vampires
Coffin-sleeping undead
Vampires is the plural of vampire—mythological creatures that rise from the dead to drink blood from the living.
In folklore and fiction, vampires are typically immortal, nocturnal, and repelled by garlic, sunlight, or crucifixes: The castle was said to be haunted by vampires.
Figuratively, a vampire is anyone who drains others' energy or resources: emotional vampires who exhaust everyone around them.
Legendary Transylvanian vampire
- Nosferatu1922 German vampire film
- undeadDeceased yet animate
- coffinBurial container for remains
- stakeSharpened post or share
garlic · crucifix · holy water · fangs · bloodsucker · immortal · nocturnal · bat
- TwilightVampire romance phenomenon
- BuffyInformal feminine name
- Anne RiceNovelist of elegant undead
- True BloodHBO supernatural drama
Edward Cullen · Stoker · Van Helsing · Carmilla · Underworld · Salem's Lot · Castlevania · Selene
Exemption from death
- strengthPower to exert force
- speedRate of motion
- hypnosisInduced trance state
- shapeshiftingTransforming into other beings
flight · telepathy · regeneration · glamour · compulsion · mesmerize · enthrall · seduction
Act of rotating
- sireMale animal parent
- fledglingInexperienced newcomer
- makerOne who produces
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
infection · curse · bite · conversion · spawn · progeny · lineage · bloodline
One exploiting a host
- exploiterOne who uses unfairly
- predatorOrganism that consumes others
- drainingDepleting one's reserves
- leechBlood-feeding aquatic worm
succubus · toxic · narcissist · manipulator · codependent · exhausting · soul-sucking · opportunist
Dracula
Legendary Transylvanian vampire
stake · garlic · crucifix · holy water · fangs · bloodsucker · immortal · nocturnal · bat · Transylvania
blood
Body's oxygen carrier
jugular · drain · thirst · prey · victim · hunt · fangs · puncture · sanguine · hemoglobin
Lestat
Edward Cullen · True Blood · Stoker · Van Helsing · Carmilla · Underworld · Salem's Lot · Castlevania · Selene · Spike
immortality
Exemption from death
shapeshifting · flight · telepathy · regeneration · glamour · compulsion · mesmerize · enthrall · seduction · agelessness
turning
Act of rotating
rebirth · infection · curse · bite · conversion · spawn · progeny · lineage · bloodline · creation
parasite
One exploiting a host
leech · succubus · toxic · narcissist · manipulator · codependent · exhausting · soul-sucking · opportunist · user
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- Vampiresfangs, coffin, undead, bloodsucker, Dracula
- Gothic horrorghost story, haunted houses, Dracula, Frankenstein, graveyard
- haunted attractionshaunted house, jump scare, haunted maze, jump scares, strobe light
- undeadzombie, ghost, lich, skeleton, ghoul
- YA booksyoung adult fiction, dystopian, fantasy, romance, coming-of-age
vampiresvampire hunters
Those who destroy bloodsuckers
prey · victims · humans · mortals · Van Helsing
vampiresangels
Divine winged messengers
guardian angels · saints · celestial beings · protectors · saviors
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- vampire batHematophagous flying mammal
- vampire fangsPointed teeth for biting
- vampire costumeUndead creature disguise
- vampire biteFanged creature's feeding wound
- energy vampireOne who exhausts others emotionally