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Use for questions about vampires, beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, usually by drinking their blood. Use either alongside a work tag when asking about vampires in said work or alongside the [story-identification] tag when looking to identify a work where vampires are a prominent aspect.

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Why don't all vampires turn into ashes?

In the Blade movie series, vampires turn into ashes when killed (or scratched?) by silver. In the first movie, Blade was in that vampire nightclub hunting Deacon Frost's friend, Quinn, who got ...
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What is the title of the book about vampires surviving at the end of Earth's existence?

Some years ago I've read an excerpt from a sci-fi book, I don't remember the name or the author, just the premise. I'd really like to find it now. What is the name/author of the book described below? ...
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Manga where a succubus/vampire meets human guy

This is a manga that I just read recently, but forgot the title, where a succubus/vampire meets human guy. I remember the ending, where the guy died because of the excessive energy being sucked by ...
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Book series: guy becomes a vampire, creates portals to travel between different worlds to avenge the girl who turned him

I think it was 2 years ago that I listened to an audio book or read this book. What I remember is a guy gets turned into a vampire after hooking with a girl. He doesn't realize he is a vampire and ...
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Protagonist travels using portals and teams up with wampires that ride big black beasts [duplicate]

Can't remember much about the books. Read them probably 20+ years ago. There were vampires, only I think they might have been called "wampires." They rode around on big black beasts. The protagonist ...
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Vampire short story

My friend in high school let me borrow a book of short stories. I think Ray Bradbury was one of the writers. Maybe Isaac Asimov? I want to read it again but I can't remember the title. There is a ...
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1980s Vampire Movie Name

I am trying to find out the name of a vampire movie that used to come on TV all the time when I was a kid. This was probably in the early to mid 90s, so I think the movie was from the 1980s. It was a ...
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Revenants in "Interview with the Vampire" and elsewhere: did Rice invent this description? [closed]

If I recall correctly, Rice describes revenants as vampires that become "brain damaged" (I am not sure if that was the term) due to them being bitten and entombed or buried and not being able to feed ...
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Looking for a movie in which vampires died from being thrown into the ocean

I remember watching a movie when I was a child (perhaps something made only for TV, I don't recall much from that), in which there were vampires that would die from being thrown into the sea. The ...
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A Vampire is still alive after mankind is gone

I think I am remembering 2 different stories but it was a long time ago so I might be thinking of (and mixing up) one story in my memory somehow. First is about a vampire who is the last living thing ...
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Name of a werewolf novel from the 80's

I was a big reader of the horror paperbacks from the 80's. I read so many that I can't remember specific titles. There's one in particular that I was trying to find or at least get the name of. The ...
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Cynical vampire and her underwear-stealing lover

I remember reading a series of three books where the female protagonist was a vampire and she was basically just trying to live her new life... death... undeath? Anyway, she lived in a sort of small ...
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Did Blade also have vampiric mental powers?

Rewatched Blade 2 the other day. The second to last fight when Blade falls in the blood pool, he recovers and is at full power defeating all the security guard. Afterwards Reinhardt tries to kill him ...
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A vampire book from a while ago?

I read this story many years ago. It was a vampire book that focused on a family, I believe. Drinking human blood wasn't required. The protagonist's grandmother brought him tiger's blood because it ...
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Book about vampire army underground

Book set in a small town, possibly in England, where an undead army is waiting in the sewer. Most of the book's story takes place inside a hotel, where they find a video tape. They also dissect a ...
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Story where vampires are created by drop absorbed on neck?

I have been trying to identify a book that I read maybe 25-30 years ago (1987-1992), in which there are vampire or vampire-like creatures, but instead of being created in the traditional way (e.g. ...
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When are "vampires" first mentioned in Harry Potter?

So, we have the vampire Sanguini who is briefly seen in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. “Harry, I’d like you to meet Eldred Worple, an old student of mine, author of Blood Brothers: My ...
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Does Dracula (or regular vampires) burn in sunlight if they're in bat form? [closed]

The title says it all. Dracula (and in some/many lores, normal vampires) are capable of bat form. What happens if a regular vampire or Dracula is exposed to sunlight in their bat form? The same ...
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Vampire vs werewolf novel with both on the cover (with non-matching shadows)

I'm looking for the name of a particular novel. It's a vampire vs werewolf novel, with the main protagonist being a werewolf. I do know the book is written in the first person narrative. It's set in ...
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80s-90s book about a high school student werewolf who meets a girl who becomes a vampire [duplicate]

The name currently escapes me, but the story goes along the lines of that the protagonist, a high school student, who is a werewolf, meets a new student by the name of Elise. Somewhere down the lines,...
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Novel about a high school student werewolf meeting a girl (Elise) who becomes a vampire

I'm searching for an old novel I read back in high school. It involved the main protagonist being a high school student who is also a Lycan (werewolf). It's set in high school, where she meets a new ...
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What vampire movie is this?

A guy is chosen to be the next Dracula, but he resists by trying to drink holy water and doing other things to resist. Eventually, he loses his reflection in the mirror; A girl helps this guy to ...
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Why didn't Ben kill Jinx?

In S05E17 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ben just stabs Jinx in the stomach after Ben accidentally reveals something. Why stab only? Why not kill?
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When Buffy comes to rescue Dawn, why do the vampires attack Buffy?

