Vampire (disambiguation)  

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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
• Vehicle Army Mobile Position Interferometry Radio Equipment, a Cold War era British electronic warfare system mounted in specifically adapted Land Rover 101 Forward Control vehicles

Entertainment

Film and television

• Les Vampires, a 1915 10-part silent film series directed by Louis Feuillade
• Vampire, a 1920 film directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
• Vampyr, a 1932 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer starring Julian West
• Vampyres (film), a 1974 erotic lesbian vampire film directed by José Ramón Larraz
• Vampire (1979 film), a 1979 TV film, starring Jason Miller and E. G. Marshall
• Vampires (1986 film), a 1986 film directed by Len Anthony and starring Duane Jones
• Vampires (film), a 1998 film adaptation of Vampire$, directed by John Carpenter
• Vampire Secrets, a 2006 television documentary about vampires
• Vampire (2011 film), a horror-thriller drama by Shunji Iwai

Games

• 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 2000 computer roleplaying game
  • Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, a 2004 computer roleplaying game
  • Vampire: The Requiem, a roleplaying game
  • Vampire: The Victorian Age, a roleplaying game
• Vampire (card game), a game designed by Reiner Knizia
• 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

Literature

• Vampire$, a 1991 novel by John Steakley
• The Vampyre, an 1819 short novel by John William Polidori

Music

• Vampire (album), a 2008 album by 9mm Parabellum Bullet
• Vampyre (album), a 2002 album by Midnight Syndicate
• "Vampires" (Godsmack song), 2000
• "Vampires" (Dukes song), 2009
• "Vampires", a 2010 song by Gucci Mane

Mythologies

• 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

See also

• Morbius, the Living Vampire, a Marvel comic book character
• Mona the Vampire, the protagonist in a Canadian animated television series of the same name
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a television series