吸血鬼的故事源远流长,流传极广。在传统的吸血鬼故事里,吸血鬼往往是长着尖牙的残忍的嗜血幽灵,是附体的鬼魂,从坟墓里出来吸活人的血,类同于十恶不赦的妖魔。夜幕降临的时候,他们便走出坟墓,四处游荡,吮吸人血;黎明前,他们必须返回墓穴。他们害怕圣水、大蒜和十字架,尖桩穿心是结束他们生命的最有效的方法。而有关他们的故事,总是与血腥和恐怖联系在一起。在文人的笔下,吸血鬼成了他们表达思想的一种传声筒,就像西方文明中的其他源远流长的幻想形象,如巫师、火龙和其他鬼魂形象一样。他们构成了一种文化或者一种 Vampire story goes back to ancient times, spread widely. In the traditional vampire story, the vampire is often cruel bloodthirsty ghost with canine, is an attached ghost, come out from the tomb to absorb the human blood, similar to the heinous demons. As night falls, they step out of the graves, wander around and suck human blood; before dawn they must return to the tomb. They fear holy water, garlic and the cross, and piercing the heart is the most effective way to end their lives. The stories about them are always associated with bloody and horrible things. Vignettes, in the writings of the literati, became the kind of soundtrain they expressed their minds, just as the other fantastical images of Western civilization, such as wizards, fire beings and other ghosts. They make up a culture or a kind