A-Z: General definitions
- Vale of Tears
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- Valley of the shadow of death
- Vampire
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A-Z: General definitions: Vampire
Definition
A mythological or legendary being which feeds on blood of the living. Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, 1897, popularised a vampire genre.
A French word meaning type or class. A major division of type or style in an art-form. A sub-genre is a lesser division. The main literary genres are novel, short story, comedy, tragedy, epic and lyric.
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