The title character encounters one of these figures in Julian Hawthorne's story "Ken's Mystery."  
The title character encounters one of these figures in Julian Hawthorne's story "Ken's Mystery."  A poem about this figure by Kipling begins by speaking about a fool who made his prayer to a rag and a bone and a hank of hair.  One of these figures committed suicide by throwing himself into Mount Vesuvius years after he was shot by supporters of Oliver Cromwell.  That man, the subject of a novel probably written by James Malcolm Rymer, was named Varney, though better known examples appear in novels by Sheridan Le Fanu and John Polidori.  In novels by James Howe such as The Celery Stalks at Midnight, a lagomorphic version of it appears.  FTP, identify this undead creature of the night, whose "chronicles" were written at tedious length by Anne Rice.
The title character encounters one of these figures in Julian Hawthorne's story "Ken's Mystery."  
the vampire