows. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Vampire Chronicles is a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolves around the character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman made into a vampire in the 18th century. ... Anne Rice (born on October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of gothic and later religious themed books. ... Chelsea Quinn Yarbo is one of only two women ever to be named as Grand Master of the World Horror Convention (2003). ... Gothic woman, traditional style, with big hair, spikes and piercings This article is about the contemporary goth/gothic subculture. ... Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. ... The Anno-Dracula series by Kim Newman is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which vampires are a common and more-or-less accepted part of society (as a result of Draculas reign in England, depicted in Anno_Dracula, the first in the series). ... Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated pomo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ...

Twenty-first century

Many books based on vampires are still published now, including several continuing series. Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles ended after many years, and many others have started up in the meantime. There are many supernatural romances with handsome vampires as the male leads, and erotic novels as well. Charlaine Harris began the "Southern Vampire Mysteries" in 2001. Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden fantasy series (2000-) features four different breeds of vampire. Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951 in Tunica, Mississippi) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. ... Jim Butcher is a New York Times Best Selling author[1][2] most known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. ... Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is the main character of Jim Butchers contemporary fantasy series, The Dresden Files and a television series of the same name based on the novels. ...

In the field of young adult literature Stephenie Meyer created an ongoing fantasy series about a teenager named Bella Swan and her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen, beginning with Twilight (2005). Ellen Schreiber created a young adult series about Raven Madison and her vampire boyfriend Alexander Sterling, starting with Vampire Kisses (2005). In Scott Westerfeld's young-adult novel Peeps (2005), the protagonist carries a contageous parasite that causes vampire-like behavior. Stephenie Meyer (born December 24, 1973) is the author of the book Twilight and its sequels New Moon and Eclipse. ... Isabella Marie Swan, known as Bella Swan, is the fictional main character of the novels Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer. ... Edward Cullen Edward Cullen is a character in the novels Twlight(novel) and New Moon(novel). ... Twilight in Denmark, just after sunset Twilight in the midwestern US featuring Venus as a brilliant evening star and the crescent moon Finland - Lapland at midnight in July Twilight in Acapulco with Long time Exposure Early twilight in California, before sunset Twilight is the time before sunrise or after sunset... Ellen Schreiber is a US author. ... Scott Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction and young adult literature. ... Look up Peeps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Japanese novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi's postapocalyptic vampire series (1983-), Vampire Hunter D has begun to be translated into English (2005-). A Japanese author famous for his horror novels. ... Vampire Hunter D ) is the title character of a series of novels by Japanese horror and pulp author Hideyuki Kikuchi. ...

The king of vampires Count Dracula also continues to inspire novelists. Elizabeth Kostova wrote a detailed historical horror book connecting Vlad the Impaler to Dracula called The Historian (2005). The most recent incarnation of the Count features in John Marks update of Bram Stoker's novel Fangland (2007). According to a review by Sinclair McKay in the Telegraph (18th August 2007) this novel is 'truly unsettling' and contains moments of 'jump-up-and-down-on-the-sofa-scariness'. Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author. ... The Historian is a 2005 novel by Elizabeth Kostova about a quest, reaching through the past five centuries, for the historical Dracula. ... John R. Marks, III is the mayor of the city of Tallahassee, Florida. ...

Traits of vampires in fiction

The traits of the literary vampire have evolved from the often repulsive figures of folklore. Fictional vampires can be romantic figures, often described as elegant and sexy (compare demons such as succubus and incubus). This is in stark contrast to the vampire of Eastern European folklore, which was a horrifying animated corpse. A bracket carved as a winged succubus on the outside of an English inn, suggesting that a brothel could have been found inside. ... Incubus, 1870 This article is about the type of demon called an Incubus. For other uses, see Incubus. ...

According to literary scholar Nina Auerbach in Our Vampires Ourselves, the influence of the moon was seen as dominant in the earliest examples of vampire literature:

"For at least fifty years after Planche's Vampire, the moon was the central ingredient of vampire iconography; vampire's solitary and repetitive lives consisted of incessant deaths and - when the moon shone down on them - quivering rebirths. Ruthven, Varney and Raby need marriage and blood to replenish their vitality but they turn for renewed life to the moon...a corpse quivering to life under the moon's rays is the central image of midcentury vampire literature; fangs, penetration, sucking and staking are all peripheral to its lunar obsession."

