Sexy Girls Blog: January 2007

Friday, January 26, 2007

Playboy New porn channel features Jenna Jameson

New porn channel features Jenna Jameson

Playboy Enterprises Inc. announced this month the launch of the Club Jenna Channel, a pay-per-view pornography channel centered on adult-film star and former Paradise Valley resident Jenna Jameson.

The channel's launch follows Playboy's acquisition last year of Club Jenna Inc., the Scottsdale-based multimedia enterprise owned by Jameson and her then-husband, Jay Grdina. The couple filed for divorce last month.

Jameson has since moved to Los Angeles, though she still owns her Paradise Valley home, a spokeswoman said.

Kelly Osbourne's Playboy dream

Kelly Osbourne's Playboy dream over

Hugh Hefner not keen to feature former reality star Kelly
Kelly Osbourne has been told by Hugh Hefner himself that she's not likely to be appearing in Playboy anytime soon.

The former reality TV star and pop singer, 22, who is still trying to establish herself as a TV presenter, revealed recently that she would consider doing a shoot for the top shelf magazine if asked.

"I'd go fully nude, but I'd have to have some airbrushing on my tits," she said.

However, Playboy chief Hugh Hefner revealed recently that the buxom star is unlikely to be asked to pose for a nude shoot. The 80-year-old says, "I can't see it happening somehow - we don't airbrush to that extent."

Fox Goes After YouTube for '24' Leak

Fox Goes After YouTube for '24' Leak

Legal experts say that Fox's move to subpoena YouTube and LiveDigital is simply the first necessary step in the process of obtaining information that would identify the uploaders of the episodes of "24" and "The Simpsons," and hold them responsible for copyright infringement.

In a move to uncover who uploaded pirated episodes of popular television series "24" and "The Simpsons," Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed video-sharing sites YouTube and LiveDigital, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The News Corp. studio filed the subpoenas on January 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. According to the Journal, the subpoenas ask YouTube and LiveDigital to divulge identifying information for the subscriber who posted the shows so Fox can stop the infringement.

Fox's subpoenas noted that the entire four-hour premier of "24" appeared on YouTube before it was originally broadcast on television. Twelve episodes of "The Simpsons" were also being distributed on YouTube, according to the Journal.

Notice and Takedown

Legal experts say that Fox's move to subpoena YouTube and LiveDigital is simply the first necessary step in the process of obtaining information that would identify the uploaders of these episodes and hold them responsible for copyright infringement.

Under the "notice and takedown" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), sites that receive notice from copyright holders are required to remove the infringing content. However, these communities would not be required to release information about the identity of the posters.

In fact, YouTube and LiveDigital are bound by privacy policies that limit the information they can provide without a subpoena or court order, according to Michael R. Graham, intellectual property attorney and partner with Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP in Chicago.

"It appears that both sites have acted in accordance with the DMCA and I presume they will also provide the information requested by the subpoena," Graham said. "While this process may appear complex to some ... it is actually quite straightforward and ensures protection of both Fox's copyrighted programs and the privacy of site users."

Hitting the Circuits

According to the Journal, Fox said it officially notified YouTube about the pirated episodes and requested that the Google property immediately remove or disable access to the service.

Fox also issued a subpoena to LiveDigital after it discovered that the same group of episodes were uploaded there by a user named "Jorge Romero."

Even with the information these sites can legally provide to copyright holders, it might be difficult or impossible to track down posters of illegal videos if those individuals used any of the various anonymizer programs that are available, Graham said. To prevent continued posting of copyrighted works, both YouTube and LiveDigital need to cooperate, he added.

"In these cases, some solution needs to be arrived at that prevents users hiding behind such systems from repeat postings," he concluded. "Copyright owners and digital content sites would be well-served to work together to develop workable procedures and practices to assist each other in preventing and prosecuting such infringements."

Horrors Zombies nearly kill Nicole Kidman

Horrors Zombies nearly kill Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman sits behind wheel of Jaguar as zombies try to grab her during shoot for the upcoming sci-fi film 'The Invasion.' The car crashed and sent actress to L.A. hospital.
LOS ANGELES - Nicole Kidman escaped serious injury when a car she was riding in on a sci-fi film location shoot crashed during a scene in which her character was fleeing zombie-like creatures, the studio said yesterday.

The 39-year-old Oscar winner was rushed to a hospital "for evaluation" and released after the stunt crash Wednesday night during filming of "The Invasion," Warner Bros. Pictures said in a statement.

Neither Kidman's publicist nor the studio would comment on what, if any, injuries the actress received when the camera-rigged car struck a light pole and a trash can on W. Sixth St. in downtown L.A.

The film, about an epidemic with extraterrestrial origins, also stars new James Bond hunk Daniel Craig.

Kidman was seated behind the wheel of a Jaguar, with zombie-like creatures clinging to the hood, when the tow truck pulling the car skidded going around a corner about 11 p.m., US Weekly reported.

Kidman's kids with ex-husband Tom Cruise, Connor, 11, and Isabella, 14, had visited the set earlier that day but were not there when the crash happened, the magazine said.

The L.A.P.D. said eight people, including Kidman, were taken to area hospitals with complaints of injuries, but the studio said just "two other crew members sustained minor injuries as a result of the collision."

the perjury trial of Lewis 'Scooter' Libby

the perjury trial of Lewis 'Scooter' Libby

Libby trial witness leaves White House reeling

Lewis Libby Dick Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis Libby.

President Bush's administration was today preparing for damaging repercussions from testimony by one of its own officials in the perjury trial of Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, the former chief of staff to the US vice-president Dick Cheney.

Cathie Martin, Mr Cheney's former spokeswoman, yesterday told a court that she clearly remembered telling Mr Libby the identity of a CIA operative, Valerie Plame, whose husband, Joseph Wilson, had attacked the Bush administration's case for war against Iraq.

Mr Libby faces five felony counts of lying to a grand jury and FBI agents for claiming that he learned of Valerie Plame's identity from reporters. Her name was first disclosed in a column by the conservative columnist Robert Novak in July, 2003, just days after her husband had written a comment in The New York Times accusing the Bush administration of distorting intelligence to bolster the case for invading Iraq.

Mr Wilson had been sent to Africa to investigate reports that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium from Niger for his nuclear weapons programme. He reported back to the state department and the CIA that the reports were untrue, yet the claim surfaced in George Bush's state of the union speech in January, 2003.

Mr Libby is not being tried for the leak itself, but for the subsequent cover-up. The former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage subsequently admitted leaking Ms Plame's identity to Mr Novak and to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. But Mr Armitage says he did not realise Ms Plame's job was covert.

Ms Martin was the fourth prosecution witness in a trial that could prove highly embarrassing for the White House by shedding light on its deliberations in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Her testimony could be especially damaging as she worked closely with Mr Libby and Mr Cheney.

A staunch Republican, Ms Martin was recruited to work for Mr Cheney by Mary Matalin, a close friend of Mr Libby and Mr Cheney. She is married to Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and is currently the deputy director of communications for policy and planning for Mr Bush.

Her account of events backed up the prosecution's case that Mr Libby found out Ms Plame's identity from administration officials rather than from reporters, as he told investigators.

According to US reports of the trial, Ms Martin said she learned that Ms Plame worked for the CIA after Mr Libby told her to call the agency to get more information about Mr Wilson's trip to Niger. Ms Martin said she quickly passed on Ms Plame's name to Mr Libby and Mr Cheney.

Ms Martin also told the court of the White House's media strategy - including "strategic leaks" - personally directed by Mr Cheney to reject charges that Mr Bush had misled the public in his January, 2003 speech.

But Ms Martin said that neither man had suggested that Ms Plame's identity be revealed as part of the White House plan. She said that she had no knowledge of either actually doing so.

Theodore Wells, Mr Libby's chief lawyer, in his cross-examination of Martin, tried to challenge her memory, as he has done with other witnesses. Her cross-examination will continue when the trial resumes Monday. She will be followed on the witness stand by Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary.

Radio station sued after fatal contest

Radio station sued after fatal contest

Sacramento: The radio station disc jockeys who hosted an on-air water-drinking contest knew drinking too much water quickly could be fatal but dismissed the concerns with juvenile jokes, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a contestant.

Jennifer Lea Strange, a mother of three, died in January, 12 hours after drinking as much as two gallons of water in the on-air promotion to win a Nintendo video game console.

The disc jockeys called the contest 'Hold your Wee for a Wii.' Ten employees were fired after Strange's death.

Footage of Nicole Kidman crash released

Footage of Nicole Kidman crash released

FOOTAGE of Nicole Kidman's high-speed car crash while shooting an action scene for her new science fiction movie shows the Australian actress gingerly walking away from the accident.

Hollywood gossip website, TMZ.com, released the footage.

It shows a stunt truck towing a Jaguar containing Kidman racing around a corner in downtown Los Angeles.

A screech of tyres is followed by vehicles crashing into a lamp post.

Crew members run to the accident site and a stunt man, wearing a helmet, appears to be the first person out of the wreckage.

Then, with some crew holding a sheet to protect Kidman from paparazzi, the footage depicts Kidman, 39, walking away from the cars.

She walks slowly and appears shaken up, but does not seem to be injured.

Kidman was taken to a Los Angeles hospital, but was later released.

According to TMZ: "Kidman was in the vehicle at the time of the accident and was taken to the hospital for evaluation.

"She was released shortly thereafter".

No other actors were involved in the scene at the time of the incident, TMZ reported, but two additional crew members sustained minor injuries as a result of the collision.

"I think she's OK," Kidman's publicist Catherine Olim said.

Kidman was shooting a scene for her new film, Invasion, based on the Jack Finney story classic The Body Snatchers, which has spawned three film versions, including the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Nicole Kidman in crash during LA movie shoot

Nicole Kidman in crash during LA movie shoot

LOS ANGELES - Nicole Kidman was taken to a hospital after the Jaguar she was in crashed early Thursday during downtown shooting of the science fiction thriller "The Invasion," police said.

Australian actress Nicole Kidman arrives in Leicester Square for the European premiere of her latest film, 'Happy Feet' in central London, in this Nov. 26, 2006, file photo.[AP]
Kidman, 39, was examined at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and then released a short time later. Paramedics were called to examine Kidman for injuries before she was taken to the hospital, police said.

"Nicole Kidman was in the vehicle at the time of the accident and was taken to the hospital for evaluation. She was released shortly thereafter," Warner Bros. said in a statement.

No other actors were involved in the scene at the time of the accident, the studio said.

The Jaguar was being towed by a camera rig that skidded while taking a corner and caused Kidman's car to hit a pole on West Sixth Street, police said. The actress was wearing a seat belt.

"The stunt driver apparently went off course and hit a light post at about 1 a.m.," police Officer Karen Smith said.

Eight people, including Kidman, stuntmen and cameramen, were taken to hospitals for examination and were released, Smith said. Warner Bros. said two crew members had minor injuries.

Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc., also said production continued after the crash and Kidman was expected back on the set Thursday.

The Oscar-winning actress, who stars as a Washington psychiatrist who unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, was involved in a scene involving an escape from zombielike characters who are on the hood of the car.

Big bust models and performers in Japan

Big bust models and performers in Japan

Though large breasts were not traditionally valued in Japan[1], buxom actresses had been admired in Japanese erotic cinema since at least the 1950s. Anderson and Richie mention busty 1950s actress Michiko Maeda, and a nation-wide search for other breasty models which followed in the wake of her popularity. [2]. However, it wasn't until the mid-1980s that large breasts became very popular in Japan. Nikkatsu, capitalizing on this change in cultural preference, named as their Roman Porno "Queen of SM" for 1986, Ran Masaki whose 100cm (39") bust was very large for Japan at the time. [3] In 1989, Adachi says the "Big Bust Boom" (巨乳ブーム - "Kyonyu Buumu") was set "on fire" with the AV (Adult Video) debut of Kimiko Matsuzaka, who had an advertised 110.7cm bust. [4] Following Matsuzaka's retirement, a new leading big-bust model appeared on the Japanese scene every few years, including Mariko Morikawa in 1994, and Anna Ohura in 2000, until the mid-2000s when big-bust models and actresses have become commonplace in Japanese entertainment.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Werewolf fiction Werewolves

Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Werewolves in Modern Fantasy Fiction
o 2.1 Film
o 2.2 Novels
o 2.3 Television
* 3 Lists
o 3.1 Literature
+ 3.1.1 Children's Books
o 3.2 Films
o 3.3 Music
o 3.4 Music Videos
o 3.5 Television
+ 3.5.1 TV movies and mini-series
+ 3.5.2 Series
+ 3.5.3 Single episodes
o 3.6 Comics
o 3.7 Games
* 4 Further reading
* 5 See also
* 6 External links

Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves in the media of
literature, drama and film. Werewolf literature includes folklore,
legend, saga, fairy tales, Gothic and Horror fiction, fantasy fiction
and poetry. Such stories may be supernatural, symbolic or allegorical.
The archetypal portrayal of a werewolf in popular consciousness is
probably that in the Horror film The Wolf Man (1941) in which Lon
Chaney Jr. transforms into a werewolf at the full moon, and in later
films teams up with Frankenstein and Dracula, as one of the three
famous horror icons of the modern day. However, werewolf fiction is an
exceptionally diverse genre with ancient folkloric roots and manifold
modern re-interpretations.

History

In some stories (derived from folk tales and medieval theology) the
werewolf was demonic, part of Satan's army of darkness, inimical to
the human race and having a craving for human flesh. This appears as a
theme of the Gothic horror story "The White Wolf of the Hartz
Mountains" (1839) by Marryat which features a spirit being which
transforms from wolf to woman.

