Scientists have reconstructed the face of a Slavic man once believed to be a real-life vampire. The 15th or 16th century corpse was uncovered at Racesa fortress in Zagreb, Croatia, and was one of more ...

Since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in 1897, vampires have seized the world's imagination. But traces of real-life vampires-or at least the belief in real-life vampires-predate Stoker's literary ...

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 ...

In all other aspects of life, “real vampires” are normal folks—working regular jobs, raising families, and, as the authors of the study put it, dealing with the “stress, various health issues, ...