From revenants to vampires to ghosts, here's a cheat sheet for all the mythical creatures that permeate the world of Anne Rice.

A street painting in Bucharest, Romania, depicts Bram Stoker, right, the author of Dracula, sharing a drink with Vlad the Impaler, left, the medieval Romanian ruler who inspired the book. AP ...

Vampires took several forms in Greek myth and folklore: reptilian monsters who hypnotized travelers, human-headed bats, and ...

Sam George has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is the convener of the Open Graves, Open Minds research group who organised the ...

In many countries in the world, there is a myth of a creature called ‘the vampire’— an undead, blood-sucking creature with sharp fangs that preys on the living. The myth of the vampire has existed for ...

Humans have long been fascinated by blood-drinkers. In fact, nearly every culture across the world has folklore surrounding the mythical monsters. While vampires are little more than fiction, many ...

There are more types of vampires than there are types of blood. Vampires, creatures of myth and legend that have become iconic pop culture monsters, endure not just because of the unholy curse that ...