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 ...

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 ...

As fans continue to discover Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners,” and the new Black vampires it has ushered into pop culture, they remind us that when it comes to fangs, Black people have been running ...

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

'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 ...

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 ...

Sparkling love. A true fairy tale filled with romance and dramatic couples like something out of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Not something you would expect to read in a book supposedly about ...