Nelapsi

Species

The Nelapsi is one of the undead, a creature caught between Earth and Hell in a state of living death, doomed to kill and feed on the living for its own sustenance.

Diet

The Nelapsi is a vampire, feeding on the blood of both humans and animals. Its bloodlust is insatiable, and it won't stop hunting until dawn. At this point, it is forced to return to its grave to sleep during the long daylight hours.

Habitat

The Nelapsi usually inhabits graveyards in the European country of Czechoslovakia and the surrounding countries.

Behavior

One would be hard-pressed to find a vampire as vicious as the Nelapsi. This revenant is thoroughly evil, and delights in desecrating and utterly destroying villages, glutting itself on the blood of humans and animals alike. The only evidence of the creature's predations are wreckage and bloodless bodies of villagers and livestock.

The Nelapsi kills its prey by either tearing into the victim with its needle-sharp teeth, or by crushing its prey in a bone-breaking embrace. Any survivors (if any at all) are killed off by the plague the Nelapsi inevitably brings. When angered, the Nelapsi loves to torture its victim. Being a patient and devious predator, it can make the torture last for weeks before killing and feeding on the unfortunate victim.

Features

The Nelapsi is a walking corpse, although no signs of decay are usually evident. The revenant has pale skin, a lean and muscular build, burning red eyes, sharp talons on its hands and feet, long and greasy black hair, and a mouthful of needlelike fangs and teeth. The creature may be dressed in its burial shroud, or it is dressed in the tattered remains of the clothing it was buried in. More often than not, the Nelapsi stalks its prey completely naked.

Height: Varies (usually 5-6')

Weight: Varies (usually 150-200lbs.)

Eyes: Burning Red

Hair: Varies (usually black)

History

Among the most feared of all vampires is the Nelapsi, an undead abomination hailing from the European country of Czechoslovakia. Although no evidence from folklore has been presented thus far, one is inclined to believe that the Nelapsi is the corpse of a suicide, a murderer, or a practitioner of the dark arts, reanimated by a demonic spirit from Hell. The result is a sadistic, gluttonous undead monster with an insatiable need for blood. The bond between the flesh and the spirit is so strong that the revenant is virtually unkillable, and the Nelapsi enjoys every minute of it. The Nelapsi is still believed to exist to this day, arising from the grave when darkness falls to hunt and kill once more...

Sources

• Maberry, Jonathan. Vampire Universe. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp. Copyright (c)2006 by Jonathan Maberry.

• Maberry, Jonathan. The Vampire Slayer's Field Guide to the Undead. Canada: Strider Nolan Publishing, Inc. Copyright (c)2003 by Jonathan Maberry.