Few creatures have captured the human imagination as vampires have. These immortal bloodsuckers have been part of folklore across nearly every culture in the world for centuries, but their cinematic ...

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 ...

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 ...

What’s the common thread connecting this motley crew? They’re all in Australia’s secret society of real vampires. Spawned from the goth subculture, this shadowy community – known as a ‘vampire court’ ...