Over a hundred years after his creator was laid to rest, Dracula lives on as the most famous vampire in history.
Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1579–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records.
Vlad Dracula: Also known as Vlad the Impaler, he ruled Walachia, Romania, in the mid-1400s and was even believed to be the real-life inspiration behind Dracula.
Christopher Lee
Perhaps the best actor to tackle the character of Dracula. Lee would play the character 10 times throughout his lifetime.
Count Dracula, called the Vampire King in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker as well as the Vampire Hunter D series. Alucard (Hellsing), depicted as Count Dracula in the Hellsing series.
The vampires who have been called Originals are: Mikael, Finn, Elijah, Klaus, Kol and Rebekah. The Originals are legendary throughout the supernatural world, especially amongst witches and vampires due to the fact that they have walked the Earth for over a thousand years.
After Akasha is finally destroyed, Khayman becomes the oldest vampire in existence. He is briefly mentioned at the end of Blood Canticle, when he takes away the fledgling vampires Quinn Blackwood and Mona Mayfair to Maharet and Mekare's sanctuary.
1. Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931) The number one spot had to go to Bela Lugosi, whose portrayal of Dracula in the 1931 Universal Pictures film remains a classic.
1/9 Bela Lugosi (Dracula)
Lugosi became the ultimate Dracula with his menacing and sinister rendition of the antagonist, cementing his status as a horror film great.
William H. Marshall's Mamuwalde was the first black vampire to appear in film.
The most widely known example of a vampire hunter is Abraham Van Helsing of the novel Dracula and in other works of fiction adapting or modifying that work.
The word "dhampir" is associated with Balkan folklore, as described by T. P. Vukanović. In the rest of the region, terms such as Serbian vampirović, vampijerović, vampirić (thus, Bosnian lampijerović, etc.) literally meaning "vampire's son", are used.
They were usually believed to rise from the bodies of suicide victims, criminals, or evil sorcerers, though in some cases an initial vampire thus "born of sin" could pass his vampirism onto his innocent victims.
In 1819, 80 years before the publication of Dracula, John Polidori, an Anglo-Italian physician, published a novel called The Vampire. Stoker's novel, however, became the benchmark for our descriptions of vampires.
The Google team must be literati or vampire fans—or both: Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birth of Bram Stoker, arguably the father of the modern vampire.
Dracula, also known as the Dragon, Amun-Ra, and Dr. Alexander Sweet, is a vampire who poses as a zoologist in order to seduce Vanessa Ives. He is both the brother of Lucifer (and a fallen angel in his own right), banished to Earth as Lucifer was banished to Hell, and the progenitor and master of all vampires.
Dracula does not change in any meaningful way over the course of the plot, and he is never depicted reflecting on any actions. His appetite for blood is a kind of compulsion and while he is shown to be evil and monstrous, he is not presented as morally accountable in the same way a human might be.
Bela Lugosi, original name Blasko Béla Ferenc Dezső, (born October 20, 1882, Lugos, Hungary [now Lugoj, Romania]—died August 16, 1956, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), Hungarian-born motion-picture actor who was most famous for his sinister portrayal of the elegantly mannered vampire Count Dracula.
Elizabeth Bathory was born into Hungarian nobility on the seventh of August 1560. She is in the Guinness book of World Records as the world's most prolific female murderer. It is said that between 1590 and 1609 she killed over 650 people, most of whom came from the peasant class and her servants.
Vlad the Impaler, in full Vlad III Dracula or Romanian Vlad III Drăculea, also called Vlad III or Romanian Vlad Țepeș, (born 1431, Sighișoara, Transylvania [now in Romania]—died 1476, north of present-day Bucharest, Romania), voivode (military governor, or prince) of Walachia (1448; 1456–1462; 1476) whose cruel methods ...
Born vampires are a subspecies of vampire, who unlike most other vampires, were born as vampires, rather than being a human who was turned into one. They are similar to ordinary vampires, but have a number of biological differences. Born vampires that do not become full vampires turn into wraiths.
A person may become a vampire in a variety of ways, the most common of which is to be bitten by a vampire. Other methods include sorcery, committing suicide, contagion, or having a cat jump over a person's corpse.
According to biblical scholars, alukah can mean "blood-lusting monster" or vampire. Alukah is first referred to in Proverbs 30 of the Bible (Prov. 30:15). The most detailed description of the alukah appears in Sefer Chasidim, where the creature is understood to be a living human being, but can shape-change into a wolf.