Kurt Barlow

Kurt Barlowe was the main villain of Stephen King's story Salem's Lot and was a master vampire who terrorised the small town of Jerusalem's Lot - he is a very old vampire who has laid claim to predating Christianity itself (making him ancient).

Kurt Barlowe was altered significantly in his appearance in the first Salem's Lot film however and more closely resembled Count Orlok, the vampiric antagonist of the silent film Nosferatu.