“The idea of vampires is worldwide,” says Jonathan Weiss, folklorist, historian and founder of Jonathan Weiss Tours in New Orleans. “It’s estimated that well over 98% of all the cultures that exist — ...

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 ...

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 Victorian era was an age of scientific advancement and rigid social mores, but it was also a time of superstition and fear. Stories of vampires haunting the countryside were more than just gothic ...

Vampires are real. They don’t sparkle in the sun, but they will get sick if they don’t feed, and their skin is probably better than yours. Real-life vampires are public speakers, computer programmers, ...

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 ...

This Halloween, vampire-mania will hit town, particularly as interest in vampires and vampirism has gripped the popular imagination by the throat in recent years. But what the various pop culture ...

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 ...

Just before the spookiest day of the year, archaeologists have released chilling new information regarding a female “vampire” who died in the mid-17th century. The woman was unearthed two years ago at ...