History Literature / MyBabysitterIsAVampire

** Some vampires have been shown with this, such as second sight. Meg picks up a degree of them when she wears Vincent's ring in book 2.

* {{Revenge}}: Book 4 revolves around Vincent making life ''very'' hard for the Swains back home, his way of getting revenge on Meg for destroying his ability to inhabit a normal body ever again.

* WalkingTheEarth: Vincent has been doing this since his exile from Drazylvonia, as it turns out.

* WhenThePlanetsAlign: Downplayed in book 5, when the planets are in alignment for Meg's visit to Drazylvonia, unleashing "cosmic forces" upon the Earth. The exact consequences of this, however, never come up.

** [[spoiler: After being disembodied in book 2, Vincent manages to possess a stone gargoyle in an ornamental fountain in book 3. He later regains his full body and powers in book 5.]]
** [[spoiler: Discussed in book 5, after Boris is decapitated and Vincent tells Meg he could still come back somehow.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: In book 5, young Grebiv lands on a suit of armor and making its arm -- and the sword it carries -- swing back and forth, decapitating the evil vampire Boris. Meg lampshades the irony of it, thinking to herself that he'd earlier dismissed Grebiv for being "sweet".]]
* BrickJoke: In book 5, [[spoiler: Meg gives Grebiv her scarf when he's cold.]] In book 6, [[spoiler: Vincent stops in Delaware to return that same scarf, and sticks around to help her with the other vampire who's in town and out to kill her.]]

** [[spoiler: In book 6, Grebiv/Gribev gleefully tells his day care teacher about being centuries old and having spent most of that time as a bat. The teacher assumes he's just being imaginative.]]

** [[spoiler: The villain of book 6 uses a combination of sunscreen, staying out of direct sunlight and an ancient amulet to protect herself from the sun.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: In book 4. Meg agrees to carry out a mission for the disembodied Vincent if he turns her friend Brooke back into a human. If she fails, she and Brooke will ''both'' become vampires.]]
* TheDisembodied: Vincent's original body is lost in the climax of book 2; he manages to take over an ornamental gargoyle in book 3, but is left without a body again with its destruction, and spends all of book 4 as a spirit, which he is furious over. [[spoiler: In the climax of book 5, when Boris is destroyed, Vincent is restored to his full powers and body.]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler: Vincent suddenly becomes able to fly in human form in book 6. He's as surprised as Meg, since he hadn't known he could do that.]]
* ForcedTransformation: Beneficial version in book 5 with [[spoiler: Grebiv, the eternally three-year-old vampire, in his first appearance; he was too young to be able to turn into a bat on his own, so Ahmla's ancestor triggered the transformation for him. He seems to have graduated to full-on VoluntaryShapeshifting by the end of the book though.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Vincent in book 6, initially out of gratitude for Meg helping Grebiv/Gribev in book 5, but by the end he's sworn to help her when she needs it.]]
* HoldingTheFloor: Inverted in book 5, when Meg and Voldar get [[spoiler: Boris to talk and tell them his side of the story, so as to distract him from killing them.]]

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: As explained in book 5, naturally-born vampires age normally until they reach a certain point, which varies depending on the individual. Vincent Graver, the titular vampire babysitter, was sixteen when he stopped aging. [[spoiler: Subverted with his younger brother Grebiv, who stopped aging when he was just ''three''.]]
* ImpliedDeathThreat: [[spoiler: Vincent's message (a sprig of a plant called Death's Head Thyme) to Boris, which Meg has to carry for him in book 5]], is this. [[spoiler: And then ''Meg'' finds one in her luggage after getting home, indicating that Boris isn't done with her yet.]]
* InSeriesNickname: In books 2 and 3, Meg and Jack privately refer to obnoxious newcomer Kelly Pitts as "Pittsy", but never to her face. [[spoiler: Until Meg lets it slip during the final battle in book 3. Luckily, Kelly only asks about it once and then gets distracted before she can get an answer.]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: In book 6, [[spoiler: the vampire Gabrielle is insistent that Meg and Vincent are in one of these. Vincent points out that the age difference is a big reason why they're ''not'' romantically involved.]]

* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: This turns out to be the villain's plan in book 6. Gabrielle is madly in love with Vincent, but thinks he's chosen Meg as a love interest, and tries to kill her so she can have Vincent for herself.]]

* NapoleonDelusion: In book 4, when [[spoiler: Brooke]] is confessing how she became a vampire, she tells Meg about how this man in black was caught trying to bite a horse, claiming he was a vampire and that he'd already bitten and turned half the people in town via turning into a bat to enter their homes. The authorities apparently thought he was suffering a version of this, since they packed him off to an asylum. Likely subverted though, since [[spoiler: Brooke's]] fairly certain he was the bat who bit and turned her.
* NeverFoundTheBody: In the climax of book 6, the vampire trying to kill Meg [[spoiler: falls off a cliff with her. While Meg is rescued by Vincent, they look over the edge of the cliff and don't see the attacking vampire's body; Meg hopefully suggests a wave washed it away, while Vincent suspects she turned into a bat at the last minute and escaped]].

** [[spoiler: Subverted in book 5 when Vincent's rival Boris is decapitated, and doesn't vaporize.]]

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: How evil vampire Boris dies in book 5, when he runs afoul of a sword carried by a suit of armor in Castle Vladestan.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler: In book 5, when Boris decides to kill Meg and Voldar in book 5, he stops his followers from going after them, saying that "Vincent's messenger belongs to me alone!" and threatening them with death if they so much as leave the room.]]
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: [[spoiler: Book 2 has Meg discovering Vincent's ring and start wearing it. She later finds that a vampire's ring can only properly be wielded by that vampire; anyone else can use a portion of its power, but is hit with bad luck as a result.]]
* OurGargoylesRock: Book 3 features an ornamental gargoyle in the fountain in front of the Grimm's home. [[spoiler: Vincent is able to inhabit and later animate it, until a partly vampirized Vaughn bites him.]]

* {{Poltergeist}}: In book 4, soon after the Swains return home, they begin experiencing poltergeist activity all over their home, from a light fixture falling out of the ceiling to eggs frying on the kitchen floor. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a disembodied Vincent, who's effectively possessed the house in order to get revenge on Meg for costing him any chance of taking a normal body.]]

** Book 4 introduces Minerva, a medium who has a ''very'' minor degree of these, who's hired to come to the Swain house and try to deal with the spirit haunting the place. [[spoiler: She ends up channeling Vincent's spirit, exposing his plan to Meg.]]

** Meg's friend Jack Cornell is featured in books 1 and 2, but is absent from #3 -- Meg explains early on that he was tired of dealing with vampire stuff and had signed up for an all-day sailing class for the rest of the summer. He's also absent from books 4-6, since he lives on Moose Island year-round and Meg had gone back to Delaware (or in book 5's case, to Drazylvonia) for those stories.

** Voldar Constantin plays a role in books 4 and 5, but is absent from book 6, since again, Meg's back home in Delaware and he stayed in Europe.
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Book 4 revolves around Vincent making life ''very'' hard for the Swains back home, his way of getting revenge on Meg for destroying his ability to inhabit a normal body ever again.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler: In book 6, Vincent comes to Meg's aid while on his way back home from a meeting with other vampire leaders in California.]]
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: [[spoiler: Grebiv, Vincent's younger brother, is somewhat stunted; he stopped aging when he was three, and refused to feed on blood, claiming he didn't like the taste.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: In book 6, [[spoiler: Gabrielle is obsessed with Vincent, proclaims to love him and is in utter denial that he can't stand her; she's also convinced that he loves Meg now, and doesn't believe either of them when they tell her that's not the case.]]
* ShipTease: Meg and Jack (or at least, Kelly seems to think there's something between them), and Meg and Voldar, since the two do go on a sort of date after finishing their mission. [[spoiler: Book 6 also has some between Meg and Vincent, or at least that's what Gabrielle thinks. After she's defeated, there ''is'' some UnresolvedSexualTension between them (at least from Meg's POV), but the plot is left dangling.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: Meg's actions in helping Vincent in book 5 managed to ruin centuries' worth of plans by Boris and his henchmen, prompting the villain of book 6 to come after her. [[spoiler: At least, that's what the prologue suggests. It turns out Gabrielle is really jealous of Meg because she thinks Vincent prefers Meg as a love interest over her, though she's also offended by a human interfering in vampire business, restoring Vincent to power after he'd been dethroned centuries before.]]