In medieval romances, such as Bisclavret, and Guillaume de Palerme the
werewolf takes on more innocent traits, appearing as the victim of
evil magic and aiding knights errant.

In fairy tales, such as Little Red Riding Hood, the figure of the
werewolf is more ambiguous and subject to an allegorical or Freudian
interpretation. These tales are the inspiration behind modern fiction
such as The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter and the film Ginger
Snaps which deal with female sexuality.

In other stories beginning with Wagner the Wehr-Wolf (1847) by G. W.
M. Reynolds, a man is cursed to be transformed into a werewolf at the
time of the full moon: representing the split personality and evil,
bloodthirsty, dark side of humanity itself. This theme of lycanthropy
as a disease or curse reached its classic treatment in the film The
Wolf Man (1941), starring Lon Chaney Jr.. This movie contained the
now-famous rhyme:

Even a man who is pure in heart
And says his prayers each night:
May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms:
And the moon is full and bright.

This movie is often credited with originating several aspects of the
legend which differ from traditional folklore such as the
vulnerability of the werewolf to a silver bullet. The process of
transmogrification is portrayed in such films and works of literature
to be painful. The resulting wolf is typically cunning but merciless,
and prone to killing and eating people without compunction regardless
of the moral character of the person when human. The first feature
film to use an anthropomorphic werewolf was Werewolf of London in 1935
(not to be confused with the 1981 film of a similar title)
establishing the canon that the werewolf always kills what he loves
most. The main werewolf of this film was a dapper London scientist who
retained some of his style and most of his human features after his
transformation.

A very popular modern sub genre consists of stories that treat
werewolves as separate race or species (either science fictional or
magical) or as persons using magic in order to deliberately transform
into wolves at will. Such current-day werewolf fiction almost
exclusively involves lycanthropy being either a hereditary condition
or being transmitted like a disease by the bite of another werewolf.
The form a werewolf takes is not always an ordinary wolf, but is often
anthropomorphic or may be otherwise larger and more powerful than an
ordinary wolf. Sometimes the beast form of the werewolf will have some
physical characteristics borrowed from an animal species other than
the wolf, as can be seen in the boar-like werewolf of Wild Country and
the cat-like werewolves of Underworld. Many modern werewolves are also
supposedly immune to damage caused by ordinary weapons, being
vulnerable only to silver objects (usually a bullet or blade). This
negative reaction to silver is sometimes so strong that the mere touch
of the metal on a werewolf's skin will cause burns.

More recently, the portrayal of werewolves has taken a more
sympathetic turn in some circles. With the rise of environmentalism
and other back-to-nature ideals, the werewolf has come to be seen as a
representation of humanity allied more closely with nature. A prime
example of this outlook can be seen in the role-playing game Werewolf:
The Apocalypse in which players roleplay various werewolf characters
who work on behalf of Gaia against the destructive supernatural spirit
named Wyrm, who represents the forces of destructive industrialization
and pollution. Author Whitley Strieber previously explored these
themes in his novels The Wild (in which the werewolf is portrayed as a
medium through which to bring human intelligence and spirit back into
nature) and The Wolfen (in which werewolves are shown to act as
predators of humanity, acting as a "natural" control on their
population now that it has been removed from the traditional limits of
nature). The heroic werewolf has also returned via the paranormal
romance genre, where wolf-like characteristics such as loyalty are
shown as positive traits in a prospective mate.

Despite the recent upsurge in the motif of heroic werewolves,
unsympathetic portrayals of werewolves as monsters also continue to be
common in popular culture. This is especially true in movies, which
are only slowly incorportating trends in written fiction. There are
very few werewolf movies outside the horror genre.

Werewolves in Modern Fantasy Fiction

Film

* Underworld.
Lycan from Underworld: Evolution
Lycan from Underworld: Evolution
This film features werewolves as a separate race referred to as
"Lycans" (an abbreviated form of the word lycanthrope), in a
centuries-old feud with vampires.

Novels

* J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium features werewolves.
Werewolves in Middle-earth are not shapeshifters, but evil spirits in
wolf form.
* The Talisman (1983). In this novel (co-written by Stephen King
and Peter Straub) werewolves are herdsmen for the queen of the
Territories (a fantasy world parallel to our world).
* Discworld. Werewolves on the Discworld can be both born and
infected by a bite. A true bimorph can change between human-like and
wolf-like shape at will (but have to take care of their clothes, which
are not included in the transformation), but have to change during
full moon. The descriptions are not entirely consistent if they change
to wolf-like shape only when exposed to the light of the full moon, or
in nights in the week around full moon. While they can pass as human,
wolves will recognize a werewolf, presumably through smell, although
there has been mentioned that there is something about their eyes,
occupation and method of walking that contain telltale signs that the
person is a werewolf. They have at all times a superhumanly keen sense
of smell. Especially while in lupine shape or a short time after
returning from it, it is described as a form of synaesthesia in which
they "see" smells as colours.
* Harry Potter. In J.K. Rowling's series, werewolves are cursed to
turn into vicious wolves in the light of the full moon, and are
dangerous to humans, whom they will attack whenever possible. There is
a potion available that will allow a person to keep their mind after
the transformation, effectively making lycanthropy a magical chronic
illness. J.K. Rowling uses a werewolf named Remus Lupin as a metaphor
for intolerance and people's reactions to illness and disability.
Ironically, though distrusted in his world, Lupin is depicted as a
kind person and as the only competent Defense Against the Dark Arts
teacher throughout the series. As a complete contrast to the Lupin
character, Rowling also introduced the character Fenrir Greyback who
not only embraces his werewolf heritage, but revels in his animality
even when in his human form.

Television

* Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Joss Whedon's TV program featured a
likeable young werewolf, Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, who often assisted
Buffy in fighting evil while in human form, and had himself locked in
a cage during the full moon. During one of Oz's wolf phases, which
takes place the night before, during and the night after the full
moon, he copulated with a werewolf female. This werewolf was Veruca, a
lead singer in a band called "Shy". Veruca was able to retain the
memories of her experiences during her transformation and tried to
convince Oz to embrace his werewolf persona rather than contain it.
Veruca sought out Willow, intending to kill her, and would have if not
for Oz, who (as a werewolf) fought and killed Veruca. Oz later
returned with the power to resist the werewolf transformation, except
under extreme emotional stress. The spin-off, Angel, established that
there are other breeds of werewolves, similar to dogs.
* Doctor Who. Werewolves have appeared twice on the British
television series Doctor Who, in the serial The Greatest Show in the
Galaxy and the episode Tooth and Claw. They have also appeared in the
tie-in novels and audio plays based on the series.

Lists

Literature

This section includes novels and short stories.

* The Satyricon by Petronius (approx. 61 CE)
* "Bisclavret" from Lais by Marie de France (approx. 1175 CE).
* Guillaume de Palerme (approx 1200).
* Single line reference, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
translated Death of Arthur (1469-1470), "Sir Marrok the good knyghte
that was betrayed with his wyf for she made hym seven yere a werwolf."
* "Hughes the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages" by
Sutherland Menzies (1838).
* "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" - an episode from The
Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat (1839) featuring a female werewolf
who inhabits the Harz Mountains in Germany.
* Wagner the Wehr-Wolf by G. W. M. Reynolds (1848).
* The Wolf-Leader (Fr: Le meneur de loups), Alexandre Dumas, père (1857)
* "The Man-Wolf" by Erckmann-Chatrian (1876).
* "A Pastoral Horror" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890).
* The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman (1896).
* The Camp of the Dog by Algernon Blackwood (1908).
* "Gabriel-Ernest" and "The She-Wolf" by Saki (H. H. Munro) (1910).
* The Door of the Unreal by Gerald Biss (1919).
* "Running Wolf" by Algernon Blackwood (1921).
* "The Phantom Farmhouse" by Seabury Quinn (1923)
* The Werewolf of Ponkert by H. Warner Munn (1925, collected 1958)
* Wolfshead by Robert E. Howard, a novelette first published in
Weird Tales in April 1926.
* "Tarnhelm" by Hugh Walpole (1933).
* The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore (1933).
* "Death of a Poacher" by H. R. Wakefield (1935).
* Grey Shapes by Jack Mann (Evelyn Charles Vivian) (1937).
* Darker than you Think, a werewolf classic by Jack Williamson
(1940, expanded 1948)
* The White Wolf by Franklin Gregory (1941).
* The Compleat Werewolf by Anthony Boucher (1942).
* "There Shall Be No Darkness" by James Blish (1950).
* "The Hunt" by Joseph Payne Brennan (1958).
* Invaders from the Dark by Greye La Spina (1960).
* Three Hearts And Three Lions by Poul Anderson (1961), an
alternate history fantasy wherein a modern day engineer is translated
to a universe where the Matter of France is history, includes an
episode in which the hero must deduce which of four people in a family
is the werewolf that plagued the area.
* Operation Chaos by Poul Anderson (1971) and its sequel,
Operation Luna, are first-person narration by the werewolf hero in a
fantasy alternate history United States where magic and technology
combine. Werewolfery is not only herditary, but a recessive gene, and
the polarized component of moonlight has been isolated, so that the
hero can use a Were-flash to transform without the full moon.
* "The Hero as Werwolf" by Gene Wolfe (1975)
* The Howling (1977) by Gary Brandner and its sequels
* The Wolfen by Whitley Strieber (1978) portrays werewolves as
predators of humanity, acting as a "natural" control on their
population now that it has been removed from the traditional limits of
nature. The concept was reused, with some changes, as a historic
practice long since abandoned in the now classic White Wolf tabletop
RPG, Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
* The Nightwalker by Thomas Tessier, (1979)
* The Company of Wolves in the book "The Bloody Chamber" (1979) by
Angela Carter is a modern take on the story of Little Red Riding Hood
in which the wolf is actually a werewolf.
* "The Book of the Beast" trilogy: The Orphan (1980), The Captive
(1981), The Beast by Robert Stallman (1982).
* The Beast Within (1981) by Edward Levy.
* Blood Fever (1982) by Kit Reed.
* The Discworld (1983-) series by Terry Pratchett features a
number of werewolves in supporting roles, most notably Angua of the
Ankh-Morpork Night Watch.
* The Talisman, (1983) co-written by Stephen King and Peter
Straub, features werewolves, known simply as Wolfs, who inhabit the
far western parts of a world parallel to America called the
Territories and serve as royal herdsman or bodyguards.
* The Godforsaken by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1983)
* The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon (1984)
* Cycle of the Werewolf an illustrated novel by Stephen King (1985)
* The Dark Cry of the Moon by Charles L. Grant (1986)
* Werewolves by Jane Yolen, ed. (1988)
* Howling Mad (1989) by Peter David features a wolf who has been
bitten by a werewolf, becoming a "werehuman" as a result, providing a
unique perspective on human civilization.
* Moon Dance (1989) by S.P. Somtow follows the immigration of a
motley group of European werewolves to colonial America, where they
confront disturbed human characters as well as Native American
werewolves.
* The Werewolves of London by Brian Stableford (1990)
* Silverwolf by Roger Emerson (July 1990) Banned Books Publishings
(gay erotica)
* The Ultimate Werewolf by Byron Preiss, ed. (Dell, 1991)
* The Wild (1991) by Whitley Strieber portrays the werewolf as a
medium through which to bring human intelligence and spirit back into
nature.
* Animals (1992) by John Skipp & Craig Spector
* Vampire World 1: Blood Brothers by Brian Lumley (1992) First
part of the Necroscope series features the Wamphyri werewolf Canker
Canison. Followed by:

* Vampire World 2: The Last Aerie (1993)
* Vampire World 3: Bloodwars (1994)
* Necroscope: The Lost Years Volume 1 (1995)
* Necroscope: The Lost Years Volume 2 (1996)

* The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series (1993-) by Laurell K.
Hamilton features a number of werewolf characters and explores the
concept of werewolf packs. Werewolfery is a disease, and a major
character has contracted it from a faulty vaccine against it.
* Women Who Run with the Werewolves by Pam Keesey (1995)
* Nadya – The Wolf Chronicles by Pat Murphy (1996) A race of
European werewolves immigrate to the United States in the nineteenth
century.
* The Werewolf Chronicles by Rodman Philbrick & Lynn Harnett (1996)
* The Silver Wolf (1998) by Alice Borchardt follows the lives of
several werewolves in ancient Rome and Ireland. Followed by:

* Night of the Wolf (1999)
* The Wolf King

* The Werewolf Book by Brad Steiger (1999)
* Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale by David Holland (2000)
* The series "Prowlers" (2001-2) by Christopher Golden. This
portrays werewolves as a separate species, mostly ruthless monsters
but occasionally decent individuals.
* Fool Moon (2001) by Jim Butcher
* Bitten by Kelley Armstrong (2001). Followed by:

* Stolen (2002)
* Broken (2006)

* There are multiple allusions to lycanthropy in Caitlín R.
Kiernan's Low Red Moon (2003), though no actual werewolves appear in
the story. Other works by Kiernan containing werewolves or mentions of
werewolves include "The Black Alphabet," "The Road of Pins," "Stoker's
Mistress," and "Untitled 4."
* The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature by Brian Frost (2003)
* Maximum Ride series (2005-6) by James Patterson features
genetically engineered werewolves called "Erasers" as antagonists.
* The Demonata series (2005-6) by Darren Shan.
* River by Skyla Dawn Cameron provides a different approach to
werewolves, revolving around wolves who have been changed into humans.
(2006)
* Benighted (2006) by Kit Whitfield

* Lord of Wind and Fire Trilogy by Elaine Corvidae is a fantasy
trilogy involving a shapeshifting, werewolf-like species called
wolfkin. Wolfkin
* Shadow on the moon and Shadow of the Wolf by Carol Flynn
* The Crimson City series by Liz Maverick, Marjorie Liu, Patti
O'Shea, and Carolyn Jewel.

