# Your Fave Vampire? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032 "2001-01-27T20:26:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/21 "2001-01-28T01:48:02Z")
Well, besides Count Chocula and The Sesame Street Count (One! Ha ha ha…) my favorite vampire would be Ray 🙂 Okay, so he’s not a _real_ vampire, but he does own a coffin and vampire attire, is obsessed with vampire games (he’s a Malkavian as well), and, well, he is into neck biting. 😃 As for the vampires Zoggie mentioned, I’d probably say the Anne Rice vamps. Nothing like a seductive, sexy vampire stalking me. ---
**Author:** ![MissMisery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@MissMisery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMisery)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/22 "2001-01-28T02:05:59Z")
Vampires are probably my favorite race, but I do not think that I can pick an overall favorite vampire. One must admire Count Dracula for all of the attention he attracted, and because he was class and refined unlike most of today’s vampires. As a child, Bunnicula was the vampire that made me examine my imaginary pet bunny’s teeth for fangs. As a teenage girl, Spike the sexy vampire with the English accent could bite my neck anytime. At this moment, I like the Terry Pratchett’s Discworld vampyrs. I am currently reading Carpe Jugulum, and as I approach the conclusion, I cannot help but root for the vampyr family that has worked to cure themselves of all of the traditional vampire downfalls. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/23 "2001-01-28T02:17:28Z")
Definitely Lestat, he just seems so damn sexy and I love his attitude towards life, it’s great. I dunno know exactly why but he really is my favorite. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/24 "2001-01-28T02:25:06Z")
**Cassidy** gets my vote, too. But until I began reading _The Preacher_, **Louis** was… at least as he was portrayed in _Interview With the Vampire_– which is really the only book of _The Vampire Chronicles_ that is worth reading. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/25 "2001-01-28T02:54:29Z")
Yeah, Bunnicula was great when I was younger. Maybe I was on crack then or something…but the idea of a rabbit being a vampire wasn’t all that strange to me. 🙂 But ah, I digress. I’ll have to look into some of these books. Hey and I’m not just saying that…some of them do sound good. ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/26 "2001-01-28T03:31:16Z")
Speaking of Disc-vampires, I think my favorite specific vampire ever is Otto the photographer from “The Truth.” He’s trying to give up blood drinking with a twelve-step programming, and has focused his obsessive mind instead on light. He invents color printing overnight, and carries a vial of ox blood around his neck in case his flash overwhelms him. “I never liked their damn cocoa, anyvay.” –John ---
**Author:** ![hampster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/53a042/32.png) [@hampster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hampster)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/27 "2001-01-28T03:52:52Z")
Anne Rice’s Vampires, though a lot of that’s based on Vampire Chronicles fanfic, since I’m only halfway through The Vampire Lestat right now. Of them Lestat. From my childhood, the vegetarian vampire duck Count Duckula. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/28 "2001-01-28T04:16:05Z")
\*\*Barnabus Collins \*\* Jonathan Frid was incredible. I had nightmares for years as a kid because of that show. The whole secret room-mausoleum-soap opera thing was years ahead of its time. How many of today’s TV shows could use a good vampire like Barnabus? Dan Curtis we need you! ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/29 "2001-01-28T04:41:44Z")
Give me the erotic, intellectual, and emotional Anne Rice vampire any day of the week… roowwwrrrr… ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/30 "2001-01-28T06:43:09Z")
