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For centuries man has been fascinated by the legend of the Vampire. Although every culture has a different spelling or name for this legendary undead creature, the similarities are almost always the same.Whether in Japan, Turkey, Romania, Britain, or the U.S. the vampire legend almost always consists of an undead or spiritual being, usually the recently deceased, who rise at night to gain sustenance and life force from the living.