* SuddenNameChange: In book 6, [[spoiler: Vincent's brother Grebiv is suddenly called Gribev instead.]] Brooke's surname also changes from "Donohue" to "Donahue".
* TakesOneToKillOne: [[spoiler: As Vincent casually reveals in book 3, the bite of another vampire could destroy him permanently. It turns out a partially-turned victim's bite can also destroy his current body, though his spirit survives the incident.]]

** [[spoiler: In book 3, Vincent takes over a stone gargoyle in an ornamental fountain, and is able to animate it until he's bitten by the partially vampirized Vaughn Grimm.]]
** [[spoiler: In book 4, the medium Minerva channels Vincent's spirit twice, and her face turns into his each time.]]

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Gabrielle, the villain of book 6, is not seen after falling off a cliff, leaving Meg and Vincent uncertain if she's actually dead.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Vincent has this for his family; he was willing to kill to protect his brother, no matter how stunted his growth was. The other vampires saw it as proof that he was unfit to rule them and banished him from Drazylvonia for it.]]

* VampireMonarch: As explained in book 5, Vincent's father used to be this for the vampires of Drazylvonia, until he was killed by a stake through the heart. Vincent himself then took up the throne [[spoiler: until he refused to destroy his younger brother, whom the others considered tainted. His intense loyalty to young Grebiv, to the point of attempting to murder the vampire who'd locked the child up and away from food, led a council to declare him unfit to rule, and Boris, the vampire he tried to kill, became Prince in his stead; when Boris was eventually slain, Vincent reclaimed his throne.]]
* VampiresHateGarlic: Vampires ''really'' hate garlic, though it just drives them off and won't kill them -- Vincent Graver can't even stand to be in the same room when there's a commercial for garlic bread on TV. [[spoiler: His rival Boris, on the other hand, was driven back but not fatally injured when a bulb of garlic was shoved into his mouth in book 5.]]
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Vampires don't actually ''have'' to sleep in coffins, but they do have to sleep in the dirt they were buried in. Vincent Graver keeps that dirt in his coffin for conveniences' sake. [[spoiler: As seen in book 5, the vampires in Castle Vladestan also sleep in their coffins.]]
* VegetarianVampire: Vampires can survive on human food, as evidenced by [[spoiler: Vincent Graver's little brother Grebiv, who needed it because he refused to drink human or animal blood (in the latter case, he claimed he didn't like the taste, but the vampire explaining this claims it's more likely because he was just too "nice" to harm them)]]. Vincent Graver also qualifies as a part-time vegetarian -- while he's explicitly bitten humans with the goal of turning them, he gets most of his blood from a blood bank.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Into bats. [[spoiler: Grebiv was too young to be able to do it on his own, so a local village seer had to do it for him; he seems to have overcome this by the end, when he assumes bat form again to escape the destroyed Castle Vladestan.]]

** In book 5, it's mentioned that Vincent's father died to this. [[spoiler: Vincent himself later attempted to stake Boris for the other vampire's actions against his brother Grebiv.]]

* ShipTease: Meg and Jack (or at least, Kelly seems to think there's something between them), and Meg and Voldar, since the two do go on a sort of date after finishing their mission. [[spoiler: Book 6 also has some between Meg and Vincent, or at least that's what Gabrielle thinks.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler: Grebiv, the eternally three-year-old vampire, in his first appearance; he was too young to be able to turn into a bat on his own, so Ahmla's ancestor helped him. He seems to have graduated to full-on VoluntaryShapeshifting by the end of book 5 though.]]

* NotMeThisTime: Multiple:

** Meg's friend Jack Cornell is featured in books 1 and 2, but is absent from #3 -- Meg explains early on that he was tired of dealing with vampire stuff and had signed up for an all-day sailing class for the rest of the summer. He's also absent from books 4-6, since Meg isn't on Moose Island where he lives in those stories.

