No creature haunting Western society's collective imagination has proven more enduring, more compelling, or more alluring than the vampire. But it was only with the his transformation from emaciated, plague-carrying "nosferatu" (literally, "not dead")...

In south Slavonic folklore, the spirit of a dead person, or a corpse revived by an evil spirit. Vampires arise by night from graves and suck people’s blood. In the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—for example, in...

"The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him." Vampire. The word conjures up a clear picture in the mind. A tall, elegantly dressed male figure, black—haired and palefaced. Powerful and hypnotic eyes gaze out from...

Vampires are mythological or folkloric creatures, described as undead beings who feed by draining the blood of humans. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularised until the early 18th century,...

The horror tale "30 Days of Night" had three days of box-office bite. The Sony fright flick, with Josh Hartnett leading Alaskans against ravenous vampires that turn up for the prolonged winter darkness, debuted as the weekend's No. 1 movie with $16 million, according to...

On the afternoon of May 16, CBS President Leslie Moonves stood at the front of Carnegie Hall and directed the gaze of hundreds of advertisers and journalists toward a massive screen at the back of the stage. With the lights down and all eyes up,...