What’s the common thread connecting this motley crew? They’re all in Australia’s secret society of real vampires. Spawned from the goth subculture, this shadowy community – known as a ‘vampire court’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lore about vampires and other blood-drinking beings has existed for centuries. For hundreds of years, people have been coming up with scientific explanations. Some link diseases to vampire-like ...

Men prevent a vampire rising from its grave in a Romanian cemetery in this 19th-century illustration. Since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897, vampires have seized the world's imagination.