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A vampire is a being from folklore who subsists by feeding on the life essence of the living.

(The) vampire(s) or vampyre may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

• Vampire (Marvel Comics), including a list of vampires in the Marvel universe
• Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), in the fictional world of the TV series
• Vampire (Doctor Who), several characters
• Vampire (Dungeons & Dragons), in the fantasy role-playing game
• Vampire (Twilight), several characters
• Vampire (Underworld), several characters

Literature

• The Vampyre, an 1819 short novel by John William Polidori
• The Vampire (play), an 1820 drama by James Planché
• The Vampire (novella), an 1841 Gothic novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
• Le Vampire, an 1851 drama by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
• The Vampire ( French: Le Vampire), a 1852 novel Angelo de Sorr
• "Le Vampire", a poem featured in the "Spleen et Idéal" section of the 1857 volume Les Fleurs du mal
• La Vampire, an 1865 book by Paul Féval, père
• The Vampire, a 1891 book by Henry Steel Olcott
• "The Vampire", a 1897 poem by Rudyard Kipling
• The Vampire ( Polish: Wampir), a 1911 novel by Władysław Reymont
• Vampire ( German: Vampyr), a 1921 novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers
• The Vampire, a 1935 novel by Sydney Horler
• The Vampires (manga), a 1966 manga by Osamu Tezuka
• The Vampires, a 1971 novel by John Rechy
• Vampires, a 1973 non-fiction book by Nancy Garden, the first book in The Weird and Horrible Library series
• Vampires, a 1991 short story collection edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Jane Yolen
• Vampires (novel), a 1991 novel by John Steakley
• Vampire, a 1991 novel by Richie Tankersley Cusick
• Vampires: The World of the Undead, a 1993 non-fiction book by Jean Marigny
• Vampire: Netherworld, a 1995 novel by Richard Lee Byers
• The Vampires, a 1997 novella by Cameron Rogers and Anthony Short, the 21st installment of the After Dark series
• Vampire: The Masquerade (Vault Comics), a monthly horror comic book series based on the tabletop role-playing game of the same name, running since 2020

Film and television

• Vampire (2010 film), a horror-thriller drama film starring Jason Carter
• The Vampire (1913 film)
• The Vampire (1915 film), an American silent drama film
• The Vampire (1957 film), a black and white 1957 horror film
• Vampire (1979 film), an American made-for-television horror film
• Vampire (2011 film), a horror-thriller drama by Shunji Iwai
• Les Vampires, a 1915–16 French silent crime serial film
• Vampires (1986 film), or Abandon, a horror film
• Vampires (1998 film), a film adaptation of the novel Vampires
• El vampiro (The Vampire), a 1957 Mexican horror film
• Vampyr, a 1932 German horror film
• Vampyres (film), a 1974 British horror film
• Cuadecuc, vampir, a 1970 Spanish experimental feature film
• Vampir (2021 film), a European arthouse horror film

Gaming

• Vampire: The Dark Ages, a tabletop role-playing game
• Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, a collectible card game
• Vampire: The Masquerade, a tabletop roleplaying game
• Vampire: The Requiem, a roleplaying game
• Darkstalkers, known as Vampire in Japan, a fighting game series and media franchise
  • Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection, 2005
• The Sims 4: Vampires, a 2017 game pack
• Vampyr (video game), 2018

Music

Albums

• Vampire (album), by Akina Nakamori
• Vampire, an album by 9mm Parabellum Bullet, 2008
• Vampyre (album), by Midnight Syndicate, 2008

Songs

• "Vampire" (2 Chainz song), 2020
• "Vampire" (Dominic Fike song), 2020
• "Vampire" (Iz*One song), 2019
• "Vampire" (Olivia Rodrigo song), 2023
• "Vampires", a song by Gucci Mane on the 2010 album The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted
• "Vampires", a song by Pet Shop Boys from the 1999 album Nightlife
• "Vampires" (Dukes song), 2009
• "Vampires" (Godsmack song), 2000

Other uses in music

• The Vampires (band), an Australian musical group formed in 2005
• Vampires (soundtrack), for the 1998 film

Roller coasters

• Vampire (roller coaster), at Chessington World of Adventures, England
• Vampire (Walibi Belgium)
• Le Vampire, at La Ronde amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Visual art

• Vampire (Edvard Munch), or Love and Pain, a painting

Transportation

• de Havilland Vampire, a British jet fighter aircraft
• Flying Machines FM250 Vampire, a Czech light aircraft
• HMAS Vampire, the name of two Australian ships
• HMS Vampire, the name of two British ships
• "Vampire", a variant of Land Rover 101 Forward Control for electronic warfare
• Vampire (car), a jet-propelled car, holder of the British land speed record
• Vickers Vampire, a British single-seat pusher biplane fighter

Biology

• Vampire bat, a bat that feeds on blood
• Vampire fish (disambiguation), several uses
• Vampire ground finch, a bird that occasionally feeds on blood
• Vampire squid, a small deep-sea creature

Other uses

• Vampire, multiservice tactical brevity code for hostile anti-ship missile
• Vampire (theorem prover), an automated theorem prover for first-order classical logic
• RPG-29 "Vampir", a Russian rocket-propelled grenade launcher
• El Vampiro (Spanish, 'the Vampire'), nickname of Chilean tennis player Nicolás Massú
• Zielgerät 1229, code name Vampir, an infra-red device for a German assault rifle

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Vampire
• All pages with titles containing Vampire
• Dhampir, in Balkans folklore
• Large flying fox, Pteropus vampyrus
• Psychic vampire, a creature in folklore
• Vampiro (disambiguation)
• Vampire dugout, a First World War underground shelter in Belgium
• Vampire lifestyle, a modern alternative lifestyle
• Vampire number, in number theory
• Vampire power or standby power, the electric power consumed when in standby mode
• Vampire tap, a device for physically connecting a station to a network

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