A purportedly authentic late 19th-century vampire-hunting kit sold for £16,900 ($20,000) at Hansons Auctioneers in Derby, U.K., last month, greatly outstripping its low £2,000 ($2,387) estimate.

Polish archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a woman thought to be a vampire. The grave for the female ‘vampire’ dates back to the 17th century, when fears about people returning from the dead ...

I’m a horror girl born and raised. My first idols were final girls and avenging angels and witches and warriors; Ellen Ripley’s maternal badassery in Aliens, Laurie Strode’s survivalist fighter, The ...