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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vampires had largely vanished from pop culture when “Interview with the Vampire” was published in 1976, but author Anne Rice brought them back from the dead with a new twist — a 200-year-old ghoul ...

Schwab’s centuries-spanning epic Bury Our Bones links three women who gain the power to reshape their constrained, frustrated lives when they become vampires, though that experience takes radically ...

Thanks to centuries of folklore, novels, movies, and TV shows, the tropes of vampires are carved deep into the popular imagination: The creatures drink blood, sleep in coffins, recoil from garlic and ...