# ''My Babysitter Goes Bats'' (1994)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg and her family go to Drazylvonia for Christmas and so Meg can carry out her end of her deal with Vincent, delivering a message for him to another vampire. Along the way, she learns some of Vincent's personal history.[[/labelnote]]

Not to be confused with the 2010-2012 TV movie and series ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire'', which is not an adaptation of this as far as we know.

* ActuallyNotAVampire: Book 4 introduces Voldar Constantin, an exchange student from Drazylvonia in Europe. For a while Meg thinks he's a vampire, since he looks like one, talks in a strange, formal way, and is far more interested in blood than a normal seventh-grader; there's also his staring at Brooke's neck, carrying a box of dirt in his room, and drinking from a flask at lunch. Then she asks Vincent's spirit, and he has no idea what she's talking about - he does have kin in Drazylvonia, but Voldar isn't one of them. and if Voldar ''was'' a vampire, Vincent would have heard of him. It turns out he's just weird and really into scientific stuff, and he becomes one of Meg's best friends and allies, helping her out in both that book and its immediate sequel.
* AdaptedOut: Happens InUniverse in book 6, where Trevor's character is left out of the film version of ''My Babysitter is a Vampire'' to save money.
* BackFromTheDead:
** [[spoiler:After being disembodied in book 2, Vincent manages to possess a stone gargoyle in an ornamental fountain in book 3. He later regains his full body and powers in book 5.]]
** [[spoiler:Discussed in book 5, after Boris is decapitated and Vincent tells Meg he could still come back somehow.]]
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Grebiv, the eternally three-year-old vampire, in his first appearance; he was too young to be able to turn into a bat on his own, so Ahmla's ancestor helped him. He seems to have graduated to full-on VoluntaryShapeshifting by the end of book 5 though.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:In book 5, young Grebiv lands on a suit of armor and making its arm - and the sword it carries - swing back and forth, decapitating the evil vampire Boris. Meg lampshades the irony of it, thinking to herself that he'd earlier dismissed Grebiv for being "sweet".]]
* BrickJoke: In book 5, [[spoiler:Meg gives Grebiv her scarf when he's cold.]] In book 6, [[spoiler:Vincent stops in Delaware to return that same scarf, and sticks around to help her with the other vampire who's in town and out to kill her.]]
* CassandraTruth:
** In book 6, Meg describes the events of book 1 to her father in the guise of a movie idea. He chalks it up to good imagination.
** [[spoiler:In book 6, Grebiv/Gribev gleefully tells his day care teacher about being centuries old and having spent most of that time as a bat. The teacher assumes he's just being imaginative.]]
* DaywalkingVampire: Downplayed.
** Some vampires, like those of Vincent's bloodline, can survive ''indirect'' sunlight - for instance, he survived the sun rising in book 1 by ducking underwater. ''Direct'' sunlight was still sufficient to destroy Vincent's body in book 2, though due to his inherited powers, it wasn't permanent.
** Those who haven't been fully changed can also survive it, though it still pains them.
** [[spoiler:The villain of book 6 uses a combination of sunscreen, staying out of direct sunlight and an ancient amulet to protect herself from the sun.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:In book 4. Meg agrees to carry out a mission for the disembodied Vincent if he turns her friend Brooke back into a human. If she fails, she and Brooke will ''both'' become vampires.]]
* TheDisembodied: Vincent's original body is lost in the climax of book 2; he manages to take over an ornamental gargoyle in book 3, but is left without a body again with its destruction, and spends all of book 4 as a spirit, which he is furious over. [[spoiler:In the climax of book 5, when Boris is destroyed, Vincent is restored to his full powers and body.]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:Vincent suddenly becomes able to fly in human form in book 6. He's as surprised as Meg, since he hadn't known he could do that.]]
* ForeignExchangeStudent: Book 4 introduces Voldar Constantin, an exchange student from Drazylvonia. Meg's friend Brooke Donohue had also spent the previous six months as an exchange student in France.
* GivenNameReveal: Book 6 reveals that "Vincent" is short for "Vincenzio".
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Vincent in book 6, initially out of gratitude for Meg helping Grebiv/Gribev in book 5, but by the end he's sworn to help her when she needs it.]]
* HoldingTheFloor: Inverted in book 5, when Meg and Voldar get [[spoiler:Boris to talk and tell them his side of the story, so as to distract him from killing them.]]

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: As explained in book 5, naturally-born vampires age normally until they reach a certain point, which varies depending on the individual. Vincent Graver, the titular vampire babysitter, was sixteen when he stopped aging. [[spoiler:Subverted with his younger brother Grebiv, who stopped aging when he was just ''three''.]]
* ImpliedDeathThreat: [[spoiler:Vincent's message (a sprig of a plant called Death's Head Thyme) to Boris, which Meg has to carry for him in book 5]], is this. [[spoiler:And then ''Meg'' finds one in her luggage after getting home, indicating that Boris isn't done with her yet.]]
* InSeriesNickname: In books 2 and 3, Meg and Jack privately refer to obnoxious newcomer Kelly Pitts as "Pittsy", but never to her face. [[spoiler:Until Meg lets it slip during the final battle in book 3. Luckily, Kelly only asks about it once and then gets distracted before she can get an answer.]]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: In book 6, [[spoiler:the vampire Gabrielle is insistent that Meg and Vincent are in one of these. Vincent points out that the age difference is a big reason why they're ''not'' romantically involved.]]
* MotorMouth: Kelly Pitts, in books 2 and 3, just will not stop talking about whatever she feels like.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:This turns out to be the villain's plan in book 6. Gabrielle is madly in love with Vincent, but thinks he's chosen Meg as a love interest, and tries to kill her so she can have Vincent for herself.]]
* MysteriousNote: Meg gets one written in the sand in book 6. Unlike most examples, it's pretty clear who sent it, but they still don't tell her exactly ''who'' the vampire out to get her is, in part because Vincent doesn't know himself.

* NapoleonDelusion: In book 4, when [[spoiler:Brooke]] is confessing how she became a vampire, she tells Meg about how this man in black was caught trying to bite a horse, claiming he was a vampire and that he'd already bitten and turned half the people in town via turning into a bat to enter their homes. The authorities apparently thought he was suffering a version of this, since they packed him off to an asylum. Likely subverted though, since [[spoiler:Brooke's]] fairly certain he was the bat who bit and turned her.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Played straight with vampires destroyed by sunlight, but also surprisingly subverted in some cases.
** As Vincent explains in book 3, vampires who die natural deaths leave behind bodies, and the bones can be made into teething rings that are sent out to infect infants and put them on the road to becoming vampires.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in book 5 when Vincent's rival Boris is decapitated, and doesn't vaporize.]]

