What are some different variations about Vampires?

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Stephen King's Vampires are animalistic, driven by instinct, almost stupid but sly as a fox. They are ugly, foul, and get worse as they age. Their skin is pale and slimy. The older the Vampire the uglier, paler, and fouler he becomes. But they are vicious killers with a keen sense of night vision and smell. They don't fly but can hoover up to a 2nd floor window and look in. A bite from one of them results in becoming a vampire as well. Silver bullets and wooden stakes to the heart killed them.

Anne Rice's Vampires are beautiful, romantic, intelligent, long lived and long loved. They are highly sexual beings. Not every bite results in a new vampire, they must consciously create a new vampire and then are responsible for the Newbie like parent and child until the new vampire can be on his own. They can fly. A blind vampire can take the eyes from a victim and use them as their own for several days. Their skin is hardened. Ancient Vampires in her books rarely move and when they do they are so swift the human eye cannot tract their movements. Wooden stakes to the heart only immobilize them. If removed they could recover as did the Vampire Lestat,

The Vampires in "Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" could tolerate sunlight more and more as they aged. Only the new vampires had to live at night. But all had to wear sunglasses while out in the sun. Their eyes could not tolerate light ever. Again, a bite from one of them did not result in becoming a new vampire. But a non killing bite would result in a human becoming deeply ill and dying slowly of flu like symptoms several weeks later. They were policitally involved to influence laws to accommodate them such as slavery. Vampires wanted slavery so they could use it as an easy source of food. Staking them could stop them but decapitation was how to kill them, or fire.

The show "Forever Knight" had a vampire who was a police detective solving crime. Worked the night shift. Had all the typical powers: flight, strength, death only by wooden stake to the heart. But he was a good guy, a hero. Making amends for his centuries of evil behavior. He bought blood bank blood and did not kill humans anymore.

I have seen movies where vampires could make you hallucinate. Some can turn into bats, others into wolves. Some sleep in coffins, others in beds. Some of Anne Rice's vampires dug holed into the ground to sleep. In the movie/book "Let Me In" the centuries old child vampire slept in a bathtub immersed in blood.

The variations are many and up to each writer. I hope this helped....Show more

Dracula: They sleep in coffins True Blood: They have packs of vampires Being Human: They die type consuming werewolf blood Some vampires do not even get harm from solar gentle, a few simply manage it to start with. There is a vampire known as the strigoi that doesnt drink blood however eats flesh, it's nonetheless regarded a vampire....Show more

If you get into the Hong Kong cinema, their vampires are very different. They "hop" and can be controlled by pieces of paper with spells written on them....Show more