Vamps in Literature
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This centuries-old vampire is best known for trying to find his long, lost love--Christiane. 

Who is Falke from Eye Killers?

100

This long-running CW show features brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore.

What is The Vampire Diaries?

100

These TWO vampire hunters attempt to maintain peaceful coexistence at their school Cross Academy.

Who are Yuki and Zero from Vampire Knight?

100

This vampire challenges the conventional vampire archetype by representing a powerful yet affectionate mother figure, redefining classic femininity within the gothic and horror genres.

Who is Lily Munster from The Munsters?

100

In this 1992 cult comedy, Dracula moves to Brooklyn and tries to find a bride.

What is Vampire in Brooklyn?

200

From this novel, a character says: “When this happens, when you must protect yourself or those in your care, the real sin would be in taking life easily. The only way to maintain any humanity is to remember the faces of those who’ve died. To carry them within ourselves so that whatever good might have remained in their spirits has someplace to dwell. You cannot kill, then forget their faces without forgetting some part of yourself.” 

What is The Gilda Stories and the character of Bird?

200

This vampire's aesthetic mirrors that of Billy Idol and partly shifts the tradition of a vampire being a solitary creature to one that hunts in packs.

Who is David from The Lost Boys?

200

This vampire is the son of Dracula and the healer, Lisa Tepes.

Who is Alucard from Castlevania?

200

In this film trilogy, vampirism starts from a plague with people being both born and made into vampires.

What is Underworld?

200

Historically, vampires have emerged as a result of___. (multiple answers will be accepted)

What are: fears of improper burials; unexplained diseases; death itself; superstition and culture; fear of contagion; imperial anxieties; gender fears; a fascination with the “Other; addiction; queerness; capitalism

300

This author established a race of vampire hybrids, creating a new society after nuclear fallout took hold.

Who is Richard Matheson?

300

This vampire is unique in that he doesn't drink blook but instead consumes his victim's energy. He also wears dorky sweaters.

Who is Colin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows?

300
In this series, there is a cult following that enjoy relations with vampires called ___.

What is True Blood and who are fangbangers?

300

In this film, a young boy is bullied to the extreme but finds friendship through a young vampire girl.

What is Let the Right One In?

300

This real-life 15th-century prince inspired the Dracula legend.

Who is Vlad the Impaler?

400

This character helped heal various vaqueros from susto after their encounters with ravenous vampires.

Who is Nena from Vampires of El Norte?

400

This vampire is pre-Dracula and specifically attacks the poverty-stricken lower class. She's also often known as the first lesbian vampire.

Who is Carmilla from Carmilla?

400

This woman's horrific torturing and murdering of 600 servants inspired later characterizations of vampires.

Who is Elizabeth Bathory?

400

This film stars William Marshall in the title role as an 18th-century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is turned into a vampire (and later locked in a coffin) by Count Dracula in the Count's castle in Transylvania in the year 1780.

What is Blacula?

400

This vampire is known in the comics as "Day Walker."

Who is Blade?

500

This vampire has somewhat nihilistic views when it comes to religion: "Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves."

Who is Lestat from Interview with the Vampire?

500

This vampire is referred to as "the bloofer woman" by the children she attacks.

Who is Lucy Westenra from Dracula?

500

Saya Otonashi is plagued with amnesia but soon finds herself having to defeat a league of monstrous vampires called ____. (Greek word for Bats)

Who is Blood + and what are Chiropteran? 

500

Name two vampire characters discussed in this class who are "vegetarians"--meaning they consume animal blood--or use artificial blood.

Who are: Edward Cullen from Twilight, Louis from Interview With the Vampire, Nick Knight from Nick Knight, Michael from Morbius?

500
List four characterizations of a vampire (other than blood drinking) that are often used to tell them apart from humans.

What are: pale, icy skin; animal transformation (bat, wolf, dog); sunlight aversion; lack of reflection; fear of garlic; sleeping in coffin; must be invited into a home; super strength; healing abilities; unnatural beauty; immortality/lack of aging; aristocratic (wealthy to some degree); brooding; monstrous characteristics; fear of cross or have some religious intolerance;

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