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The High Gate Vampire Society

Rating: 9.752
Posted: Mar 06 2012

THE HIGHGATE VAMPIRE SOCIETY (incorporating the Highgate Vampire Casebook Files) There are not many people who will not have heard of the famous - some would say ‘infamous’ - case of the ...

A Hybrid Vampire Manifesto

Rating: 9.678
Posted: Mar 02 2012

We've all heard, and explained to death the realities of psychic and sanguinarian vampires. But how often do the other main type of vampire, hybrids, get mentioned? I know, I know, when you hear the t...

Captain Vampire by Marie Nizet

Rating: 9.671
Posted: Feb 01 2012

Marie Nizet was 19 years old when she wrote Captain Vampire. Published in 1879, it’s been claimed as an influence on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, published fifteen years later. In fact Captain Vampire i...

Vampire Steelhead of South America

Rating: 9.66
Posted: Jan 28 2012

The vampire steelhead…known to locals as “pez diablo” exist in a very small handful of streams in southern Chile. They are rare, hard fighting, evil beasts that few have ever encountered.

Can a blond be a vampire?

Rating: 9.62
Posted: Jan 27 2012

When Delilah, of the Philistines, lured Samson, the Israelite, to her tent, that she might practise upon him those artful wiles for which she was famed, and which proved his undoing, this raven-haired...

Enticing vampires

Rating: 9.575
Posted: Jan 27 2012

The prevailing belief in European countries was that vampires were the ghosts of suicides or others who had died violent deaths and were forced by the devil to leave their graves at night and feed on ...

Vampires of Eastern Europe

Rating: 9.67
Posted: Jan 27 2012

To those living in Silesia, Moravia, and along the southern frontier of Hungary the word "vampire" has a terrible significance, says the New York Times. For centuries pas the inhabitants of these coun...

Examining Roumanian Superstitions

Rating: 9.744
Posted: Jan 22 2012

The origin of the word, nosferatu, has been a contentious topic with scholars. Emily Gerard (1849-1905) is generally considered to be the earliest author to use the term. However, a source pre-dating ...

Tracking the first 'true' vampire

Rating: 9.722
Posted: Jan 22 2012

"I recently received an interesting comment from bshistorian, which gave me some food for thought: who was the first 'true' vampire? As I've mentioned many times in this blog, I'm a propone...

Bite out of Fashion

Rating: 9.673
Posted: Jan 21 2012

Fashion Maniac: Keeping tabs on Buffalo's fashion industry, including models, catwalks, retailers, designers, stylists, visual merchandisers and jewelers. The Vampire's Kiss: The Legend, The Myths...

Vampire Cat of Nabeshima

Rating: 9.668
Posted: Jan 16 2012

Just when you thought it was safe to pet the kitty!! Here's a classic Japanese tale dating back to the Hizen daimyo of the Sengoku Era (1568-1615). It presents a Shinto perspective of the spiritual...

The Vampire Principle - Young Blood Rejuvenates...

Rating: 9.743
Posted: Jan 11 2012

Chicago: The Vampire Principle—Young Blood Rejuvenates Aging Brain? 20 November 2009. Bram Stoker would have loved it. One hundred twelve years after the Irish author penned Dracula, his bo...

The Vampire of Lesbos

Rating: 9.699
Posted: Jan 11 2012

Eight-inch iron spikes nail down the identification of a 19th-century vampire burial near Mytilene Rusted iron spikes pierce the neck, pelvis, and ankle of this skeleton, found in a Turkish cemet...

Vampires in Romania

Rating: 9.746
Posted: Jan 10 2012

No country is as identified with vampires as Romania. A land of rich folklore concerning vampires, its reputation was really established Bram Stoker whose novel Dracula began and ended in Transylvania...

The Female Vampire of Nineteenth-Century Literatur

Rating: 9.754
Posted: Jan 08 2012

Vampires have evoked a sense of curiosity throughout the centuries, mainly because they are one of the few mythical creatures that closely resemble humans. The nineteenth century saw a rise in vampire...

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