In Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, the count was able to tolerate limited time during the daylight hours. In Francis Ford Coppula's film treatment, the count was also seen, on occasion, in daylight, but like Barnabas in DS12, he was heavily covered in clothing and hat and wore sunglasses. It was during one of his quick daytime sojourns that he met Mina, the reincarnation of his beloved from centuries past who committed suicide by jumping to her death. Sounds vaguely familiar, doesn't it?
Gerard