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1. Max Schreck -- Shadow of the Vampire
   Character Bio: By many accounts, Willem Dafoe steals the show in "Shadow of the Vampire," as Max Schreck, a vampire pretending to be an actor to play a vampire. Dafoe's Schreck is malevolent and creepy while still amusing the audience. Schreck is hired by F.W. Marnuau to make sure that his movie, "Nosferatu" is as authentic as possible. Unfortunately, his crew starts disappearing. Dafoe's Schreck is physically a wreck with his pale, rotted skin, his black eye sockets, his bald, chalky dome, his unpleasant teeth and his ancient stoop.
2. Shadow -- Super Shadow
   Super Shadow is the transformed state of Shadow. Shadow can perform this transformation when he harnesses the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds. In this form, his black fur becomes a whitish yellow and his forehead stripe becomes shorter in length, most noticeably in Sonic Adventure 2. Super Shadow made his first appearance in Sonic Adventure 2, where he had to battle against the Finalhazard with Super Sonic. Like Sonic, Shadow requires rings in order to maintain this super form.
3. Vampires -- Modern Vampires
   Vampires are monsters in legends and stories. The first vampire legends were told in Eastern Europe, but much of how modern people see vampires was created by Bram Stoker in the famous novel, Dracula. Few people believe that vampires are real, but they are still very popular in movies, television, and books.
4. Vampires -- Creatures
   Vampires have slam attacks. If the base creature does not have this attack form, use the appropriate damage value from the table below according to the vampire’s size. Creatures that have other kinds of natural weapons retain their old damage values or use the appropriate value from the table below, whichever is better.
5. Hellsing -- Vampires
   Visually, Hellsing seems to have been inspired by equal parts Trigun and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Arucard doesn't quite have D's icy cool, but he does have his over-the-top sense of baroque style: His clothes look like they were ripped off a 19th-century pimp with a hat-brim fetish. Studio GONZO, the flashmeisters behind visual playgrounds like Gatekeepers and Blue Submarine No. 6, are as emphatically expressive as ever; they particularly went to town in the process of making Arucard as visually unique and intimidatingly evil as possible. With his wild hair, multitudinous red eyes, wide, fangy smirk and horrific crawling-shadow powers, he's less an anti-hero than a momentarily contained supervillain.
6. Vampires -- Blood
   Vampires were usually reported as bloated in appearance, and ruddy, purplish, or dark in colour; these characteristics were often attributed to the recent drinking of blood. Indeed, blood was often seen seeping from the mouth and nose when one was seen in its shroud or coffin and its left eye was often open.[20] It would be clad in the linen shroud it was buried in, and its teeth, hair, and nails may have grown somewhat, though in general fangs were not a feature.[21]
7. Conan -- Red Shadows
   Conan seized command of the pirates that ravaged the Sea of Vilayet. As chieftain of this mongrel Red Brotherhood, Conan was more than ever a thorn in King Yildiz's flesh. That mild monarch, instead of strangling his brother Teyaspa in the normal Turanian manner, had cooped him up in a castle in the Colchian Mountains. Yildiz now sent his General Artaban to destroy the pirate stronghold at the mouth of the Zaporoska River; but the general became the harried instead of the harrier. Retreating inland, Artaban stumbled upon Teyaspa's whereabouts; and the final conflict involved Conan's outlaws, Artaban's Turanians, and a brood of vampires ("The Road of the Eagles").
8. Dark -- Dark Shadows
   Dark Shadows is a Gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis, who tells of a dream he had in which a girl takes a long train ride to visit a large mansion. The story "bible," which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements. It was considered daring (and unprecedented in daytime television) when ghosts were introduced about six months after it began. The series became hugely popular when, a year into its run, vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Jonathan Frid, appeared. In addition to vampires, Dark Shadows featured werewolves, ghosts, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, both into the past and into the future, and a parallel universe.
9. Vampire in Literature -- Vlad Dracula
   Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in poetry, before becoming the stock figure of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), and later popularised with the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire (1847). Sheridan Le Fanu's tale of a lesbian vampire, Carmilla (1872) has been very influential, though the masterpiece of the genre is Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). Over the years, vampire stories have diversified into areas of crime, fantasy, science fiction or even chick-lit. As well as the typical fanged revenants, newer representations include aliens and even plants with vampiric abilities. Others feed on energy rather than blood.
10. Vampire in Literature -- Series
    The word Vampire appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1734 as much was appearing in German literature on the subject. After the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz where parts of Serbia and Wallachia came under Austrian control, the Austrian officials noted the local practice of exhuming bodies and "killing vampires". These reports prepared between 1725 and 1732 received widespread publicity.[1] The etymology is uncertain, though several theories of its origin exist.[2] The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn thought to be derived in the early 18th century[3] from Serbian вампир/vampir,[4][5][6][7] or Hungarian vámpír.[8][9] The Serbian and Hungarian forms have parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian вампир (vampir), Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz and (perhaps East Slavic-influenced) upiór, Russian упырь (upyr'), Belarusian упыр (upyr), Ukrainian упирь (upir'), from Old Russian упирь (upir'). (Note that many of these languages have ... borrowed forms such as "vampir/wampir" secondarily from the West). Among the proposed proto-Slavic forms are *

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