Vampire the word conjures up images of suave, handsome, or strikingly beautiful creatures, such as is depicted in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, True blood’s vampires Eric Northman and Bill Compton or Buffy the vampire slayer’s Angel. One of the most famous vampires of all time is, of course, Count Dracula. The brain child of Bram Stoker who based his immortal monster on a Romanian ruler know as Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad Dracula, which when translated means "son of the dragon" or “son of the devil”, a nicknamed that was well earned, for the count was a blood thirsty and ruthless ruler. He was also known as Vlad the Impaler due to his habit of impaling people on very sharp stakes and letting them suffer until they died a horrible and extremely painful death. The legends of vampires were around long before Stoker wrote his book. The concept of the vampire started in Mesopotamia though in its early forms it was attributed to demons before revenants. The ...