Before them they had those sinister forts, Beck House and Borry Farm, and vampire Point guarding the way to the Bremen Redoubt, which will be remembered always in the history of the Irish brigades as places of heroic endeavour, just as now this morning they will take their place in the annals of our Scottish fighting.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Then suddenly a thought takes possession of him and weighs him down and buzzes in his ears-a thought like a vampire, cold and damp, and beating the air with bat's wings....
"The Silent Mill"
Hermann Sudermann
They often assume in this hemisphere the appearance of volcanic ideas, or of a vampire malignant being.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque