Raziel discovers, to his horror, that Kain created him and his other lieutenants from the corpses of the Sarafan, an ancient order of vampire hunters.

Raziel is introduced in Soul Reaver as the most powerful of the vampire Kain's six lieutenants, and Kain's second-in-command.

In the Necropolis, Raziel finds and slaughters his brother Melchiah, then travels to the Pillars of Nosgoth where Kain's throne is seated, and is enraged when he discovers that Kain also destroyed his vampire clan.

However, their meeting is interrupted by the leaders of the Sarafan — the Sarafan Inquisitor Raziel and his comrades, all six of Kain's future vampire lieutenants — who brutally slay Janos, pulling the Heart of Darkness from his body.

Taking place 1500 years after the events of Blood Omen, Soul Reaver chronicles the journey of the vampire-turned-wraith Raziel, lieutenant to the vampire lord Kain.

The player controls Raziel, a disfigured and ghostly vampire.

Refusing to sacrifice himself to restore the Pillars, he doomed Nosgoth to eternal decay and proceeded to raise his vampire lieutenants, including Raziel, to besiege the land.

Amazingly enough, Kain is not surprised to see Raziel, apparently having even been expecting him, and implies that he has destroyed Raziel's vampire clan, which only enrages Raziel even further.

There, Raziel discovers coffins for members of the Sarafan, a fanatical order of vampire hunters killed centuries before Kain's rule.

He is the vampire brother of Raziel, and along with Turel is the one who cast him into the Abyss.

After consulting with a priestly doctor who he had specially ordered, the General came to the realization that his niece was being visited by a vampire.

An Imperial Commission is then summoned who exhume and destroy the body of the vampire on behalf of the ruling Habsburg Monarchy, within whose domains Styria is situated.

* The webcomic Romanian Gothique features a vampire countess named " Camilla ", who is also a lesbian.

* The Doctor Who serial State of Decay features a vampire named Camilla who in a brief but explicit moment finds much to ' admire ' in the Doctor's female travelling companion Romana who finds she has to turn away from the vampire's intense gaze.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

More disturbing, however, is the hero Spalatro's necrophiliac passion for an undead blood-drinking beauty, who seems to be a predecessor of Le Fanu's later female vampire Carmilla.

Today, we would associate these entities with vampires, but in ancient times, the term vampire did not exist ; blood drinking and similar activities were attributed to demons or spirits who would eat flesh and drink blood ; even the Devil was considered synonymous with the vampire.

The story is at times confusing, as if the author did not know whether to make Varney a literal vampire or a human who acts like one.

This is also the first example of the " sympathetic vampire ," a vampire who loathes his condition but is nonetheless a slave to it.

According to the first dictionary of modern Serbian language ( published by Vuk Stefanović-Karadžić in 1818 ) vukodlak / вукодлак ( werewolf ) and vampir / вампир ( vampire ) are synonyms, meaning a man who returns from his grave for purposes of fornicating with his widow.

* Spike — A punk vampire who has killed two previous Slayers, Spike took his nickname from one of his former killings which involved a railroad spike.

Willow is able to perform a complicated spell to restore the soul of Angel, a vampire who is also Calendar's murderer and Buffy's boyfriend.

Willow must control that part of her and is occasionally unable to do so, giving her a trait similar to Angel, a cursed vampire who fears losing his soul will turn him evil.

Afterward, Khayman, who had been turned into a vampire by Akasha, comes to the witches ' cell and turns them too.

Even then, it was constrained to the beliefs of the particular person, such that a vampire who was Christian would fear the cross, but a vampire who was Jewish would not.

Though referred to as " the first modern vampire novel ", it is as a novel of social theme that I Am Legend made a lasting impression on the cinematic zombie genre, by way of director George A. Romero, who acknowledged its influence and that of its 1964 adaptation, The Last Man on Earth, upon his seminal film Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

Filmed in the summer of 1970, between his first and second Doctor Who seasons, Pertwee played the lead in the last segment of the film as Paul Henderson, a deliciously arrogant horror film star who meets his quasi-comedic doom thanks to a genuine vampire cloak.

