Vampire Girl Coloring Pages
Welcome to my Vampire Girl coloring pages section.
I have a hardcover copy of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel (nothing fancy, but special to me because it's one of the first books my mom gave me... she was an English teacher). I shared it with my kids long before either of them had heard of Twilight.
One of them loved it, and the other went straight for the sparkly vampires, lol. What struck all of us was how little the book says about the three women living in Dracula's castle. They have no names and no stories, just a few pages of drifting through rooms, and one of them seems oddly familiar to Jonathan Harker. Quite the mystery! I couldn't leave them like that, so here they are with personalities of their own.
The One in Charge
She's the one with the ringlets and the crown of rose vines, and she's never in a hurry. When the three of them cross a room she goes first, and the twins follow a step behind without anyone having to ask, which tells you who runs things.
In the novel she's the one with golden hair, and she's also the one Jonathan thinks he knows. He can't place where he's seen her face, only that it comes with a strange, dreamy sort of dread, and the book never says why. Maybe she's simply the kind of person who feels familiar to everyone, which is a handy quality in someone hoping to be invited in.
The Twins
The other two are sisters, identical right down to the centre part in their long straight hair. Side by side, nobody could tell them apart.
The friendly one does all the talking, tilting her head and clasping her hands, and she grins so wide that her fangs are easy to count. Her sister says nothing at all and is usually the last to be spotted, standing in a shadowy corner with the patient look of someone who has already decided who she's following home.
Life in the Castle
The three of them share the castle with the Count himself, and he isn't an easy man to live with. He keeps odd hours, answers most questions with a long stare, and is very particular about who comes through his front door, which is a lot to manage in a drafty stone castle where the candles are always burning down.
The twins have learned to stand up straighter whenever he walks in, and the one in charge has learned to do it without looking like she's trying.
The Rose Garden
There's an overgrown rose garden behind the castle, and it's where they go when they want to be out of the castle. Roses do well at night, it turns out, and nobody has pruned these in a hundred years.
The one in charge picks exactly one each time. The friendly twin sticks her whole face in the blooms. Her sister is around there somewhere, beside the climbing arch, not picking anything... just watching, and waiting.
The Visitor
In the novel, a young man named Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle on business and makes the mistake of falling asleep in a room he was told to stay out of. He wakes to find all three of them leaning over him, whispering and giggling, and the one in charge is just bending closer when the Count storms in and announces that this guest belongs to him. That's how Jonathan gets out of it, though only just, and he spends the rest of the book wishing he'd stayed in his own room.
Cute Vampire Girls
Female vampires have been imagined and reimagined many times since the original vampire novel. Not every vampire girl glides through a castle looking mysterious. These two are small and sparkly, with big eyes and ragged little capes, and they're thrilled that you showed up.
Victorian Vampire Girls
Picture a vampire girl and this is probably what you think of... a long veil trailing behind her and roses tucked into hair that nearly reaches the floor, with enough lace to supply a tea shop. It all comes from the same 1890s world the Count stepped out of.
More Vampire Girls
Vampire women didn't stay in Transylvania. Every storyteller who picked up the legend packed in something of their own, a barbed wire necklace here and a pair of brass goggles there.
