Just in time for spooky season, archaeologists have unleashed grisly new information about how a “real-life vampire” spent ...

As Europe freaked out over these diseases, vampire hysteria hit new levels. People began staking corpses through the heart, ...

"Her abusers may have feared that she would return as a revenant to take revenge on them" The post “Vampire” Woman Was ...

The “vampire,” christened Zosia by experts, was only 18 years old at her time of death, around 350 years ago. The 18-year-old ...

Compelling villains have been a staple since tribes gathered around fires and told stories. Popular movies merely build upon ...

In the 2008 film “Twilight,” a vampire describes the scent of blood as being “like a drug.” While in the world of fantasy, ...

Interview with the Vampire, the big-screen adaptation of Anne Rice’s celebrated first novel, turns 30 this year. The film ...

Is it strange that horror movies and young adult romances alike tell women that, time and again, they should get themselves a monster?

In the last column, we discussed what I referred to as the American Monster Canon–namely, the main monsters that inhabit the ...

Looking for the perfect nightmare fuel this Halloween? Well out list of the scariest horror TV shows should do the trick (or ...

This week, Screen Gab editor Matt Brennan recommends the always timely wisdom of historian Howard Zinn, whose perspective ...

From chilling real-life ghost stories and terrifying dramas to Halloween party playlists, there's lots in store on BBC Sounds ...