How has the modern picture of a vampire changed from Bram Stoker's original?

Dracula fans gather in Dublin with much of the focus on the transformation of vampires from deformed blood-suckers to immortal beings with a conscience, writes Áilín Quinlan

Nightmarish blood-crazed killer or romantic superhuman with a conscience?

The vampire has simultaneously fascinated, repelled, and terrified us for nearly a century since the first screen appearance of the loathsome Count Orlok in the cult 1922 horror movie Nosferatu.