Later, Bram Stoker's Dracula was hugely influential in its depiction of vampire traits. However despite the novel's important contributions to vampire fiction, several popular traits of fictional vampires are absent. Count Dracula is killed by a kukri knife, not a wooden stake. The destruction of the vampire Lucy is a three-part process (staking, decapitation, and garlic in the mouth), not the simple stake-only procedure often found in later vampire stories. Dracula has the ability to change his shape at will, his featured forms in the novel being that of a wolf, bat, dust and fog. He can also crawl up and down the vertical external walls of his castle, in the manner of a lizard. One very famous trait Stoker added is the inability to be seen in mirrors, which is not found in traditional Eastern European folklore.

It is also notable in the novel that Dracula can walk about in the daylight, in bright sunshine, though apparently in discomfort and without the ability to use most of his powers, like turning into mist or a bat. He is still strong and fast enough to struggle with and escape from most of his male pursuers, in a scene in the book. Traditional vampire folklore does not usually hold that sunlight is fatal to vampires, though they are nocturnal. It is only with the film Nosferatu that daylight is first depicted as deadly to vampires.

A well-known set of special "powers" and weaknesses is commonly associated with vampires in contemporary fiction. There is a tendency, however, for authors to pick and choose the ones they like, or find more realistic, and have their characters ridicule the rest as absurd.

• Vampires are sustained by drinking blood. They do not need other food, water, or even oxygen. They are sometimes portrayed as being unable to eat human food at all, forcing them to either avoid public dining or mime chewing and eating to deceive their mortal victims. They often have a pale appearance (not the dark or ruddy skin of folkloric vampires), and their skin is cool to the touch.
• Fictional vampires are sometimes considered to be shape-shifters, with the ability to transform themselves into animals such as bats, rodents, and wolves. Some vampires are even described as being able to change into fog or mist. (this trait is becoming increasingly unpopular in vampire fiction)
• Some vampires can fly. This power may be supernatural levitation, or it may be connected to the vampire's shape-shifting ability.
• Vampires cast no shadow and have no reflection. In modern fiction, this may extend to the idea that vampires cannot be photographed. This concept originated with Stoker, who derived it from the idea that mirrors portray one's soul--something that most vampires lack.
• Some traditions hold that a vampire cannot enter a house unless he or she is invited in. Generally, a vampire needs be invited in only once and can then come and go at will.
• Some tales maintain that vampires must return to a coffin or to their "native soil" before sunrise to take their rest safely. Others place native soil in their coffins, especially if they have relocated. Still other vampire stories such as Le Fanu's Carmilla maintain that vampires must return to their coffins, but sleep in several inches of blood as opposed to soil.
• Werewolves are held to be Vampires most hated enemies. Many fans debate over which race is superior, and many video games and sources list a longstanding feud between the two races.
• As in folklore, the vampire of fiction can usually be warded off with garlic and symbols of Christian faith such as holy water, the crucifix, or a rosary). Some stories have extended this power to all water, all religious icons, any object through which faith is channeled, or religious icons that are significant to the vampire itself. For instance, a formerly Jewish vampire might recoil from the Star of David.
• A popular debate among fans is if it is possible for Vampires to bear children with human fathers, or for human females to become impregnated from Vampire males.
• A vampire may be destroyed by a wooden stake (preferrably made of white oak) through the heart, decapitation, drowning, or incineration. Older folklore states a vampire's head must be removed from its body, the mouth stuffed with garlic and holy water or relics, the body drawn and quartered, then burned and spread into the four winds, with the head buried on hallowed ground. Though only recently surfacing in modern day popular culture (i.e., the 1970 film Count Dracula, Blade, Dracula 2000, etc.) vampires have no weaknesses to silver, iron or any unconsecrated metal. However, one of the most common means for killing the fictional vampire is exposure to daylight. This idea seems to have originated with the 1922 film Nosferatu, but vulnerability to sunlight has become popularly accepted as a standard vampire weakness. Still, the magnitude of vulnerability varies with the story. Modern folklore adds the notion that vampires can go out in daylight by covering up in black or heavy clothing. In Stoker, for example, Dracula is merely weakened, not destroyed, by sunlight.
• Some fictional vampires are fascinated with counting, an idea derived from folk stories about vampires being compelled to stop and count any spilled grain they find in their path. The most famous fictional counting vampire is likely Muppet character Count von Count on television's Sesame Street. Other examples include a fifth season episode of the X-Files titled Bad Blood, and the Discworld novel, "Carpe Jugulum" by Terry Pratchett.
• In most T.V. shows and movies, a sign that someone is a vampire is by wearing a Cape, Cloak, or something else with a high collar to obscure the bite marks. Many modern vampires wear trench coats to maintain their spooky image.
• Some modern fiction vampires are portrayed as having magical powers beyond those originally assigned by myth, typically also possessing the powers of a witch or seer. Such examples include Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Olivia Nightshade from The Nightshade Chronicles [1].

