 Vampire lifestyle is a term for a contemporary subculture of people , largely within the Goth subculture , who consume the blood of others as a pastime ; drawing from the rich recent history of popular culture related to cult symbolism , horror films , the fiction of Anne Rice , and the styles of Victorian England . Active vampirism within the vampire subculture includes both blood @-@ related vampirism , commonly referred to as sanguine vampirism , and psychic vampirism , or supposed feeding from pranic energy . 
