Lesbian vampire

Two early additions to vampire lore established an attraction to young, beautiful women, which persists to modern vampire mythos. The vampires in Slavic mythology, the wąpierz, were said to sneak into houses at night and drink the blood of people. Countess Elizabeth Báthory also inspired the vampire myth, and her alleged victims were all young women. The women in Victorian era vampire media were often portrayed as sexually transgressive and then punished for said transgressions. == Carmilla and its adaptations ==

The genre has its roots in Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla about the love of a female vampire for a young woman: Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardour of a lover; it embarrassed me; it was hateful and yet overpowering; and with gloating eyes she drew me to her, and her hot lips travelled along my cheek in kisses; and she would whisper, almost in sobs, 'You are mine, you shall be mine, and you and I are one for ever'. (Carmilla, Chapter 4). Carmilla is a constant presence in the protagonist, Laura's life. in the scene in which the title character, portrayed by Gloria Holden, preys upon an attractive girl she has invited to her house to pose for her. Universal highlighted Countess Zaleska's attraction to women in some of its original advertising for the film, using the tag line "Save the women of London from Dracula's Daughter!" Le Fanu's Carmilla was adapted by Roger Vadim as Blood and Roses in 1960. Hammer's trilogy actually had fewer lesbian elements as it progressed. In 2023, Dark Horse Comics's Berger Books imprint published the comic Carmilla: The First Vampire written by Amy Chu and illustrated by Soo Lee. The story introduces Carmilla to 1990s New York, and the protagonist consults In a Glass Darkly while investigating the mysterious deaths of various LGBT+ women. For writing the comic, Chu won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel ==In other media==

The 2010 animated series Adventure Time features a bisexual main character named Marceline the Vampire Queen, who is a vampire, and by the show's end starts a romantic relationship with fellow protagonist Princess Bubblegum, who it is implied she has a past romantic history with. In the mockumentary vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows, the female lead is a pansexual vampire named Nadja of Antipaxos. The third season of the Netflix adult animation Castlevania introduces characters Morana and Striga, two female vampires in a romantic relationship. Blood of the Tribades, released in 2016, is an updated variant on the trope and was described as "a modern take on 70s Euro arthouse and Hammer lesbian vampire movies that...takes on today's stormy political climate, religious zealotry and gender issues." ==See also==