Vampire (disambiguation)
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A vampire
is an undead creature in legend and fiction.
Vampire may also refer to:
Mythologies
Vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
is an undead creature in legend and fiction.
Vampire may also refer to:
General
- Vampire batVampire batVampire bats are bats whose food source is blood, a dietary trait called hematophagy. There are three bat species that feed solely on blood: the Common Vampire Bat , the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat , and the White-winged Vampire Bat .All three species are native to the Americas, ranging from Mexico to...
, a bat that feeds on blood - Vampire FinchVampire FinchThe Vampire Finch is a small bird native to the Galápagos Islands. It is a very distinct subspecies of the Sharp-beaked Ground Finch endemic to Wolf and Darwin Islands....
, a bird that occasionally feeds on blood - Vampire SquidVampire SquidThe vampire squid is a small, deep-sea cephalopod found throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world. Unique retractile sensory filaments justify the Vampire Squid's placement in its own order: Vampyromorphida , which shares similarities with both squid and octopuses...
, a small deep sea creature - Energy vampire, a being said to have the ability to feed off "life force"
- Vampire lifestyleVampire lifestyleThe vampire lifestyle or vampire subculture is an alternative lifestyle, based on the modern perception of vampires in popular fiction. The vampire subculture has stemmed largely from the goth subculture, but also incorporates some elements of the sadomasochism subculture...
, a modern alternative lifestyle
Science and technology
- Vampire (car)Vampire (car)The Vampire is a jet-propelled car that currently holds the outright British land speed record, driven by Colin Fallows to a mean speed of on July 5, 2000 at Elvington, Yorkshire, England....
, a turbojet-propelled car, holder of the British land speed record - Vampire numberVampire numberIn mathematics, a vampire number is a composite natural number v, with an even number of digits n, that can be factored into two integers x and y each with n/2 digits and not both with trailing zeroes, where v contains precisely all the digits from x and from y, in any order, counting multiplicity...
, a mathematical concept concerning factoring - Vampire power or standby power, the electric power consumed when in standby mode
- Vampire (roller coaster)Vampire (roller coaster)Vampire is an Arrow suspended swinging roller coaster at Chessington World of Adventures theme park in London, England. It opened in 1990 in the new Transylvania area, and was designed by John Wardley. It originally featured bat-themed trains, which were later replaced with floor less models. The...
, a roller coaster at Chessington World of Adventures - Vampire tapVampire tapA vampire tap is a device for physically connecting a station to a network that uses 10BASE5 cabling...
, a device for physically connecting a station to a network - Vampire (theorem prover), an automated theorem prover
Military
- Vampire dugoutVampire dugoutThe Vampire dugout , was a First World War underground brigade headquarters, located near the Belgian village of Zonnebeke. It was created below Flanders by the 171 Tunnelling Company of the Corps of Royal Engineers, after the Third Battle of Ypres/Battle of Passchendaele...
, a World War I underground brigade headquarters on the Western Front, in Belgium - de Havilland VampireDe Havilland VampireThe de Havilland DH.100 Vampire was a British jet-engine fighter commissioned by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Following the Gloster Meteor, it was the second jet fighter to enter service with the RAF. Although it arrived too late to see combat during the war, the Vampire served...
, a British jet engined fighter aircraft - HMS VampireHMS VampireTwo ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Vampire:* HMS Vampire, a V class destroyer launched in 1917 and serving with the Royal Navy until 1933, when she was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy., the lead ship of her class of submarines. Served from 1942 until her scrapping in 1950....
, two British Royal Navy ships - HMAS VampireHMAS VampireTwo ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Vampire., a V class destroyer launched for the Royal Navy in 1917. As HMS Vampire, she served in World War I, then was transferred to the RAN in 1933. As HMAS Vampire, she served in World War II, and was sunk by air attack off Ceylon on 9...
, two Royal Australian Navy ships - Vickers VampireVickers Vampire-Bibliography:*Andrews, C.F and Morgan, E.B. Vickers Aircraft since 1908. London:Putnam, Second edition 1988. ISBN 0 85177 815 1.*Bruce, J.M. War Planes of the First World War: Volume Three Fighters. London:Macdonald, 1969. ISBN 356 01490 8....
, an aeroplane of the First World War - Zielgerät 1229Zielgerät 1229The Zielgerät 1229 , also known in its code name Vampir, was an active infrared device developed for the Wehrmacht for the Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle, intended primarily for night use.-Design:...