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:How evil vampire Boris dies in book 5, when he runs afoul of a sword carried by a suit of armor in Castle Vladestan.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler:In book 5, when Boris decides to kill Meg and Voldar in book 5, he stops his followers from going after them, saying that "Vincent's messenger belongs to me alone!" and threatening them with death if they so much as leave the room.]]
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: [[spoiler:Book 2 has Meg discovering Vincent's ring and start wearing it. She later finds that a vampire's ring can only properly be wielded by that vampire; anyone else can use a portion of its power, but is hit with bad luck as a result.]]
* OurGargoylesRock: Book 3 features an ornamental gargoyle in the fountain in front of the Grimm's home. [[spoiler:Vincent is able to inhabit and later animate it, until a partly vampirized Vaughn bites him.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires of this series have the following features:
** Blood drinking, per usual; human or animal blood will work. Some have also been shown to eat normal human food.
** Reproduction: Vampires can sire and birth more of their own kind, who continue to age normally until they reach a certain point (which varies depending on the individual - one was a teenager, another a young child); turning a human requires three bites. Killing the vampire responsible for the biting will reverse the transformation, even if they're fully turned (and even if the vampire isn't dead permanently).
** Vulnerabilities: garlic, decapitation, direct sunlight (though they can survive indirect exposure; also, partially transformed victims are pained but not killed by it), the need to sleep in the soil where they were buried (which is usually kept in their coffins). The bite of another vampire is also fatal. Some have been known to die "natural" deaths, leaving skeletons that are always saved by their kinfolk; these bones can be made into teething rings that help spread the vampiric infection to human infants.
** Other powers: Vampires have been shown turning into bats, and some have ways to resurrect themselves after being killed in some way. Some also have some variety of PsychicPowers, such as second sight.
** It is noted that the weather can turn violent in the presence of vampires, trying to repel them from an area.
* {{Poltergeist}}: In book 4, soon after the Swains return home, they begin experiencing poltergeist activity all over their home, from a light fixture falling out of the ceiling to eggs frying on the kitchen floor. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a disembodied Vincent, who's effectively possessed the house in order to get revenge on Meg for costing him any chance of taking a normal body.]]
* ThePrimaDonna: In book 6, both the actress who plays Meg's mother and the actor who play Vincent in the TV movie being made are this - Caryl keeps trying to rewrite the script to give herself more scenes, and Mortimer's obnoxious in his own way, insisting on staying in-character all the time and jumping out at people.
* PsychicPowers:
** Some vampires have been shown with this, such as second sight. Meg picks up a degree of them when she wears Vincent's ring in book 2.
** Book 4 introduces Minerva, a medium who has a ''very'' minor degree of these, who's hired to come to the Swain house and try to deal with the spirit haunting the place. [[spoiler:She ends up channeling Vincent's spirit, exposing his plan to Meg.]]
* PutOnABus:
** Meg's friend Jack Cornell is featured in books 1 and 2, but is absent from #3 - Meg explains early on that he was tired of dealing with vampire stuff and had signed up for an all-day sailing class for the rest of the summer. He's also absent from books 4-6, since Meg isn't on Moose Island where he lives in those stories.
** Kelly Pitts is featured in books 2 and 3, but absent for the rest of the series. Again justified - she was on Moose Island for the summer, and books 4-6 take place elsewhere.
** Voldar Constantin plays a role in books 4 and 5, but is absent from book 6, since again, Meg's back home in Delaware and he stayed in Europe.
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Book 4 revolves around Vincent making life ''very'' hard for the Swains back home, his way of getting revenge on Meg for destroying his ability to inhabit a normal body ever again.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler:In book 6, Vincent comes to Meg's aid while on his way back home from a meeting with other vampire leaders in California.]]
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: [[spoiler:Grebiv, Vincent's younger brother, is somewhat stunted; he stopped aging when he was three, and refused to feed on blood, claiming he didn't like the taste.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: In book 6, [[spoiler:Gabrielle is obsessed with Vincent, proclaims to love him and is in utter denial that he can't stand her; she's also convinced that he loves Meg now, and doesn't believe either of them when they tell her that's not the case.]]
* ShipTease: Meg and Jack (or at least, Kelly seems to think there's something between them), and Meg and Voldar, since the two do go on a sort of date after finishing their mission. [[spoiler:Book 6 also has some between Meg and Vincent, or at least that's what Gabrielle thinks.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: Book 6 is about a TV movie being made based on Meg's adventures in book 1.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Meg's actions in helping Vincent in book 5 managed to ruin centuries' worth of plans by Boris and his henchmen, prompting the villain of book 6 to come after her. [[spoiler:At least, that's what the prologue suggests. It turns out Gabrielle is really jealous of Meg because she thinks Vincent prefers Meg as a love interest over her, though she's also offended by a human interfering in vampire business, restoring Vincent to power after he'd been dethroned centuries before.]]
* SpoiledBrat: Downplayed in book 3 with Vaughn Grimm, who's only one year old, but his parents basically let him do whatever he wants - he picks out his own food and clothing, and if he doesn't get what he wants from his babysitter, he screams until they give in.
* SuddenNameChange: In book 6, [[spoiler:Vincent's brother Grebiv is suddenly called Gribev instead.]] Brooke's surname also changes from "Donohue" to "Donahue".
* TakesOneToKillOne: [[spoiler:As Vincent casually reveals in book 3, the bite of another vampire could destroy him permanently. It turns out a partially-turned victim's bite can also destroy his current body, though his spirit survives the incident.]]
* TimeSkip: Book 1 ends midway through the summer after the plot's been resolved. Book 2 picks up at the start of the next summer, and the rest of the series continues on from there.
* TooDumbToLive: In book 2, Kelly Pitts can't tell she's being bitten by a vampire ''as he's doing it''.

