Vampire 🧛
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The vampire emoji, depicting a vampire with sharp fangs wearing a black cape. This emoji is used to express vampires, Dracula, Halloween, and creatures of the night. Common usage includes 'Vampire costume🧛' 'Count Dracula🧛' or 'Vampire vibes🧛' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 as part of the fantasy emoji series.

Vampires are immortal beings appearing in mythologies and folklore worldwide, with European vampire legends spreading globally after Bram Stoker's novel 'Dracula' (1897). The emoji is perfect for representing characters from modern pop culture vampire works including Anne Rice's 'Interview with the Vampire,' the 'Twilight' saga, 'True Blood,' 'The Vampire Diaries,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' and 'What We Do in the Shadows'—all of which have made the vampire genre enormously popular. It's widely used for Halloween costumes, horror movies, gothic fashion, night lifestyle, and Victorian aesthetic content. It can also represent the modern vampire-themed cocktails, blood drives, and dark humor.