Children's Books

* True Monster Stories (1992) by Terry Deary
* Bad Moonlight, Fear Street novel by R.L. Stine. (1995)

* The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, book #14 in the Goosebumps
series by R.L. Stine. (1995)
* Werewolf Skin, book #60 in the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine. (1997)
* Full Moon Fever, book #22 in the Goosebumps 2000 series by
R.L. Stine. (1999)
* Werewolf in the Living Room, book #17 in the Goosebumps 2000
series by R.L. Stine. (1999)

* Blood And Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (1997) (upper teen fiction)
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) by J. K. Rowling
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005) by J. K. Rowling
* Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2007) (upper teen fiction)

Films
Depiction of a werewolf in the movie Werewolf vs The Vampire Women
Depiction of a werewolf in the movie Werewolf vs The Vampire Women

* The Werewolf (1913), featured a Native American werewolf
* Le Loup-Garou (1923)
* Wolf Blood (1925)
* The Werewolf (1932)
* Werewolf of London (1935), first film to feature bipedal
anthropomorphic werewolves
* The Wolf Man (1941), the Universal classic starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
* The Mad Monster (1942)
* The Undying Monster (1942)
* Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
* Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
* House of Frankenstein (1944)
* The Return of the Vampire (1944)
* House of Dracula (1945)
* Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
* The Werewolf (1956)
* El Castillo de los Monstruos (1957)
* I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), Michael Landon portrayed the
young man-wolf.
* How to Make a Monster (1958)
* The Teenage Werewolf (1959)
* La Casa del Terror (1959)
* The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
* Lycanthropus (1962)
* Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964)
* La Loba (1964)
* Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
* Mad Monster Party (1967)
* La Marca del Hombre Lobo (1967)
* Return from the Past (1967)
* Las Noches del Hombre Lobo (1968)
* Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)
* El Hombre que Vino de Ummo (1969)
* Nympho Werewolf (1970)
* La Noche de Walpurgis (1971)
* Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
* The Fury of the Wolfman (1971)
* O Homen Lobo (1971)
* Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972)
* El Retorno de Walpurgis (1973)
* The Werewolf of Washington (1973)
* The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)
* The Beast Must Die (1974)
* La Maldicion de la Bestia (1975)
* Legend of the Werewolf (1975)
* The Werewolf of Woodstock (1975)
* La Lupa Mannara (1976)
* Wolfman (1979)
* El Retorno del Hombre Lobo (1980)
* Full Moon High (1981)
* The Howling (1981), the first werewolf film of the modern horror genre
o Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985)
o Howling III: The Marsupials (1987), the only film to
feature marsupial werewolves
o Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)
o Howling V: The Rebirth (1989)
o Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)
o Howling: New Moon Rising (1995)
* An American Werewolf in London (1981), a mix of horror and
comedy, written and directed by John Landis
* Wolfen (1981)
* La Bestia y la Espada Magica (1983)
* Monster Dog (1984)
* The Company of Wolves (1984)
* Silver Bullet (1985), based on the novella Cycle of the Werewolf
(1985) by Stephen King.
* Ladyhawke (1985)
* Teen Wolf (1985)
o Teen Wolf Too (1987)
* Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
* The Monster Squad (1987)
* Curse of the Queerwolf (1988)
* Waxwork (1988)
* My Mom's A Werewolf (1989)
* Wolfman - A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
* Mad at the Moon (1992)
* Full Eclipse (1993)
* Wolf (1994)
* Project Metalbeast (1995)
* Shriek of the Lycanthrope (1995)
* Bad Moon (1996)
* Licántropo (1996)
* Werewolf (1996), used as a MST3K episode
* Wilderness (1996)
* An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
* The Werewolf Reborn! (1998)
* Lycanthrophobia (1998)
* Lycanthrope (1999)
* Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman (2000)
* Ginger Snaps (2000)
o Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
o Ginger Snaps Back (2005)
* Dog Soldiers (2002)
o Dog Soldiers: Fresh Meat (2007)
* Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
* Big Fish (2003)
* Underworld (2003)
o Underworld: Evolution (2006)
o Underworld 3 (2008)
* Tomb of the Werewolf (2003)
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
* Van Helsing (2004)
* Cursed (2005), also featured a Golden Retriever that became
endowed with werewolf characteristics
* Wild Country (2005)
* The Feeding (2006)
* Lycanthropy (2006)
* Totally Awesome (2006)
* Blood and Chocolate (2007)
* Skinwalkers (2007)
* Benighted (2008)
* Freeborn (2008), the director has been taking input from werewolf fans
* In the Blood (2008)
* The Wolf Man (2008)
* Full Moon Fever (2009)
* Hotel Transylvania (2009)

Music

* Werewolves of London, by Warren Zevon
* I Was a Teenage Werewolf, by The Cramps
* Wolf, by Iced Earth
* Wolfshade, from the album Wolfheart by Moonspell
* Full Moon Madness, from the album Irreligious by Moonspell
* Thriller, by Michael Jackson
* Bark at the Moon, by Ozzy Osbourne
* Lycanthropy, by Six Feet Under
* Lycanthrope, by +44
* She-Wolf, by Megadeth
* Of Wolf And Man, by Metallica
* Killer Wolf, by Danzig
* Wolf Moon, by Type O Negative
* House of God, a concept album by King Diamond
* Full Moon, by Sonata Arctica
* In Rapture By The Fenrir Moon, by Grand Belial's Key
* Nattens Madrigal, a concept album by Ulver
* Wolf Like Me, by TV on the Radio
* "In the still of the night" By Whitesnake
* Big wolf on Campus,byby geejoy jumba
* "FullMoon" and possibly "The Cage", both by Sonata Arctica

Music Videos

* In the music video of the Backstreet Boys song Everybody from
the Backstreet's Back album, each band member becomes a monster, with
Brian Littrell turning into a werewolf.

* In the first half of Michael Jackson's famous music video for
his song Thriller he transforms into something that is often thought
to be a werewolf, but is really a werecat, according to director John
Landis.

* TV on the Radio's music video for Wolf Like Me from the album
Return to Cookie Mountain features a love story involving werewolves
in the music video and in the lyrics as well. The video was directed
by Jon Watts.

* The music video for The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song by The Flaming Lips
has Wayne Coyne getting chased by a werewolf.

* The man with wolf-eye contacts in the Evanescence music video
Call Me When You're Sober is supposed to resemble a werewolf, although
the video is based on Little Red Riding Hood.

* The claymation music video for Flowers by Émilie Simon features
an assortment of monsters, including a werewolf.

Television

TV movies and mini-series

* Moon of the Wolf (1972)
* Scream of the Wolf (1974)
* The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf (1985)
* Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988)
* House of Frankenstein 1997 (1997), a television mini-series
featuring characters from the Universal Studios horror films.
* The 10th Kingdom (2000)
* Wolf Girl (2001)

Series

* Dark Shadows (1968)
* Groovie Goolies (1970)
* The Monster Squad (1976)
* Fangface (1978)
* The Drak Pack (1980)
* Teen Wolf (1986), animated show based on the film
* Werewolf (1987)
* She-Wolf of London (1990)
* Gravedale High (1990)
* Monster Force (1994), features a wolfman as one of protagonists
fighting against the evil Creatures of the Night, as well as an evil
werewolf fighting alongside the Creatures
* Darkstalkers (1997), features the werewolf character Jon Talbain.
* Big Wolf on Campus (1999) is a TV series about a teenager called
Thomas "Tommy" P. Dawkins who was bitten during a camping trip by a
werewolf. After subsequently turning into a werewolf himself, he
regularly fights against an array of enemies in order to keep his
neighbourhood safe.

* Wolf Lake (2001)

Single episodes

* Who's afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf? (1970), in season 2, the
Scooby-Doo gang finds the ghost of a werewolf.
* Gargoyles (1994), features a character named Fox who becomes a
werewolf in an episode from season 2 called Eye of the Beholder.
* The X-Files (1994), episode Shapes from season 1, The agents
track a wolf-like creature linked to the Native American legend.
* Goosebumps (1995), highlighted episodes: The Werewolf Of Fever
Swamp, Werewolf Skin and Full Moon Fever
* Cybersix (1999), in Full Moon Fascination a female werewolf
infects Cybersix's love interest Lucas Amato
* Treehouse of Horror X (1999), the tenth Halloween episode of The Simpsons.
* Tooth and Claw (2006), an episode of Doctor Who.

Comics

* Werewolf, whose fur color changed from white to brown halfway
through the series, is Monster in My Pocket #3. His human form is
never shown, but he is among the good monsters in all incarnations. He
was silent in the comics save for howls, but said to be very
intelligent. When directed by a little girl named Teresa, who thought
he was an anthropomorphic dog doll, to sit, he grabbed a chair. In the
animated special, he became the Jamaican Wolf-Mon. Monster W14,
Howlin' Prowlin' Werewolf, is shown in human form throughout one of
the storybooks, depcited as a weakling "hume" (a term for the humanoid
Monster Wrestlers) until the moon comes out as he enters the ring.

* Hyper Police (MEE)/Tokyopop (Batanen and Tommy(Tomy) Fujioka are
werewolves and brothers as bounty hunters in this series. Batanen
always has wolf ears in place of human ears, and Tommy has a wolf like
face on a constant basis, as well as both of them having tails. While
the full moon does affect how they act, Batanen has been seen
transforming whenever he sees a naked (half-naked) woman, or when he
has fantasies about Natsuki Sassahara, who is a 1/2 Nekomata. They are
not seen as unusual though, as many people in their timeline are
either monsters, demons, or gods.)

* Crescent Moon (manga) (Haruko Iida/Red Entertainment,
2000-present) (The character Akira Yamabuki is a happy-go-lucky
werewolf who is also an excellent chef. Unlike the usual werewolves of
modern lore, his transformational state is not induced by a full moon.
He himself can choose when to induce the transformation.)
* Fables (Vertigo, 2002-present) (The character Bigby Wolf, the
Big Bad Wolf of fairy tales, is a wolf that can become human or
anthropomorhic due to lycanthropy).
* Werewolf by Night (Marvel Comics, 1971-4).
* In the DC Comics Green Lantern title one of the supporting
characters is named Arkkis Chummuck, who is an alien form of werewolf.
* Marvel comics character John Jameson transforms into the
werewolf-like Man-Wolf.
* Link briefly turns into a werewolf like creature in the comic
book adaptation of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past when he
enters the Dark World (although this is only a silhouette). When his
arm touches the world, it also becomes wolf-like.
* Lycanthropes are frequently featured in Fred Perry's Manga Gold
Digger. They vary in species, from were-wolves to were-cheetahs. As
well as basic animal and human forms, they can also change at will to
a third 'hybrid' form, in which they retain their animal colouring and
strength, but also basic human shape.

Games

* L. Lee Cerny and Bradley K. McDevitt, Night Life (Stellar Games,
1990) has three editions to date, a few supplements.
* Mark Rein-Hagen, Werewolf: The Apocalypse (White Wolf, Inc.,
1992) has two editions, innumerable supplements, and a short story
collection (When Will You Rage?, edited by Stewart Wieck). Players
roleplay various werewolf characters who work on behalf of Gaia
against the destructive supernatural spirit named Wyrm, who represents
the forces of destructive industrialization and pollution. Werewolves
are born out of a union of werewolf and either human or wolf. They can
change between 5 different shapes that range from human over
monstrous-anthropomorphic states to lupine. In lupine shape they can
be accepted by a wolf pack.
* Werewolf: The Forsaken is a new werewolf game created by White
Wolf Studios as a successor to Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Some concepts
are similar, but the plot is much different. Although the werewolves
played by the players are still (usually) the heroes, they no longer
face the encroach of the Wyrm and now act more as secret defenders of
the mortal world from encroaching spirits, and are often besieged by
entirely different werewolf tribes called The Pure. In most respects,
there is no relation to the original game save for the fact that it
was produced by the White Wolf game manufacturers. Even the name of
the species is different in Forsaken, as is the mission of the
werewolves. In both games, werewolves are enemies of vampires and it
is rare to see the two creatures intermingle.
* Mike Tinney and Stewart Wieck, Rage (White Wolf, Inc., 1995).
The card game inspired a couple of novels from White Wolf: Breathe
Deeply by Don Bassingthwaite and The Silver Crown by Bill Bridges.
Rage was based upon the tabletop RPG Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
* 1995 Sierra On-Line game The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight
Mystery is an adventure game which has the lead character, Gabriel
Knight, investigating murders around Munich, Germany that are
purported to be the work of a werewolf.
* Werewolf: The Last Warrior (1990) by Data East was a
side-scrolling NES game in which the main character is a werewolf with
blades for arms.
* Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness for the Nintendo 64 game system
featured the werewolves Cornell and Ortega as central characters in
1999.
* Killer Instinct, a Rare arcade fighting game, features a
werewolf called Sabrewulf.
* Darkstalkers features a werewolf called Jon Talbain (also known
as Gallon).
* The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall allows the player to become a
werewolf or wereboar. Additional werecreatures are referred to within
the game, but do not actually inhabit it. Lycanthropy was initially
absent from Daggerfall's sequel, Morrowind, but was a central plot
point of Morrowind's second expansion pack, Bloodmoon.
* Discworld Noir features a protagonist who becomes a werewolf
partway through the game.
* In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Link transforms into
a wolf in some parts of the game, when he enters the mysterious
Twilight Realm.
* In the upcoming Nintendo DS game, Tales of the Tempest, a
werewolf race, the Lycanth, named after the word "Lycanthropy" are
apparently persecuted by a powerful theocracy.
* Golden Sun: The Lost Age for the Game Boy Advance features a
village of werewolves who are able to channel Wind Psynergy (Jupiter).
The village is called Garoh. Also, across the world map are many
enemies who resemble werewolves.
* Yugo Ogami, one of the playable characters in the Bloody Roar
fighting series is a werewolf. In fact, the entire cast of fighters
have various beast forms.
* Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen uses the concept of the
werewolf as an interest fighting unit, who's power increases
dramatically during a 'night phase'.
* One of the main characters, Kevin is an unfortunate
half-werewolf in Seiken Densetsu 3.
* In the Xbox and personal computer game Fable, a Balverine is
like a werewolf, with a weakness towards silver and turning others by
bites.
* In Konami's 2000 roleplaying game, Suikoden II, a recruitable
NPC, Bob, has the ability to turn into a werewolf for three rounds.
* In Dungeons And Dragons, lycanthropy is an acquired character template.
* The Druid character class in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction can
learn to become a Warewolf.
* In The Sims 2 Pets expansion pack, your sim can become a werewolf.

