People believed to be vampires in real life may have had a disease. Here's how people throughout history dealt with the ...

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 ...

Just in time for spooky season, archaeologists have unleashed grisly new information about how a “real-life vampire” spent her final moments. An elite female “vampire” who died some 350 years ago was ...

Vampire fiction has a long and distinguished pedigree in English. From the moment that Robert Southey introduced the British Isles to the concept of the coffin-sleeping undead at the turn of the 19th ...

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 ...

As vampire literature expert Elizabeth Miller 1 points out, "the vampire always embodies the contemporary threat." Sure, the Buffy, Anita Blake, and Twilight novels can be read as light, escapist ...