"The burial clearly shows signs of anti-vampire practices, which were aimed at stopping the dead from rising again." While ...

Out-of-space folk tales were rare before space exploration became a reality in the 1950's. On the other hand, vampire folklore dates back thousands of years. However a closer look at the forces behind ...

Vampires aren’t new. Derived from Slavic folklore, the vampire as we know it in popular culture today is a human-like creature that feeds on the blood of others for sustenance. Usually emerging ...

“The folk vampire is not a suave dinner-coat-wearing seducer, nor a sparkling, brooding hero. The folk vampire embodies disease, death, and sex in a base, brutal, and unforgiving way. This is ...

“So, to try to make a more scary vampire than we’ve had in quite some time, I went back to the folklore,” Eggers said. “It’s something that I like anyway, but the early folk vampire was ...

Vampires were very real to people in the past, but there are many ways science can explain their characteristics, whether they come from folklore or fiction. What is a vampire? There are blood ...

Whatever Bram Stoker might have led you to believe, Transylvania is not the natural habitat of the vampire. Blood-sucking demons hover far more frequently in the folklore of the Adriatic region ...