Vampire fiction

Vampire fiction covers the spectrum of literary work concerned
principally with the subject of vampires. The best known work in this
genre is, of course, Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. It was not,
however, the first. The literary vampire first appeared in poetry
rather than prose.
Contents

* 1 History
o 1.1 Eighteenth Century
o 1.2 Nineteenth Century
+ 1.2.1 Dracula
o 1.3 Twentieth Century
* 2 Traits of vampires in fiction
* 3 Literature
o 3.1 Vampire fiction series
* 4 Films and television
o 4.1 Dracula and his legacy
o 4.2 Other Vampires on movies and television
* 5 Other media
* 6 References
* 7 External links

History

Eighteenth Century

Vampire fiction is rooted in the 'vampire craze' of the 1720's and
1730's, which culminated in the somewhat bizarre official exhumations
of suspected vampires Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole in Serbia
under the Habsburg Monarchy. One of the first works of art to touch
upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire (1748) by
Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic
overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious
maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving
her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove her that his
teaching is better than her mother's Christianity. Furthermore, there
have been a number of tales about a dead person returning from the
grave to visit his/her beloved or spouse and bring them death in one
day or another, the narrative poem Lenore (1773) by Gottfried August
Bürger being a notable 18th century example. One of its lines Denn die
Todten reiten schnell ("For the dead travel fast") was to be quoted in
Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. A later German poem exploring the same
subject with a prominent vampiric element was The Bride of Corinth
(1797) by Goethe, a story about a young woman who returns from the
grave to seek her betrothed:

From my grave to wander I am forced
Still to seek the God's long server'd link,
Still to love the bridegroom I have lost,
And the lifeblood of his heart to drink.

The story is turned into an expression of the conflict between
Heathendom and Christianity: the family of the dead girl are
Christians, while the young man and his relatives are still pagans. It
turns out that it was the girl's Christian mother who broke off her
engagement and forced her to become a nun, eventually driving her to
death. The motive behind the girl's return as a "spectre" is that
"e'en Earth can never cool down love". Goethe had been inspired by the
story of Philinnion by Phlegon of Tralles, a tale from classical
Greece. However, in that tale, the youth is not the girl's betrothed,
no religious conflict is present, no actual sucking of blood occurs,
and the girl's return from the dead is said to be sanctioned by the
gods of the Underworld. She relapses into death upon being exposed,
and the issue is settled by burning her body outside of the city walls
and making an apotropaic sacrifice to the deities involved.

The first mention of vampires in English literature appears in Robert
Southey's monumental oriental epic poem Thalaba the Destroyer (1797),
where the main character Thalaba's deceased beloved Oneiza turns into
a vampire, although that occurrence is actually marginal to the story.
It has been argued (Leatherdale 1993: 46-9) that Samuel Taylor
Coleridge's poem Christabel (written between 1797 and 1801, but not
published until 1816) has influenced the development of vampire
fiction: the heroine Christabel is seduced by a female supernatural
being called Geraldine who tricks her way into her residence and
eventually tries to marry her after having assumed the appearance of
an old beloved of hers. The story bears a remarkable resemblance to
the overtly vampiric story of Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
(1872).

Nineteenth Century

In a passage in his epic poem The Giaour (1813), Lord Byron alludes to
the traditional folkloric conception of the vampire as a being damned
to suck the blood and destroy the life of its nearest relations:
Lord Byron in Albanian Costume, painted by Thomas Phillips in 1813
Lord Byron in Albanian Costume, painted by Thomas Phillips in 1813

But first, on earth as vampire sent,
Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent:
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And suck the blood of all thy race;

There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
At midnight drain the stream of life;
Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
Must feed thy livid living corse:
Thy victims ere they yet expire
Shall know the demon for their sire,
As cursing thee, thou cursing them,
Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

Byron also composed an enigmatic fragmentary story concerning the
mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst
journeying in the Orient - as his contribution to the famous ghost
story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in 1816, between
him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori (who
was Byron's personal physician). This story provided the basis for the
The Vampyre (1819) by Polidori. This short story was the first example
of the vampire in prose fiction. Byron's own wild life became the
model for Polidori's undead protagonist Lord Ruthven. Polidori's Lord
Ruthven seems to be the first appearance of the modern vampire: an
undead, vampiric being possessing a developed intellect and
preternatural charm, as well as physical attraction. By contrast, the
vampire of folklore was almost invariably thought of as a hideous,
unappealing creature.

An unauthorized sequel to Polidori's tale by Cyprien Bérard called
Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires (1820) was adapted by Charles Nodier into
the first vampire stage melodrama, which was in turn made into an
opera by German composer Heinrich Marschner. Alexandre Dumas later
redramatized the story in a play also entitled Le Vampire (1851).

An important later example of 19th century Vampire fiction is the
penny dreadful epic Varney the Vampire (1847) featuring Sir Francis
Varney as the Vampire. In this story we have the first example of the
standard trope in which the vampire comes through the window at night
and attacks a maiden as she lies sleeping.

Similar erotic fixations are evident in Sheridan le Fanu's classic
novella Carmilla (1872) which featured a female vampire with lesbian
inclinations who seduces the heroine Laura whilst draining her of her
vital fluids. Le Fanu's story is set in the Duchy of Styria. Such
central European locations became a standard feature of vampire
fiction.

Another important example of the development of vampire fiction can be
found in three seminal novels by Paul Féval: Le Chevalier Ténèbre
(1860), La Vampire (1865) and La Ville Vampire (1874).

Dracula
Filmgoers met Dracula (Bela Lugosi) in 1931 in a landmark vampire film.
Filmgoers met Dracula (Bela Lugosi) in 1931 in a landmark vampire film.

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) has been the definitive description of
the vampire in popular fiction for the last century. Its portrayal of
vampirism as a disease (contagious demonic possession), with its
undertones of sex, blood, and death, struck a chord in a Victorian
Britain where tuberculosis and syphilis were common. A decade before
in 1888, the press had sensationalized Jack the Ripper's sexualized
murders of prostitutes during his reign of terror in East London.

The name Count Dracula was inspired by a real person, Vlad epe (Vlad
the Impaler). epe was a notorious Wallachian (Romanian) prince of
the 15th century, also known by as Vlad III Dracula. Unlike the
historical personage, however, Stoker located his Count Dracula in a
castle near the Borgo Pass in Transylvania, and ascribed to that area
the supernatural aura it retains to this day in the popular
imagination.

Stoker likely drew inspiration from Irish myths of blood-sucking
creatures. He was also influenced by a contemporary vampire story,
Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu. Le Fanu was Stoker's editor when Stoker
was a theatre critic in Dublin, Ireland. Like Le Fanu, Stoker created
compelling female vampire characters such as Lucy Westenra and the
Brides of Dracula.

Twentieth Century

Most 20th-century vampire fiction draws heavily on Stoker's work.
Early films such as Nosferatu and those featuring Bela Lugosi and
Christopher Lee are examples of this. Nosferatu, in fact, was so
clearly based on Dracula that Stoker's widow sued for copyright
infringement and won. As a result of the suit, most prints of the film
were destroyed. She later allowed the film to be shown in England.

Though most later works of vampire fiction do not feature Dracula as a
character, there are typically clear thematic ties. These include the
association of the vampire with great wealth and erotic power, as well
as frequent use of Gothic settings and iconography.

Prior to the mid-1950s, vampires were usually presented as
supernatural beings with mystical powers. Discussion of the
transmission of vampirism was sketchy at best. This changed with the
publication of I Am Legend by author Richard Matheson in (1954). The
story of a future Los Angeles, overrun with undead
cannibalistic/bloodsucking beings changed the genre forever. One man
is the sole survivor of a pandemic of a bacterium that causes
vampirism. He must fight to survive attacks from the hordes of
nocturnal creatures, discover the secrets of their biology, and
develop effective countermeasures. This was the first piece of fiction
with an analytical slant towards vampires.

Since the 1970s, many American children have been introduced to the
concept of vampires by Count von Count, a loveable muppet on the
educational children's series Sesame Street. The Count, as he is more
commonly known, helps young children practice their numbers concepts
by counting things around him with a stereotypical eastern European
accent. Although the Count is never portrayed carrying out acts of
mayhem typical to vampires or even drinking blood, he does possess a
prominent widow's peak and fangs and so is presumably a vampire.

The 1981 novel and 1983 film The Hunger examined the biology of
vampires, suggesting that their special abilities were the result of
physical properties of their blood. The novel suggested that all
vampires were not undead humans, but some were a separate species that
had evolved alongside humans.

The Vampire Chronicles series of novels by Anne Rice are the most
popular in a genre of modern stories that use vampires as sympathetic
protagonists rather than monsters or villains.

Traits of vampires in fiction

In contrast to the numerous and contradictory beliefs about vampires
in traditional folklore (see vampire), the Western literary tradition
has seen the rise of a more or less unified image of the vampire. This
image maintains certain folkloric traits but discards others. This new
vampire archetype has spread to modern cinema and popular culture in
general, although individual works may vary from this norm.

The fiction of the 19th century, especially Bram Stoker's Dracula, has
been hugely influential. Fictional vampires can be romantic figures,
often described as elegant and sexy (compare demons such as succubus
and incubus). This is in stark contrast to the vampire of Eastern
European folklore, which was a horrifying animated corpse.

A well-known set of special "powers" and weaknesses is commonly
associated with vampires in contemporary fiction:

* Vampires, being already dead, do not need human sustenance such
as food, water, or even oxygen. They are sometimes portrayed as being
unable to eat human food at all, forcing them either avoid public
dining or mime chewing and eating to deceive their mortal victims.
They often have a pale appearance (not the dark or ruddy skin of
folkloric vampires), and their skin is cool to the touch.
* Fictional vampires are sometimes considered to be
shape-shifters, with the ability to transform themselves into animals
such as bats, rats, and wolves. Some vampires are even described as
being able to change into fog or mist.
* Some vampires can fly. This power may be supernatural
levitation, or it may be connected to the vampire's shape-shifting
ability.
* Vampires cast no shadow and have no reflection. In modern
fiction, this may extend to the idea that vampires cannot be
photographed. This concept originated with Stoker, who derived it from
the idea that mirrors portray one's soul--something that most vampires
lack.
* Some traditions hold that a vampire cannot enter a house unless
he or she is invited in. Generally, a vampire need be invited in only
once and can then come and go at will.
* Some tales maintain that vampires must return to a coffin or to
their "native soil" before sunrise to take their rest safely. Others
place native soil in their coffins, especially if they have relocated.
Still other vampire stories such as Le Fanu's Carmilla maintain that
vampires must return to their coffins, but sleep in several inches of
blood as opposed to soil.
* Werewolves are sometimes held to become vampires after death.
Other fiction, however, holds werewolves to be the mortal enemies of
vampires.
* As in folklore, the vampire of fiction can usually be warded off
with garlic and symbols of Christian faith such as holy water, the
crucifix, or a rosary). Some stories have extended this power to all
religious icons, any object through which faith is channelled, or
religious icons that are significant to the vampire itself. For
instance, a formerly Jewish vampire might recoil from the Star of
David.
* A vampire may be destroyed by a silver or consecrated bullet, a
wooden stake through the heart, decapitation, or incineration.
However, one of the most common means for killing the fictional
vampire is exposure to daylight. This idea seems to have originated
with the 1922 film Nosferatu, but vulnerability to sunlight has become
popularly accepted as a standard vampire weakness. Still, the
magnitude of vulnerability varies with the story. In Stoker, for
example, Dracula is merely weakened, not destroyed, by sunlight.
* Some fictional vampires are fascinated with counting, an idea
derived from folk stories about vampires being compelled to stop and
count any spilled grain they find in their path. The most famous
fictional counting vampire is likely Muppet character Count von Count
on television's Sesame Street. Other examples include a fifth season
episode of the X-Files titled Bad Blood, and the Discworld novel,
"Carpe Jugulum" by Terry Pratchett.
* Since the 1958 film Dracula, vampires are almost always depicted
as having fangs. These fangs are sometimes retractable, only becoming
visible when the vampire is about to feed.
* In most T.V. shows, or movies, a sign that someone is a vampire
is, a cape, cloak, or something else with a high collar to obscure the
bite marks.

