Vampire (disambiguation)

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

Vampire may also refer to:

Animals

• Vampire bat (subfamily Desmodontinae), a bat that feeds on blood
• Pteropus vampyrus, a type of fruit bat
• Vampire ground finch, a bird that occasionally feeds on blood.
• Vampire squid, a small deep-sea creature, named for its shape.

Art & culture

• List of fictional vampires

Mythologies

• Vampire (Marvel Comics), vampires in the Marvel comic universe
• Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Vampire (Dungeons & Dragons), vampires in D&D
• Energy vampire, a being said to have the ability to feed off "life force"

Books & literature

• Vampire literature
• The Vampyre, an 1819 short novel by John William Polidori
• Vampire$, a 1991 novel by John Steakley
• Morbius, the Living Vampire, a Marvel comic book character

Film and television

• Les Vampires, a 1915 10-part silent film series by Louis Feuillade
• Vampire, a 1920 film by Alice Guy-Blaché
• Vampyr, a 1932 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer starring Julian West
• Vampyres (film), a 1974 erotic lesbian vampire film by José Ramón Larraz
• Vampire (1979 film), a 1979 TV film, starring Jason Miller and E. G. Marshall
• Vampires (1986 film), a film by Len Anthony and starring Duane Jones
• Vampires (1998 film), a film adaptation of Vampire$, by John Carpenter
• Vampire (2010 film), a horror-thriller drama by Jon Cunningham and starring Jason Carter
• Vampire (2011 film), a horror-thriller drama by Shunji Iwai
• Mona the Vampire, a Canadian animated television series
• Vampire (2021 film), a European arthouse horror

Games

• Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, a collectible card game
• Vampire: The Masquerade, a roleplaying game by White Wolf in their World of Darkness line
• Vampire: The Requiem, a roleplaying game by White Wolf in their New World of Darkness line
• Vampire (video game), also known as Darkstalkers, a series of horror fighting games
• The Sims 4: Vampires, a 2017 game pack for the video game The Sims 4
• Vampyr (video game), a 2018 video game designed by Dontnod Entertainment

Music

• Vampire (album), a 2008 album by 9mm Parabellum Bullet
• Vampyre (album), a 2002 album by Midnight Syndicate
• "Vampire", a 2013 song by Gorilla Zoe
• "Vampire" (Iz*One song), 2019
• Vampires (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 1998 film Vampires
• "Vampires", a song by Pet Shop Boys from the 1999 album Nightlife
• "Vampires" (Godsmack song), 2000
• "Vampires" (Dukes song), 2009
• "Vampires", a 2010 song by Gucci Mane

Vehicles

• Vampire (car), a turbojet-propelled car, holder of the British land speed record
• HMAS Vampire (D11), a Daring-class destroyer launched in 1956
• HMAS Vampire (D68) or HMS Vampire, a V-class destroyer launched in 1917
• HMS Vampire (P72), a V-class submarine that served from 1942
• de Havilland Vampire, a British jet-engined fighter aircraft
• Flying Machines FM250 Vampire, a Czech light aircraft
• Vickers Vampire, an aeroplane of WWI
• "Vampire", a radio warfare variant of the Land Rover 101 Forward Control

Other uses

• Vampire (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Chessington World of Adventures
• Vampire (theorem prover), an automated theorem prover
• El Vampiro (Spanish for: "the Vampire"), nickname of Chilean Olympic champion tennis player Nicolás Massú
• Vampire dugout, a World War I underground brigade headquarters on the Western Front, in Belgium
• Zielgerät 1229, code name Vampir, an infra-red device for a German assault rifle
• RPG-29, code name Vampir, a Russian man portable, shoulder-fired anti-tank grenade launcher
• Vampire, multiservice tactical brevity code for a hostile anti-ship missile.

See also

• Vampire lifestyle, a modern alternative lifestyle
• Vampire number, a mathematical concept concerning factoring
• 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
• Vampiro (disambiguation)