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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the horror movie "Sinners" stands poised to sweep the Oscars, we take a look at how and why the vampire genre has long captivated audiences— from folklore to film. In the run-up to the Oscars on ...

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 ...