Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers in New England became convinced that their relatives were returning from the grave to feed on the living. Even Henry David Thoreau mentions an exhumation in his journal dated September 29, 1859.

A group a vampires has variously been called a clutch, brood, coven, pack, or a clan.

Barnabas, a 175-year-old vampire in search of fresh blood and his lost love, played a prominent part in the ABC daytime serial Dark Shadows.

One method of finding a vampire's grave involved leading a virgin boy through a graveyard or church grounds on a virgin stallion--the horse would supposedly balk at the grave in question. Generally a black horse was required, though in Albania it should be white.

Although Stoker set his book in Transylvania, he never visited the country. Most of his Victorian readers didn't know the difference, especially since he added details from travel books, including train timetables, hotel names, and a chicken dish called paprika hendl.

The strongest of the jiang shi are able to acquire skills such as flying and transforming into wolves.

An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu features Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.

Empusa was the daughter of the goddess Hecate and was described as a demonic, bronze-footed creature. She feasted on blood by transforming into a young woman and seduced men as they slept before drinking their blood.

The Mercy Brown vampire incident occurred in Rhode Island in 1892. Her heart was burned and the ashes fed to her alleged victim.

The story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire called Carmilla, but whose actual name is later revealed to be Mircalla.