It's been about 2-3 years since I've seen Buffy. I finished Buffy seasons 1-4 and Angel season 1. I'm now watching Buffy season 5 and Angel season 2. In Buffy S05E02, when Buffy comes to rescue Dawn ...
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Looking for vampire-themed short story in 1960's sci-fi anthology

Library book, remembered as Orbit series, but it could have been Dangerous Visions or New Dimensions or even Year's Best SF. This was mid-60's, 1965-69, and the book was fairly new, possibly ...
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90's vampire anthology book, including a story about vampires having taken over, told by a vampire's servant, killed by a nun

I remember really loving this book when I read it in 7th grade. Though the only story in the book I explicitly remember is one about a future in which vampires have taken over the country and use ...
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1950s short story: alien ship and vampires

American short story that probably dates from the 1950s. An alien ship lands on Earth. The human race has been wiped out, possibly by the aliens themselves, although I'm not sure about this. It turns ...
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Story with Female Partial-Vampire Protagonist

I'm trying to determine the title (and author) of a short-story or possibly novel that I read during the late 90's or early 2000's. The general premise of the story is a young woman, seduced by a ...
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Modern good-guy vampire, female night-beat reporter?

There's a movie I think in the 90s that I can't name and can't find anywhere. There's a vampire that's a pretty good guy I think and a night-beat reporter. I think she was tipped onto him by strange ...
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If Elana turned off her humanity why did she still burn down her house

Some spoilers In The Vampire Diaries when elana finds out that Jermey died she wants to burn down her house cause it was full of memories if people she loved that had passed away so she wants to ...
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short story about a man who picks up a girl hitchhiker who is a werewolf or vampire

I read this story back in the '70s in an anthology and it stayed with me because it creeped me out so much as a kid. The final line in the story is that he was going to look at her teeth after ...
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Why does Klaus need Elena's blood to create Hybrids?

In The Vampire Diaries, we see a lot of supernatural things like vampires, werewolves, witches, doppelgängers and even hybrids. But what I don't get is why Klaus needs a doppelgängers blood to make ...
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Do vampires in Nirn need to sleep?

Do vampires in the Elder Scrolls universe need to sleep? The closest information I could find was this dialog from the game Skyrim, spoken by Lord Harkon: With the world in shadow, we would never ...
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Why don't more vampires in the Buffyverse use guns?

What's the in-universe explanation for why more vampires in the Buffyverse don't use guns? Darla does in the first season and here and there, we see vampires use guns. But most seem to eschew them. ...
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Why did this person die in The Vampire Diaries?

In The Vampire Diaries, when Damon gets the spell book he needs to bring back Katherine he drags Bonnie and Grams into helping him. But once they are inside Bonnie finds out vampires can't come out. ...
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Am I protected from vampire landlords?

According to Vampire Diaries, vampires need to be invited by the owner of the home to enter. But what if my landlord is a vampire? In the UK, if I am a leasehold owner of an apartment, I am one of ...
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How fast can a Twilight vampire heal from a gunshot?

Like, if a vampire was shot by a .50 caliber sniper rifle or an assault rifle. How fast would it take them to heal? Instantly? A few seconds/minutes? How about if a vampire was repeatedly shot by a ...
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Do most vampires have powers?

In the Twilight universe, some vampires gain no powers when they turn (you know, except for diamond-hard skin, strength enough to lift a car, regeneration, and being able to run at 100 miles per hour)....
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What was the first story in which crucifixes burned vampires?

In many stories, crosses or other religious symbols hurt vampires. In the Shadowhunters books by Cassandra Clare, vampires are weak to whatever religious symbols they believe in. In Buffy the Vampire ...
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Explorers on another planet are infected by a life form and start turning into vampires [duplicate]

I recall many years ago watching a vampire type movie on TV. It seemed to be a low budget film, but I know that at least one of the actors I had seen before. Unfortunately I can't give you a name. The ...
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Intentional parallels between Little Sisters of Eluria and Wolves of the Calla?

In the Dark Tower short story The Little Sisters of Eluria, Roland encounters a stray dog with an injured leg and a patch of fur on his chest that is shaped like a cross. The dog eventually attacks a ...
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Was the idea of Batman inspired by vampires?

When the character of Batman was first created, is there any indication that it was inspired or influenced by vampires? In-universe, here is a description of how Batman chose his identity, from the ...
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What happened to Tyler Lockwood since his appearance in The Originals?

He said something about the end of the vampire species, probably related to what's going on this season. Then we haven't seen him since. I stopped watching The Vampire Diaries, but apparently he's ...
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A black girl married a vampire prince

I read a really good book about a poor black girl living in a village ruled by vampires. She ends up being his destined person in an accidental ceremony. They marry but have problems because he can't ...
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What do werewolves and vampires think of each other in Middle-earth?

The TVTropes article Fur Against Fang has this to say about vampires and werewolves in Middle-earth: Werewolves despised vampires, considering them “rats with wings” and vampires regarded wolves ...
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Seeking Title/Author of Post-Apocalyptic Novel Involving Vampires

I want to read some of the work written by one of the tutors on my writing course but I don't know the title to any of his books and have heard rumours that he writes under a pseudonym. Today in class ...
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What is the first instance, outside of folklore, of a vampire hypnotising or otherwise supernaturally influencing someone's mind?

Vampiric mind control seems to be to be a common trope, but not one I've seen specifically in folklore. I'm wondering when it first appears outside of folklore. By supernaturally influencing I mean ...
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Do any vampires outside of the Twilight universe sparkle?

Vampires in Twilight are (in)famous for sparkling. Are there examples of vampires sparkling in published works not associated with Twilight? I am looking for a yes or no answer, rather than a list. ...
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Are vampires affected by blood-borne disease?

In The X-Files, S2E7 (the episode titled '3'), Mulder and Scully investigate a group of vampires. In the episode, Mulder is offered to drink one of the vampire's blood: KRISTEN: All day long I deal ...
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Buffy. The First imitates dead people

For those who have read Buffy comics knows that In the last season of Buffy (s07) The First (of all evil) imitates different dead people, because that is the only thing he can do. At one point he ...
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