Cassidy and Spike. God help us if those two ever got together. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/31 "2001-01-28T07:42:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jekeira \* > \*\*My favorite vampire has to be Jack Taltos from the book “Taltos” by Steven Brust. Now there’s a man who could show Anne Rice how to write. \*\* Not to be a cow or anything, but the only vampire in that series (so far) is Sethra LaVode. Vlad Taltos is an assassin. Sethra really rocks, but you sorta have to read all the books to find out how much. (Yeah, we have 'em all.) Sonja Blue (Sunglasses After Dark,one I don’t remember offhand, Paint It Black, A Dozen Black Roses, by Nancy A. Collins) is my personal fave as well. Laure **ll** 😃 K. Hamilton’s vampires are pretty cool, too. That Jean-Claude…sigh. A Master Vampire whose source of power is sex…mmmmmmmmmmmm. Pick me, pick me!!! Well, okay, so I have two favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/32 "2001-01-28T08:20:29Z")
Nicholas Knight. Javier Vachon also, although some people I know have commented that he’s a bit “creepy” for their tastes. ---
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/33 "2001-01-28T18:49:04Z")
My favroite? The kind that lives on kisses, dark kisses, and sexual energy, can come out in the daytime, wears a leather jacket, has that gleam in his eyes… and is in the Navy. 😃 Oh, and Sonja Blue and Lestat. Can you imagine if they got together? Rrrrowr! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/34 "2001-01-29T02:58:05Z")
Damn it, Kat, I was reading this thread and thought I was going to be the first one to mention Nick Knight! I can’t believe it took so many posts for him to pop up. I was so upset when the show ended. I didn’t know I could feel like that for a mere fictional character. Guess I can’t laugh at the folks who watch soap operas anymore. Vachon was a wuss though. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/35 "2001-01-29T03:25:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nothamlet \* > \*\*_…Interview With the Vampire_– which is really the only book of _The Vampire Chronicles_ that is worth reading. \*\* _gasp_ I think I’ve met the first person to _ever_ say that. If I were to stick strictly to the AR novels I’d have to go with Akasha as the coolest vamp, but the best book in the series, by far, was _The Vampire Lestat_, followed in a close second by _Memnoch the Devil_. IWtV is only better than QotD, IMO. K, 'nuff ranting there. ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/36 "2001-01-29T03:25:41Z")
I personally do not understand the “sexy vampire” character. For me the ultimate vampire is the monsterous Nosferatu played by Max Schreck in Murnaus 1922 version. While some of the story may be simplistic by todays standard, seeing the shadow of Nosteratu go across the wall with an appropriate score can still cause me to shiver. More so than any current version. Although I found the “Lost Boys” to be an excellent vampire movie as well. One of the best vampire stories I have read is “The Keep” by F. Paul Wilson. The way he weaves the vampire legend into his story is great. Definitely my favorite “vampire” book. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/37 "2001-01-29T04:37:14Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Carmilla, the original lesbian vampire! I also love the Pratchett vampires, especially Otto. ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/38 "2001-01-29T04:40:56Z")
I have to agree with **Jekeira** , Jack Agyar was the best vampire character I’ve read. I actually teared up at the end of that book. Nick Knight gets a nod too, but I thought LaCroix was a much more interesting character. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/39 "2001-01-29T04:49:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tisiphone \* > \*\* > Laure **ll** 😃 K. Hamilton’s vampires are pretty cool, too. That Jean-Claude…sigh. A Master Vampire whose source of power is sex…mmmmmmmmmmmm. Pick me, pick me!!! Well, okay, so I have two favorites. \*\* Thanks for the catch on Laurell-not-Lauren K. Hamilton, **tisiphone**! And for the people who mentioned _Nosferatu,_ I wanted to say that I saw _Shadow of the Vampire_ last week, and I thought it was great. Very humorous (more so than the previews indicated) but still dark, and a lot of interesting ideas aobut the early days of film. If you don’t own a copy of _Nosferatu_, it’s worth renting and then watching right after _Shadow_. The painstaking recreation of the sets and costumes and make-up from Nosferatu is amazing! Oh, and this is a question (and a hijack) from Mr. Del … for fans of _Nosferatu,_ what is that animal that looks like a hyena? It’s shown outside of the inn, right after “werewolves” are mentioned. It’s the least scary dog/wolf/werewolf I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-fave-vampire/52032/40 "2001-01-29T05:04:03Z")
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