“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 — ...

Editor’s note: One of the most popular articles on our site is a piece by Georgia Institute of Technology researcher John Edgar Browning about his work with the real vampire community, published in ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...