Vampire

Anne Rice, the gothic novelist best known for writing "Interview with the Vampire," died on Dec. 11 aged 80, her family said.

"In her final hours, I sat beside her hospital bed in awe of her accomplishments and her courage," her son Christopher Rice said in a post on her Facebook page.

He said she died of complications from a stroke.

Did the movie “Interview with a Vampire” had some truth in it?

A pest species, dubbed "vampire butterfly," has spread to Istanbul from Black Sea regions due to human activities, causing concerns among locals and experts.

Vampires are more than ghost stories in some places. In Malawi, a vampire scare has led to a spate of ongoing killings.

The African country is facing on-going mob violence, forcing the United Nations to evacuate its staff from some parts of the country. This isn’t the first time Malawi faced a vampire crisis. It happened before in 2002.

One man’s meat is another man’s poison. This adage could not be truer when it comes to the perception of beauty and sexy around the world. Different nationalities and cultures hold varying views of what is considered hot and what not. You would surprised to know that Japanese value the ‘vampire tooth’ on women, as they see it as a sign of youth and innocence.

Hotel Not Hotel is designed by Collaboration-O, a group of young designers, and Dutch artist Arno Coenen who wanted to create something that looks more like a showroom than a standrad type hotel.

More than 100 graves showing skeletons with stakes through the hearts and mutilated bones have been uncovered in a 7000-year-old town in Bulgaria, the Daily Beast reports.

Grave of a young man on whom was performed an anti-vampire ritual was uncovered at archaeological excavations at the Perperikon site, reports News.bg.

The man was buried with an iron knife in his heart. His left leg, cut in three pieces was buried beside him.

A Medieval funeral of a man was found during an archaeological dig near Bulgaria's northwestern town Vratsa, reports the Bulgarian National Radio. 

The man was buried near the Vratsata pass, in a Christian manner, but with a large stone on the left side of his chest, where the heart is, said Nartsis Torbov, one of the archaeologists at the site.