It is fair to say that, since historical accounts of vampire myths list so many varied supernatural powers, most of Count ...

No, the first vampires did not appear in books or movies. They weren’t debonair Transylvanian counts or good-looking, disaffected teenagers. Rooted in folklore, they were symbols of epidemics ...

Some of these diseases helped spawn one of the most enduring and widespread monster myths in civilisation – the vampire. The vampire – an undead figure who rises each night from his unquiet ...

The burials may sound gruesome, but they are befitting of early medieval Polish folklore’s particularly grisly interpretation of the vampire myth. “Specific to Polish vampires is that they are ...

Elements of science and medicine are also woven throughout vampire mythology, which once served as an explanation for frightening phenomena that mystified people for the bulk of human history.

The burials may sound gruesome, but they are befitting of early medieval Polish folklore’s particularly grisly interpretation of the vampire myth. “Specific to Polish vampires is that they are ...