The Vampire Archives
Welcome to my compendium of all things vampire. It is written and curated by myself, but volunteers can send inquiries at draculover [at] protonmail [dot] com. You can expect to see:
Masterlist
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| a_blood_sucking_ghost.txt | An article about Bohemian villagers excavating and staking the corpse of a suspected vampire. (1892) |
| a_dream.txt | A giant, loved by his people, is drained by a vampire while his admirers are helpless to stop it. (1894) |
| a_horrible_superstition.txt | An article about Peacedale villagers excavating and staking the corpse of a suspected vampire. (1872) |
| a_living_vampire.txt | An article about a reported vampire sighting in an Anglo-Indian colony. (1910) |
| a_modern_vampyre.txt | An article arguing vampire hysteria is the result of untreated mental illness rather than supernatural reality. (1850) |
| a_rhode_island_superstition.txt | An article discussing the Rhode Island belief that tuberculosis deaths are caused by vampires. (1892) |
| a_slayer_of_vampires.txt | A Macedonian man quells nearby vampires, much to the derision of a shopkeeper. (1918) |
| a_triad_of_mediaeval_myths.txt | Passages from Stray Leaves of Science and Folklore arguing for the consideration of vampiric existence. (1870) |
| a_vampire.txt | A sailor tells a tale of floral vampires draining the forest's trees, as an allegory for selfishness. (1884) |
| a_vampire_legend.txt | An article exploring vampire legends as symbolic attempts to explain evil, death, and human misfortune. (1908) |
| an_authenticated_vampire_story.txt | A remote Carpathian castle becomes associated with an alleged vampire after a series of sudden deaths. (1909) |
| an_irish_vampire.txt | A rural Irish family encounters a recently-buried priest with unmistakable signs of vampirism. (1925) |
| an_old_superstition.txt | An article reporting the exhumation of a Prussian noble alleged by his family to be a vampire. (1874) |
| another_dracula.txt | A Pennsylvanian town is taken by the arrival of an apparent vampire and his strange coffin. (1930) |
| aylmer_vance_and_the_vampire.txt | A wealthy man falls ill and consults a psychic, who reveals a vampiric force has bound itself to his wife. (1914) |
| bats_belfry.txt | A lord discovers an occult book in his manor and inadvertently summons the undead. (1926) |
| belief_in_vampires.txt | An article on Grecian vampire beliefs and the exhumation of an alleged vampire. |
| believe_in_vampires.txt | A satirical article mocking vampire superstition among rural Rhode Islanders. (1896) |
| carmilla.txt | During her stay in a Styrian schloss, a young woman becomes the latest obsession of a vampiress. (1872) |
| clarimonde.txt | An elderly priest recalls his first lover, the vampiress Clarimonde. (1836) |
| cross_of_fire.txt | A nobleman discovers he's been turned into a vampire, and struggles to cope. (1939) |
| daughter_of_the_moonlight.txt | Two detectives at a country club encounter two women, one of whom appears to be a vampiress. (1930) |
| doom_of_the_house_of_duryea.txt | A man meets his estranged father in a lodge, only to uncover a devastating vampiric curse. (1936) |
| dracula.txt | Various people chronicle the arrival of a mysterious count, and the subsequent death that ensues. (1897) |
| draculas_guest.txt | A young Englishman, on his way to meet Count Dracula, experiences various strange encounters. (1914) |
| european_folklore_in_the_united_states.txt | An article recounting European-derived superstitions that have persisted in the United States. (1889) |
| excerpts_on_bulgarian_vampire_belief.txt | Passages from Bulgarian Superstitions describing the characteristics of the country's vampires. (1877) |
| for_the_blood_is_the_life.txt | A vampiric ghost returns to haunt a coastal Italian tower. (1912) |
| four_wooden_stakes.txt | After a string of killings, two men set out to slay their culprit, a vampire. (1925) |
| haunted_by_a_vampire.txt | An article about a railroad brakeman and his alleged experiences with a vampire. (1897) |
| isle_of_the_undead.txt | A yacht party fights for their lives on an island of the undead. (1936) |
| lang_on_the_vampire.txt | An article about the persistent belief in vampires, particularly in New England. (1904) |
| let_loose.txt | An architect uncovers an evil force in the grounds of a remote Yorkshire village. (1890) |
| ligeia.txt | A widower descends into near-madness attempting to revive his wife. (1838) |
| living_vampyres.txt | An article theorising that vampire beliefs originated from uninformed reactions to decomposition. (1851) |
| luella_miller.txt | A New England village is plagued by a mysterious woman and the untimely deaths of her carers. (1903) |
| mrs_amworth.txt | Two men find out that their Sussex village is haunted by a vampiress. (1922) |
| negotium_perambulans.txt | A Cornish village suffers an attack from a vampiric force. (1922) |
| pepopukin_in_corsica.txt | A knight seeks to marry a noblewoman, only for his rivals to torment him with vampire-themed pranks. (1826) |
| restless_souls.txt | Two detectives meet an uncanny woman on Halloween Eve, leading them into the clutches of the supernatural. (1928) |
| return_of_the_undead.txt | A group of medical students desecrate a grave as a prank, only to uncover a vampire. (1943) |
| return_to_death.txt | A Transylvanian scientist becomes trapped in suspended animation and is mistaken for a vampire. (1936) |
| rhode_island_fears_vampires.txt | An article about enduring vampire superstitions in Rhode Island and how they affect local burial practices. (1896) |
| spectres_called_vampyres.txt | An article about vampires in Eastern Europe, reported sightings and methods of destruction. (1765) |
| stories_of_vampires.txt | An article about widespread belief in vampirism and individuals claiming to be vampires. (1884) |
| superstitions_of_new_england.txt | A family exhumes their deceased daughter after suspecting she's risen as a vampire to drain her brother. (1822) |
| the_animistic_vampire_in_new_england.txt | An article arguing that vampire belief in New England represents ancient animistic beliefs. (1896) |
| the_black_vampyre.txt | A mixed-race slave revives as a vampire and seeks revenge on his captor. (1819) |
| the_blood_of_the_vampire.txt | A mixed-race vampiress unknowingly causes the deaths of the people she seeks to flatter. (1897) |
| the_canal.txt | Two men exploring an abandoned canal encounter a local vampire. (1927) |
| the_coffin_lid.txt | A moujik negotiates with a corpse for the resurrection of two murdered children. (1873) |
| the_dog_and_the_corpse.txt | A moujik and his dog meet a corpse that attacks them, but the moujik abandons his dog, who fosters a grudge. (1873) |
| the_fan.txt | A man meets an old woman, once beautiful yet still alluring due to a mysterious hypnotic fan. (1925) |
| the_flowering_of_the_strange_orchid.txt | A man buys an exotic orchid that reveals itself to be a vampire. (1894) |
| the_hills_of_the_dead.txt | A Puritan adventurer and a voodoo sorcerer plan to destroy a race of African vampires haunting a hillside city. (1930) |
| the_horla.txt | A man descends into madness, suspecting he is being attacked by a vampire. (1886) |
| the_house_of_the_vampire.txt | An experienced psychic vampire aims to drain an aspiring writer of his skills and sanity. (1907) |
| the_last_of_the_vampires.txt | Skeletons found in the Amazon Basin attest to a fatal confrontation between a man and a reptilian vampire. (1893) |
| the_man_who_cast_no_shadow.txt | Two detectives investigate a European nobleman and discover he's a vampire. (1927) |
| the_man_with_wax_hands.txt | A mysterious stranger with wax-like hands visits a Danube farmhouse, seemingly causing the death of its daughter. (1880) |
| the_mysterious_stranger.txt | A party of travellers in the Carpathians encounters a seemingly helpful stranger, secretly a vampire. (1860) |
| the_ocean_leech.txt | A group of sailors attempts to fight off a grotesque vampiric cephalopod. (1925) |
| the_phantom_world.txt | All relevant vampire chapters from Augustin Calmet's treatise of supernatural phenomena. (1746) |
| the_problem_of_the_vampire.txt | An article that explores and theorises about different explanations for alleged vampire activity. (1924) |
| the_return_of_the_undead.txt | A man recalls a dying friend's warning about the undead and his plea to prevent their rise. (1943) |
| the_room_in_the_tower.txt | A man stays in a friend's haunted tower, while a vampiress lurks and plans to turn him. (1912) |
| the_shroud.txt | A slovenly girl steals the shroud from a corpse, only to suffer its revenge. (1873) |
| the_silver_countess.txt | A detective investigates a strange statue and its connection to a long-dead countess. (1929) |
| the_skeleton_count.txt | A count makes a pact with dark forces to resurrect a woman from the dead, transforming her into a vampiress. (1828) |
| the_soldier_and_the_vampire.txt | A soldier encounters a vampiric warlock and quests to vanquish him for good. (1873) |
