History Main / VampiresSleepInCoffins

* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': Juliet and her parents sleep in coffins. Juliet's is decorated with roses and butterflies, while her parents' coffins are hidden behind a wall.

* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', vampires sleep in coffins if they can, but they don't need to (and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent they're not actualy undead in any sense]], they only do it because it provides more protection against sunlight than a bed).

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* Cheryl and Charles had a comic in ''Webcomic/VampireHunter'' [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/vampire-husband/coffin-shopping/viewer?title_no=677887&episode_no=22 shopping for coffins for Charles.]]

* Averted in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': Cassidy has never slept in a coffin, as vampires here have no connection to religion (they burn in sunlight and need to drink blood, but animal blood is fine). He later runs into a fellow vampire who invokes as many of the ClassicalMovieVampire traits as he can despite none of them being actually necessary (and some of them aren't possible, like turning into a bat).

* The rules in Creator/BramStoker's original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' novel are rather more complicated. Dracula can walk around in the daylight, but at the cost of losing most of his powers (most notably shapeshifting), and still has to rest sometime. He can only do so in a coffin containing soil from his homeland, and pouring holy water in the coffins ruins them for his use. A large part of the early hunt for Dracula involves eliminating all his coffins and safehouses in England.

* The rules in Creator/BramStoker's original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' novel are rather more complicated. Dracula loses his powers in the daylight and still has to rest sometime. He can only do so in a coffin containing soil from his homeland, and pouring holy water in the coffins ruins them for his use. A large part of the early hunt for Dracula involves eliminating all his coffins and safehouses in England.

* The rules in Bram Stoker's original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' novel were actually way more complicated. Dracula lost his powers in the daylight and still had to rest sometime. He could only do so in a coffin containing soil from his homeland, and pouring holy water in the coffins ruined them for his use. A large part of the early hunt for Dracula was eliminating all his coffins and safehouses in England.

As with any other vampire trope, this one is [[OurVampiresAreDifferent prone to being played with or avoided]] as much as it is played straight.

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An old convention around vampires is the idea that these creatures of the night sleep in coffins during the day. This trope works for several reasons, primarily to emphasize that they are members of [[TheUndead the living dead]] so their deviancy is naturally [[AnOddPlaceToSleep reflected in their sleeping habits]]. Additionally, coffins are a good way to keep out that pesky sunlight that tends to [[WeakenedByTheLight cause bad sunburns to vampires]]. On the downside, this might make the vampire more vulnerable to being attacked by someone with a WoodenStake. The reason for this is fairly simple: one of the most commonly-given origins for vampiric myths is unusually pristine corpses being named sleeping vampires and blamed for local misfortune, and where else would one find those than in a coffin?

* That's what Jerome from ''Webcomic/{{HungryCity}}'' is doing at the start of the story... and then he wakes up to a ZombieApocalypse.

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* In ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'', Snowball the vampire sleeps in the very Easy-Bake Coffin he was created in until Season 5 when he gets a new one.

-->'''Ami:''' True. But tell me, where do vampires sleep?\\
'''[[spoiler:Jared]]:''' Coffins.

** In ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', Arthur Winkings and his wife start sleeping in a crypt after they're turned into vampires, but it's implied that they're only doing it because they've heard that's what vampires do and not because it's an actual necessity.
** In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'', we learn that Mrs. Cake has started renting room in her house to members of the undead community, including a vampire who sleeps in a coffin lined with dirt, but with the addition of gravel to help with his bad back.

* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': And so do humans sleeping with said vampires if their in on TheMasquerade.

* In the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' ChooseYourOwnAdventure book ''Literature/VaultOfTheVampire'', the vampire you are hunting, Count Reiner Heydrich, keeps several coffins in various locations around his castle. A major part of the quest is destroying them so he does not have anywhere else to flee to but the nearest coffin during the final battle.
* In [[Literature/GoldenDragonFantasyGamebooks Crypt of the Vampire]], another ChooseYourOwnAdventure book, you're supposed to fight the Vampire FinalBoss and kill him with a magic sword. However, if you didn't find the sword but you do have a crucifix, you can keep him at bay, run down the corridor behind him. There, you find his coffin in a secluded room, and can throw the lantern on it, destroying the coffin and the Vampire with him.