** [[spoiler:In book 3, Vincent takes over a stone gargoyle in an ornamental fountain, and is able to animate it until he's bitten by the partially vampirized Vaughn Grimm.]]
** [[spoiler:In book 4, the medium Minerva channels Vincent's spirit twice, and her face turns into his each time.]]
* TranslatorBuddy: Voldar in book 5, who translates when Ahmla and Meg are conversing, since Ahmla doesn't speak English.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Gabrielle, the villain of book 6, is not seen after falling off a cliff, leaving Meg and Vincent uncertain if she's actually dead.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Vincent has this for his family; he was willing to kill to protect his brother, no matter how stunted his growth was. The other vampires saw it as proof that he was unfit to rule them and banished him from Drazylvonia for it.]]
* VampireDoctor: Vincent volunteers at a Blood Bank despite the inherent temptation of being near bleeding humans in order to abuse his position to steal blood.
* VampireMonarch: As explained in book 5, Vincent's father used to be this for the vampires of Drazylvonia, until he was killed by a stake through the heart. Vincent himself then took up the throne [[spoiler:until he refused to destroy his younger brother, whom the others considered tainted. His intense loyalty to young Grebiv, to the point of attempting to murder the vampire who'd locked the child up and away from food, led a council to declare him unfit to rule, and Boris, the vampire he tried to kill, became Prince in his stead; when Boris was eventually slain, Vincent reclaimed his throne.]]
* VampiresHateGarlic: Vampires ''really'' hate garlic, though it just drives them off and won't kill them - Vincent Graver can't even stand to be in the same room when there's a commercial for garlic bread on TV. [[spoiler:His rival Boris, on the other hand, was driven back but not fatally injured when a bulb of garlic was shoved into his mouth in book 5.]]
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Vampires don't actually ''have'' to sleep in coffins, but they do have to sleep in the dirt they were buried in. Vincent Graver keeps that dirt in his coffin for conveniences' sake. [[spoiler:As seen in book 5, the vampires in Castle Vladestan also sleep in their coffins.]]
* VegetarianVampire: Vampires can survive on human food, as evidenced by [[spoiler:Vincent Graver's little brother Grebiv, who needed it because he refused to drink human or animal blood (in the latter case, he claimed he didn't like the taste, but the vampire explaining this claims it's more likely because he was just too "nice" to harm them)]]. Vincent Graver also qualifies as a part-time vegetarian - while he's explicitly bitten humans with the goal of turning them, he gets most of his blood from a blood bank.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Into bats. [[spoiler:Grebiv was too young to be able to do it on his own, so a local village seer had to do it for him; he seems to have overcome this by the end, when he assumes bat form again to escape the destroyed Castle Vladestan.]]
* WalkingTheEarth: Vincent has been doing this since his exile from Drazylvonia, as it turns out.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Direct sunlight destroys vampires; even the slightest bit of it pains those who've been bitten at least once or have been infected via other means.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: Downplayed in book 5, when the planets are in alignment for Meg's visit to Drazylvonia, unleashing "cosmic forces" upon the Earth. The exact consequences of this, however, never come up.
* WoodenStake: Discussed more than once.
** In book 1, Meg and Jack opt ''not'' to use this on Vincent, just in case it turns out he's really just a weird human.
** In book 5, it's mentioned that Vincent's father died to this. [[spoiler:Vincent himself later attempted to stake Boris for the other vampire's actions against his brother Grebiv.]]
* WrittenInAbsence: Meg's mother and Trevor are away for most of book 6, visiting Disneyland while Meg is on the movie set with her father.

# ''My Babysitter Is a Movie Monster'' (1995)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg's adventures are turned into a movie, only for another vampire to turn up on the set.[[/labelnote]]\\\

# ''My Babysitter Is a Movie Monster'' (1995)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg's adventures are turned into a movie, only for another vampire to turn up on the set.[[/labelnote]]
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Not to be confused with the 2010-2012 TV movie and series ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire''.

