page_title: Vampire
section_title: Vampires in fiction
hierarchical_section_title: Vampire / Vampires in fiction
context_page_description: Vampires are monsters in legends and stories. The first vampire stories were told in Eastern Europe, but much of how modern people see vampires was created by Bram Stoker in the famous novel, Dracula. Few people believe that vampires are real, but they are still very popular in movies, television, and books.
  Vampires were once people but have a supernatural curse. Some vampires must drink blood to survive. They do this by biting people or animals on the neck with their two long fangs. People who are killed by having their blood drunk by vampires may also become vampires. Others can live off the life energy of people. In many stories, vampires can change into other animals, usually bats, though also wolves, cats or rats.
  Depending on the story, vampires may have some or all of these characteristics:
  They cannot go out in sunlight, so they sleep during the day.
  They can only be killed in certain ways:
  being beheaded
  having a stake driven through their heart
  or being sprayed or washed with vervain
  being set on fire
  They can be weakened by crosses or other religious symbols, garlic, holy water, and silver.
context_section_description: Dracula is the most famous vampire in fiction, and many movies have been made about him, often with Christopher Lee as Dracula himself. Bela Lugosi is another actor known for the role. Nosferatu is also a famous vampire movie.
  There is a popular series of books by Anne Rice about vampires. Stephen King also wrote about vampires in the 1970s in Salem's Lot. The television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured a young girl who fought vampires, but also befriended good ones. The series Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is also about vampires. The movie The Lost Boys was about a band of vampires in California. Among many other stories about vampires are The Southern Vampire Mysteries, which led to the television show True Blood.
caption: A vampire
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