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vampire

noun as in bloodsucker

noun as in demon

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What We Do in the Shadows is basically just that, but with vampires.

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She describes food-sharing patterns in hunter-gatherer societies, for instance, then in the same paragraph says that “this same dynamic exists among vampire bats.”

My other horror recommendation is “Let the Right One In,” the vampire novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

To parasitic-plant specialist Chris Thorogood, “They’re vampire plants.”

The classic movie still offers some chills and established many of the visual motifs seen in contemporary vampire movies.

Mistletoe is basically a vampire—but one of those an anti-hero type vampires.

The vampire at the heart of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night neither sparkles nor sleeps in coffins.

And someone named something like, “Vampire Man Randy,” commented on it and wrote, “sex feet.”

Next door in Romania, a historical figure nicknamed Vlad the Impaler inspired the first mainstream depiction of a vampire.

He is believed to have been considered a vampire in the mid-19th century and decapitated after his death.

Even the air has its strange denizens in the guise of huge beetles and vampire-winged flying foxes.

Did you ever know a man come out to do either in a chariot and pair, you ridiculous old vampire?

And as the narrowing process progressed, she said, the exhausting or vampire quality grew and grew.

To gently destroy, sucking the vitality like a vampire and fanning the victim to dullness with its wings.

The two bones are not often found in so lateral a position, and the vampire wings are clumsy in the extreme.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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