Vampire (disambiguation)
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A vampire is an undead monster from the legends of various cultures and often featured in fiction.
Vampire may also refer to:
- Electricity vampire, an electrical appliance that consumes electricity when turned off and supposed to be dead.
- Energy vampire (psychic vampire), a being said to have the ability to feed off the "life force" of other living creatures
- Vampire lifestyle, for people who believe themselves to be vampires, or who like pretending to be vampires for fun
- Vampire bat, flying animals that feed on blood
- Vampire tap, a device for physically connecting a station to a network that uses 10BASE-5 cabling
- Vampire number, a mathematical concept
- Vampire theorem prover, an automated theorem prover
- a slang term for a seductive girl, or woman
- Vampire (car), current holder of the British Land Speed Record
[edit] Armed forces
- de Havilland Vampire, the second jet engined aircraft commissioned into the Royal Air Force during World War II
- HMS Vampire (disambiguation), naval ships from the United Kingdom or Australia
- Vampire was the slang name for the Australian field base hospital in the Vietnam War.
[edit] Books and plays
- Vampire$, a 1991 novel by John Steakley
- The Vampyre, an 1819 short novel by John William Polidori
- Vampire (play), a 1973 drama by British playwright Snoo Wilson
- Category:Vampires in written fiction
[edit] Film and television
- Vampyr a 1932 Danish film by Carl Theodor Dreyer starring Julian West
- Vampires (film), a 1998 film adaptation of Vampire$, directed by John Carpenter
- Vampires (1986 film), a 1986 film directed by Len Anthony and starring Duane Jones
- Les Vampires, a 1915 10-part silent film series directed by Louis Feuillade
- Vampire (Buffyverse) vampires as depicted in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and related TV and writings
- Category:Vampires in film and television
[edit] Games
In games set in the universe created by White Wolf Game Studio:
- Vampire (World of Darkness), a fictional creature from the games and books from White Wolf Game Studio
- Vampire: The Masquerade, a roleplaying game
- Vampire: The Dark Ages, a roleplaying game
- Vampire: The Requiem, a roleplaying game
- Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, a collectible card game
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption, a 2000 computer roleplaying game
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, a computer roleplaying game
[edit] Vampirism
May refer to:
- A disease in folklore that turns people into Vampires
- A non-clynical name given to an Iron Deficiency because some of the symptoms the disease resemble a that of a vampire.