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A vampire's deadly plan for his guests is jeopardized when his dim-witted servant ruins their dinner. Main article: Vampire folklore by region Lithograph showing townsfolk burning the exhumed skeleton of an alleged vampire.Grebey, James (3 June 2019). "How Dungeons and Dragons reimagines and customizes iconic folklore monsters". SyfyWire. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020 . Retrieved 22 March 2020. A woman takes a DNA test which reveals her to be related to a newfound family. After being invited to a wedding, she soon fights to survive after learning the truth of her family history as well as their true intentions. The vampire or revenant first appeared in poems such as The Vampire (1748) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, Lenore (1773) by Gottfried August Bürger, Die Braut von Corinth ( The Bride of Corinth) (1797) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801), John Stagg's "The Vampyre" (1810), Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Spectral Horseman" (1810) ("Nor a yelling vampire reeking with gore") and "Ballad" in St. Irvyne (1811) about a reanimated corpse, Sister Rosa, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's unfinished Christabel and Lord Byron's The Giaour. [157] Further measures included pouring boiling water over the grave or complete incineration of the body. In Southeastern Europe, a vampire could also be killed by being shot or drowned, by repeating the funeral service, by sprinkling holy water on the body, or by exorcism. In Romania, garlic could be placed in the mouth, and as recently as the 19th century, the precaution of shooting a bullet through the coffin was taken. For resistant cases, the body was dismembered and the pieces burned, mixed with water, and administered to family members as a cure. In Saxon regions of Germany, a lemon was placed in the mouth of suspected vampires. [60] Ancient beliefs Lilith, 1887 by John Collier. Stories of Lilith depict her as a demon drinking blood. Though not the first literary representation of vampires, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, published in 1897, is arguably the most important work of vampire fiction. This tale of a Transylvanian count, who uses his supernatural abilities to cause havoc in England, inspired countless works thereafter. In the 20th century Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire, published in 1976, notably introduced the world to vampires that were brooding and self-loathing and squabbled like humans.

Jeffries, Stuart (18 January 2005). "Reality Bites". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021 . Retrieved 29 December 2007. Carolyn, Brown. 2002. Figuring the vampire: Death, desire, and the image. In The eight technologies of otherness. London: Routledge. A film in the Gothic/ romantic tradition. Universal Studios' remake of their 1931 film with Bela Lugosi.Wilson, Katharina M. (1985). "The History of the Word "Vampire" ". Journal of the History of Ideas. 46 (4): 577–583. doi: 10.2307/2709546. ISSN 0022-5037. JSTOR 2709546. A hardworking dad out to provide for his daughter uses a boring pool-cleaning job as a front for his real gig: hunting and killing vampires. A young woman and a local schoolteacher attempt to rid their small community of vampires that have been inadvertently unleashed. [15] Barber, Paul (March–April 1996). "Staking Claims: The Vampires of Folklore and Fiction". Skeptical Inquirer. 20 (2). Archived from the original on 1 July 2015 . Retrieved 29 June 2015.

Merticus has identified as a real vampire since 1997, and speaks eloquently and passionately about what vampirism is and what it is not. (“Not a cult, a religion, a dangerous practice, a paraphilia, an offshoot of the BDSM community, a community of disillusioned teenagers and definitely not what’s depicted in fictional books, movies or television.”) Marigny, Jean (1994). Vampires: The World of the Undead. " New Horizons" series. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-30041-1.A more-or-less faithful adaptation. Also known as Crypt of the Vampire in the U.S. and Crypt of Horror in the U.K. A horror/comedy film in which a group of college kids do a semester abroad in Romania and realize that if the partying does not kill them, then the vampires just might.

Mobs in Malawi have killed six people for being "vampires" ". VICE News. 19 October 2017. Archived from the original on 2 January 2018 . Retrieved 2 January 2018.The film's plot centers on the lives of a handful of New York vampires, interwoven together, and clashing in a violent finale. Yaltırık, Mehmet Berk; Sarpkaya, Seçkin (2018). Turkish: Türk Kültüründe Vampirler, English translation: Vampires in Turkic Culture (in Turkish). Karakum Yayınevi. pp.43–49.