Vampire: The Masquerade
Vampire: The Masquerade is a popular role-playing game introduced in 1991 by creator Mark Rein-Hagen of White Wolf Game Studio. It quickly challenged the popularity…
Author: Lux Ferre
Angel
The successful 1997 television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, introduced several new vampire characters as objects of the Slayer’s deadly intentions. However, one of the…
Obayifo
Obayifo A kind of living vampire found among the Ashanti people on the Gold Coast in West Africa. The obayifo is said to be a…
Westenra, Lucy
Westenra, Lucy From the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker, a character who dies from the attacks of the count, returning as a vampiress, a…
Water and Vampires
A possible bane to the undead, often prominent in folklore. As with witches, the vampire is unable to swim or to cross running water, as…
Nosferatu
Nosferatu The most famous of all the early vampire films was produced by a small German film company, Prana Film. This had been set up…
King Vikram and the Vampire
King Vikram and the Vampire A collection of Hindu folktales about the adventures of a great raja, King Vikram, and a BAITAL, or VAMPIRE. The…
Kiangshi
A kiangshi is in Chinese lore, a Corpse that becomes a VAMPIRE demon. Kiangshi means “corpse specter.” In Chinese lore (as well as Slavic lore),…
Kempe, Ursula
Kempe, Ursula (d. 1582) English witch brought to trial and executed for harming others. Her CORPSE was staked like a VAMPIRE. Ursula Kempe was accused…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Extremely popular, two-time Emmy-winning television series created by Joss Whedon about the adventures of “the One Girl, the Chosen One of each generation,” selected as…
