The vampire is an element of the popular fiction. The fiction started in the 18th-century, in the poetry of that time. It continued in the 19th-century, especially the short story’s. The most influential was the short story The Vampyre by John Polidori with the vampire Lord Ruthven. Lord Ruthven’s achievements were more looked into in a series of vampire plays. In those vampire plays, he was the anti-hero. After the book, the vampire theme continued in cheap popular literature for example Varhey the vampire and the most important vampire novel, Dracula by Bram Stoker. Over time, some things became part of the vampires profile: fangs, vulnerability to sunlight were added in the 19the century; In the books Count Dracula and Varney the Vampire,