"Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories" edited by Michael Sims; Walker & Company (480 pages, $17) Most vampires aren't handsome, romantic or protective. They kill.

Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered the skeletal remains of a woman that was likely believed to have been a vampire at the time she died. Miroslav Blicharski / Aleksander Beware — you’re in for a ...

A black-and-white photo authentically shows a woman named "Madam Violet," who, in the 1880s, was twice voted the scariest woman alive in the U.K. In 2016, a blog post on the website Spooky Moon went ...