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Vampire hybrids

The Dhamphir, the offspring of a vampire and a human, known from Serbian folklore (Trow 2003: 56-57), has been popularized in recent fiction. The following is a list of such vampire hybrids in written fiction, by order of appearance by year: A Zamphir or Dhampir (also dhampire, dhamphir or dhampyr) in Balkan folklore and in vampire fiction is the child of a vampire father and a human mother, with vampire powers but none of the weaknesses. ...

• Blade originally published in comic books by Marvel Comics (1973), Blade was a dhampir, a half-vampire, half-human, with the strengths of the vampire, but none of their weaknesses. Contrary to the usual method of having a vampiric father and human mother, Blade's mother was bitten while she was in late pregnancy, changing Blade in the womb.
• D, a half-vampire from the novel/movie series Vampire Hunter D, is a round-personality protagonist that defies his "natural tendencies", instead hunting vampires in a post-apocalyptic world. (1980's onward)
• The protagonist of Dhampire: Stillborn, a graphic novel scripted by Nancy Collins (1997), is a dhampir.
• Paifu, a character from the manga series Cowa! (late 1997)
• Darren Shan of Cirque Du Freak is a kind of unofficial half-vampire. The term dhampir is not used, however. (2000)
• Alek Knight, the antihero of the Slayer series by Karen Koehler is born from an unknown human mother and a vampire father. He unwillingly hunts vampires for a secret sect of the Roman Catholic Church before going freelance. (2001)
• Magiere, by Barbara Hendee, the Noble Dead Saga revolves around another dhampir, Magiere, daughter of a vampire father and unwilling human mother. (2001)

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Literature

• The Giaour by Lord Byron (1813).
• Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816).
• "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori (1819).
• La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier (1836).
• Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer (or Thomas Peckett Prest) (1847).
• "The Mysterious Stranger" by Anonymous. Translated from the original German, this vampire tale appeared in the English magazine Odds and Ends in (1860).
• Le Chevalier Ténèbre (Knighshade) by Paul Féval (1860).
• La Vampire (The Vampire Countess) by Paul Féval (1865).
• Carmilla (1872) by Sheridan le Fanu.
• La Ville Vampire (Vampire City) by Paul Féval (1874).
• Manor by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1884).
• The True Story of the Vampire by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock by (1894).
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897).
• The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck (1907).
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954).
• "Pages from a Young Girl's Diary" (1973) by Robert Aickman.
• 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (1975).
• "The Night Flyer" by Stephen King
• The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (1980).
• The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (1981).
• Castle Dubrava (1982) by Yuri Kapralov
• The Curse of the Vampire (1982) by Karl Alexander.
• Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin (1982).
• The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford (1983)
• The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers (1989).
• Vampire$ by John Steakley (1990).
• The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause (1991).
• Darkness on the Ice by Lois Tilton (1993).
• Pam Keesey edited two anthologies of lesbian vampire stories, Daughters of Darkness (1993) and Dark Angels (1995).
• The books I, Strahd, Memories of the Vampire (1993) and I, Strahd, the War with Azalin by P.N. Elrod tells the tale of the vampire lord Strahd von Zarovich who occupies the castle Ravenloft.
• The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires by Brian Stableford (1996).
• Dracula the Undead by Freda Warrington (1997). Commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula for the centenary of the latter's first publication.
• Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (1998).
• Cowboy and The Vampire: A Very Unusual Romance by Clark Hays(1999)
• Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One Slip In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist (2002).
• A Coldness in the Blood by Fred Saberhagen (2002)
• Sunshine by Robin McKinley (2003).
• What Big Teeth You Have: A Vampire Tale by Jimmy Autrey (2004).
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005).
• Fledgling by Octavia Butler (2005).
• The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo (2006).

