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 ...

"Just 10 seconds of sun exposure would cause a reaction, and 30 seconds would put me in the hospital," Richardson told Newsweek.

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 had largely vanished from pop culture when “Interview with the Vampire” was published in 1976, but author Anne Rice brought them back from the dead with a new twist — a 200-year-old ghoul ...

'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 ...

Schwab’s centuries-spanning epic Bury Our Bones links three women who gain the power to reshape their constrained, frustrated lives when they become vampires, though that experience takes radically ...

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 ...