, code name Vampir, an infra-red device for a German assault rifle - RPG-29RPG-29The RPG-29 is a Russian rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Adopted by the Soviet Army in 1989, it was the most recent weapon of its type to be adopted by the Russian military before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The RPG-29 has since been supplemented by other rocket-propelled systems, such...
, code name Vampir, a Russian man portable, shoulder fired anti-tank grenade launcher - Aboard NATO vessels, the use of the brevity code 'Vampire' indicates incoming hostile anti-ship missiles. The warning is usually repeated twice, as is standard for all military warnings issued in combat.
Fiction
- Vampire KnightVampire Knightis a shōjo manga and anime series written by Matsuri Hino. The series premiered in the January 2005 issue of LaLa magazine and is still on-going. Chapters are collected and published in collected volumes by Hakusensha, with eleven volumes currently released in Japan. The manga series is licensed in...
, a shōjo manga and anime series written by Matsuri HinoMatsuri Hinois a Japanese manga artist born in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. She made her professional debut in the September 10, 1995 issue of LaLa DX with the one-shot title .Hino Matsuri is also well known for her anime/manga series 'Vampire Knight.'-Bibliography:... - Vampire$Vampire$Vampire$ is a 1990 horror novel by John Steakley. A dark fantasy with a contemporary setting, the novel concerns a company called Vampire$, Inc...
, a 1991 novel by John Steakley - The VampyreThe Vampyre"The Vampyre" is a short story or novella written in 1819 by John William Polidori which is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction...
, an 1819 short novel by John William Polidori - Vampire (1920 film) with film director Alice Guy-BlachéAlice Guy-BlachéAlice Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer filmmaker who was the first female director in the motion picture industry and is considered to be one of the first directors of a fiction film.-Early years:...
- VampyrVampyrVampyr is a 1932 horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from J. Sheridan Le Fanu's collection of supernatural stories In a Glass Darkly. Vampyr was funded by Nicolas de Gunzburg who starred in the film under...
, a 1932 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer starring Julian West - Vampires (film)Vampires (film)Vampires is a western-horror film directed by John Carpenter in 1998. Adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley, the film stars James Woods as Jack Crow, leader of a Catholic Church-sanctioned team of vampire hunters...
, a 1998 film adaptation of Vampire$, directed by John Carpenter - Vampires (1986 film)Vampires (1986 film)Vampires is a 1986 horror film directed by Len Anthony. The film stars Orly Benyar, John Bly, Jackie James, Duane Jones, Kit Jones, and Robin Michaels. The plot revolves around mysterious events at a private girls' school in which the students' life-energy is drained by a mad scientist's machine....
, a 1986 film directed by Len Anthony and starring Duane Jones - Les VampiresLes VampiresLes Vampires is a 1915/1916 ten-part silent film serial. It was written and directed by Louis Feuillade and stars Musidora as "Irma Vep" a femme fatale whose name is a suspicious anagram of "vampire." The serial is set in Paris and follows the exploits of a gang of master criminals who call...
, a 1915 10-part silent film series directed by Louis Feuillade - Vampyres (film)Vampyres (film)Vampyres is an erotic and bloody lesbian vampire film directed by Spanish film director José Ramón Larraz on location in England.-Plot:...
, a 1974 erotic lesbian vampire film directed by José Ramón Larraz - Vampire SecretsVampire SecretsVampire Secrets is a 2006 docudrama about the mythology and lifestyle of vampires, produced by Indigo Films for the History Channel, and narrated by Corey Burton....
, a 2006 television documentary about vampires - Vampire (card game)Vampire (card game)Vampire is a vampire-themed card game designed by Reiner Knizia. The goal is to meld sets of vampires from six different suits. The game ends when all cards have been drawn, or a player has melded vampires from all six suits, and the winner is the player with the most points....
, a game designed by Reiner Knizia - One of several properties developed by White Wolf, Inc.:
- Vampire: The Dark AgesVampire: The Dark AgesVampire: The Dark Ages is a role-playing game originally published by White Wolf Game Studio in 1996. Later, in 2002, the gameline was replaced by Dark Ages: Vampire...
, a roleplaying game - Vampire: The Eternal StruggleVampire: The Eternal StruggleVampire: The Eternal Struggle, published as Jyhad in the first or "Limited" edition and often abbreviated as VTES, V:TES or V:tES, is a multiplayer collectible card game set in the World of Darkness. It is published by White Wolf, Inc....
