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 ...

Many self-described vampires fear ostracism from family and co-workers. Nov. 27, 2009 — -- They roam our streets and tend to the sick. People who describe themselves as real-life vampires have ...

Thanks to centuries of folklore, novels, movies, and TV shows, the tropes of vampires are carved deep into the popular imagination: The creatures drink blood, sleep in coffins, recoil from garlic and ...

Eric Nuzum, author of The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula, toured Transylvania and even drank his own blood in... The Man Who Met 'Real' Vampires (Soundbite of song ...