“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Source: Insatiable
“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Richard Matheson book I Am Legend
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 2
Context: They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors.
Take that last, now. According to legend, they were invisible in mirrors, but he knew that was untrue. As untrue as the belief that they transformed themselves into bats. That was a superstition that logic, plus observation had easily disposed of. ‘It was equally foolish to believe that they could transform themselves into wolves. Without a doubt there were vampire dogs; he had seen and heard them outside his house at night. But they were only dogs.
“She looked as if she were a vampire about to check the time—with a sundial.”
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Shadow's Claim
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Simon, pg. 8
Variant: Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much...
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Fallen Angels (2011)