vampires

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1. Originally part of central European folklore, they now appear in horror stories as living corpses who need to feed on human blood. A vampire will leave his coffin at night, disguised as a great bat, to seek his innocent victims, bite their necks with his long, sharp teeth, and suck their blood.

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The most famous vampire is Count Dracula, from the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

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“We don’t know how they were doing business—and now we want to come in and supplant them as the new vampires sucking out wealth,” Naranjo said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

After his arrest he protested his innocence, but during his two-week trial it emerged that he was obsessed with vampires and wanted to become one in a quest for immortality.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

In the film, she returns to life to hunt down a magic book which has the potential to kill all vampires.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

What do vampires and Hollywood have in common?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

The only kind of people who would carry human blood around in a car were vampires!

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis