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.
An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu features Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.
The Mercy Brown vampire incident occurred in Rhode Island in 1892. Her heart was burned and the ashes fed to her alleged victim.
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