Lore & Mythology
According to vampire folklore, what method is commonly used to kill a vampire?
Stake through the heart
This famous vampire lives in a castle in Transylvania and receives Jonathan Harker as a guest.
Count Dracula
In what year was Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend published?
What film-making technique does What We Do in the Shadows (2019) use to make its fictional vampires appear as if they are being documented in real life?
The mockumentary format, which imitates a documentary using interviews, direct address, and observational footage.
According to vampire lore, what traditional item is often used to ward off vampires?
Garlic/Crucifix
In Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire," who is the vampire narrator who recounts his life story to a young journalist?
Louis de Pointe du Lac.
This Irish author wrote the novel Dracula, published in 1897.
Bram Stoker
What is the name of the energy-vampire in the TV-show What we do in the Shadows (2019)?
Colin Robinson
What real-life events or misunderstandings may have contributed to the origin of vampire folklore?
Unexplained deaths, diseases, and misunderstandings about how the body changes after death.
Who said this phrase "You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature"?
Carmilla
Why can’t the villagers in Varney the Vampire (1845–1847) burn Clara, and what must they do to destroy her instead?
The heavy rain prevents them from burning Clara, so they must bury her at a crossroads with a stake through her body.
Which movie, released in 1994, features Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise as vampires, and is based on a novel by Anne Rice?
"Interview with the Vampire"
In what region and period do our modern ideas of vampirism originate?
18th-century Eastern Europe.
Abraham Van Helsing
What is the literary genre of cheap, sensational nineteenth-century publications such as Varney the Vampire called?
Penny Dreadfuls
In Interview with the Vampire, why does Lestat turn Claudia into a vampire, and how does this change the relationship between the characters?
Lestat turns Claudia to give Louis a reason to stay. Claudia becomes their vampire daughter figure, creating a family dynamic between the three.
Which three characteristics of vampires did Bram Stoker invent?
Fear of crucifixes, weakness in sunlight, and the vampire's inability to see their reflection.
In Twilight, which vampire sparkles in the sunlight instead of bursting into flames, much to the disappointment of traditional vampire fans?
Edward Cullen
An iconic lesbian vampire that disregards patriarchy (men's system of power) and most likely an inspiration for Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
Carmilla (1872)
Which 2012 animated movie features Dracula as a hotel owner who hosts monsters to protect them from the human world, but faces a dilemma when a human stumbles upon the hotel and falls for his daughter?
"Hotel Transylvania"