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 ...

Throughout history, powerful and eccentric individuals have been suspected or persecuted for vampirism. Here are some of them ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.” -- quotation attributed to Angelina Jolie With Psych Unseen covering zombies last month and Halloween now fast ...