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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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Teenagers everywhere fell under the spell of Rice’s vampires in the mid-‘80s with an ardor that AMC’s “The Vampire Lestat” radiates through the devotion of his superfans.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Here the band of vampires led by David is an actual rock band, of a gothic style befitting its members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

I have been rooting for “Sinners” since I saw it almost a year ago — vampires haven’t been used with such spot-on metaphoric resonance since Bram Stoker wrote “Dracula.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 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 her week in the world of Cittàgazze, she had seen enough devastation, enough Specter-eaten adults and wild, scavenging children, to have a horror of those ethereal vampires.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman