Something I found out later in life, is that many vampire myths include some strange obsessive/compulsive need to count or order things. Like, if your being chased by a vampire throw some grain, they'll have to stop and count them; or thow a rope full of knots in a vampire's coffin and when they awake they won't go out and feed as they spend the whole night undoing the knots. When I found that out, I always wondered if The Count was a nod to those myths or just an adorable coincidence?
Zurt ...thus the point in Richard Matheson's "The Night Stalker" 1971/72. Kolchak murders the serial killer with a stake just as the Sheriff arrives. They use that as an excuse to run him out of town, by getting a judge to draw up an arrest warrant...even though an FBI agent helped defeat the vampire and aided on the ritual staking.
My favourite version of the vampire has to be the predatory vampires from Steve Niles' 30 Days of Night series. Unlike virtually every vampire story from good ol' Dracula to Twilight's sparkly vampires, it's the only one I can think of (other than The Strain's strigoi) where the vampires are depicted not as seducers/seductresses but more as a distinct species of human that see humans as food and nothing else, just like a real predator-prey relationship. In Niles' own words "what if they don't want to seduce you; what if you're just a resource to them?"
You literally took the words out of my mouth lol. I agree with this 100% I always thought that vampires were monsters, not sex symbols. The apex predator who's only prime motivation is to feed.
Nothing beats Dracula. He may not have been the first, but he is the best. He combines all the scariest, most mysterious and iconic elements of the vampire into one, while having a largely unintentional but intriguing link to a real historical figure who was even more terrifying.
He could also walk outside during the day. Granted he couldn't feed or use his powers but he could walk with the living. Instantly better than the younglings who can't walk in the sun.
I just watched “The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires”, a 1974 collaboration between the British Hammer studio and Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers. It’s a Kung fu vampire movie filmed entirely in Hong Kong and starring Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. It’s as ridiculous and glorious as it sounds!
I liked how the novel "Interview With A Vampire" went into depth about how it feels to turn into a vampire, and the first experience of having to claw into the soil with bare hands to escape the Sun.
Turning to mist, not having a reflection, having to be staked in the heart, yes, yes, yes. Those are all traits of Dracula. But you didn't mention any of his traits as a person. Like his hobbies. For example, he takes enthusiastic walks through the park. 1:11 _Very_ enthusiastic walks.
It's so fascinating to me how vampires are an amazing example of how folklore, mythology, and legends change through the lens in which they are observed. Honestly, watching this series (and this entire channel in general) brings my literature-obsessed self so much serotonin.
@Olivia Wilson Dracula's name, however, WAS based on Vlad the Impaler, and Stoker did use his reputation for oddity and cruelty as a partial inspiration. Even if the historical person was not the direct inspiration, the video could still mention that common and (in many circles) famous "misconception" , if only to correct it. Don't laugh...discuss.
At 2:22 one can see the name of the book she was referring to. Walachia and Moldavia (various political observations). Vlad was on 3 occasions ruler of Walachia.
@@helentelehowski679 Interesting here in Argentina we have a kind of blood sucking zombi called Anchimayen who cast sparkles and can fly. It´s like a fusion between the voodoo zombi and the modern one with that little vampiric quality.
Right? Watch us all become dark seekers from I Am Legend after they all got the krippen virus from their so called cancer vaccine, only you know, us with the covid vaccine lol
I would have to say that my favorite vampires would have to be Dracula and Alucard from the Castlevania series. They are two amazing vampires and their history and dynamics between then in certain games and videos is purely heavenly.
@@trevorvanderputten7430 Extremely so. Especially on the 'bloody' part. Gotta be my favorite vampires in fiction (along with Alucard being one of my favorite characters in fiction in general)
@lauren vanvoorhis and Jules Verne wrotten a similar novel before Stoker, but his vampire was a living human with telephatic powers, or something similar. Psych vampire.
@@matiasdelgado7011 I need to check out a Jules Vern vampire. Dracula's contribution was that it had such a solid magic system (though it doesn't exactly match the current portrayal). The rules were all very clear and even explored quite a lot. Carmilla and The Vampyre had more mysterious rules- and you could never quite tell how much you could trust in superstitions.
What I found interesting is that the element tellurium was first discovered in Romania. Signs of tellurium poisoning includes: garlicky breath, terrible thirst/dry mouth, lack of sweating, and metallic taste in the mouth.
Dracula is one of my favorite characters of fantasy/mythology. If you were to do a video about werewolves, and how they have changed over time, that would be amazing. I LOVE werewolves.
I have been reading up on that. In the mid 1700s, there was a section of Serbia that was brought into Austrian control. The Serbians started reporting instances of vampirism and the Austrian authorities started overseeing the disinterment and staking of bodies- and they wrote official reports that spread the story through the rest of Europe (many people believed the reports). Carmilla follows the pattern of these legends better than any other vampire novel I have read. People would fall ill and report being attacked at night (often identifying a deceased attacker). Then die some days later (being fed on each night). They believed that a person is infected with vampirism becomes a vampire when they die (regardless of the cause of death). Vampires do not seem to travel far from their graves, as many people felt that moving to another village is an option. Stoker's vampires have a very specific set of rules that prevent most vampires from traveling far from their graves (Dracula is clever enough to figure out ways around the restrictions).
I am 57 now but when I was 8 my mom took me to a double feature of Bela Lugosi "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" the highlighting of Dracula's eyes scared the living crap out of me but Frankenstein didn't bother me at all. To this day I still LOVE those old horror films 👏👍
I do think that Carmilla is my favourite vampire. Equal parts monster and person. I really enjoyed how she appeared like any other person when someone interacted with her, but things were slowly getting stranger and stranger. Stoker did a fantastic job with Dracula, and I love the book, but we are so far removed from Dracula that we don't really get to know him as well as we did Carmilla.
I haven't read _Carmilla_ yet, but I really do need to. Add _Varney the Vampire_ too. As two of the most influential pre-_Dracula_ Victorian vampire stories, both of which influenced Stoker himself, the really should get more love.
Let The Right One In is fantastic!!! Definitely one of my favorite versions of the vampire. If anyone hasn't read it yet, it's definitely worth the read.
My favorite vampires are Bram stokers`s Count Dracula, Anne Rice´s Lestat, Shido from the anime "Nightwalker", Abel Nightroad from the anime "Trinity Blood" , Alucard from The anime "Hellsing Ultimate" and D from the anime "Blood lust". (It is so hard to just choose one of them)
My favorite interpretation of the vampire was in a rarely known book called, "The World On Blood" where vampirism is a genetic mutation that makes non-vampire human blood an addictive drug. It has everything a vampire novel needs and adds the most unique twist I've ever seen.
Vampires are my favorite monsters of all time but my favorite one of all is Dracula and thanks for showing a video of Dracula thanks again for being amazing love you
The best Dracula is obviously the version from the Castlevania series. Thg church kills the only woman he loved, wears bloodshed against humanity for the lack there of, and is confronted by his only son who tries to remind his father of the compassion and love his mother had for humanity.
Depends on what they do. In game, Dracula shouldn't be resurrected for another 100 years. Though they could follow the Curse of Darkness storyline which focuses on Hector and Trevor's attempt to stop Issac.
Dracula was a Prince. He was also a prisoner in a Turkish prison for many years until his father was killed. The Turkish Sultan thought putting young Vlad on his father's throne would make him the perfect puppet that would make conquering Eastern Europe easier for him. He thought wrong. Vlad Dracula may not have been the first sociopath but you'd be hard pressed to find one more blood thirsty.
The (C)RPG Vampire: The Masquerade also had a great impact on the modern understanding of vampires. They've incorporated many different types of vampires, splitting them into clans with different abilities and relationships with the living
Twilight? Really? I get that it sold a lot of books and movie tickets, but it was hardly original. Hell, Angel in the TV show Buffy was a reluctant, brooding vampire way before the Twilight books were written. And he didn't sparkle.
They weren't even originally going to be vampires, but rather faeries. They were changed part way through to cash in on the popularity of vampires at the time.
Polidori's story the Vampyre was way before mister Stokers one, so he was actually the founding father of the written bloodsucker. That said, hard to say which one is my favorite... In the movies their are 2 that I love, interview and Oldman as Dracula. Books I think I go for the complete vampire chronicles of Anne Rice (her witchbooks are great too).
yup!!!! to the point that until very recently lord byron (who lord ruthven from the vampyre was based on) was who people thought of when they thought "vampire".
@@christophvogel1080 well it isn’t that they are no real vampires in twilight….given the volturi for example….it’s just that the cullens are new age hipster vampires trying to convince anybody to drink smoothies and eat salad instead of….you know…people 🤷🏼♂️😂
Bram Stoker took alot of his inspiration from the historical Irish Vampire. Abhartach. He was a chieftain who demanded blood from his people and even hunted his people. Every time he was killed he came back. He's technically immortal. He was buried upside down and a massive stone and blackthorns were planted around his grave. I won't say where he's buried as by Irish law it's illegal to remove the stone on his grave so I don't want anyone trying to let him out. We've many other folklore Vaimpír like An dearg Dua and many others. But Abhartach is definitely the most feared
My favourite of all the monsters! I remember running around the house when I was very young with vampire teeth made out of an egg box cut up pretending to be dracula rising from my coffin, one of my earliest memories and clearly one which has shaped my entire life and love of all things spooky. Thank you for this, I could have watched an hour long special on this alone! My favourite ever vampire is definitely Spike from BTVS but I also really love Christopher Lee's portrayal from Dracula has risen from the grave. Literary wise you can't beat Bram Stokers original IMO.
Honestly my favorite vampire/version of Dracula is Grandpa/The Count from The Munsters, I honestly love how they managed to take a character who has been considered to be intrinsically terrifying and made him endearing instead(also it’s a huge part of my childhood so what’s not to love)
Love this series of videos! My favourite vampire would have to be Christopher Lee as Dracula in the Hammer films because he's imposing and scary as hell. "Romantic" vampires aren't that scary really, but Lee was frightening because he looked so hungry and evil.
So glad Bram Stoker was listed as Irish here. So many other videos on vampires or Dracula wrongly list Stoker as English. Gives me faith in the research behind these videos :D
Ohhhhhh man favorite vampire!!!! So hard to pick one. I'll always have a particular soft spot in my heart for the original Count. That said... One of my favorite versions is Fred Saberhagen's Thorn. He's incredibly intelligent, for one thing, which I always love in a character...and it doesn't hurt that the first Thorn novel I read involved his crossing paths with Sherlock Holmes! Another would be Nancy Collins' Sonja Blue. She's a real bad-ass and one of the first times I encountered a female vampire who was far more complex than "seduce men and devour them." She's terrifying, terrible, and gloriously dark; things happen around her and to her that would shatter a lesser being. VERY powerful stuff for a teenager wanting to believe that it's possible to fight against the world! I think what makes vampires so compelling for me - the ones I like best at least - is the dichotomy between a sort of cold attitude - a nobleman deigning to walk among the peasantry, or maybe just a person who KNOWS he is a monster and that he can't ever make friends of the creatures that are constantly at risk of becoming prey - if not his prey, then another's. And yet, there IS emotion beneath that aloof exterior. Thorn, and Sonja Blue as well, they're both incredibly lonely. There are no others quite like them, and they know how unique they are. They also know they are exceptional - but it's a very lonely thing to be at the top, with no friends. And yet, BECAUSE they do care, they don't dare let anyone close. It's a dynamic that sucks me in almost every time...which is why I've read a LOT of vampire books!
I've been wanting a way to learn about the original capabilities of mythical creatures for a while, but everything I found was so out of the way. So much information but the stuff I needed, you on the other hand get straight to the point. Detailing the origin, the ideas, the capabilities without complication. I love your videos and have found myself as a subscriber and I don't regret a thing! ^_^
Good to see people throwing some light on the monstrous lores and legends. The thing which I like about this channel is that besides being informative the videos provide the related symbolism as well. #AlsoWatchedYourFrankensteinVideo #LoveFromIndia
My favorites depend on the type of vampire themes they are going for, sympathetic, scary, humorous. If I had to be pressed to say one specifically, Louis from Interview with the Vampire
Vampires from old medieval folklore were savage zombies, with few or neither memories of their past human selfs. Like the savage vampires from the Buffy graphic novel and the Supernatural tv series.
Dracula from american movies : a monster , evil and villain Dracula from History : a hero from Romanian , a king who sacrifice everything for his country and a monster
im a little confused, is Bela Lugosi's '31 depiction of dracula not landmark enough to even show? even the animations in the episode make reference to his version.
I love vampire stories that have an interesting twist to the myths and complex characters that have very human traits. Most underrated: Sabella by Tabitha Lee & the Saint-Germain books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Other favorites are a quirky list: True Blood and the original books. The Parasol Protectorate Vampires. The Buffyverse, especially Angel & Spike. Blade. Lestat from Anne Rice and Alucard from the Hellsing anime. What We Do In The Shadows and Gary Oldman's Dracula. And for sheer fun, Bunnicula & the Count from Sesame Street
Although I agree, I'd also have to argue that vampires such as Dracula don't count (hehe... Count...) as vampires. Vampires in folklore are literal monsters. Other than resembling the dead person the used to be, there's nothing human or elegant about them.
Crusader of the Low Lands agreed. From what I remember reading in Dracula, the Count has learned most of what he knew as far as things like transformation and other abilities we associate with vampires was learned at a black magic school called Sholomance.
personally, I think if we're talking about different cultural interpretations of monsters, it's an important inclusion. If we were really going to get into it, the "defanging" so to speak of vampires in the Twilight series, is pretty interesting given the cultural context of early 2000s America. Clearly Stephanie Meyer didn't intend it to be a metaphor for much of anything, but the way it got so popular at the time could be an interesting comparison to a lot of social change that was happening at the time, and both a desire to pretend dangerous things weren't so scary, or the growing realization that things once thought monstrous maybe weren't so bad.
When I was a kid nothing used scared me more than Dracula, on any form, movies, cartoons, etc, and by extension the vampires in general was something that I just couldn't watch, then at 9 the first horror movie I watched was Fright Night and I ran away from the room before the ending, everything on vampires really used to terrify me, and for some reason since adulthood I just cant have enough about the subject on vampires of folklore and movies, but the traditional ones.
please do a video on djinn‘s! I‘m from turkey and find them so creepy. We always say that their feet point in the opposite direction cause they‘re a creature from hell! (sorry for my bad english)
Definitely the Wamphyri from Bryan Lumley's Necroscope series would be my favorite incarnation of the vampire. They are absolutely nightmarish, brutal, powerful, merciless, cruel, sadistic and ravenous.
Vampires, Burial, and Death by Paul Barber is the most informative vampire book I've come across (and I've crossed quite a few haha)! It's an academic (and more anthropological?) approach to the belief in vampires (which seems to be hard to find). I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who loves vampires and history! p.s. I don't know if I can pick a favorite vampire!!
Loved this episode about Dracula and the modern myth, but being Slavic I feel the origins on vampires is missing in this episode, the story before the modernization.
There's also the novel "Shiki" by Japanese author Fuyumi Ono, which was adapted to an animated series, and has become one of the scariest Japanese animations ever done. Here, a village named Sotoba faces a vampire invasion and the struggles of several characters.
Your Nod is the Egyptian Ankh necklace: A symbol of eternal life and often used Vampire Covens and Houses Great video, as always 🦇 P.S. I thought Buffy's Dracula episode was hilarious with all its movie sub-references.
I realize I'm a little late to the party, but I wanted to point out a couple of things. First, in Stoker's original story, Dracula must be stabbed through the heart AND beheaded, and the particular implement used for this doesn't matter, wooden stake, iron spike, Bowie knife, etc. Second, in the original Dracula story, Dr. Van Helsing explicitly refers to vampirism as a disease, although he doesn't identify any pathogens that causes it. Third, how could you not mention the Icelandic "translation" of Dracula?
My fave Dracula lives on Sesame Street, and he counts
Something I found out later in life, is that many vampire myths include some strange obsessive/compulsive need to count or order things. Like, if your being chased by a vampire throw some grain, they'll have to stop and count them; or thow a rope full of knots in a vampire's coffin and when they awake they won't go out and feed as they spend the whole night undoing the knots.
When I found that out, I always wondered if The Count was a nod to those myths or just an adorable coincidence?
@@scaper8 i didnt know that, that's pretty funny
One, two, three victims - ahahaha 😂
scaper8 I thought it was because he was a count
this comment is awesome
to be fair, isnt a wooden stake to the heart everybody's weakness?
Zurt ...thus the point in Richard Matheson's "The Night Stalker" 1971/72. Kolchak murders the serial killer with a stake just as the Sheriff arrives. They use that as an excuse to run him out of town, by getting a judge to draw up an arrest warrant...even though an FBI agent helped defeat the vampire and aided on the ritual staking.
Not me
Not Chuck Norris
Merely a flesh wound.
"Oh, you'd be surprised how many things that kills." - Buffy Summers
Dracula: "What is man? A pile of miserable secrets. But enough talk have at you!"
Castlevania, am I right?
@@jasminelovespink
Yes, you are.
I was wondering when I’d see some Castlevania love!
I don't know how this channel showed up on my feed, but I LOVE MONSTRUM !!!!
Same
Me too
My favourite version of the vampire has to be the predatory vampires from Steve Niles' 30 Days of Night series. Unlike virtually every vampire story from good ol' Dracula to Twilight's sparkly vampires, it's the only one I can think of (other than The Strain's strigoi) where the vampires are depicted not as seducers/seductresses but more as a distinct species of human that see humans as food and nothing else, just like a real predator-prey relationship. In Niles' own words "what if they don't want to seduce you; what if you're just a resource to them?"
Humans try to fool themselves that they are important, but for nature they're just another mamal
Same here 👍
You literally took the words out of my mouth lol. I agree with this 100% I always thought that vampires were monsters, not sex symbols. The apex predator who's only prime motivation is to feed.
check out 13 bullets series, its a similar dynamic as 30 days of night but with more supernatural/psychic abilities tagged on.
I'm more of a Dio fan thanks
My personal favorite Dracula was "Alucard" from Hellsing Ultimate.
Same
Preach🙌
my dumbass just realized it's "Dracula" but reversed
Ditto
Alucard (Dracula spelled backward) was Lon Chaney, Jr. character in the 1943 Universal film "Son of Dracula."
how can one talk about pop culture vampires and not talk about the vampires of buffy
Exactly, that show is iconic.
Yes... Buffy! Though she is a slayer
I came down to the comments looking for mention of Buffy :)
Totally forgot about Buffy. I was looking for any reference to Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris.
Especially Angel.
You actually gave him his mustache. Thank you. It's a small detail that many forget.
Nothing beats Dracula. He may not have been the first, but he is the best. He combines all the scariest, most mysterious and iconic elements of the vampire into one, while having a largely unintentional but intriguing link to a real historical figure who was even more terrifying.
Matthew BR Sims DIO can beat Dracula
He was not the first ?
@@bittersweet6927 I think Lord Ruthven or Carmilla could be the first fiction vampire.
He could also walk outside during the day. Granted he couldn't feed or use his powers but he could walk with the living. Instantly better than the younglings who can't walk in the sun.
What about Hellsing's Alucard? I'd say he's equally just as good as Dracula, 'cause, in the Hellsing anime, he _is_ Dracula. :3.
I just watched “The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires”, a 1974 collaboration between the British Hammer studio and Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers. It’s a Kung fu vampire movie filmed entirely in Hong Kong and starring Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. It’s as ridiculous and glorious as it sounds!
I have also watched
That is a good film, just need to be watched with a Hammer Films mentality.
I'm going to find this movie....
I liked how the novel "Interview With A Vampire" went into depth about how it feels to turn into a vampire, and the first experience of having to claw into the soil with bare hands to escape the Sun.
I love that book.
interview with THE vampire, not a vampire
@@laughingvampire7555 Cheers.
It's been many years since I read the book or saw the movie.
Turning to mist, not having a reflection, having to be staked in the heart, yes, yes, yes. Those are all traits of Dracula. But you didn't mention any of his traits as a person. Like his hobbies. For example, he takes enthusiastic walks through the park.
1:11
_Very_ enthusiastic walks.
Hmm... Monstrum publishes an episode on Dracula, and Eons publishes one on bats... coincidence? ;)
Interestingly enough I just watched that other vid before watching this one.
Get a job
aren't they both under PBS?
I was thinking the same thing. Far too early for a Halloween joke, but it seems a bit too on the nose for mere coincidence.
I think not.
It's so fascinating to me how vampires are an amazing example of how folklore, mythology, and legends change through the lens in which they are observed. Honestly, watching this series (and this entire channel in general) brings my literature-obsessed self so much serotonin.
Thought I'd hear something about Vlad The Implaler.....
Me to
right, she brought up bram stoker, but not who he used as the inspiration for the character lol
This video would have become just as popular as the Vlad the Impaler vid my I Am if it had the same voice as it did
@Olivia Wilson Dracula's name, however, WAS based on Vlad the Impaler, and Stoker did use his reputation for oddity and cruelty as a partial inspiration. Even if the historical person was not the direct inspiration, the video could still mention that common and (in many circles) famous "misconception" , if only to correct it. Don't laugh...discuss.
At 2:22 one can see the name of the book she was referring to. Walachia and Moldavia (various political observations). Vlad was on 3 occasions ruler of Walachia.
"Also, vampires now sparkle." 🤣
That is rediclous. Vampires don't sparkle.
@@helentelehowski679 you’re right. They burn/fry
@@helentelehowski679 Interesting here in Argentina we have a kind of blood sucking zombi called Anchimayen who cast sparkles and can fly. It´s like a fusion between the voodoo zombi and the modern one with that little vampiric quality.
My favorite vampire is one that wants to end the Joestar Bloodline
MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA!
"I REJECT MY HUMANITY JOJO! AND I'M MOVING BEYOND!"
Oho? You’re approaching me?
WWWWWWRRRRRRYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
I like the Yara-ma-ya-who from Australia. In Aboriginal folklore it's a short, red creature with bloodsuckers on it's fingers and toes.
"What form will vampires take next?" Coronavirus.
Especially since it comes from Bats!
Karens
Sentence: very funny 😑
Hardy har har
Right? Watch us all become dark seekers from I Am Legend after they all got the krippen virus from their so called cancer vaccine, only you know, us with the covid vaccine lol
@@alexischavez3238 that's not how it works.
I would have to say that my favorite vampires would have to be Dracula and Alucard from the Castlevania series. They are two amazing vampires and their history and dynamics between then in certain games and videos is purely heavenly.
yeh ive played the games and watched the anime and.. wow
@@VergilTheMenace The Anime was a bloody good time.
@@trevorvanderputten7430 Extremely so. Especially on the 'bloody' part. Gotta be my favorite vampires in fiction (along with Alucard being one of my favorite characters in fiction in general)
3:07 "Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu predated "Dracula" by 26 years, and she could shape shift.
Yeah, I found it kind of strange that Carmilla wasn't really brought up until the end.
@lauren vanvoorhis and Jules Verne wrotten a similar novel before Stoker, but his vampire was a living human with telephatic powers, or something similar. Psych vampire.
@@matiasdelgado7011 I need to check out a Jules Vern vampire.
Dracula's contribution was that it had such a solid magic system (though it doesn't exactly match the current portrayal). The rules were all very clear and even explored quite a lot.
Carmilla and The Vampyre had more mysterious rules- and you could never quite tell how much you could trust in superstitions.
It would be great if u did an episode about the kelpie, the scottish horse-monster!
Ah yes the the water demon who likes to drown kids
@@lilsus4710 Exactly! and not only that, it eats them!
Same!
My little murder pony. ^.^
@@hazelhazelton1346 My Little Kelpie Murder is Magic
What I found interesting is that the element tellurium was first discovered in Romania. Signs of tellurium poisoning includes: garlicky breath, terrible thirst/dry mouth, lack of sweating, and metallic taste in the mouth.
Dracula is one of my favorite characters of fantasy/mythology.
If you were to do a video about werewolves, and how they have changed over time, that would be amazing. I LOVE werewolves.
Yeah like how in recent times Vampires and werewolves are shown to be mortal enemies of each other when in past lore not so much. 🤔
@@Passions5555 Which gave us the ultimate predator: The werepyre.
Vampire Dairies tv and spin-offs have some of my favorite vampires 🧛♂️
I was really hoping this would be a pre-Dracula account of vampires in legends. Hope they make a part 2 and explore the origins more
I have been reading up on that.
In the mid 1700s, there was a section of Serbia that was brought into Austrian control. The Serbians started reporting instances of vampirism and the Austrian authorities started overseeing the disinterment and staking of bodies- and they wrote official reports that spread the story through the rest of Europe (many people believed the reports).
Carmilla follows the pattern of these legends better than any other vampire novel I have read.
People would fall ill and report being attacked at night (often identifying a deceased attacker). Then die some days later (being fed on each night).
They believed that a person is infected with vampirism becomes a vampire when they die (regardless of the cause of death).
Vampires do not seem to travel far from their graves, as many people felt that moving to another village is an option.
Stoker's vampires have a very specific set of rules that prevent most vampires from traveling far from their graves (Dracula is clever enough to figure out ways around the restrictions).
This channel is gonna be epic come October...
...As it is every month.
I agree with that
I am 57 now but when I was 8 my mom took me to a double feature of Bela Lugosi "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" the highlighting of Dracula's eyes scared the living crap out of me but Frankenstein didn't bother me at all. To this day I still LOVE those old horror films 👏👍
I do think that Carmilla is my favourite vampire. Equal parts monster and person. I really enjoyed how she appeared like any other person when someone interacted with her, but things were slowly getting stranger and stranger.
Stoker did a fantastic job with Dracula, and I love the book, but we are so far removed from Dracula that we don't really get to know him as well as we did Carmilla.
I haven't read _Carmilla_ yet, but I really do need to. Add _Varney the Vampire_ too. As two of the most influential pre-_Dracula_ Victorian vampire stories, both of which influenced Stoker himself, the really should get more love.
I agree. Carmilla is my favorite too. I believe it is the first fiction vampire that introduces deadly alluring aspects about vampire.
Carmilla is amazing
Let The Right One In is fantastic!!! Definitely one of my favorite versions of the vampire. If anyone hasn't read it yet, it's definitely worth the read.
I just watched the movie!
The original movie is great (who knew cats hated vampires?)and the American remake is surprisingly good.@@jimroberts9327
I second "Let the Right One In." The original Swedish film was beautiful. Also "The Hunger" with Deneuve, Bowie, and Sarandon.
My favorite vampires are Bram stokers`s Count Dracula, Anne Rice´s Lestat, Shido from the anime "Nightwalker", Abel Nightroad from the anime "Trinity Blood" , Alucard from The anime "Hellsing Ultimate" and D from the anime "Blood lust". (It is so hard to just choose one of them)
My fave vamp character would be Kate Beckinsale’s Selene in the Underworld Saga. Badass and savage af. 🔥✨
Yeah she was
Me too
She sure can whip tail anytime
My favorite interpretation of the vampire was in a rarely known book called, "The World On Blood" where vampirism is a genetic mutation that makes non-vampire human blood an addictive drug. It has everything a vampire novel needs and adds the most unique twist I've ever seen.
The Vampire the Masquerade RPG is my favorite vampire setting. Plus you kinda got all the different kind of vampires in there.
Tremere is best clan
@Natasha Minor yus
@@connorjlavery4196 What are this Tremere? The only playable race I see is either Malkavian or Nosferatu, but of course the best one is Malkavian.
Witcher hit all the vampire types as well. plus regis was the chillest vampire ever.
Yeah I'm surprised there was no mention of VtM, they get pretty deep into some vampire lore.
Vampires are my favorite monsters of all time but my favorite one of all is Dracula and thanks for showing a video of Dracula thanks again for being amazing love you
The best Dracula is obviously the version from the Castlevania series. Thg church kills the only woman he loved, wears bloodshed against humanity for the lack there of, and is confronted by his only son who tries to remind his father of the compassion and love his mother had for humanity.
Hell yea! Excited for the mew season next month?
I really hope he comes back for Season 3! Maybe due to Death?
Depends on what they do. In game, Dracula shouldn't be resurrected for another 100 years.
Though they could follow the Curse of Darkness storyline which focuses on Hector and Trevor's attempt to stop Issac.
@@SystemZ3RO I'm so freaking glad they changed Isaac in the animated series! xD His game counterpart was....wild. xD
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets :)
I'm a fan of Darren Shan's "Cirque Du Freak" style of vampire. Very underrated.
I'm a simple guy, I see a video with the cultured and charming Emily Zarka and I press like.
I absolutely adore Louis De Pointe Du Lac, the lost little puppy ♡
Let The Right One In is soooo good. You have excellent taste, Emily.
Best Vampire ever. of course it's the one she made sure to over look " Blade"
Wait, is Blade a full-fledged vampire or a Dhampir?
?? You do realize that Blade's first appearance was in the comic the Tomb of DRACULA, right..?? xDxD
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He's a dhampire which is why he's doesn't need blood and can be in the sun.
@@Raccon_Detective. thanks! Thought so.
Have you ever seen Blackula the black african vampire....its good but not my cup of.......blood tea
I'm partial to the vampires of the Buffyverse myself.
Me too!
I'm partial to Buffy too :D
Yeah,I liked the episode where she fought him and they should've brought him back but you know Hollywood
Dracula was a Prince. He was also a prisoner in a Turkish prison for many years until his father was killed. The Turkish Sultan thought putting young Vlad on his father's throne would make him the perfect puppet that would make conquering Eastern Europe easier for him. He thought wrong. Vlad Dracula may not have been the first sociopath but you'd be hard pressed to find one more blood thirsty.
The (C)RPG Vampire: The Masquerade also had a great impact on the modern understanding of vampires. They've incorporated many different types of vampires, splitting them into clans with different abilities and relationships with the living
Colin Robinson is my all time favorite vampire.
He's got the most updog.
Ok, I'll give you this one: What's updog? Your answer?
I agree! Let's hear it for energy (and emotion- Evie) vampires. They truly rule!
Twilight? Really? I get that it sold a lot of books and movie tickets, but it was hardly original. Hell, Angel in the TV show Buffy was a reluctant, brooding vampire way before the Twilight books were written. And he didn't sparkle.
I think Twilight is just way more known
Louis from Interview With A Vampire was reluctant and brooding too.
They weren't even originally going to be vampires, but rather faeries. They were changed part way through to cash in on the popularity of vampires at the time.
@Martin Silvan Supposedly, It was the publishers recommendation.
@@One_Eyed_Man_ faeries wouldn't be as cool
Polidori's story the Vampyre was way before mister Stokers one, so he was actually the founding father of the written bloodsucker. That said, hard to say which one is my favorite... In the movies their are 2 that I love, interview and Oldman as Dracula. Books I think I go for the complete vampire chronicles of Anne Rice (her witchbooks are great too).
yup!!!! to the point that until very recently lord byron (who lord ruthven from the vampyre was based on) was who people thought of when they thought "vampire".
I hissed and bared my make believe fangs when you mentioned Twilight!
I still refuse to accept these "things" as vampires.
@@christophvogel1080 well it isn’t that they are no real vampires in twilight….given the volturi for example….it’s just that the cullens are new age hipster vampires trying to convince anybody to drink smoothies and eat salad instead of….you know…people 🤷🏼♂️😂
@@Das_Kaenguru Fair enough.😂
Bram Stoker took alot of his inspiration from the historical Irish Vampire. Abhartach. He was a chieftain who demanded blood from his people and even hunted his people. Every time he was killed he came back. He's technically immortal. He was buried upside down and a massive stone and blackthorns were planted around his grave. I won't say where he's buried as by Irish law it's illegal to remove the stone on his grave so I don't want anyone trying to let him out. We've many other folklore Vaimpír like An dearg Dua and many others. But Abhartach is definitely the most feared
0:06 now that's one funny film, I'd advise you all to watch What We Do In The Shadows
Nothing beats Bram Stroker's Dracula. It'll always remain the base of comparison for everything in vampire or horror genre in general.
My favourite of all the monsters! I remember running around the house when I was very young with vampire teeth made out of an egg box cut up pretending to be dracula rising from my coffin, one of my earliest memories and clearly one which has shaped my entire life and love of all things spooky. Thank you for this, I could have watched an hour long special on this alone! My favourite ever vampire is definitely Spike from BTVS but I also really love Christopher Lee's portrayal from Dracula has risen from the grave. Literary wise you can't beat Bram Stokers original IMO.
Honestly my favorite vampire/version of Dracula is Grandpa/The Count from The Munsters, I honestly love how they managed to take a character who has been considered to be intrinsically terrifying and made him endearing instead(also it’s a huge part of my childhood so what’s not to love)
Love this series of videos! My favourite vampire would have to be Christopher Lee as Dracula in the Hammer films because he's imposing and scary as hell. "Romantic" vampires aren't that scary really, but Lee was frightening because he looked so hungry and evil.
I absolutely love that these videos cite their sources/references in proper format in the description.
Let The Right One In is such a goddamn good movie.
Loved that movie, American version worth watching¿
joey flores book is amazing too. Let me in isn’t even half bad
So glad Bram Stoker was listed as Irish here. So many other videos on vampires or Dracula wrongly list Stoker as English. Gives me faith in the research behind these videos :D
Say it with me: Real vampires don't sparkle.
👍
@RavnDream perhaps? ^,...,^
No I..
They dont.
@RavnDream hace you seen vampire diaries? The witches put a spell on the ring so the can walk in day light
Real? There is nothing like "real vampire " it's a myth.🤷♀️
Selene, Alucard from hellsing and Blade. These vamps kickass.
Ohhhhhh man favorite vampire!!!! So hard to pick one.
I'll always have a particular soft spot in my heart for the original Count. That said...
One of my favorite versions is Fred Saberhagen's Thorn. He's incredibly intelligent, for one thing, which I always love in a character...and it doesn't hurt that the first Thorn novel I read involved his crossing paths with Sherlock Holmes!
Another would be Nancy Collins' Sonja Blue. She's a real bad-ass and one of the first times I encountered a female vampire who was far more complex than "seduce men and devour them." She's terrifying, terrible, and gloriously dark; things happen around her and to her that would shatter a lesser being. VERY powerful stuff for a teenager wanting to believe that it's possible to fight against the world!
I think what makes vampires so compelling for me - the ones I like best at least - is the dichotomy between a sort of cold attitude - a nobleman deigning to walk among the peasantry, or maybe just a person who KNOWS he is a monster and that he can't ever make friends of the creatures that are constantly at risk of becoming prey - if not his prey, then another's. And yet, there IS emotion beneath that aloof exterior. Thorn, and Sonja Blue as well, they're both incredibly lonely. There are no others quite like them, and they know how unique they are. They also know they are exceptional - but it's a very lonely thing to be at the top, with no friends. And yet, BECAUSE they do care, they don't dare let anyone close. It's a dynamic that sucks me in almost every time...which is why I've read a LOT of vampire books!
My favorite vampire is Dracula portrayed by the great Bela Lugosi. Grandma took me to the theater to see it in 1955. I fell in love with vampires.
please do bloody mary next!! ❤️
i DO BRAZILIAN BLOODY MARY
My favorite version of Dracula is Netflix’s Castlevania. It’s so good.
I've been wanting a way to learn about the original capabilities of mythical creatures for a while, but everything I found was so out of the way. So much information but the stuff I needed, you on the other hand get straight to the point. Detailing the origin, the ideas, the capabilities without complication.
I love your videos and have found myself as a subscriber and I don't regret a thing! ^_^
Just discovered your channel and I am already a fan
Great Video! Could we get a video on Japanese Yokai,especially one on the water creature the "Kappa"?
Would like to see episodes on tengu and oni as well.
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 and gashadokuro, the huge skeleton
My favorite Vampire is without a doubt.... DRACULA 🧛♂️
Me with solar urticaria and food poisoning to garlic: hell yeah it me
Good to see people throwing some light on the monstrous lores and legends. The thing which I like about this channel is that besides being informative the videos provide the related symbolism as well.
#AlsoWatchedYourFrankensteinVideo
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My favorites depend on the type of vampire themes they are going for, sympathetic, scary, humorous. If I had to be pressed to say one specifically, Louis from Interview with the Vampire
Vampires from old medieval folklore were savage zombies, with few or neither memories of their past human selfs. Like the savage vampires from the Buffy graphic novel and the Supernatural tv series.
Dracula from american movies : a monster , evil and villain
Dracula from History : a hero from Romanian , a king who sacrifice everything for his country and a monster
One of my favorite vampires is Dungeons and Dragons Count Strahd von Zarovich
I loved the Gary Oldman Dracula but I can't forget Dracula 2000, what a twist
im a little confused, is Bela Lugosi's '31 depiction of dracula not landmark enough to even show?
even the animations in the episode make reference to his version.
He's shown at 0:03
after a rewatch: a one second shot of my man still feels like a cop out
@@philp4684 thanks
Probably trying to avoid legal or financial issues with Universal tbh.
They likely have to watch out for copywrite issues. Lawyers are worse than vampires. I loved Bela's movie. Funny how some shots have no sound at all.
I love vampire stories that have an interesting twist to the myths and complex characters that have very human traits.
Most underrated:
Sabella by Tabitha Lee & the Saint-Germain books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
Other favorites are a quirky list:
True Blood and the original books. The Parasol Protectorate Vampires. The Buffyverse, especially Angel & Spike. Blade. Lestat from Anne Rice and Alucard from the Hellsing anime. What We Do In The Shadows and Gary Oldman's Dracula. And for sheer fun, Bunnicula & the Count from Sesame Street
Bunnicula!!! Bringing me back 🐇
I found this channel yesterday and I'm loving it.
(Sorry if I've committed grammar mistakes)
I would disagree about the inclusion of the Twilight “vampires”. They’re not vampires, they’re fairies with a diet quirk.
Exactly! The fact they're compared to the monsters/disease of vampires is laughable
Although I agree, I'd also have to argue that vampires such as Dracula don't count (hehe... Count...) as vampires.
Vampires in folklore are literal monsters.
Other than resembling the dead person the used to be, there's nothing human or elegant about them.
Crusader of the Low Lands agreed. From what I remember reading in Dracula, the Count has learned most of what he knew as far as things like transformation and other abilities we associate with vampires was learned at a black magic school called Sholomance.
personally, I think if we're talking about different cultural interpretations of monsters, it's an important inclusion. If we were really going to get into it, the "defanging" so to speak of vampires in the Twilight series, is pretty interesting given the cultural context of early 2000s America. Clearly Stephanie Meyer didn't intend it to be a metaphor for much of anything, but the way it got so popular at the time could be an interesting comparison to a lot of social change that was happening at the time, and both a desire to pretend dangerous things weren't so scary, or the growing realization that things once thought monstrous maybe weren't so bad.
If you look at fairies from European mythology, especially Ireland, they are scary bastards. They don't deserve to be compared to Twilight. 😂
Love these episodes, informative and entertaining. Summarized well, with just enough description to grasp the essence and history of these monsters!
'In the Heart of Transylvania, in the Vampire Hall of Fame yeah, there's not a Vampire Zanier than...DUCKULA!!!'
I love your videos guys i watch them all and anjoy them very very much i love the animations keep it up 👍☺!
Thank you so much!
That wasn't very cheeki of you
When I was a kid nothing used scared me more than Dracula, on any form, movies, cartoons, etc, and by extension the vampires in general was something that I just couldn't watch, then at 9 the first horror movie I watched was Fright Night and I ran away from the room before the ending, everything on vampires really used to terrify me, and for some reason since adulthood I just cant have enough about the subject on vampires of folklore and movies, but the traditional ones.
please do a video on djinn‘s! I‘m from turkey and find them so creepy. We always say that their feet point in the opposite direction cause they‘re a creature from hell! (sorry for my bad english)
Your English is excellent and yes, the djinn are fascinating and make great subject matter.
@halloo9062 Türk sınuz, amerikalı mı sınuz?
My favorite literary Vampire is D from Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D series.
Is that blackula my bad lol reminded me of billy and Mandy from when I was a kid
the best part is that blackula is a real movie, and the one in B&M is a reference
Dracula don't suck, Dracula scrape and lick
Scrape then lick.
@Studio Autio Isn't a new shaft movie coming out?
My favorite episode so far! And I love your channel! ❤💙💚💛💜
My favorite is Selene from the Underworld series. She's intelligent, brave, caring and fierce when necessary.
Totally agree!
Selene is magnificent!
Definitely the Wamphyri from Bryan Lumley's Necroscope series would be my favorite incarnation of the vampire. They are absolutely nightmarish, brutal, powerful, merciless, cruel, sadistic and ravenous.
Ah yes, reliving my childhood fears, what a way to go to sleep
Omg when the Count came out 😂
“Ah ah ahhh!” ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Yay a new upload keep up the great work
30 days of night will always be my fav vampire movie tho
Me too!
I come from Bulgarian where there are numerous vampire legends !
Vampires are from Romania
@@12AB17 technically the word derives from Upir, the russian night stalker.
Vampires, Burial, and Death by Paul Barber is the most informative vampire book I've come across (and I've crossed quite a few haha)! It's an academic (and more anthropological?) approach to the belief in vampires (which seems to be hard to find). I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who loves vampires and history!
p.s. I don't know if I can pick a favorite vampire!!
Loved this episode about Dracula and the modern myth, but being Slavic I feel the origins on vampires is missing in this episode, the story before the modernization.
I agree with that! Seems like there’s a lot of info about that.
The window scratching scene was also one of the first terrifying televised moments in my for me as well.
What about What We Do in the Shadows? :D :D :D You can't just tease it at the beginning and not analyse it....
Dracula meets millennials? 😂
There's also the novel "Shiki" by Japanese author Fuyumi Ono, which was adapted to an animated series, and has become one of the scariest Japanese animations ever done. Here, a village named Sotoba faces a vampire invasion and the struggles of several characters.
Your Nod is the Egyptian Ankh necklace: A symbol of eternal life and often used Vampire Covens and Houses
Great video, as always 🦇
P.S. I thought Buffy's Dracula episode was hilarious with all its movie sub-references.
Excellent job! That was a harder spot.
@@pbsstoried count Dracula : Romania riot strikes night castle Transylvania coffin baron count Dracula hammer wooden stake killing heart death of count Dracula
I realize I'm a little late to the party, but I wanted to point out a couple of things.
First, in Stoker's original story, Dracula must be stabbed through the heart AND beheaded, and the particular implement used for this doesn't matter, wooden stake, iron spike, Bowie knife, etc.
Second, in the original Dracula story, Dr. Van Helsing explicitly refers to vampirism as a disease, although he doesn't identify any pathogens that causes it.
Third, how could you not mention the Icelandic "translation" of Dracula?
I wonder how the novella Camilla made waves in the lore of Dracula.
I’m hoping to do a “vampires pre-Dracula” episode or mini-series at some point. There is SO MUCH earlier vamp literature and folklore.
@@pbsstoried Didn't Bram Stoker also make a statement about how Carmilla gave him a lot of inspiration for his own story?