'''''My Babysitter is a Vampire''''' is a children's series written by Ann Hodgman in TheNineties. It tells the story of Meg Swain, a normal eleven (and later twelve)-year-old girl from Delaware, who encounters the supernatural for the first time on her family's annual trip to Moose Island, Maine when their usual babysitter is away and their mother hires Vincent Graver, one of her coworkers at the local blood bank, as a replacement. Meg soon comes to suspect, and rightly so, that Vincent is actually a vampire.

!!This series provides examples of:

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Vincent in book 6, initially out of gratitude for her helping Grebiv/Gribev in book 5, but by the end he's sworn to help her when she needs it.]]

** Book 4 introduces Minerva, a medium who has a ''very'' minor degree of these, who's hired to come to the Swain house and try to deal with the spirit haunting the place. [[spoiler:She ends up channeling Vincent's spirit, exposing his plan too Meg.]]

## My Babysitter Is a Vampire (1991)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg and Trevor meet Vincent Graver for the first time on Moose Island.[[/labelnote]]
## My Babysitter Has Fangs (1992)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg returns to Moose Island the following summer, meets Kelly "Pittsy" Pitts, and finds Vincent isn't as dead as she thought.[[/labelnote]]
## ''My Babysitter Bites Again'' (1993)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg and Pittsy are recruited to babysit for one-year-old Vaughn Grimm, only to find him being turned into a vampire.[[/labelnote]]
## ''My Babysitter Flies by Night'' (1994)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg returns home to Delaware, meets Voldar Constantin, discovers her friend Brooke has become a vampire, and makes a deal with a disembodied Vincent in order to cure Brooke and stop him from terrorizing her family.[[/labelnote]]
## ''My Babysitter Goes Bats'' (1994)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg and her family go to Drazylvonia for Christmas and so Meg can carry out her end of her deal with Vincent, delivering a message for him to another vampire. Along the way, she learns some of Vincent's personal history.[[/labelnote]]
## ''My Babysitter Is a Movie Monster'' (1995)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg's adventures are turned into a movie, only for another vampire to turn up on the set.[[/labelnote]]

* 1. My Babysitter Is a Vampire (1991)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg and Trevor meet Vincent Graver for the first time on Moose Island.[[/labelnote]]
* 2. My Babysitter Has Fangs (1992)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg returns to Moose Island the following summer, meets Kelly "Pittsy" Pitts, and finds Vincent isn't as dead as she thought.[[/labelnote]]
* 3. My Babysitter Bites Again (1993)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg and Pittsy are recruited to babysit for one-year-old Vaughn Grimm, only to find him being turned into a vampire.[[/labelnote]]
* 4. My Babysitter Flies by Night (1994)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg returns home to Delaware, meets Voldar Constantin, discovers her friend Brooke has become a vampire, and makes a deal with a disembodied Vincent in order to cure Brooke and stop him from terrorizing her family.[[/labelnote]]
* 5. My Babysitter Goes Bats (1994)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg and her family go to Drazylvonia for Christmas and so Meg can carry out her end of her deal with Vincent, delivering a message for him to another vampire. Along the way, she learns some of Vincent's personal history.[[/labelnote]]
* 6. My Babysitter Is a Movie Monster (1995)[[labelnote:Summary]]In which Meg's adventures are turned into a movie, only for another vampire to turn up on the set.[[/labelnote]]

* NotMeThisTime:

* ThePrimaDonna: Both the actress who plays Meg's mother and the actor who play Vincent are this - Caryl keeps trying to rewrite the script to give herself more scenes, and Mortimer's obnoxious in his own way, insisting on staying in-character all the time and jumping out at people.

** Some vampires have been shown with this, such as second sight. Meg picks up a degree of them when she wears Vincent's ring.

* NotMeThisTime: In book 4, Meg realizes her friend Brooke is showing signs of vampirism. When she finally speaks to Vincent's spirit, he admits that while he senses signs of vampiric possession in her, it's not his doing.