Matthew Bunson’s The Vampire Encyclopedia offers readers a good mixture of mythologi-cal and fictional vampires as does J. Gordon Melton’s The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead.

popular culture – is that of the vampire. Whilst the vampire myth presented in society today appears modern, it is in fact a cultural reconstruction of a vampiric demon, present in myth and literature in …

The History of Vampire Folklore: Fear and Introspection, 2000 BCE.-2008 CE., is an exploration on the history of vampire folklore and how legends of vampires have influenced the behaviors of different …

You must think I am joking, or perhaps that by the word „Vampire“ I mean a financial vampire. No, I am quite serious. The Vampire of whom I am speaking, who laid waste our hearth and home, was a real …

Like the legend of the living dead, so the origin of the word "vampire" clouded in mystery. For most readers and authors alike, the vampire is a and ominous creature of the woods of Hungary or …

But what does it mean to be a vampire, a living and modern vampire? Best known as StrigoiVii, the Living Vampire is one who has embarked on a seri- ous and lifelong spiritual path. Not just "kids in …

13th century grave of a “vampire” discovered in Bulgaria in 2014 - an iron rod has been hammered through the chest and the left leg was removed and placed beside the corpse