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 ...

Maria José Cristerna Méndez, dubbed the 'Vampire Woman', got her first tattoo when she was just 14 and now has a total of 50 ...

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 ...