Throughout the shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both.
-Rev. Montague Summers
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
- Rousseau
How to Recognise a Vampire:
Most sources agree upon...
- acts strangely in the sun
- acts strangely towards blood
- does not age same way as human
- greater physical skill than human
- reacts to religious objects
- comes back from the dead
- hates garlic
- sports longer canine teeth
- looks more alluring than human
- always humanoid
- Blood-sucking vampires tend to go for the jugular vein.
- Befriends/controls/can turn into rats, wolves, moths, bats, cockroaches, and other ugly bugsies.
- Said to prefer blood of opposite gender
- Said to spread plague
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