Each year, as the nights grow long and the leaves begin to fall, Alice Sullivan travels the country lecturing about ...

Have you ever wondered how Dracula and his iconic vampire image came to be? Because before the cape, fangs, bloodsucking, and aversion to sunlight, there was a real Dracula, and he wasn't even a ...

“The idea of vampires is worldwide,” says Jonathan Weiss, folklorist, historian and founder of Jonathan Weiss Tours in New Orleans. “It’s estimated that well over 98% of all the cultures that exist — ...

Both Nosferatu and Dracula are iconic vampires, they offer vastly different interpretations of the myth. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a charming, aristocratic fiend, wielding seduction alongside menace.

“Dracula” tells this platonic love story at the forefront of every page, while the Count lurks in the background. Despite the ...

Despite the vampire in Nosferatu not actually being named Nosferatu — or Dracula, for that matter — the title of the movie is lifted from the story. Some of the earliest uses of the word date back to ...