Nathan is a lifelong gamer, harkening back to a misspent youth blasting Kirby Superstar and Super Mario All-Stars on his bedroom floor. Some of us are that old. This began a long-term love affair with ...

Workers renovating a fence wall near a historic Cathedral in Poland have found the remains of two medieval children, one of whom shows signs of “vampire burial”. Belief in vampirism was prevalent in ...

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.

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 ...