Lore about vampires and other blood-drinking beings has existed for centuries. For hundreds of years, people have been coming up with scientific explanations. Some link diseases to vampire-like ...

This Halloween, vampire-mania will hit town, particularly as interest in vampires and vampirism has gripped the popular imagination by the throat in recent years. But what the various pop culture ...

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 ...

The Victorian era was an age of scientific advancement and rigid social mores, but it was also a time of superstition and ...

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 ...

“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.” -- quotation attributed to Angelina Jolie With Psych Unseen covering zombies last month and Halloween now fast ...