What is Your Vampire Personality?

It’s not true that vampires have no heart, says Lapin, author of The Vampire, Dracula, and Incest. "A vampire has a heart, but it is imploded [psychologically]," he says. That's the origin of a vampire's need to suck blood.

"Vampires may have a psychological need to control others," says Barbara Almond, MD, a Palo Alto, Calif., psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Vampirism could represent a fantasy – whether it’s a Halloween costume or a state of being. "The fantasy would be taking over and controlling others by bleeding them."