Literature
A vampire invades a small town in Maine in this Stephen King novel.
Salem’s Lot
The most famous real-life inspiration for vampire myths comes from this 15th century ruler of Wallachia, Romania.
Vlad Draculea, aka Vlad the Impaler
This “Wildcats” and “White Men Can’t Jump” performer fought vampires in the movie “Blade”
Wesley Snipes
The European belief that vampires were compelled to count spilled seeds or grains led to the creation of this Sesame Street character.
Count von Count
This is the name of Edward and Bella’s biology teacher.
Mr. Banner (book) / Mr. Molina (movie)
In Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” after Lucy Westenra mysteriously begins to waste away, this Dutch doctor recognizes that she was the victim of a vampire attack.
Abraham Van Helsing
Creatures with vampiric characteristics date back as far as this ancient society where stories were told of people that were attacked in their sleep and drained of bodily fluids.
Ancient Greece
This actor is considered the most iconic portrayal of Count Dracula in the 1931 film “Dracula”
Bela Lugosi
It was believed that this weapon, when thrust through the heart (or sometimes the leg) of a vampire, would destroy it.
A wooden or iron stake
This vampire was influenced by Victoria to create a newborn army to take on the Cullens in Eclipse.
Riley Biers
This novel by American author Anne Rice was adapted into a film starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, and Kirsten Dunst, and is considered one of the first depictions of the sympathetic vampire.
Interview With the Vampire
This 16th Century Hungarian Noblewoman was an accused serial killer who became part of national folklore for legends describing that she bathed in the blood of virgins to retain her youth.
Elizabeth Bathory
The 1978 vampire film “Martin” was a significant independent addition to the genre directed by this filmmaker who was better-known for zombie movies.
George A. Romero
One method of becoming a vampire is to have this animal jump over your corpse.
Cat
In The Twilight Saga, this is the largest and most powerful coven in the vampire world, and enforces the laws of the vampire world.
The Volturi
This novel by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the earliest works of vampire fiction and established the vampiric femme fatale.
Carmilla
In the late 1800s, Rhode Island, several deaths in one family to tuberculosis caused mass hysteria leading to this woman being accused of vampirism.
Mercy Brown
This 1922 movie was the first vampire movie ever made.
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
There are a small subset of people that claim to be vampires that do not drink blood or bodily fluids, but instead drain this from their victims.
Psychic Energy
This Muse song is played during the iconic Twilight baseball scene.
Supermassive Black Hole
Not a novel, but this uninspiring-named German poem is where Vampiric figures appeared in fiction during the 18th century.
Der Vampyr (The Vampire)
With symptoms including insomnia and aversions to light and water, an outbreak of this lethal disease contributed to the vampire hysteria in Eastern Europe.
Rabies
Released in 1992, this movie about a schoolgirl turned vampire killer spawned a much more popular TV series five years later.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
It was a common European belief that garlic could kill a vampire. The belief could have been derived from victims of this disease, which results in pale skin and larger-looking teeth due to shrinking gums.
Porphyria
In The Twilight Saga, these are the two love interests for Bella Swan.
Edward Cullen and Jacob Black