The advantage Castlevania has over most other depictions of Dracula is that you only infrequently see the villain himself in ...

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Bram Stoker, the author of ...

Looking back, it’s funny just how outwardly queer so many of the things I enjoyed were. And I mean funny in both a “isn’t that funny” philosophical way and in a “funny haha” way. Some of my earliest ...

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein will inspire a new generation of filmmakers, and if you want to see more movies in the same ...

Last year, Brian Cleary, a Dublin pharmacist, was taking time off from work by browsing the archives at the National Library of Ireland when he made an extraordinary discovery: a completely forgotten ...

Bram Stokers Dracula was first published in 1897 and, over the past century, the character has been brought to life dozens of times. While some might argue the most defining interpretations of the ...

Kevin is a passionate news writer and journalist with years of experience covering a variety of topics ranging from pop culture to hard-hitting local news. As a film enthusiast first and foremost, ...

Far behind us are the days when the idea of a vampire in movies and television strictly evoked the personage of a pasty, widow-peaked fiend or a shockingly bony Nosferatu lurking in the shadows.