Records of Vampires are as old as time itself. The Greek mythology depicted sacrificial blood as an elixir of youth. Both Roman and Greek mythology included a large number of bloodthirsty goddesses.

The Babylonian Lilitu can be found in traditional Hebrew texts (though not in the Old Testament). Lilith, the first woman created to be the wife of Adam, before Eve. She left to become queen of the demons and evil spirits, sucking on the blood of infants, and robbing young men of their vigor and potency as they slept.

The first recorded references to vampires in the modern sense were recorded in 12th Century England, in Latin; De Nugis Curialium, by an ecclesiastical scholar and Historia Rerum Anglicarum, by an Augustinian monk . They record tales of the dead, mostly the excommunicated who left their tombs every night to torment those close to them, or provoke suspicious deaths. When their respective caskets were opened, their bodies were found to be intact and spotted with blood. The only way to end the evil was to burn the body after piercing it with a sword. The chroniclers named them, cadaver sanguisugus, Latin for 'bloodsucking corpse'.

In the 14th Century vampirism spread uncontrollably through central Europe, coinciding with outbreaks of bubonic plague. The 'dead' were often buried without confirming life extinct in an effort to control the disease. Therefore, if the bodies were checked days later, the corpse had not deteriorated, and was often covered in blood, from the frantic efforts of the victim trying to escape the coffin.

The emergence over the next few centuries of such characters as Vlad Tepes, Gilles de Rais and Countess Bathory were to fuel the imagination of the literary minded and inspired such works as, Le Fanu's Carmilla, Bram Stokers, Dracula and Polidori's, The Vampyre. In the Twentieth Century, the silver screen was to embrace the Vampire, as was a new batch of writers.