The vampire is not the way it is portrayed in films or books, sometimes I think Anne Rice, Bram Stoker et al have an awful lot to answer for. Forget all the typical stereotypes about having to sleep on the soil of their homeland, not being able to walk in the sun, being mortally afraid of crosses and holy water..........in fact the only thing that is right is that a stake through the heart will kill them stone dead; after all it would kill anyone!