| the_tinkle_of_the_camels_bell.txt | A wanderer follows the sound of a camel bell into a disorientating house and meets a vampiress. (1928) |
| the_tomb_of_sarah.txt | A rector and a church restorer set to vanquish a vampire Countess and free their village from her presence. (1900) |
| the_transfer.txt | A governess feels suspicious of an overbearing uncle, a metaphorical vampire, while a real specimen lurks nearby. (1912) |
| the_true_story_of_a_vampire.txt | A young woman recalls the loss of her brother at the hands of a charming vampire count. (1894) |
| the_two_corpses.txt | A soldier flees a ravening corpse and takes refuge in a chapel while it squabbles with another. (1873) |
| the_unholy_compact_abjured.txt | A young soldier resists the temptations of witchcraft and undeath through his Christian faith. (1825) |
| the_vampire_his_kith_and_kin.txt | The progenitor of many a vampire history text, by a sincere believer of the undead. (1928) |
| the_vampire_legend.txt | An article about vampires as a universal response to disease and guilt surrounding the dead. (1918) |
| the_vampire_maid.txt | A man stays in an English country house, only to find himself stalked by its vampiric maid. (1900) |
| the_vampire_of_croglin_grange.txt | A family in Cumberland suffer an attack from an ancestral vampire. (1896) |
| the_vampire_pipe.txt | An inventor falls victim to the blood-sucking machine he created. (1907) |
| the_vampire_superstition.txt | An article about the decline of vampire belief as a result of increased education about burial practices. (1915) |
| the_vampyre.txt | During his travels a young nobleman unknowingly befriends a vampire and becomes his latest victim. (1819) |
| the_vampyre_a_hungarian_legend.txt | An article about the exhumation of Hungarian peasant Arnold Paul, an alleged vampire. (1871) |
| the_wolf_woman.txt | A group of scientists unknowingly resurrect a fearsome vampire huntress and her loyal wolves. (1927) |
| they_burned_the_vampire.txt | An article about the exhumation of alleged vampire Arnold Paul. (1893) |
| think_vampires_kill_sheep.txt | An article about an alleged vampire slayer in Macedonia who kills vampires blamed for attacking sheep. (1919) |
| to_be_or_not_to_be_a_vampire.txt | An actress expresses her fascination with Theda Bara and her iconic Vampire role. |
| Vampire Prompt Generator | A keyword generator for helping you come up with vampire-themed art. |
| vampire_and_bruxa.txt | An article contrasting the decline of vampire belief with the continued persistence of belief in the Evil Eye. (1874) |
| vampire_in_literature.txt | An article comparing literary vampires with their folkloric counterparts. (1913) |
| vampire_of_lakeview.txt | An alleged vampire menaces Chicago, causing widespread hysteria in a modern city. (1888) |
| vampire_of_slav_origin.txt | An article describing the Slavic vampire. (1916) |
| vampires_1908.txt | An article arguing that vampirism is an innate human capacity rather than literal undeath. |
| vampires_1914.txt | An article arguing that vampirism exists in ways subtler than imagined. |
| vampires_and_ghouls.txt | An article arguing vampire beliefs are products of superstition, ignorance and mental illness. (1871) |
| vampires_and_vampirism_prothero.txt | An article theorising about the reality of vampirism and advising a cautious approach to alleged sightings. |
| vampires_and_vampirism_wright.txt | A collection of vampire lore from around the world. |
| vampires_and_vamping.txt | A satirical article mocking the concept of vampirism, describing it as an unintuitive game. (1901) |
| vampirism_in_rhode_island.txt | An article about tuberculosis and its attribution to vampirism, despite growing medical knowledge. (1937) |
| vampirism_in_servia.txt | An article about a Serbian village's attempts to treat a dying girl, suspecting a vampire is the cause. (1876) |
| vampyres_harpers.txt | An article about the evolution of vampire folklore and its translation into popular literature. |
| vampyres_their_crimes_and_punishments.txt | An article about several historical cases of vampires, including Arnold Paul. (1844) |
| vampyrism_mayo.txt | An article suggesting alleged vampires were actually people buried alive or suffering trancelike states. |
| vanquishing_a_vampire.txt | An occultist allegedly dispels an alleged vampire, advising that magic serve the good of others. (1928) |
| wake_not_the_dead.txt | A grieving lord uses dark magics to revive his wife, only to be met with the horrors of playing God. (1823) |