Literature

* The Giaour by Lord Byron (1813).
* Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816).
* The Vampyre by John William Polidori (1819).
* La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier (1836).
* Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer
(or Thomas Peckett Prest) (1847).
* Le Chevalier Ténèbre (Knighshade) by Paul Féval (1860).
* La Vampire (The Vampire Countess) by Paul Féval (1865).
* Carmilla (1872) by Sheridan le Fanu.
* La Ville Vampire (Vampire City) by Paul Féval (1874).
* Manor by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1884).
* The True Story of the Vampire by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock by (1894).
* Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897).
* The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck (1907).
* I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954).
* "Pages from a Young Girl's Diary" (1973) by Robert Aickman.
* 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (1975).
* For younger readers, the Little Vampire series, by Angela
Sommer-Bodenburg, began in 1979.
* The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (1980).
* The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (1981).
* Castle Dubrava (1982) by Yuri Kapralov
* The Curse of the Vampire (1982) by Karl Alexander.
* Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin (1982).
* The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford (1983)
* The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers (1989).
* Vampire$ by John Steakley (1990).
* The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause (1991).
* Darkness on the Ice by Lois Tilton (1993).
* Guilty Pleasures (1993) and subsequent books in the Anita Blake
series by Laurell K. Hamilton.
* Pam Keesey edited two anthologies of lesbian vampire stories,
Daughters of Darkness (1993) and Dark Angels (1995).
* The books I, Strahd, Memories of the Vampire (1993) and I,
Strahd, the War with Azalin by P.N. Elrod tells the tale of the
vampire lord Strahd von Zarovich who occupies the castle Ravenloft.
* The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires by Brian Stableford (1996).
* Dracula the Undead by Freda Warrington (1997).
* Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (1998).
* Amelia Atwater-Rhodes novels In the Forests of the Night (2000),
Demon in My View (2001), Midnight Predator (2002), and Shattered
Mirror (2003).
* Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One Slip In) by John
Ajvide Lindqvist (2002).
* Sunshine by Robin McKinley (2003).
* The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005).
* Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (2005).
* New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (2005).
* Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (2005)
* The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo (2006).
* The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld (2006)
* Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2007).

Vampire fiction series

There are many series in vampire fiction. They tend to either take the
form of direct sequels (or prequels) to the first book published or
detail the ongoing adventures of particular characters.

* Christopher Moore's A Love Story series:
o Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (1995)
o You Suck: A Love Story (2007) (will be released January 16th, 2007)
* Fred Saberhagen's Vlad Tepes series:
o The Dracula Tape (1975)
o The Holmes-Dracula File (1978)
o An Old Friend of the Family (1979)
o Thorn (1980)
o Dominion (1982)
o A Matter of Taste (1990)
o A Question of Time (1992)
o Seance for a Vampire (1994)
o A Sharpness on the Neck (1996)
o The Vlad Tapes (2000)
* Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series:
o Interview with the Vampire (1976)
o The Vampire Lestat (1985)
o The Queen of the Damned (1988)
o The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
o Memnoch the Devil (1995)
o The Vampire Armand (1998)
o Merrick (2000)
o Blood and Gold (2001)
o Blackwood Farm (2002)
o Blood Canticle (2003)
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain series:
o Hotel Transylvania (1978)
o The Palace (1978)
o Blood Games (1980)
o Path of the Eclipse (1981)
o Tempting Fate (1981)
o The Saint-Germain Chronicles (1983)
o Darker Jewels (1993)
o Better in the Dark (1993)
o Mansions of Darkness (1996)
o Writ in Blood (1997)
o Blood Roses (1998)
o Communion Blood (1999)
o Come Twilight (2000)
o A Feast in Exile (2001)
o Night Blooming (2002)
o Midnight Harvest (2003)
o Dark of the Sun (2004)
o States of Grace (2005)
o Roman Dusk (2006)
* Whitley Strieber's Hunger series:
o The Hunger (1980)
o The Last Vampire (2001)
o Lilith's Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life (2002)
* Brian Lumley's Necroscope series:
o Necroscope (1986)
o Necroscope II: Wamphyri! (aka Necroscope II:Vamphyri!) (1988)
o The Source: Necroscope III (1989)
o Deadspeak: Necroscope IV (1990)
o Deadspawn: Necroscope V (1991)
o Necroscope: The Lost Years (1995)
o Necroscope The Lost Years: Volume II (aka Necroscope:
Resurgence) (1996)
o Invaders (1999)
o Defilers: Necroscope (2000)
o Avengers: Necroscope (2001)
o Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Heroes (2003)
o The Touch (2006)
* Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series:
o Anno Dracula (1992)
o The Bloody Red Baron (1995)
o Judgment of Tears (aka Dracula Cha Cha Cha) (1998)
* Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series:
o Guilty Pleasures (1993)
o The Laughing Corpse (1994)
o Circus of the Damned (1995)
o The Lunatic Cafe (1996)
o Bloody Bones (1996)
o Club Vampyre (omnibus) (1997)
o The Killing Dance (1997)
o The Midnight Cafe (omnibus) (1997)
o Black Moon Inn (omnibus) (1998)
o Burnt Offerings (1998)
o Blue Moon (1998)
o Obsidian Butterfly (2000)
o Narcissus in Chains (2001)
o Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Set (omnibus) (2003)
o Cerulean Sins (2003)
o Incubus Dreams (2004)
o Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Omnibus (omnibus) (2005)
o Nightshade Tavern (omnibus) (2005)
o Micah (2006)
o Danse Macabre (2006)
* Christine Feehan's Dark series:
o Dark Prince (1999)
o Dark Desire (1999)
o Dark Gold (2000)
o Dark Magic (2000)
o Dark Challenge (2000)
o Dark Fire (2001)
o After Twilight ("Dark Dream") with Amanda Ashley and Ronda
Thompson (2001)
o Dark Legend (2001)
o Dark Guardian (2002)
o Dark Symphony (2003)
o The Only One ("Dark Descent") with Susan Grant and Susan
Squires (2003)
o Dark Melody (2003)
o Dark Destiny (2004)
o Hot Blooded ("Dark Hunger") with Emma Holly, Angela Knight
and Maggie Shayne (2004)
o Dark Secret (2005)
o Dark Demon (2006)
o Dark Celebration: A Carpathian Reunion (2006)
* Gene Wolfe's Urth: Book of the Short Sun trilogy:
o On Blue's Waters (1999)
o In Green's Jungles (2000)
o Return to the Whorl (2001)
* Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series:
o Storm Front (2000)
o Fool Moon (2000)
o Grave Peril (2001)
o Summer Knight (2002)
o Death Masks (2003)
o Blood Rites (2004)
o Dead Beat (2005)
o Proven Guilty (2006)
o White Night (2007)
* E. E. Knight's Vampire Earth series:
o Way of the Wolf (2001)
o Choice of the Cat (2004)
o Tale of the Thunderbolt (2005)
o Valentine's Rising (2005)
o Valentine's Exile (2006)
* Karen Koehler's Slayer series:
o Slayer (2001)
o Black Miracles (2002)
o Stigmata (2003)
* Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series:
o Twilight (October 2005) - The first book in Stephenie
Meyers popular series. The story revolves around an incredibly
beautiful vampire named Edward Cullen who had fallen deeply in love
with a young human female, Bella Swan. The thirst for Bella's
delicious blood and other complexities add to the addicting plot of
the romace, suspense, and mystery story.
o New Moon (August 2006)
o Eclipse (October 2007)
o Midnight Sun (in development)
* Maggie Shayne's Wings in the Night series
o Twilight Phantasie (1993)
o Twilight Memories (1994)
o Twilight Illusions (1995)
o Beyond Twilight (1995)
o Born in Twilight (1997)
o Twilight Vows (1998)
o Twilight Hunger (2002)
o Embrace the Twilight (2003)
o Run From Twilight (2003)
o Edge of Twilight (2004)
o Blue Twilight (2005)
o Prince of Twilight (2006)

Films and television

Vampires have been a film staple since the silent days. The Vampire
(film) (1913, directed by Robert G. Vignola), also co-written by
Vignola, is the earliest vampire film. The landmark Nosferatu (1922
Germany, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau) was an unlicensed
version of Dracula based so closely on Bram Stoker's Dracula, the
estate sued and won, with all copies being destroyed. (It would be
painstakingly restored in 1994 by a team of European scholars from the
five surviving prints.) By 2005, Dracula had been the subject of more
films than any other fictional character.

The treatment of vampires has been kaleidoscopic. It has been comedic,
including Old Dracula (1974 UK, directed by Clive Donner) featuring
David Niven as a lovelorn Drac, Love at First Bite (1979 USA)
featuring George Hamilton and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995 USA,
directed by Mel Brooks) with Canadian Leslie Nielsen giving it a comic
twist, to absurd, with Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

Vampirism has changed from embodied evil in Dracula to a kind of virus
in David Cronenberg's Rabid (1976 Canada) and Red-Blooded American
Girl (1990 Canada, directed by David Blyth). It got a science fiction
spin in The Last Man on Earth (Italy 1964, directed by Ubaldo Ragona)
and The Omega Man (1971 USA, directed by Boris Sagal), both based on
Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend (writing as Logan Swanson), the
product of a biological war. Race has not been excluded, either, as
exemplified by the blaxploitation picture Blacula (1972 USA, directed
by William Crain) and several sequels.

Roman Polanski made his own vampire movie with The Fearless Vampire Killers too.

Killing vampires has changed, too. Where Abraham Van Helsing relied on
a stake through the heart, in Vampire$ (1997 USA, directed by John
Carpenter), Jack Crow (James Woods) has a heavily-armed squad of
vampire hunters, and in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 USA, directed
by Fran Rubel Kuzui), writer Joss Whedon (who created TV's Buffy the
Vampire Slayer and spinoff Angel) attached The Slayer, Buffy Summers
(Kristy Swanson in the film, Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV series),
to a network of Watchers and mystically endowed her with superhuman
powers.

Murnau's Nosferatu featured a vampire (portrayed by Max Schrek) that
was ancient-looking and ugly, similar to the vampires of European
folklore. The vampire was transformed from a creature of disgust and
fear into an object of lust, in such films as Camilla (released as La
Maldicion De Los Karnstein, 1963), Daughters of Darkness (released as
Children Of The Night, 1971), Dracula (1979), and Once Bitten (1985),
for just a few examples. Delphine Seyrig, Frank Langella, or Lauren
Hutton could hardly be called ugly. Even X-rated films (such as 1978's
Dracula Sucks and 1999's Hot Vampire Nights) have used vampire themes.

In 2002, Shadow of the Vampire (2000 UK/USA/Luxembourg, directed by E.
Elias Merhige) starred Willem Dafoe as leading man Max Schrek, playing
an actual vampire, and John Malkovich as a harassed Murnau. Dafoe's
character is the ugly, disgusting creature of the original Nosferatu.

A 1998 UK television drama called Ultraviolet centres around vampires
and a fictional British governmental agency which both keeps their
existence secret and seeks to destroy them.

In 2006, the TV show Supernatural occasionally sees the two brothers
meeting vampires. Their father's mentor was a vampire hunter, and was
killed by "old friends". Sam and Dean hunt down the vampires as they
have in their possession a gun which could kill the thing they're
really after.

Dracula and his legacy

By far, the most well-known and popular vampire in the movies is
Dracula. An amazing number of movies have been filmed over the years
depicting the evil count, some of which are ranked among the greatest
depictions of vampires on film. Dracula has over 160 film
representations making him the most frequently portrayed character in
horror films; he has the second-highest number of movie appearances
overall, following only Sherlock Holmes. [citation needed]

* Nosferatu (1922; starring Max Schreck, remade 1979 with Klaus
Kinski) – unlicensed German adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel
* Dracula (1931) – the first Universal Studios Dracula film,
starring Bela Lugosi
* Dracula (Spanish Version) (1931) – Spanish-language version
starring Carlos Villar, made simultaneously with the Bela Lugosi film,
using the same sets on a timeshare basis
* Dracula's Daughter (1936) – Follow up to the 1931 film, starring
Gloria Holden
* Son of Dracula (1943) – further sequel to the 1931 film starring
Lon Chaney Jr.
* House of Frankenstein (1944) – John Carradine plays Dracula as
part of an ensemble cast in this Universal Studios film
* House of Dracula (1945) – The final serious Universal Studios
Dracula film, starring Carradine
* Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) – Lugosi played
Dracula on film for the second and final time in this comedy-horror
hybrid that concluded the Universal Studios series.
* Dracula (1958; aka Horror of Dracula) – the first Hammer Horror
Dracula film, starring Christopher Lee
* Dracula (1968) a made-for-television version starring Denholm Elliot.
* Count Dracula (1969 film) was the Jesus Franco-directed adaptation.
* Countess Dracula (1970)
* Blacula (1972) – a blaxploitation cult film in which an African
prince is turned into a vampire by Dracula.
* Dracula (1973) was directed by Dan Curtis and starred Jack
Palance in the title role.
* Blood for Dracula (1974) - also released as Andy Warhol's
Dracula (x-rated)
* Count Dracula (1977) was the second BBC production, this one
remarkably faithful and starring Louis Jourdan.
* Lust at First Bite (1978) - (x-rated)
* Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) was Werner Herzog's remake
of Murnau's silent classic.
* Dracula (1979) – a film in the gothic romantic tradition
starring Frank Langella
* Love At First Bite (1979) – romantic comedy spoof starring
George Hamilton.
* Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1991) is a comedy western about
a ghost town populated by vampires.
* Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) – attempt at filming the story
quite close to Stoker's novel, but merging the medieval story of Vlad
Tepe; starring Gary Oldman as Dracula
* Interview With the Vampire (1994) – While no appearance or
rendition of Dracula is made, the vampire Louis denounces the Dracula
legend as "the vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman."
* Monster Force (1994) – an animated television series featuring
Dracula as the mastermind of Evil, the Prince of Darkness and the main
antagonist of the series
* The Addiction (1995) A philosophical variant on the vampire film
directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Lili Taylor. It uses vampirism
as a metaphor for the AIDS epidemic and ends with a notorious and
extremely sexually charged orgy of blood-sucking.
* Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) – a parody of Dracula films
by Mel Brooks; Leslie Nielsen as Dracula
* Dracula 2000 (2000) - a modern reworking of the story.
* Buffy vs. Dracula episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000)
* Dracula (2002) was an Italian miniseries which updated the story
to modern day.
* Hellsing (2002) - Alucard is Dracula, controlled by the
desendent of Abraham Van-Helsing, Integra.
* Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002) - a silent
interpretation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's take of Bram Stoker's
Dracula.
* League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - Mina Harker, vampiric
thanks to her encounter with Dracula, is a member of the League.
* Van Helsing (2004) – action movie only loosely connected to the
original Dracula; Richard Roxburgh as Dracula
* Blade: Trinity (2004) - Drake the vampire is supposed to have
had many forms throughout the centuries, Stoker's Dracula being one of
them.
* Lust For Dracula (2005) is an all-lesbian, very surreal
adaptation (x-rated).
* Hellsing Ultimate (2006) - Remake of Hellsing following the
original manga series more closely.
* Dracula (2006) is the third BBC version, starring Marc Warren as
the title character and reworking the plot.

Other Vampires on movies and television

* The Vampire (1913) - directed and co-written by Robert G. Vignola
* Les Vampires (1915)
* London After Midnight (1927) - a lost silent film.
* Vampyr (1932) - a classic silent film.
* Mark of the Vampire (1935) - a remake of London After Midnight,
this time as a talkie. At the conclusion of the film the vampires are
revealed to be fraudulent.
* The Return of the Vampire (1944)
* Not of This Earth (1957)
* Curse of the Undead (1959)
* La maschera del demonio (aka Black Sunday) (1960)
* Camilla (1964)
* The Last Man on Earth (1964) - based on the novel I Am Legend
* Kiss of the Vampire (1964)
* Dark Shadows TV series (1966 and 1991)
* Blood Bath (1966)
* The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) - a semi-spoof of the genre
directed by Roman Polanski.
* Count Yorga, Vampire (1970).

* The Return of Count Yorga (1971).

* The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on the story Carmilla by
Sheridan Le Fanu and featuring Ingrid Pitt as a lesbian vampire. This
was the first of Hammer's Karnstein Trilogy and set a trend for
lesbian erotica in the genre.

* Lust for a Vampire (1971) - the second film in the Karnstein Trilogy.
* Twins of Evil (1971) - the third film in the Karnstein trilogy.

* Le Rogue aux Levres (Daughters of Darkness) & (Children of the
Night) (1971)
* The Omega Man (1971) - also based on the novel I Am Legend
* The Night Stalker (1972)
* Vampire Circus (1973) - a Hammer Horror.
* Vampyres (1974) - an erotic film which features two lesbian
vampires who inhabit a Gothic mansion in England: includes much in the
way of bloody violence.
* Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) episode 4 "The Vampire"
* The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) - a kung fu vampire movie.
* Rabid (1976)
* Salem's Lot (film) (1979) - based on the novel of the same name
by Stephen King.
* The serials State of Decay (1980) and The Curse of Fenric (1989)
from the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
* Dr. Slump (1981) - episode 17 part 2
* The Hunger (1983)
* Fright Night (1985)
o Fright Night II (1989)
* Real Ghostbusters (1985) episode "Transylvanian Homesick Blues".
* Once Bitten (1985)
* Vampire Hunter D (1985)
* Dragon Ball (1986) - episodes 69 and 70
* Vamp (1986)
* The Lost Boys (1987)
* Near Dark (1987)
* My Best Friend is a Vampire (1988)
* Vampire's Kiss (1989)
* Red-Blooded American Girl (1990)
* Dracula: The Series (1990)
* Subspecies (1991)
o Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)
o Bloodlust: Subspecies III (1994)
o Vampire Journals (1997)
o Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998)
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), the TV show of the same name
and its television spinoff Angel
* Forever Knight TV Series (1992)
* Innocent Blood (1992)
* Cronos (1993)
* Interview with the Vampire (1994) - based on the book by Anne Rice.
* Embrace of the Vampire (1994)
* The Addiction (1995 in film) A philosophical variant on the
vampire film, that uses vampirism as a metaphor for AIDS and ends with
a notorious and highly sexually charged orgy of blood-sucking.
* Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
* From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
o From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
o From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)
* Tales From the Crypt: Bordello of Blood (1996)
* Ultraviolet (1998)
* Blade (1998)
o Blade II (2002)
o Blade: Trinity (2004)
o Blade: The Series (2006)
* Vampires (1998)
o Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)
* Modern Vampires (1998)
* Hot Vampire Nights (1999) (x-rated)
* Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
* Port Charles - daytime serial on ABC that utilized vampires in
story arcs from 2001 - 2003.
* Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)
* The Forsaken (2001)
* Queen of the Damned (2002)
* Hellsing (2002)
o Hellsing Ultimate (2006) - new series that sticks closer
to the original comic.
* Underworld (2003)
o Underworld: Evolution (2006)
* 'Salem's Lot (2004)
* Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) (2004) Russian fantasy film
partially involving vampires
o Day Watch (Dnevnoi Dozor) (2006)
* Van Helsing (2004)
* Vampires: The Turning (2005)
* Ultraviolet (2006)
* Frostbiten (2006) - Sweden's first vampire movie.
* Dracula (BBC) (2006) - Adaptation from ITV Productions.

Other media

Video game series featuring vampires primarily use Dracula or
Dracula-inspired characters. Konami's Castlevania series is the
longest running series which uses the Dracula legend, though its
writers have made their own alterations to the legend. An exception to
this trend is the Legacy of Kain video game series, which features
vampires set in an entirely fictional world called Nosgoth.

Other vampires seen in games include:

* The Elder Scrolls game series involves vampires created by demon
lord. They have all the typical attributes, but some (though not all)
can walk in sunlight if they have fed on a victim.
* In the tabletop wargame Warhammer Fantasy: Vampire Counts are
one of the playable forces.
* Role-playing games such as Vampire: The Masquerade (1992), in
which the participants play the roles of fictional vampires (for
specifics, see vampires in the World of Darkness).
* The Darkstalkers (1994) fighting game series (known as Vampire
Savior in Japan) features a vampire along with other mythological and
horror-themed characters.
* Shadowrun features vampires whose existence is explained by a
resurgence of the Human Meta-Human Vampiric Virus. As such, the
afflicted are not undead, but instead are still alive but radically
changed by the retrovirus. They normally do not suffer from the
supernatural limitations such as crosses, but still are vulnerable to
sunlight.
* The Sims 2: Nightlife, the second expansion pack for popular
series The Sims 2, introduces vampires to the game. These vampires in
this game follow many fictional conventions, such sleeping in ornate
coffins, wearing gothic clothing, and being able to transform into
bats. Vampirism can be spread between game characters through biting.
If caught outside during the day, a Sim Vampire's will soon die.
* The video game series Castlevania establishes a new origin for
Dracula and chronicles the never ending struggle between him and the
Belmont clan of vampire hunters stretching from the 11th century all
the way to the 21st century.
* The video game series Shadow Hearts have four known vampires
(Three playable) in the games (though hardly stereotypical).
* The video game series Boktai revolves around the Vampire Hunter
Django. However, even though the games sometimes equalize the terms of
Vampire and Immortal, there are only a few true vampires in the games,
such as the Count of Groundsoaking Blood.
* The scrolling shooter Embodiment of Scarlet Devil features two
vampire sisters as the final boss and the extra stage boss. The older
of the two, Remilia Scarlet, became playable in two later games of the
Touhou Project.

In addition to gaming, vampires populate other popular media such as
graphic novels, comics, theater, and musicals:

* Comic books and graphic novels such as Vampirella (1969), Tomb
of Dracula (1972), the aforementioned Blade (1973), and 30 Days of
Night (2002). In addition, many major superheroes have faced vampire
supervillains at some point.

* The stage play (Love & Darkness) by Vancouver Island Playwright
David Elendune depicts the Nephilim as a race of vampires - ie the
resulting offspring of fallen angels and the daughters of man.

* First performed at the Limbo Lounge in New York City's East
Village in 1984, the play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom became so popular
it was moved Off-Broadway in June, 1985. It ran five years at the
Provincetown Playhouse.
* Dance of the Vampires (1997) is a musical from Jim Steinman.
* Japanese anime and manga features vampires in several titles,
including JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1987), Vampire Princess Miyu (OAV
1988, TV series 1997), Nightwalker (1998), Vampire Hunter D (2000),
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000), Hellsing (2002), Vampire Host (2004),
Tsukihime, Lunar Legend (2003), Tsukuyomi - Moon Phase (2004), Bleach
(2005), Blood+ (2005), and Trinity Blood (2005), Black Blood Brothers
(2006).
* The Fempiror Chronicles (2004) is a virtual series which uses
the vampire mythology as a basis for its race of creatures known as
Fempiror (which is a play on the word "vampire").
* Gothic rock band HIM (band) has a song called "Vampire Heart" on
their Dark Light album
* Rock band My Chemical Romance has a song titled "Vampires Will
Never Hurt You" on their debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You
Brought Me Your Love
* In Magic:The Gathering, vampires are quite iconic creatures of
the color black. Most of them share the ability to fly and to grow
stronger (via +1/+1 counters) by dealing mortal damage to other
creatures (according to the idea of gaining power from the blood of
their victims).

References

* Christopher Frayling (1992) Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count
Dracula (1992) ISBN 0-571-16792-6
* Freeland, Cynthia A. (2000) The Naked and the Undead: Evil and
the Appeal of Horror. Westview Press.
* Holte, James Craig. (1997) Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film
Adaptations. Greenwood Press.
* Leatherdale, C. (1993) Dracula: The Novel and the Legend. Desert
Island Books.
* Melton, J. Gordon. (1999) The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of
the Undead. Visible Ink Press.

List of major UFO film and television shows

Films

(in chronological order)

* The Man from Planet X - 1951
* The Day the Earth Stood Still - 1951
* The Thing from Another World - 1951
* The War of the Worlds - 1953
* Forbidden Planet -1956
* Earth vs. the Flying Saucers - 1956
* Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1956
* Plan 9 from Outer Space - 1959
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977
* Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1978
* Hangar 18 - 1980
* The Thing - 1982
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - 1982
* Cocoon - 1985
* Flight of the Navigator - 1986
* Predator - 1987
* *batteries not included - 1987
* Cocoon: The Return - 1988
* My Stepmother Is an Alien - 1988
* Predator 2 - 1990
* Fire in the Sky - 1993
* Body Snatchers - 1993
* U.F.O. - 1993
* Roswell - 1994
* Independence Day - 1996
* Mars Attacks! - 1996
* The Arrival - 1996
* Contact - 1997
* Men in Black - 1997
* Sphere - 1998
* The Second Arrival - 1998
* The Astronaut's Wife - 1999
* They Are Among Us - 2002
* Signs - 2002
* Visitors - 2003
* War of the Worlds - 2005
* Alien Autopsy - 2006
* The Invasion - 2007

Television

* The Invaders
* War of the Worlds
* Taken
* The 4400
* Roswell
* The X-Files
* Invasion
* Threshold
* V
* Project UFO
* Dark Skies
* UFO
* Doctor Who
* Torchwood

UFO film, UFO television shows

List of fictional robots and androids

This list of fictional robots and androids is a chronological list,
categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids
and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema. It is intended for
all fictional computers which are described as existing in a humanlike
or mobile form. It shows how the concept has developed in the human
imagination through history.

See also the List of fictional computers for all fictional computers
depicted as static machines.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Contents

* 1 Theatre
* 2 Literature
o 2.1 19th century and earlier
o 2.2 Early 1900s
o 2.3 1930s
o 2.4 1940s (and Isaac Asimov specifically)
o 2.5 1950s and 60s
o 2.6 1970s
o 2.7 1980s and possibly 1990s
o 2.8 1990s
o 2.9 2000s
* 3 Film
o 3.1 1930s and earlier
o 3.2 1950s
o 3.3 1960s
o 3.4 1970s
o 3.5 1980s
o 3.6 1990s
o 3.7 2000s
* 4 Television films and series
o 4.1 1960s and earlier
o 4.2 1970s
o 4.3 1980s
o 4.4 1990s
o 4.5 2000s
* 5 Comics/Graphic Novels
o 5.1 Comic Books
* 6 Comic strips
* 7 Web based media
o 7.1 Animated Shorts/Series
+ 7.1.1 Flash
o 7.2 Web Comics
* 8 Computer and video games
* 9 Unsorted works
* 10 See also
* 11 External links

Theatre

See also mechanical automata produced for entertainment in the
eighteenth century.

* Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same
name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870).
* The word "robot" comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's
Universal Robots) written 1920; first performed 1921; performed in New
York 1922; English edition published 1923. In the play, the word
refers to artificially created life forms [1]. Named robots in the
play are: Marius; Sulla; Radius; Primus and Helena.

Literature

See also Robots in literature

19th century and earlier

* Maidens made of gold, Bronze giant Talos, in The Iliad by Homer
(circa 800 BC)
* The woman forged out of gold in Finnish myth The Kalevala
(prehistoric folklore)
* The legend of the Golem, an animated man of clay, mentioned in
the Talmud. (16th century)
* Olimpia in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (1814)
* A mechanical man powered by steam in Edward S. Ellis' Steam Man
of the Prairies (1865)
* A mechanical man run by electricity in Luis Senarens' Frank
Reade and his Electric Man (1885)
* The Brazen Android, by William Douglas O'Connor. First appeared
in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1891.

