The main goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of vampirism in the themes, narrative, and characters of NBC’s Hannibal. However, the paper focuses mostly on the vampiric traits of the main antagonist of the series, Hannibal Lecter. The paper discusses Hannibal Lecter’s portrayal and equates his appearance, heritage, and personality with that of the gothic vampire villain. Furthermore, transgression is argued to be one of the most critical aspects of not only the gothic vampire villain, but also of the gothic genre and is explored in the series through themes of transformation, sexuality, and religion. Since dreams are a recurrent phenomenon in the series, the paper explains dreams as a kind of colonization of the body, similar to that of Dracula. Consequently, because of the mentioned analyses, the paper suggests NBC’s Hannibal to be a contemporary work of vampire fiction.