Vampire (disambiguation)

A vampire is an undead creature in legend and fiction.

Vampire may also refer to:

General

• Vampire bat, a bat that feeds on blood
• Vampire Finch, a bird that occasionally feeds on blood
• Vampire Squid, a small deep sea creature
• Energy vampire, a being said to have the ability to feed off "life force"
• Vampire lifestyle, a modern alternative lifestyle

Science and technology

• Vampire (car), a turbojet-propelled car, holder of the British land speed record
• Vampire number, a mathematical concept concerning factoring
• Vampire power or standby power, the electric power consumed when in standby mode
• Vampire (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Chessington World of Adventures
• Vampire tap, a device for physically connecting a station to a network
• Vampire (theorem prover), an automated theorem prover

Military

• Vampire dugout, a World War I underground brigade headquarters on the Western Front, in Belgium
• de Havilland Vampire, a British jet engined fighter aircraft
• HMS Vampire, two British Royal Navy ships
• HMAS Vampire, two Royal Australian Navy ships
• Vickers Vampire, an aeroplane of the First World War
• Zielgerät 1229, code name Vampir, an infra-red device for a German assault rifle
• RPG-29, code name Vampir, a Russian man portable, shoulder fired anti-tank grenade launcher
• Aboard NATO vessels, the use of the brevity code 'Vampire' indicates incoming hostile anti-ship missiles. The warning is usually repeated twice, as is standard for all military warnings issued in combat.

Fiction

• Vampire Knight, a shōjo manga and anime series written by Matsuri Hino
• Vampire$, a 1991 novel by John Steakley
• The Vampyre, an 1819 short novel by John William Polidori
• Vampire (1920 film) with film director Alice Guy-Blaché
• Vampyr, a 1932 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer starring Julian West
• Vampires (film), a 1998 film adaptation of Vampire$, 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
• Vampyres (film), a 1974 erotic lesbian vampire film directed by José Ramón Larraz
• Vampire Secrets, a 2006 television documentary about vampires
• Vampire (card game), a game designed by Reiner Knizia
• One of several properties developed by White Wolf, Inc.:
  • Vampire: The Dark Ages, a roleplaying game
  • Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, a collectible card game
  • Vampire: The Masquerade, a roleplaying game
  • Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, a computer roleplaying game
  • Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, a computer roleplaying game
  • Vampire: The Requiem, a roleplaying game
  • Vampire: The Victorian Age, a roleplaying game
• Vampire (video game), also known as Darkstalkers, a series of horror fighting games
• A Vampyre Story, a 2008 point-and-click adventure game for PC

Mythologies

• Vampire (World of Darkness), a creature in the World of Darkness roleplaying game
• Vampire (Marvel Comics), vampires in the Marvel comic universe
• Vampire (Stephen King), vampires in the works of Stephen King
• Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), vampires in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and its spin-offs
• Vampire (Dungeons & Dragons), creature in the role playing game
• Vampire (Blade), the creatures in the Blade films
• Vampire (Middle-earth), bat-like creatures in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Vampire (Kinoko Nasu), vampire mythology in the works of Kinoko Nasu

Entertainment

• "Vampires" (song), a song by Godsmack
• "Vampires" (Dukes song), a 2009 song by the Dukes
• "Vampires", a 2010 song by Gucci Mane.

See also

• Morbius, the Living Vampire, a Marvel comic book character