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• plural of vampire.

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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Instead, his literary vampires already tend to be aristocratic or beautiful and often both.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

From Lord Ruthven to Edward Cullen, vampires of print and film have long been ascribed Byronic glamour and charisma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“They’re trying to be good vampires; they’re trying to not hurt people,” Wiseman says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Port says they’ve decided that the two exist in the same world and that “ghosts can see vampires but vampires cannot see ghosts — otherwise we’d see ghosts all the time on ‘Eternally Yours.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

I was sitting in my room, researching vampires.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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