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Elisabeth Bathory
Elisabeth Bathory is said to have inspired vampire legends. She would have killed an uncertain number of young girls. Legends claim that she killed them in order to bathe in the blood of these victims and remain eternally young. -
Der Vampyr
Der Vampyr is a German poem. -
Voltaire
In his philosophical dictionary he condemned this superstition with caustic humour. -
The Bride of Corinth.
Goethe refers to a being neither quite alive nor quite dead and who drinks blood in The Bride of Corinth. -
Carmilla
It's a fantasy novel by the Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. A novel belonging to the Gothic movement, it has as its heroine Carmilla, a vampire. -
Le Comte Dracula
Count Dracula is the first vampire, a fictional character created by the writer Bram Stoker. -
Theda Bara
Theda Bara is the first female vampire. She gets the role of "vampire" in A Fool There Was. -
Nosferatu
The first film about a vampire was Nosferatu the Vampire, a German silent film directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, adapted from the novel Dracula. This film brought him to trial. -
Dracula
Dracula is an American film, directed by Tod Browning.
It is the first film of a long series under the name of "Dracula", because a first unofficial adaptation exists under the name of Nosferatu the Vampire. -
Vampyr
It's a Franco-German film by Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer. In this film he incorporates a female vampire. -
Castlevania
A video game called Castlevania is based on the plot of Bram Stoker's novel. -
Dracula par Coppola
Coppola directs Dracula, a new version of Bram Stoker's novel in which he considerably evolves the famous vampire, which notably takes on a very erotic dimension. -
John Carpenter
Vampires is an American film directed by John Carpenter. -
The Future Vampire
He won't be afraid of daylight, no garlic. He may be mortal, and no longer need to feed on human blood.
