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>Interesting. I've been stabbed, and I've been hanged, and I've been burned. Even broken on the rack once, but I've never been shot before. Kind of itches a little! You have quite decent aim, though. But next time...
And then your vamp rips the humans heart out.

More seriously, a vampire is already a corpse animated by dark powers, the usual ways to kill stuff won't make them any more dead. Staking through the heart has lost a few details over the years thanks to Hollywood, mainly that you'd decapitate the suspected vamp, bury the head at their feet, holy wafers in the mouth, and face the body chest down with a stake through the back and casket into the ground, pinning them. This either keeps them from reassembling and pulling their way free again, or you left them exposed for the sun to come up and purify the corpse of the unholy magic making it rise again. Note that beheading and dismemberment do not end the vampire, it requires further measures to prevent it pulling back together and keep it down.

As to werewolves and silver bullets, thank Henri Pourrat, a French author who invented the use of melted down silver icons of the Virgin Mary as high caliber rounds, thrice blessed by a priest and used in killing the Beast of Gévaudan, a large wolf or wolf-dog hybrid believed responsible for a seriea of fatal attacks in France from 1764 to 1767, and the religious aspect was originally the important part rather than the material.