# Vampire (disambiguation)

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 (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

* 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

### Television
#### Episodes

* "Vampir", Kiko season 2, episode 4 (2017)
* "Vampire", Aahat season 3, episode 16 (2007)
* "Vampire", Lost Tapes season 2, episode 1 (2009)
* "Vampire", So Weird season 2, episode 22 (2000)
* "Vampire", Undead Murder Farce episode 2 (2023)
* "Vampire", the alternative title of "A Normal Night", Wellington Paranormal season 1, episode 5 (2018)
* "Vampire", Wildlife on One series 5, episode 4 (1980)
* "Vampires Part I" and "Vampires Part II", Aahat season 4, episodes 51–52 (2010)
* "Vampires", Beyond (Canadian) season 4, episode 5 (2007)
* "Vampires", Is It Real? season 2, episode 10 (2006)
* "Vampires", Play for Today series 9, episode 11 (1979)
* "Vampires", Prisoners of Gravity season 5, episode 19 (1994)
* "Vampires/Cannibals", Most Evil season 3, episode 4 (2008)
* "The Vampire", Dead Mount Death Play episode 15 (2023)
* "The Vampire", Highlander: The Series season 2, episode 16 (1994)
* "The Vampire", Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode 4 (1974)
* "The Vampire", Starsky & Hutch season 2, episode 7 (1976)
* "The Vampire", The Collector (Canadian) season 3, episode 4 (2006)
* "The Vampires", Nate Is Late season 2, episode 18 (2022)

#### Shows

* Vampires (TV series), a 2020 French-language supernatural horror television series

### 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