You can always count on me, though I am terrified of wooden stakes. I shape-shift into a bat and love to stick my neck out for a bloody drink. What am I?
A vampire
Pun on 'count' (Count Dracula), killed by wooden stakes, shape-shifts into a bat, and drinks blood from necks.
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