THE door of a Catholic Church is often the last place most people will haunt – except when it comes to a scary story. When the lights dim in a scary movie or the page turns in a spine-chilling novel, ...

Children have been dressing up for Halloween for centuries, and Teesside kids are no exception. Every October 31, children ...

Vampire movies have been reinvented for decades, but the past 50 years have shown some of the best examples of vampire cinema ...

From medieval warlord to feminist icon, the vampire has survived every age by reinventing itself — feeding on our fears, our ...

Reading Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” (1897) in high school was a revelation. First, the novel did not translate accurately into the many film versions I have seen. Second, the novel was presented in ...

There are more than 40 frightening films showing in the Greater Boston area between now and All Hallows’ Eve. Film critic Sean Burns shares the ones he's looking forward to enjoying with a crowd.

After a lifetime in the public eye we know most things about King Charles. But nobody's ever been able to explain his fascination with Romania, the eastern European country which borders Ukraine. For ...

From Dracula to Twilight, there can be no doubt that the concept of the vampire is ubiquitous in modern pop culture, but is ...

In 1897, Bram Stoker, an Irish writer, wrote a novel called Dracula, which has since become one of the classics of the Gothic horror genre. Despite the fact that Dracula is a fictional character, ...