, a collectible card game - Vampire: The MasqueradeVampire: The MasqueradeVampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing game. Created by Mark Rein·Hagen, it was the first of White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness role-playing games, based on the Storyteller System and centered around vampires in a modern gothic-punk world....
, a roleplaying game - Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, a computer roleplaying game
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, a computer roleplaying game
- Vampire: The RequiemVampire: The RequiemVampire: The Requiem is a role-playing game published by White Wolf, set in the World of Darkness, and the successor to the Vampire: The Masquerade line. It was first released in August 2004, together with a new core rule book for the World of Darkness...
, a roleplaying game - Vampire: The Victorian Age, a roleplaying game
- Vampire: The Dark Ages
- Vampire (video game), also known as Darkstalkers, a series of horror fighting games
- A Vampyre StoryA Vampyre StoryA Vampyre Story is a 2008 point-and-click adventure game developed by Autumn Moon Entertainment for Windows, published by Crimson Cow. The game is set in Europe during the 1890s, and follows a young female opera singer turned vampire as she attempts to make the journey back home to Paris in search...
, a 2008 point-and-click adventure game for PC
Mythologies
- Vampire (World of Darkness)Vampire (World of Darkness)A vampires is a fictional creature in the role-playing games and books based on the World of Darkness setting by White Wolf Game Studio. The concept of a vampire in WoD takes many elements from the folklore surrounding traditional vampires in Western culture, and adds a number of specific features...
, a creature in the World of Darkness roleplaying game - Vampire (Marvel Comics)Vampire (Marvel Comics)Vampires are fictional characters found in the Marvel Universe.-History:They were created roughly 15,000 years ago when a small band of sorcerers from the legendary city of Atlantis discovered a book known as the Darkhold, an indestructible text filled with arcane lore and dark magic written...
, vampires in the Marvel comic universe - Vampire (Stephen King)Vampire (Stephen King)Vampires appear throughout Stephen King's fictional multiverse. They appear in the novels Salem's Lot, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower; the short stories "One for the Road", "The Night Flier", "Popsy", and "The Little Sisters of Eluria"; and are mentioned in a number of...
, vampires in the works of Stephen King - Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), vampires in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and its spin-offs
- Vampire (Dungeons & Dragons)Vampire (Dungeons & Dragons)In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the vampire is an undead creature. A humanoid or monstrous humanoid can become a vampire, and looks as it did in life, with pale skin, haunting red eyes, and a feral cast to its features...
, creature in the role playing game - Vampire (Blade)Vampire (Blade)In Marvel Comics' Blade universe, Vampires are a sub-offshoot of humanity descended from Drake , a Sumerian who was worshipped as a god...
, the creatures in the Blade films - Vampire (Middle-earth)Vampire (Middle-earth)In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings, the term vampire is used loosely to designate mysterious bat-like creatures serving Morgoth and Sauron. Almost nothing is known about them, though Tolkien does name one: Thuringwethil. Sauron also took the shape of a vampire on at least one occasion, while he...
, bat-like creatures in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien - Vampire (Kinoko Nasu)Vampire (Kinoko Nasu)In the world created by Kinoko Nasu and used in various works by Type-Moon, the term Vampire is used as a common denominator for most kinds of bloodsucking species predominant in occidental regions...
, vampire mythology in the works of Kinoko Nasu
Entertainment
- "Vampires" (song)Vampires (song)"Vampires" is a song by American heavy metal band Godsmack. It appeared as the ninth track on the band's second studio album, Awake, in 2000. "Vampires" is an instrumental with some dialogue from a television show named Mysterious Forces Beyond...
, a song by GodsmackGodsmackGodsmack is an American heavy metal band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band is composed of founder, frontman and songwriter Sully Erna, guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill, and drummer Shannon Larkin... - "Vampires" (Dukes song)Vampires (Dukes song)"Vampires" is a pop/rock track by New Zealand rock band the Dukes. It's the first single to be taken from the Dukes forthcoming sophomore LP "Still Life", after the band decided against including their two previous singles on this release....
, a 2009 song by the Dukes - "Vampires", a 2010 song by Gucci ManeGucci ManeRadric Davis , better known by his stage name Gucci Mane, is an American rapper. He debuted in 2005 with Trap House and followed with albums such as Hard to Kill in 2006, Trap-A-Thon and Back to the Trap House in 2007. In 2009, his second studio album The State vs. Radric Davis was released...
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