In 2006, an excavation of a small island in the Venice lagoon uncovered the remains of a 16th century 60-year-old woman buried with a brick in her mouth. One theory is that this brick was evidence of ...

Swedish scientists have reconstructed the face of a 400-year-old woman buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck because people in her time believed she was a vampire. The ...

Vampires might be the most instantly recognizable monsters in horror movie history, but only a few vampire films are scary enough to chill even the most jaded horror fan. Largely inspired by Bram ...

In the late 1980s, toy company Hasbro was adding to its slew of entertainment offerings with games like Battleship. Video games were still treated with suspicion by much of the general public, but ...

Forty-three years ago, in 1982, Detroit was introduced to a wonderful character, Count Scary, played by none other than Mr. Tom Ryan. Count Scary was no ordinary vampire. With his exaggerated ...

In popular culture, vampires dip in and out of vogue. But with Sinners, Nosferatu, and AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, the undead are in style once again. It seems we as a culture can’t decide how ...

At last, the vampire is scary again. In a world riddled with safe, even chaste, vampire stories, author Justin Cronin’s The Passage is restoring our fears of bloodsuckers. As a strange virus ...