Early 1900s

* Tik-Tok in L. Frank Baum's Oz books (1900-)
* A robot chess-player in "Moxon's Master" by Ambrose Bierce (1909)

1930s

* The "Professor Jameson" series by Neil R. Jones (early 1930s)
featured human and alien minds preserved in robot bodies. Reprinted in
five Ace paperbacks in the late 1960s: The Planet of the Double Sun,
The Sunless World, Space War, Twin Worlds and Doomsday on Ajiat
* The Martian robot in The Lost Machine by John Wyndham (1932)
* Human cyborgs in Revolt of the Pedestrians by David H. Keller (1932)
* Robot surgeon in "Rex" by Harl Vincent (1934)
* Helen O'Loy, from the story of the same title by Lester del Rey (1938)
* Adam Link of I, Robot by Eando Binder (1938)
* Robots discover their "roots" in Robots Return by Robert Moore
Williams (1938).
* Robot as murder witness in True Confession by F. Orlin Tremaine (1939)

1940s (and Isaac Asimov specifically)

* Gnut, in Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates (1940) - (Later
made into the classic 1954 SF film The Day the Earth Stood Still)
* Robots by Isaac Asimov:
o Robbie, Speedy, Cutie, and others, from the stories in I,
Robot (1940 - 1950) (not to be confused with the Binder short story of
the same title)
o L-76, Z-1, Z-2, Z-3, Emma-2, Brackenridge, Tony, Lenny,
Ez-27 and others, from the stories in The Rest of the Robots 1964
o R. Daneel Olivaw, from The Caves of Steel (1954) and
subsequent novels
o R. Giskard Reventlov, from The Robots of Dawn and subsequent novels
o Andrew Martin, from The Bicentennial Man (1976) (later
made into a film) and The Positronic Man (a novel) with Robert
Silverberg
o Norby, in a series of books for children co-written with
Janet Asimov
* The Humanoids, from two novels by Jack Williamson,(1949 and 1980)

1950s and 60s

* The Mechanical Hound from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 1953
* Zane Gort, a robot novelist, in the short story The Silver
Eggheads by Fritz Leiber, (1959)
* Irona, the robot maid of Richie Rich, the main character in a
comic book series. (1961)
* Frost, the Beta-Machine, Mordel, and the Ancient Ore Crusher in
Roger Zelazny's short story For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
* The Iron Man, in the book by Ted Hughes (1968)
* Androids, fully organic in nature -- the products of genetic
engineering -- and so human-like that they can only be distinguished
by psychological tests; some of them don't even know that they're not
human. -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) by Philip K. Dick
* The Electric Grandmother in the short story of the same name,
from I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury,(1969)
* Doraemon in a manga by Fujiko Fujio (1969)

1970s

* Personoids - Personoids do not need any human-like physical
body; they are rather an abstraction of functions of human mind, they
live in computers - in Stanisław Lem's book " Próżnia Doskonała"
(1971). It is a collection of book reviews of nonexistent books.
Translated into English by Michael Kandel as A Perfect Vacuum (1983).
* The masculinist plot to replace women with perfect looking,
obedient robot replicas -- The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin
* HARLIE in When H.A.R.L.I.E. was One by David Gerrold (1972)
* Setaur, Aniel, and Terminus in Tales of Pirx the Pilot by
Stanisław Lem (1973)
* Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy (1978–1981) (originally a radio series, then a book trilogy and
a TV series, and later a motion picture)

1980s and possibly 1990s

* Tidy, George, Fagor, Surgeon General Kraken and miscellaneous
other androids from James Follett's Earthsearch series (1980–1981)
(originally a radio series, then a two book series).
* Chip, the robot teenager in the Not Quite Human series
(1985-1986), by Seth McEvoy. Later, Disney made the book into two
movies.
* Marilyn, named after Marilyn Monroe, in Kazuo Umezu's 1982 manga
My name is Shingo
* Two extreme examples of robot morality, one perfectly innocent
and one perfectly criminal, in Roderick and Tik-Tok (1980, 1983) by
John Sladek
* The Boppers, a race of moon-based robots that achieve
independence from humanity, in the series of books The Ware Tetralogy
by Rudy Rucker.
* Solo, from Robert Mason's novel Weapon

1990s

* Jay-Dub and Dee Model in Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal (1996)
* Dorfl, and other Discworld golems deliberately described in
terms reminiscent of an Asimovian robot, in Terry Pratchett's Feet of
Clay, (1996) and subsequentDiscworld novels
* Moravecs are sentient descendants of probes sent by humans to
the Jovian belt, in Dan Simmons' Ilium, (2003)
* Project 2501 in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell Japanese
manga describes an espionage AI that achieves sentience. (1991)
* Thinkbot [2] - the robot who taught the world to be human.

2000s

* Emily Dickinson in the Joyce Carol Oates story
"EDickinsonRepliLuxe," (2006)
* Kim Fox is one of a number of sentient android characters in the
Richard Evans stories Machine Nation (2002) and its sequel Robophobia
(2004).
* Erasmus, an independent robot in the Legends of Dune series by
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (2002-2004).

Film

1930s and earlier

* Futura in Metropolis (1927)
* Annihilants, robot soldiers belonging to Ming the Merciless in
the Flash Gordon film series (1936).

1950s

* Gort, in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (film version of
Farewell to the Master)
* Robbie, in Forbidden Planet (1956)
* Ro-Man, a robot bent on destroying earth, in the movie Robot
Monster (1952).

1960s

* Patrik in Ikarie XB-1 (1963)
* B9 Robot in Lost In Space (1965-1968)
* Mechani-Kong in King Kong Escapes (1967)

1970s

* The all-robot police force in THX 1138 (1971)
* The drones Huey, Duey, and Louie, in Silent Running (1972).
Notable as the first movie in which non-anthropomorphic robots were
made mobile by manning them with amputees.
* The robots in Sleeper (1973)
* Jet Jaguar in Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
* The robotic gunfighters in Westworld, one of which was played by
Yul Brynner (1973)
* The bomb in Dark Star (1974, by John Carpenter)
* Mechagodzilla in various Godzilla films (1974).
* Box, in Logan's Run (1976)
* Necron-99, later called "Peace" from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1977).
* C-3PO, R2-D2 in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and
subsequent films
* The Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (1978)
* V.I.N.CENT., B.O.B, Maximillian and the androids made out of
humans -- The Black Hole (1979)
* Ash in Alien (1979)

1980s

* Hector, in Saturn 3 (1980)
* Uèr, an "electro-chemical" android capable of human feelings, in
Milady 3000 comic book by Magnus (1980)
* The replicants Roy Batty, Pris, Leon Kowalski, Zhora, Rachael,
and possibly Rick Deckard -- Blade Runner (1982) (the film version of
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
* Max 404 and Cassandra One in Android (1982)
* Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 as the robot assassin in The Terminator (1984)
* The young boy Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform in D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
* Bishop in Aliens (1986)
* Johnny 5 in Short Circuit (1986) and Short Circuit 2 (1988), and
later Hot Cars, Cold Facts (1990)
* Max, periscope-like robot aboard the Trimaxion Drone Ship in
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
* Tik-Tok in Return to Oz (1985)
* ED-209 in RoboCop (1987)
* Cherry 2000 in Cherry 2000 (1987)
* The android Ulysses in the film Making Mr. Right (1987)
* Dot Matrix in Spaceballs (1987)
* The android Astor, played by Stacey Williams, in Gangster World (1988)
* Jinx from the 1986 film SpaceCamp.

1990s

* The evil robotic doubles in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
* Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 and
Robert Patrick as the T-1000 Model Terminator in Terminator 2:
Judgment Day (1991)
* Alsatia Zevo, the gynoid sister of Leslie Zevo and dollmaker in
Toys. (1992)
* Battle Droids in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to Star
Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
* Project 2501 in the Movie Adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost
in the Shell Japanese manga anime describes AI surveillance of
population. (1995)
* Bishop (android) in Alien³ (1992)
* "SID 6.7", the villain in the film "Virtuosity" (1995) as a
nanotech synthetic android, played by Russell Crowe.
* David, Becker and Jessica from Screamers (film) (1995) based on
the short story Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
* Solo in Solo (1996), based on Robert Mason's novel (see above)
* Call in Alien: Resurrection (1997)
* "Robot" in Lost in Space, the movie of the TV series (1998)
* The Iron Giant (1999) (film version of The Iron Man)
* Andrew, and others the robot servant in Bicentennial Man (1999)
-- based on a short story by Isaac Asimov
* Vanessa the exploding fembot assassin in Austin Powers The Spy
Who Shagged Me (1999)

2000s

* AMEE the robot scout in the film Red Planet, who gets stuck in
military mode and destroys the human crew of the spaceship. (2000)
* Many robots, including David, the lead character, in Artificial
Intelligence: AI (2001); based on the "Supertoys" of Brian Aldiss'
short story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long (ISBN 0-312-28061-0).
* Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101
Terminator and Kristanna Loken as the T-X Terminator in Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines (2003)
* The robot butler B166ER, the residents of the machine nation of
Zero-One, and the Sentinels from the Matrix series.(1999-2003)
* B-4, Data's brother in Star Trek: Nemesis (2003)
* Sonny (Type NS-5) and many other robots in I, Robot (2004)
* The monstrous robot dog in Rottweiler (2004)
* The entire cast of Robots (2005)
* The Vahki, the robot police enforcer in Bionicle 2: Legends of
Metru Nui and Bionicle storyline.

Television films and series

1960s and earlier

* Rosie the Maid in The Jetsons (1962)
* Robert the Robot, the transparent mechanical spaceship co-pilot
in the Fireball XL5 British puppet television series created by Gerry
Anderson (1962)
* Various unnamed robots in the series Space Patrol (known as
Planet Patrol in the US (1962)
* K-9, Kamelion, the Movellans, and many more, in the British
Doctor Who series (1963–2005) (See also List of Doctor Who robots)

* Astro Boy from Astro Boy the Japanese animated series (1963–1966)
* "Rhoda Miller" in My Living Doll (1964)
* "The Cybernauts" in The Avengers (TV series) (1965)
* "Robot B-9" in Lost in Space TV series (1965–1968)
* Hymie the Robot in the comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970)
* Various minor characters and villains (Dr. Korby, Rayna, the
Nomad probe, Mudd's androids) in Star Trek (1966–1969)
* Serendipity Dog - a robot character that asked questions on the
BBC children's television science series Tom Tom (1960?-1969)
* Tobor The 8th Man in the Japanese Anime TV series. Also, his
younger, stronger, but less sophisticated sister Samantha 7. See
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/tobor.htm

1970s

* Voltes V, Japanese animated television series (1977)
* Zed, the rebel robot in The Ed and Zed Show (c1970)
* Questor, The Questor Tapes (1974)
* Mr. R.I.N.G. The Night Stalker (1975) Acronym stands for
Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia
* Yo-Yo, aka Geogory Yoyonovitch, Holmes and Yo-Yo (1976)
* Officer Haven [Future Cop] (1976-77)
* The Clinkers, Shields and Yarnell (1977-78)
* K-9, the talking robotic dog (actually, dogs) from the British
television series Doctor Who.
* Peepo, the robot from the children's series Space Academy (1977-1979)
* Haro, Mobile Suit Gundam (1977)
* 7-Zark-7 and 1-Rover-1 in the animated series Battle of the Planets (1978)
* The Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (1978–1980) (in the
novelizations, Cylons were simply humanoid aliens wearing mechanical
armor)
* "Hector" and "Vector" in Battlestar Galactica
* H.E.R.B.I.E. in the 1978 Fantastic Four animated series
* Mermadon from the TV series Salvage 1, Government constructed
android that was damaged and was suffering from a type of amnesia,
when a firearm was shown to Mermadon, he reverted to battle mode, in
which, a laser gun flipped out of his chest and mesh shield covered
his eyes. When the government tracked him down to the Salvage 1
headquarters, Mermadon went into battle mode with full memory, when
the Salvage 1 crew covered his eyes with a cloth, Mermadon's memory
was returned, but his time with the Salvage 1 crew developed a
conscience and did not want to go back with the government and he
subsiquently pulled out vital circuits from his body and shut himself
down permanently. (1979)
* Twiki and Dr. Theopolis in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
* W1k1 or Wiki, the pocket-sized robot from the children's series
Jason of Star Command (1979-1981) (a seeming spinoff of Space Academy)
* Blake's Seven, science fiction series 1978-81, featured several
robots and androids.

