The best-selling author Kiersten White recommends novels about everyone’s favorite undead bloodsuckers, by Anne Rice, Silvia Moreno Garcia and more.

With Halloween approaching, University of Virginia professor of Slavic languages and literatures Stanley Stepanic investigated the history of vampire legends for The Conversation, reposted below.

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) — The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, and one that takes many forms: from Alucard, the dashing spawn of Dracula in the PlayStation game “Castlevania: Symphony of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, and one that takes many forms: from Alucard, the dashing spawn of Dracula in the PlayStation game “Castlevania: Symphony of the ...