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.

In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary, maenads are depicted as corrupted human beings in service of the ancient and powerful Greek vampire Kakistos, whose name means in Greek " the worst ", the natural superlative of kakos meaning " bad ".

One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire ( 1748 ) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove her that his teaching is better than her mother's Christianity.

The show details the ongoing trials of Angel, a vampire whose human soul was restored to him by gypsies as a punishment for the murder of one of their own.

', notable for the eyes of the main vampire, Zillah, whose eyes are said to be the color of Chartreuse.

Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier ( April 29, 1780, Besançon – January 27, 1844, Paris ), was a French author who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the conte fantastique, gothic literature, vampire tales, and the importance of dreams as part of literary creation, and whose career as a librarian is often underestimated by literary historians.

* Different names for the town and the vampire ; ' Salem's Lot is compared to " Momson " ( mentioned in the final text of the book as a Vermont town whose residents mysteriously vanished in 1923 ), and Barlow is called " Sarlinov "

The Croatian Jure Grando died in 1656 was the first vampire classic whose existence is documented in writing.

When a human is transformed by a vampire whose ' Dark Gift ' has remained pure without ever having been passed on to others for centuries, the newly turned vampire will be much stronger than normal vampires ( as in the case of Lestat, who was turned by Magnus ).

Active vampirism within the vampire subculture includes both sanguinarian vampirism, which involves blood consumption, and psychic vampirism, whose practitioners believe they are drawing spiritual nourishment from auric or pranic energy.

The Sabbat's Caitiff are treated as a Clan ; known as Pander, a title whose namesake is a politically powerful and clanless vampire Joseph Pander, they find direction through the Sabbat.

The boss of the vampire robot, whose network contains a story following the adventures of Django fighting the evil vampire Dracky, is ShadeMan. EXE.

In this novel, Li Kao and Number Ten Ox are attending the execution of a notorious criminal ( about whose capture the less said the better, according to the chronicler ) when into the public square bounds a " vampire ghoul " who soon meets a fiery demise.

Buffy has only been sexually intimate twice before: with the vampire Angel, whose lovemaking cost him his soul, and with the womanizing Parker Abrams.

Winick also wrote a five-issue miniseries for DC ’ s Vertigo imprint called Blood & Water, about a young man with terminal illness whose two friends reveal to him that they are vampires, and that they wish to save his life by turning him into a vampire himself.

Soon after his arrival in Venice he is purchased by the vampire Marius de Romanus ( whose life story is told in Blood and Gold ), who names him Amadeo.

At length, they are approached by and offered the help of another rival organization, at whose head is Bodhi, a vampire ; and it is the player's choice whom to side with.

He is a handsome Kyoto youth whose girlfriend, Ryouko, was murdered by a " vampire " in front of him.

The term " energy vampire " is also used metaphorically to refer to people whose influence leaves a person feeling exhausted, unfocused, and depressed, without ascribing the phenomenon to psychic interference.

It follows the exploits of the 400-year-old vampire John Shade, whose comfortable life in the Hellas crater on Mars is disrupted when he is forced to become part of a complex conspiracy to protect the Janglers, a sub-species of humans who have replaced parts of their brains with technology.

Wen Spencer ( born in 1963 ) is an American Science fiction and fantasy writer whose books center around characters with unusual abilities, and which might be regarded as original variations on the standard vampire and werewolf themes.

Other enemies, whose names are normally puns in Italian, are Katodik, the two killers Frit and Frut, Mr. Tromb, the mobster boss " Il Grande Cesare ", Wurdalak the vampire ( coming from the pages of Satanik ), the scientist Aseptik, the quick-change Arsenico Lupon ( pun of Arsène Lupin ), the mobster families, the Mangia's masonry and the ghost gangster Baby Kate.

A vampire has a blood pool signifying the amount of human blood or vitae currently in their body ; this blood can be spent to power abilities and perform supernatural tricks.

Drusilla has all the standard powers and vulnerabilities of a vampire, plus minor psychic abilities.

") Despite this, genetic studies have shown that the DNA of an individual before and after becoming a vampire does not change, despite the obvious change in their body and its abilities.

In White Wolf's World of Darkness games, rather than picking a career, one picks an affiliation ( such as a vampire clan, werewolf tribe, or magical order ) which grants a minor affinity and some bonus abilities, but otherwise has little effect on overall capability.

Bloodscream is a being with traits and abilities that are similar to those of vampires, though he himself isn't a vampire.

Bloodscream possesses a variety of superhuman abilities that are reminiscent of those possessed by supernatural vampires, even though he himself is not a true vampire.

After an examination, Doctor Strange concluded that King, because of his recent reversion, had become a " neo-vampire ", a special type of vampire with the abilities and weaknesses of the vampire, who craved blood but did not need it to survive.

Hannibal King is a vampire, and even when King was cured of his vampirism he has retained many of his vampiric abilities without actually being a vampire.

In the television series, Gunn is a normal human with no supernatural abilities, but he has strength and martial arts expertise due to his years as a vampire hunter, often being described as " the muscle " of Angel Investigations.

She is a committed, rule-abiding young woman who does everything authority figures tell her to do, and is therefore fatally vulnerable to being hypnotized by Drusilla ( Juliet Landau ), an insane vampire with extraordinary mental abilities who kills Kendra easily.

Her abilities as a vampire become of great use to the Watch, and she even manages to reach an understanding with Sergeant Angua.

A test known as the Cruciamentum involves suppressing the Slayer's natural abilities with a drug and pitting her against a particularly dangerous vampire on the Slayer's eighteenth birthday in order to test the Slayer's intelligence and practical capabilities.

In an introduction to an online edition of Ravenloft II, author John D. Rateliff described Strahd as a then-unusual fusion of a monster with the abilities of a player character class ; that is, a vampire magic-user.

The player character increases in power dramatically during the course of the game through the expenditure of earned experience points on attributes, skills, and vampire abilities called " Disciplines ".

As a vampire, Lestat's abilities include telepathy, superhuman physical attributes and rapid healing.

Jerry appears, but Peter is able to lure the overconfident vampire in front of a window using a crucifix ( which now works against Jerry in the hands of Peter, due to Peter's renewed faith in its abilities ).

He displays his television counterpart's powers and abilities, while subject to his cold vampire instincts.

Barnabas ' abilities mimic those of the classic vampire Dracula, and include immortality, superhuman strength, superhuman speed, hypnotism, and the abilities to transform into a bat and to disappear and reappear at will.

The victim then returns as a newborn vampire and is capable of all the basic capabilities of ordinary humans, with the exception of being able to have children, plus a number of supernatural abilities of strength, speed, agility, endurance, mentality, senses, immortality, and healing factor.

* Tatjana Stiles-formerly of the CIA ; captured and tortured by Navarro in order to gain information ; transformed into a vampire by Hannibal King to prevent her from dying ; uses her abilities against enemies of USA