What is "vampiric"

Usage examples of "vampiric".

Now from the darkness he seemed to hear the screaming and shrieking of vast multitudes of the Undead down in the city that had once been known as Los Angeles, as they danced and celebrated to the strains of a Luciferian symphony heard only by vampiric ears.

The story is set in Italy, and unorthodoxly features a vampiric twist.

Our Mesozoic scene has a curiously vampiric quality with the carnivorous reptiles hunting the smart sleeping mammals by day, and the carnivorous mammals hunting the stupid immobile reptiles by night.

When she and Lora had reconciled, as they always did, Lilith had told her Davey was their vampiric Peter Pan.

But it still begs the question on certain aspects of vampiric lore.

When Quinn is made a vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.

If the Hydras were killing and feeding in their customary vampiric fashion, they were doing it so artfully that they left no clues.

With vampiric canine teeth glinting wickedly in the subdued lighting of the meeting room, and with fingers suggestive of flesh-rending claws and eyes giving forth a ghostly phosphorescence, they invoked an exquisite sense of unease among the human participants of the meeting.

He had arranged for most of his troops to be rendered hypno-immune to vampiric mind control and armed them with weapons deadly to living and undead flesh alike.

Metaphysical fangs were biting into my own heart, a vampiric feeding frenzy had begun: even as my body took on unaccustomed physical strength and power, I felt my inner strength ebb and fade.

Being of vampiric origin - having been vampirized - they take a long time to die.