- Atlas Vampire
The Atlas Vampire (also known as the Vampire Murder Case) is the nickname given to the unknown assailant who committed the unsolved "Vampire Murder" in Stockholm, Sweden in 1932. On May 4, 1932, a 32 year old prostitute was found murdered in her small apartment in the Atlas area of Stockholm near Sankt Eriksplan. She had been dead for a couple of days and her skull had been crushed and the detectives noticed that someone had been drinking her blood. - James Marsters
James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor and musician, best known for playing the popular platinum-blond character Spike, an English yob of a vampire, in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spinoff series "Angel". - Julie Benz
Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. Benz grew up in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Franklin Regional High School in 1991. She later graduated from New York University. Initially, Benz followed her mother and older siblings, Jeffrey and Jennifer, into the figure skating field, and competed in the 1988 US Junior Ice Skating Championship. Benz gave up her pursuit of ice skating after an accident. - Jason Dohring
Jason William Dohring (b. March 30 1982) is an American actor who is best known for the role of Logan Echolls in the television show "Veronica Mars". - Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan (born February 25, 1950) is an Academy Award-winning Irish filmmaker and novelist. - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon (born 1965) is a bestselling and award-winning American author. Under her own name she is known for her paranormal romance and vampire chronicles. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she is also well known for her historical romance novels. Kenyon's novels have an "international cult following," with over ten million copies in print in twenty-six countries. - John Smith
John Smith is a British comics writer best known for his work on "2000 AD" and "Crisis". His work is characterised by intricate, sometimes obscure plots and an interest in taboos and the occult. This is told in an elliptic, fractured narrative style reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs. Other notable influences include Michael Moorcock, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alan Moore and Noel Coward. - Juliet Landau
Juliet Landau (born March 30, 1965) is an American actress. She is the daughter of actors Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, and was born in Los Angeles, California. She spent her youth in London, returning to the United States at age 18. As a child she studied both classical ballet and acting at the American school in London. - Udo Kier
Udo Kier (born Udo Kierspe on October 14, 1944) is a German actor. - P. N. Elrod
Patricia Nead Elrod is an American fantasy writer specializing in novels about vampires. Her work falls into areas of fantasy and (in some cases) mystery or historical fiction, but normally not horror, since her vampires are the heroes. - Fred Saberhagen
Fred Thomas Saberhagen (May 18, 1930 - June 29, 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction author most famous for his "Berserker" series of science fiction stories. He also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the vampires (including the famous Dracula) are the protagonists, … - Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Le Gentil (born November 3, 1938 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France) is a French auteur (filmmaker), actor, and author best known for his films in the fantastique genre. Rollin is credited as having made the first French vampire film ("Le Viol du vampire", 1968) as well as the first French gore film ("Le Raisins de la mort", 1978). He is also one of the early pioneers of French X-rated cinema. - Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art. "The Scream" (1893; similar paintings include "Despair" and "Anxiety"), Munch's best-known painting, is one of the pieces in a series titled "The Frieze of Life", in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy. As with many of his works, he painted several versions of it. - Tom Holland
Tom Holland (born 1968) is an acclaimed British author. He has written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, on many subjects from vampires to history. Holland was born and brought up in Salisbury, England. He obtained a double first at Cambridge, and afterwards studied shortly for a PhD at Oxford, taking Lord Byron as his subject, before interrupting the post graduate studies and moving to London. - Peter Watts
Peter Watts is a Canadian science fiction author and marine-mammal biologist. His first novel "Starfish" (2000) introduced Lenie Clarke, a deep-ocean power-station worker physically altered for underwater living and the main character in the sequels: "Maelstrom" (2001), "Behemoth: ß-Max" (2004) and "Behemoth: Seppuku" (2005). The last two volumes comprise one novel, published split into for commercial considerations. - Leonor Varela
Leonor Varela (born December 29, 1972) is a Chilean actress. - Jonathan Frid
John Herbert Frid (born December 2, 1924, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is a theater, television and movie actor. He is most famously known for the role of vampire Barnabas Collins on the first incarnation of the gothic U.S. cult television serial "Dark Shadows". Frid was initially brought on "Dark Shadows" to help rescue flagging ratings. The role of Barnabas Collins was originally intended to be a brief one, … - Nancy A. Collins
Nancy A. Collins (born 10 September, 1959) is a horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has also written for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series and her own one-shot "Dhampire". Collins was born in McGehee, Arkansas, lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s, and as of 2005 lives in Atlanta, Georgia. - Montague Summers
Augustus Montague Summers (10 April, 1880 - 10 August, 1948) was an eccentric English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his 1928 English translation of the medieval witch hunter's manual, the "Malleus Maleficarum", as well as for several studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. - John Polidori
John William Polidori was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. Polidori was the oldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess. He had three brothers and four sisters. He was one of the earliest pupils at recently established Ampleforth College from 1804, … - Elena Anaya
Elena Anaya is a Spanish actress whose career dates back to 1995. Anaya was born in Palencia, Spain. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama "Lucía y el sexo" ("Sex and Lucía") and also appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's "Hable con ella" ("Talk to Her"). Her best-known mainstream film role was as a vampire in 2004's "Van Helsing", playing Dracula's bride, Aleera. - Kevin Grevioux
Kevin Grevioux (born in Chicago, Illinois, but spent most of his childhood in Minnesota, Boston, and New Jersey) is an American actor, screenwriter, and comic book writer. He has been seen in such films as "The Mask", "Steel", "Congo", Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" remake and the 2003 vampire vs. werewolf film, "Underworld", starring actress Kate Beckinsale. He has also worked as a stuntman on occasion. - Richard Chase
Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 - December 26, 1980) was an American serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in California. He earned the nickname "The Vampire of Sacramento" due to his drinking of his victims' blood and his cannibalism. He did this as part of a delusion that he needed to prevent Nazis from turning his blood into powder via poison they had planted beneath his soap dish. - Geraint Wyn Davies
Geraint Wyn Davies (b. April 20 1957, Swansea, Wales) is a Welsh-Canadian actor. The son of a Welsh Congregationalist preacher, he moved with his family to Canada at the age of seven, where he attended Upper Canada College. His most famous role is that of vampire turned police detective Nick Knight on the television series "Forever Knight". Previous to this role, he had also played a vampire in "Dracula: The Series". - Nigel Bennett
Nigel Bennett (born November 19, 1949 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, UK) is an English actor/director/writer who has been based in Canada since 1986. He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the TV series "Forever Knight", for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actor in a dramatic series. - Wen Spencer
Wen Spencer (born 1963) is an American Science fiction and fantasy writer whose books center around characters with unusual abilities, and which might be regarded as original variations on the standard vampire and werewolf themes. Spencer attended the University of Pittsburgh, gaining a degree in Information science, and has been active in science fiction fandom. - Lina Romay
Lina Romay (birth name Rosa Maria Almirall, born 23 June 1954 in Barcelona) is a Spanish actress who often appears in films directed by her long-time companion (they are not officially married), Jesus Franco. They first met and made their first films together in the early 1970s and she has since appeared in over 100 feature films, most of them directed by Franco. Among the most famous of these movies are "Female Vampire", "Ilsa, … - William Ragsdale
William Ragsdale (b. January 19, 1961 in El Dorado, Arkansas) is an American actor. After attending Hendrix College where he appeared in plays with "Sling Blade" actress Natalie Canerday, he gained attention as the young hero of "Fright Night" and "Fright Night II", a series of humorous vampire films co-starring Roddy McDowall. He also performed in theatre productions of Neil Simon plays "Biloxi Blues" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs". - Edward van Sloan
Edward Van Sloan (1 November 1881-6 March 1964) was a film character actor remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films. His best-remembered roles were in the Universal horror films of the early 1930s, including "Dracula" (1931), "Frankenstein" (1931) and "The Mummy" (1932). In the first of these, he played Abraham van Helsing, the famous vampire-hunter, … - Mark Metcalf
Mark Metcalf (born March 11, 1946 in Findlay, Ohio, USA) is an American actor in both television and film. He is likely most known to two different generations for two notable roles. In the classic college comedy, "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978), he played the sadistic ROTC leader "Doug Neidermeyer". - Fritz Haarmann
Friedrich "Fritz" Haarmann (October 25, 1879 - April 15, 1925) was a notorious serial killer born in Hanover, Germany. From 1919 to 1924, Haarmann committed at least 100 murders, and possibly many more. Haarmann's victims were young male vagrants and male prostitutes who hung around railway stations, whom Haarmann would lure back to his apartment and then kill them by biting through their throats in a kind of sexual frenzy. - Freda Warrington
Freda Warrington is a British author, known for her epic fantasy, vampire and supernatural novels. Her earliest novels, the "Blackbird" series, were written and published when she was just finishing her teen years; in the intervening years she has seen numerous stand-alone novels and a trilogy published. (The original "Blackbird" series has recently been put back into print by Immanion Press.) Four of her novels ("Dark Cathedral", "Pagan Moon", … - Jessica Barone
Jessica Barone (b. July 16, 1977) is an author, best known for her work in vampire fiction. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from colleges in the state of Massachusetts. - J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton (b. September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including several encyclopedias, handbooks, … - Theda Bara
Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 - April 7, 1955), a silent film actress. Movie executives made promotional claims that her stage name was chosen because it is an anagram for "Arab Death." In reality, "Theda" was a childhood nickname for Theodosia. "Bara" was a shortened form of her maternal grandfather's last name, Baranger. Bara was one of the most popular screen actresses of her era, … - Andrew Fox
Andrew Fox is an American author from New Orleans. He has written two comic novels, "Fat White Vampire Blues" and "Bride of the Fat White Vampire". Both novels feature Jules Duchon, a morbidly obese vampire who resides in New Orleans and works as a taxi driver. The humor from both books is derived primarily from the embarrassing or dangerous predicaments that are at odds with the diginified, suave image one normally associates with vampires such as Dracula. - Jill Tracy
Jill Tracy is a singer, pianist, composer, and performance artist based in San Francisco. She has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a femme fatale for the thinking man.” NPR "All Things Considered" has called her “utterly intriguing, transporting you into a magical world solely of her creation.” "My goal is to open the trapdoors, transport the listener into that magical place inside my head," Tracy said in an NPR interview with Susan Stamberg. - Karen E. Taylor
Karen E. Taylor is the author of "The Vampire Legacy" Series of novels, published by Kensington Books. A voracious reader of vampire/horror novels, Karen first started writing "Blood Secrets" in January, 1988. She conceived of writing the novel while living across the street from a very large cemetery. It was never intended to be the first book of an ongoing series, but fans who had read the novel demanded a sequel. To date, the series stands at seven titles, … - Michael Easton
Michael Easton (born on February 15, 1967) is an American television actor. Easton has made appearances on television shows such as "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice". He had a recurring role on the science fiction television series "Mutant X". Additionally, he has appeared on many soap operas, first starting out in the role of Tanner Scofield on NBC's "Days of Our Lives" from 1991 to 1992. - Jessica Gower
Jessica Gower (born 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian actress; sometimes credited as Jess Gower. Gower's first claim to fame was as a starstruck but confused fan in a 2001 television commercial for Telstra featuring John Farnham and Glenn Wheatley. However, she is best known to Australian and international audiences as the character Sam in the first two seasons of the Network Ten drama "The Secret Life of Us".
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