Is there a difference between Vampire and Vampyre?

[☆Little Kaleidoscope☆]

Or is it just the spelling, like fairy, faery and faerie (or like Fair and Fayre). So, is Vampyre an alternative/old styled variant spelling of Vampire, or does it mean something completely different?

[Neil]

Same fangers, different spelling.

[Matthew]

This is a good question, I might answer wrong though. Vampire means real vampires, and all that stuff. Vampyre means that the person is a lifestyler, though there are some vampires that use vampyre to seperate themselves from the movies.

[Abi]

I think a Vampire is a normal one e.g. Twilight and The Vampire Diaries whereas a Vampyre is sort of different and not the original type that gets bitten... e.g. the Vampyres in House Of Night Novel.

[Michelle]

Yip ... vampyre is the hippy way of spelling it!
VamPIRE is correct spelling

[Theo]

Vampire is a more modern spelling of vampyre which is the traditional spelling. Modernly however "Vampire" has been used to refer to vampires from Twilight, Vampire Diaries, and other social media which isn't the actual definition of vampire. Vampyre is now being used for vampires for the more traditional sense. I think of it as if it dies in horrible pain in sunlight then it can be "vampyre", but if it doesn't die or diverts from original vampire folklore then it is a "vampire".

[Catherine Mcleod]

the Vampyre looked more like a corpse and devoured not only the blood but the flesh as well so they were more like zombies than vampires