The first literary vampire in the Western tradition appears in a German poem from 1748 called Der Vampire (‘The Vampire’). The first British work entirely dedicated to a vampire story was a ...

T he Count of Monte Cristo is the third most famous fictional count, after Sesame Street’s numerically obsessed vampire ‘The ...

From the ancient lore of the Slavic peoples through the Polish Romantic literature of Mickiewicz up to contemporary inspirations and the most recent archaeological finds, Polish vampires continue to ...

This child vampire, created by chief bloodsucker Lestat in Anne Rice's cult 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire (and played by an 11-year-old Kirsten Dunst in the 1994 film adaptation), looks ...

The explosion of vampire literature in the intervening century has seen such an inflation of corpuscle-craving creatures that there seem to be few corners of the globe left without a colony of ...