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Vampire fiction series

There are several recent series in vampire fiction, of variable literary quality. They tend to either take the form of direct sequels (or prequels) to the first book published or detail the ongoing adventures of particular characters. For other uses, see Sequel (disambiguation). ... A prequel is a work that portrays events which include the structure, conventions, and/or characters of a previously completed narrative, but occur at an earlier time. ...

• Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series (2000-). It should be noted that not all of these novels concern themselves largely with vampires.
• Nancy A. Collins' Sonja Blue series (1989-)
• Christine Feehan's Dark series (1999-)
• Christopher Golden's Saints and Shadows Saga (1994-2003)
• Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series (1993-)
• Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) series (2001-)
• E. E. Knight's Vampire Earth series
• P. N. Elrod'sVampire Files
• Karen Koehler's Slayer series (2002-4)
• Brian Lumley's Necroscope series (1986-)
• Christopher Moore's A Love Story series (1995-2007)
• Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series (1992-)
• Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series (1976-2003)
• Marilyn Ross's Barnabas Collins series (1966-71)
• Fred Saberhagen's Vlad Tepes series (1975-2002)
• Maggie Shayne's Wings in the Night series
• Whitley Strieber's Hunger series (1981-2002)
• Gene Wolfe's Urth: Book of the Short Sun trilogy
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain series (1978-)
• Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt casefiles series (2005-)
• Raven Dane's Legacy of the Dark Kind series (2005-)
• Freda Warrington's Bloodwine series (1992-5)

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Juvenile and young adult fiction

• The Little Vampire series, by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1979-)
• The "Bunnicula" series by Deborah Howe and James Howe (1979-)
• Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire series (1994-)
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes novels In the Forests of the Night (2000), Demon in My View (2001), Midnight Predator (2002), and Shattered Mirror (2003).
• Saga of Darren Shan also known as the Cirque Du Freak series (2001-5) series by Darren Shan.
• Ellen Schreiber's Vampire Kisses series (2005-)
• Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series (2005-)
• Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (2005)
• The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld (2006)
• Blue Bloods by Melissa de la cruz (2006).
• Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2007).

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Comic Books

Comic books and graphic novels which feature vampires include Vampirella (1969), Tomb of Dracula (1972), I...Vampire (1981), Blade (1973), 30 Days of Night (2002), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight (2007). Proinsias Cassidy, the supporting lead male in Garth Ennis' comic series Preacher is a vampire of Irish origin (1995). In addition, many major superheroes have faced vampire supervillains at some point. I...Vampire was a 24 issue series that appeared in House of Mystery between 1981 and 1983. ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight is a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. ... Garth Ennis (born January 16, 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the DC/Vertigo series Preacher, co-created with artist Steve Dillon. ... Preacher was a comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, with painted covers by Glenn Fabry. ...

Notes and references

• Christopher Frayling (1992) Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (1992) ISBN 0-571-16792-6
• Freeland, Cynthia A. (2000) The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror. Westview Press.
• Holte, James Craig. (1997) Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations. Greenwood Press.
• A. Asbjorn Jon, 'Vampire Evolution', in Metaphor (3, 2003), pp.19-23.
• Leatherdale, C. (1993) Dracula: The Novel and the Legend. Desert Island Books.
• Melton, J. Gordon. (1999) The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Visible Ink Press.
• M. J. Trow (2003) Vlad the Impaler. Sutton: Stroud.

Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture. ... The Vampyre is a short novel written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. ...

External links

• Vampire fiction bibliography