1980s

* The BATs (Battle Android Trooper) of the evil Cobra Organization
in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series, first appeared in 1986.
* Metal Mickey first appeared on British television in the ITV
London Weekend Television children's magazine show The Saturday Banana
in 1979 and then in his own show from 1980 to 1983
* KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), a non-humanoid robot in
the form of a car (and its prototype, KARR [Knight Automated Roving
Robot]), from Knight Rider (1982–1986)
* The Transformers of various Transformers television series (1984-present)
* Go-bots were featured in a Cartoon series also named Go-Bots
around the same time as the Transformers series.
* Voltron Defender of the Universe (1984-1986)
* An enemy Bioroid pilot was described by a scientist in the
Masters story (1985) of the Robotech science fiction series as a very
advanced android with some sort of bio-electric device "as an
artificial soul." Robotech adapted this story from The Super Dimension
Cavalry Southern Cross Japanese animated series (1984), in which these
pilots are humans with mechanical implants instead of androids with
artificial souls.
* Material for the Robotech II: The Sentinels (1987) and Robotech:
The Shadow Chronicles (2007) sequels described a character named
Janice Em as a "sexy robot" with an "android body." JANICE is an
acronym (according to the voice actress Chase Masterson in the video:
The Face behind the Voice mini-documentary) which means: Junctioned
Artificial Neuro-Integrated Cybernetic Entity.
* Vicki (Voice Input Child Indenticant) the little girl robot in
Small Wonder (1985)
* Conky 2000, robot who gives out the secret word in Pee-wee's
Playhouse , 1986 until 1991.
* Data, Lore, Lal (Data's daughter) and Juliana Tainer in the
series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994, plus four movies)
* The synthoids from several episodes of the G.I. Joe: A Real
American Hero series (1985).
* Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, Gypsy and Cambot from Mystery Science
Theater 3000 (1988)
* The Skutters, Kryten, the Simulants and many others from Red Dwarf (1988)
* Blitz, a robotic dog from the cartoon C.O.P.S., 1988 and 1989.
* No-No, from the animated children's series Ulysses 31
* Blinky, from the animated children's series Bucky O'Hare
* ASTAR, a golden robot promoting safe play to children
* Jinx from the 1986 film SpaceCamp.
* Simon, a humanoid robot with the mind scanned from a dead little
boy with AI technology. He was build by the boys father to preserve
the life of his son. Appeared in "Tales from the Darkside"
* Robin, a small robot made by the clown Bassie in the children's
series Bassie en Adriaan
* Arale Norimaki, the main character from Dr. Slump

1990s

* Androids 16-20 (Gero), Cell, and Super 17, Dragonball series.
* Sgt. Eve Edison, robot police officer in Mann & Machine (1992)
* Alpha from the TV series The Flash, a government constructed
female android, gynoid, assassin, that develops a conscience and
determines that killing is wrong and wishes to be free from government
control. (1990 - 1991)
* Beta from the TV series The Flash, government built android
assassin reprogrammed to find Alpha.
* Alpha 5 from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993 - 1996) to Power
Rangers: Turbo
* Battle Borgs from Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers (1995)
* Alpha 6 from Power Rangers: Turbo to Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
* 790, the sarcastic and perverse bodyless robot head of Lexx
* Blue Senturion, robotic Intergalactic Police Officer from Power
Rangers: Turbo to Power Rangers in Space
* Buffybot, April and Ted in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
* Bender the robot, as well as Flexo, Santa-Bot and Kwanzaa-Bot,
and other assorted robots including the Epsilon Rho Rho fraternity
robots, in the animated series Futurama (1999)
* Robot Devil, the demonic ruler of Robot Hell in the animated
series Futurama (1999)
* The marionettes from the anime series Saber Marionette R (1995),
Saber Marionette J (1997), Saber Marionette J Again OAV (1998), and
Saber Marionette J to X (1999)
* The boy robot Rusty, of the animated series The Big Guy and Rusty
* Andromon and Guardromon, in the Digimon anime
* Satan's Robot, a meta-fictional robot in The Adventures of
Captain Proton, a holodeck program from Star Trek: Voyager
* Zords, giant fighting machines from all seasons of Power Rangers
* Ian Favre, CPB officer in Total Recall 2070

2000s

* Rommie Gabriel/Balance of Judgement, Pax Magelanic and various
other warship AIs/Avatars from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
(2001-2005)
* Frax from Power Rangers: Time Force
* Alpha 7 from Power Rangers: Wild Force
* XR, the indestrutible, self healing sidekick robot in Buzz
Lightyear of Star Command (also XL, the proto-version of XR)
* Chii, the Persocom in the Japanese anime series Chobits (2002)
* Robot Jones from Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? (2002)
* The Tachikoma spider tanks from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
* Thundercleese from The Brak Show (2001–2003)
* GIR and the Robo-Parents from Invader Zim (2001)
* "Jenny" XJ-9 Wakeman and her sisters from My Life as a Teenage
Robot (2003)
* R. Dorothy Wayneright in The Big O (2003)
* The Mobile Doll systems onboard Virgos and other mobile suits in
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
* B4 in the movie Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
* Cylons from Battlestar Galactica
* H.E.L.P.eR., a robot developed by Jonas Venture, Sr., in The Venture Bros.
* Jack Spicer's army of Jack-bots, including robots of himself and
other people.
* Mahoro, the protagonist of Mahoromatic.
* Goddard, Jimmy Neutron's robot pet dog.
* Bill Cosby from South Park
* A.W.E.S.O.M.E.O. from South Park
* Mecha-Streisand from South Park
* R.I.C. 2.0, Robotic Interactive Canine who transforms itself
into a Canine Cannon from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
* S.O.P.H.I.E., Series One Processor Hyper Intelligent Encriptor
who is kidnapped and used for her programming from Power Rangers:
S.P.D.
* The replicators, seen in multiple seasons of Stargate: SG-1.
* Toy Santa from The Santa Clause 2
* Mr Dent, nanotech enforcer from Codename Eternity
* MEGAS from Megas XLR
* Robert Torkelson, from Albert & Friends.
* X-5 from Atomic Betty
* Buffybot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* April (Btvs) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Anne Droid, Trin-E, Zu-Zana and Davinadroid from the Doctor Who
episode Bad Wolf
* "Satan's Robot", usually in service for Dr. Chaotica but
impressionable enough to sometimes work for good, in episodes of Star
Trek: Voyager when the holodeck program Captain Proton is run
* Zeta from the tv show, The Zeta Project.

Comics/Graphic Novels

Comic Books

* The ABC Warriors from the comic 2000 AD, includes Hammerstein
* Android Andy, a parody of Robot Archie in Captain Britain
* The Mad Thinker's Awesome Android in Fantastic Four and various
other Marvel Comics. Would later be featured in She Hulk's 2004 series
under the name 'Awesome Andy'.
* Brassneck in The Dandy
* "Clickers" from Top 10
* Doctor Doom's Doombots in Fantastic Four (1961)
* Grag and Otho from the pulp magazines Captain Future & Startling Stories
* The Golden Age Human Torch in Marvel Comics, (1938)
* Jeremy Feeple and Professor Steamhead got replaced with badly
constructed, unconvincing robot doubles (which eventually exploded) in
an early issue of Ninja High School.
* Machine Man aka Aaron Stack from Marvel Comics.
* The Manhunters in Green Lantern (1959)
* Mechanismo, a range of robo-Judges from Judge Dredd
* The Metal Men (1962)
* The Red Tornado, Amazo and Tomorrow Woman and Hourman III in JLA (1968)
* Robot Archie in the UK comic Valiant who has appeared in Zenith and Albion
* Ro-Busters, a 2000 AD series
* Robo-cops from Incal (by Moebius & Jodorowsky)
* Robotman in Doom Patrol (1963)
* The Robots in the comic book Magnus, Robot Fighter. These include:
* 1A, the oldest sentient robot, protector of mankind, who raised Magnus.
* H8, the robot police chief, who plots against mankind.
* The Sentinels in X-Men (1963)
* The Stellar Warriors from Karmatron (1986) by Oscar González Loyo.
* The Superman duplicates, Brainiac (pre-Crisis) and Kelex in
Superman, (1958)
* Tonto and Lothar from The Metabarons.
* Robots from planet Des from polish serie "Gods from The Space",
which was written by Arnold Mostowicz and Alfred Górny and ilustrated
by Bogusław Polch.
* Ultron, the Vision, Jocasta and Alkhema in The Avengers (1963)
* Android from Frank Miller's "Hard Bolied".

Comic strips

* Robotman in the comic strip of the same name, which eventually
became Monty.

Web based media

Animated Shorts/Series

Flash

* Rya Botkins of Matt Wilson's Bonus Stage
* June Crane of Bonus Stage (possibly not--see page for more details)
* The Grape Nuts Robot, Created by Bubs to imitate Strong Bad from
Homestar Runner Appears here [3]
* Schniz, Fulker, CPDoom, and various background characters from
Andrew Kauervane's My God, Robots!

Web Comics

* ARPA-01 (female type) and VIC-02 (male type) virtual intercourse
companions in Sexy Losers' Scientific Erotican plot thread (2003)
* "Clanks", various (steam powered?) robots in Phil Foglio's
steampunk fantasy Girl Genius.
* Eve, a female android from Applegeeks, built using Apple Macintosh parts.
* Emotibot, a robot programmed to feel emotions, from Beaver and Steve
* Ezekiel aka 'Zeke' - Formally known as the "X-bot", the
anthropomorphised Xbox console from the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del.
* J-LB8/Jalea Bates in Melonpool. Started as a robot, later to
become a human.
* Kleptobot, a supposedly Soviet-made robot programmed to steal
anything and everything, from Joe and Monkey
* Medivac 911 ('Doc'), a steam-powered medical/janitorial droid
from The Polymer City Chronicles.
* The Ottobot [4], a robot duplicate of the character Francis Ray
Ottoman featured in PvP.
* PC, ASCII and O in Funny Farm.
* Ping, the PlayStation 2 accessory robot-girl from Fred
Gallagher's Megatokyo.
* Pintsize, an AnthroPC from Questionable Content. Other AnthroPCs
have featured in Questionable Content.
* Robo-Britney B-1000, a T-1000 style robot from Justice Squad
* Robot Frank, an internet personality found at Robot Frank's website
* The giant talking dildo featured in Girly by Josh Lesnick.
* A sugar powered robot suit owned by Beefsteak from Filthy Lies!.
* The self-aware technology in Gene Catlow.
* Various characters in Freefall, including Helix.
* Various characters in 21st Century Fox.
* Various characters from Diesel Sweeties, including Clango Cyclotron.

Computer and video games

* Floyd, the lovable sidekick robot from the Infocom text
adventure Planetfall.
* The distinct robots in the classic Mega Man series, including
the main character Mega Man and the Robot Masters.
* The Metal Gears from the Metal Gear series.
* Assorted monsters from the Final Fantasy series, including the
superboss Omega Weapon.
* The Badniks, the E-Series robots and Metallix; all developed by
Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
* The reploids of the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series, and
Mega Man ZX, robots with the ability to think, feel, and make their
own decisions.
* Cyrax, Sektor, and Smoke from the Mortal Kombat series.
* Robo from Chrono Trigger.
* The Cyberdisc and Sectopod species in X-COM: UFO Defense.
* Jack and its variants from from the Tekken series.
* Gadget and Gadget Z from Suikoden II and Suikoden III respectively.
* Cait Sith, a fortune-telling robotic cat controlled via remote
by a man named Reeve Teusti, from Final Fantasy VII. By extension,
Cait Sith rides atop a giant, robotic moogle to which Cait Sith relays
commands through a megaphone.
* ROB 64 from the Star Fox series, starting with Star Fox 64.
* Emeralda, a colony of nanomachines from Xenogears.
* The Servbots from Mega Man Legends.
* Hengar from Monster Rancher.
* HMX-12 Multi and HMX-13 Serio, the popular robot maids from To
Heart as well as their successor, HMX-17a Ilfa from To Heart 2.
* The Robo-Kys from the Guilty Gear series.
* Ershin from Breath of Fire IV.
* The "machina" from Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2.
* 343 Guilty Spark, from the Halo series of video games.
* Clank, Doctor Nefarious and countless others in the Ratchet &
Clank series.
* KOS-MOS, MOMO, and the Realians from the Xenosaga trilogy.
* Thursday, sidekick of Captain Gordon the 37th Defender of Earth
(and later itself the 38th Defender of Earth) from Disgaea: Hour of
Darkness.
* HK-47 from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, part of the
Star Wars Expanded Universe
* Kurt Zisa, a secret Heartless boss in the American and Final Mix
versions of Kingdom Hearts.
* 2401 Penitent Tangent, from Halo 2.
* The entire Core army in Total Annihilation.
* Geary, a cleanliness-obsessed and evil robot from Crash Nitro Kart.
* The Ridepod, a customizable industrial revolution-style robot
that Max can ride in the dungeons in the RPG Dark Cloud 2.
* Dog from Half-Life 2.
* Chibi-Robo, a tiny robot housekeeper that is the main playable
character in the game of same name.
* Mike, a "karaoke robot" from WarioWare: Touched!. However, its
creator, Dr. Crygor used him as a janitor.
* The Copyroid, a robot that allows a Net-Navi to be projected
into the real world and interact with it in MegaMan Battle Network 6.
* Reverie (Hoshino Yumemi in the original Japanese version), a
main character in the visual novel Planetarian.
* Quote and Curly Brace, the 'soldiers from the surface' in
Doukutsu Monogatari.

Unsorted works

* Transmetropolitan features AIs who abuse virtual hallucinogens
* Various Star Trek "characters".
* Harry Harrison / Marvin Minsky: The Turing Option (novel)
* The Mind's I edited by Daniel C. Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter
* Arthur from The Journeyman Project video game series
* Solace in the Callahan's Place stories of Spider Robinson
* IQ-9 of Star Blazers, originally called Analyzer in Space
Battleship Yamato.
* Haro, mascot character of U.C.Gundam.
* Sy Borg from Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage.
* Fetchers, accident prone and apologetic gopher robots from the
BBC radio series Nineteen Ninety-Four by William Osborne and Richard
Turner.
* Coheed (the Beast), Cambria (The Knowledge), Jesse (The
Inferno), Mayo Deftinwolf, and a number of other IRO-Bot "children",
who are genetically altered humans with superhuman powers and robotic
qualities, (i.e: can be taken apart and terminated) from the graphic
novel series The Bag On Line Adventures written by Coheed and Cambria
frontman Claudio Sanchez. The characters and plotlines are also
incorporated into the band's music.
* Robots from "System Shock" game.
* "Slo-Mo" from Space Precinct
* Shawabty The idea of something to do the work in the ancient Egypt
* Necrons from the WARHAMMER 40K table top game/hobby

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