The character had intended to be a brief villain, with Whedon originally adamant to not have another major " romantic vampire " character like Angel-Marsters says " Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, and then dead "-but the character ended up staying for the second season, and then returning in the fourth to replace Cordelia as " the character who told Buffy she was stupid and about to die ".

* Lies My Parents Told Me 3rd and 4th flashbacks: In 1880, William sires his mother Anne, who, as a vampire, turns against him, forcing him to destroy her.

* A vampire named Baron Karnstein appears in Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.

* He appears as both historical figure and vampire in the novel " A matter of taste " which is a book in The Dracula Sequence by Fred Saberhagen.

Harris appears as a vampire in Kim Newman's 1992 novel Anno Dracula, as the mentor and vampire sire of one of the novel's main characters.

The first mention of vampires in English literature appears in Robert Southey's monumental oriental epic poem Thalaba the Destroyer ( 1797 ), where the main character Thalaba's deceased beloved Oneiza turns into a vampire, although that occurrence is actually marginal to the story.

In Volume I of Tales of the Slayer, a horror story collection set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, Virginia Dare appears as the vampire slayer " White Doe ," an English girl adopted by the Croatoan Indians.

Jenny appears twice more in the series, first in " Becoming ", as part of an illusion the vampire Drusilla ( Juliet Landau ) creates to beguile Giles into telling Angelus, who is torturing him, what he needs to know.

Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, appears as a bit of a drunk, while Michael Howard, the former head of the Conservative Party, was shown as a vampire ( a reference to the " something of the night about him " comment by Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe ).

In yet another, a naïve goth teenager, a character who also appears in I Feel Sick, dreams of becoming a sexy vampire like those found in The Vampire Chronicles, but transforms instead into a vampire more like Count Orlok.

* The HBO show True Blood has a Magistrate who appears to hold jurisdiction over the vampire kings and queens of the US.

He is about to kill a former football player when vampire Batman appears, noting that Scarecrow is almost worse than him ; he now has no choice but to kill, but Scarecrow has a choice and yet he chose to prey on innocents.

In the third issue of the Batman vampire series Crimson Mist, the Riddler appears in a morgue where he shoots the mortician who was about to start an autopsy on a corpse where the Riddler had stored a large quantity of drugs.

Answer: By turning ' Heroine ' which minus the E is ' Heroin ', lots of it and redeemable for lots of cash ," at which vampire Batman appears and scolds the Riddler for graduating from robbery and extortion to drug trafficking and murder.

He was attacked by a vampire in Ultimate Spider-Man # 95 ; as of Issue # 96, however, Morbius appears to have cured his potential vampirism.

Thorne is a vampire who appears in the novel Blood and Gold, which details the life of the vampire Marius de Romanus.

Cases investigated involve a woman who appears to be carrying a vampire child, a man who is being used to test synthetic blood for vampires, and the outbreak of a vampire related disease at a school.

* Jack Elam appears as Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing ; based on the famous vampire hunter.

She appears briefly in the " First Impressions ", in which her non-fatal injury at the hands of a vampire brings back painful memories and feelings of guilt about Alonna.

This places Django in an area with the vampire enemy in Battle Network 5, ShadeMan. EXE, who also appears in Battle Network 4.

* Demon Fox-The Demon Fox is a Chinese mystical being and emotional vampire who first appears in issue # 6.

Angua also appears in a supporting role in Thud !, where she gains a rival in the form of the Watch's first vampire officer, Sally.

Together, Lindsey and Eve manipulate events so that Spike, not Angel appears to the Senior Partners to be the ensouled vampire foretold in the Scrolls of Aberjian, the one who will have a crucial impact in the Apocalypse and fulfill the Shanshu Prophecy.