It took until 1845, with the appearance of James Malcolm Rymer's serialized horror story "Varney the Vampire, " for the vampire's bite to become a properly rabid act of infection.
For Milly Williamson, author of The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the changing cultural depictions of vampires reveals much about human society itself.
There has been a "general shift", she says, from the vampire as exotic foreigner - as depicted in Romantic poetry in the 19th Century and most famously in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula - to the vampire as edgy "outsider".
Angel is also an example of the decent, desirable vampire, who even assists (and flirts) with the vampire slayer.
"From the 1970s, the vampire has achieved a cool, bad boy, exotic and sexy image", she says.
Those are the names of the vampire and his girl toy in Stephenie Meyer's best-selling "Twilight" fiction.
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Thus began the war between the chicken king and the vampire queen.
She accidentally changed the number of children the vampire Bill had back in the Civil War era a mistake her publisher corrected in later editions.
He describes it as Lord of the Rings meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Muppets, with a little bit of Stars Wars thrown in.
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The Avengers, which sees a team of Marvel comic-book heroes team up to fight an extra-terrestrial threat, was directed and co-written by Joss Whedon, creator of the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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Bella Swan is, of course, the heroine in the Twilight Saga series, the vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by Stephenie Meyer that have been adapted to film with the latest installment, Breaking Dawn, coming out on Nov. 18 starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
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It is, if you like, simply easier to call out the mob with the burning brands in order to stake the vampire.
Along with Bryan Singer producing, the cast includes Alexis Denisof (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), David Clayton Rogers (Jane by Design), Sean Gunn (Gilmore Girls).
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In 2006, while accepting an award from Equality Now (an organization promoting the human rights of women), Joss Whedon ("The Avengers, " "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") said he's often asked why he creates such strong women characters.
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Sky One is the home of American imports such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Simpsons, where episodes can usually seen first before airing on terrestrial channels.
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Without his meaty jowls, he looks like he could be one of the desiccating "original" millennium-old vampires on the Vampire Diaries.
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Other entries at Tribeca include films from Neil LaBute (the domestic drama "Some Velvet Morning, " starring Stanley Tucci), Mira Nair (the best-seller adaptation "The Reluctant Fundamentalist, " with Kate Hudson) and Neil Jordan (the vampire tale "Byzantium, " with Saoirse Ronan).
And as if there haven't already been enough recycled media brands pushed to the movie screen in recent years, AOL Time Warner's Warner Bros. will bring a live-action version of the Scooby-Doo mystery cartoons, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.
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To modern eyes, the scythe may be best known from images of the Grim Reaper and Father Time--or as a weapon used by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Day holds down multiple jobs--actress, screenwriter, producer, author--and has plenty of reasons to leave the house: If you saw her on the street, you might recognize her from roles on TV shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, House M.
Right from the Romantic period in the 19th Century, when there was widespread fascination with Eastern European "vampyrs", the vampire has been a "pathos-filled creature who has been at odds with his ontology and his innate desires, and who has struggled with them", says Williamson.
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