The nonfiction book examines the intersections of medicine and folklore, along with the 1892 exhumation of Mercy Brown ...

Every once in a while, a game rocks up that so quickly finds itself in my Steam wishlist I don't even remember clicking the ...

Bram Stoker’s legendary horror tale Dracula was published 125 years ago and remains one of the most famous pieces of English literature today. The quintessential vampire, Count Dracula, has sustained ...

The vampire is a powerful symbol. Over the years, it has been used to illustrate societal fears and conflicts, from race relations in the 1972 film “Blackula” to gender identity, like the ...

October 27 at 7 pm in the Salem Town House The Salem Historical Society has invited the renowned Nicholas F. Bellantoni, PhD Emeritus Connecticut State Archaeologist to present “Vampire Folklore of ...

Count Dracula played by Bela Lugosi in the 1931 film Dracula, courtesy of Creative Commons license. Many experts believe that the origin of vampire folklore dates back at least 4,000 years to Ancient ...

With Halloween approaching, University of Virginia professor of Slavic languages and literatures Stanley Stepanic investigated the history of vampire legends for The Conversation, reposted below.

The Halloween season features all sorts of animals and the spooky tales involving them. Once you start to learn a bit more about these animals and where their Halloween legends came from, they might ...

A street painting in Bucharest, Romania, depicts Bram Stoker, right, the author of Dracula, sharing a drink with Vlad the Impaler, left, the medieval Romanian ruler who inspired the book. AP ...