The Highgate Vampire

There are certain places which are said to be more haunted than most. That certainly seems to be the case with England’s Highgate Cemetery. It was constructed in 1839 and since the 1960s there have numerous reports of various strange sights on its grounds. In...

Famous Movie Vampires

It would be gargantuan task to chronicle every vampire movie ever made. Some of them have been good; some of them have thankfully faded into oblivion, and some of them have the power to live on. In many cases, it’s the lead characters themselves who really make...

Origins Of Vampires

Almost all cultures have some concept of a vampiric creature which feeds off the living. They may require blood but some versions can subsist on any form of life essence. They are either born as such, are created by an event during their mortal lives, or become such...

Peter Plogojowitz

It may seem strange to have two ‘documented’ cases of vampirism occurring in close proximity to each other and in the same year. And yet that’s exactly what happened. Around the time that Arnold Paole was supposedly haunting his village, Peter...

Renfield’s Syndrome

If you’ve read Bram Stoker’s Dracula (or seen the movie, of which I am not a fan) you will be familiar with the character of Renfield. For the few who may not be, Renfield was a mental patient whose aid was enlisted by Count Dracula on his arrival to...