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In ancient times, myths of blood-drinking demons were widespread, including [[Lilith]] who feasted on the blood of babies.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hurwitz |first=Siegmund |author-link=Siegmund Hurwitz|editor=Gela Jacobson (trans.) |year=1992 |orig-year=1980 |title=Lilith, the First Eve: Historical and Psychological Aspects of the Dark Feminine |publisher=Daimon Verlag |isbn=978-3-85630-522-2}}</ref>
Fictional [[vampire]]s—[[haematophagic]] parasites—began in the modern era with [[Count Dracula]], the [[title character]] of [[Bram Stoker]]'s 1897 [[gothic horror]] novel ''[[Dracula]]'', and have since appeared in many books and films ranging from horror to science fiction. Along with the shift in genres went a diversification of life-forms and life-cycles, including blood-drinking plants like the "strange orchid" in ''The Thing from Another World'', aliens like [[H. G. Wells]]'s Martians in ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'', "cyber-vamps" like "[[The Stainless Steel Leech]]" and "[[Marid and the Trail of Blood]]", and psychic bloodsuckers, as in [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s ''[[The Parasite]]'' and [[Robert Wiene]]'s 1920 film ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]''.<ref name=Hutchison2015 /><ref>{{cite book |last=Meehan |first=Paul |title=The Vampire in Science Fiction Film and Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S5kWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA209 |year=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1654-4 |pages=209–}}</ref>
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