9 Best Female Vampires On TV

What’s even more badass than a vampire? A female vampire! Blood-sucking vampiresses have permeated pop culture since at least 1816, when the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the suspensefully unfinished Christabel. The poem was written ninety-one years before Bram Stoker’s Dracula and visited themes that would quickly be fleshed out in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, and a whole host of movies, shows, comics, novels, and more over the decades.