When we think of vampires, we generally think of the Edward Cullen and Dracula types who have captured the popular imagination for centuries. Pale? Check. Fanged? Check. Totally fictional? Check. But ...

At home and abroad, vampire scares usually began when a person died and others in the vicinity began dying, too, usually of the same sickness. Dod Miller / Getty Images A little more than a century ...

It’s been two decades since I published Piercing the Darkness, which covered my two-year investigation of what was then called the vampire subculture. In response to news about a missing journalist ...

Since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897, vampires have seized the world's imagination. But traces of real-life vampires-or at least the belief in real-life vampires-predate Stoker's literary ...

A real-life 'vampire' has revealed how he drinks blood and sometimes sleeps in a coffin after a dream changed his life forever. Andreas Bathory, from Romania, believes vampires are not only found in ...

Eric Nuzum, author of The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula, toured Transylvania and even drank his own blood in... The Man Who Met 'Real' Vampires (Soundbite of song ...

'The Real Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies of The Middle Ages' This Halloween, top medieval historian Matt Lewis delves into the true stories behind the monsters of myth and legend. So-called deviant ...