Vampires

A vampire is an supernatural creature, featuring prominently in horror fiction and folk tales, that lives after death through drinking the blood of the living.

Le Vampire,
lithograph by R. de Moraine
Les Tribunaux secrets (1864)

Lilith (1892), by John Collier.

The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897

Sourced

• The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
  • Theda Bara, a.k.a. "The Vamp", attributed in Leta W. Clark, Women, Women, Women: Quips, Quotes, and Commentary (1977), p. 16

• She [Susan] is very lovely, Mr. Mears - very toothsome if I may be permitted a small bon mot.
  • Barlow's note left to Ben & co, in Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot, p. 345.

• The world is coming down around our ears and you're sticking at a few vampires.
  • Ben Mears, in Stephen King,this is all fake story to afraid peoples there is no vampire is this world

'Salem's Lot, Part 2, Chapter 5.

External links

• Vampire fiction