Perhaps the most feared aspect of an encounter with a vampire bat is the deadly rabies virus vampire bats are known to carry. It is coming to light that in a number of small Venezuela villages there are outbreaks of rabies that have been traced back to vampire bat attacks.

The Warao Indians of Venezuela have experienced a rash of deaths due to rabies like symptoms thought to be caused by vampire bat attacks. The government of Venezuela has been unresponsive to requests for aid. Add your voice to the calls for action.

Tru Blood, HBO's upcoming series, features a race of the closet vampires who are liberated from the need to snack on human blood by a synthetic variety known as tru blood. Naturally there is a Vampire Rights Amendment being debated to protect our newest oppressed minority

A review of "Rise," a sexy vampire movie starring Lucy Liu as a writer exacting revenge on the bloodthirsty vampires who turned her into one of them.

Not all Vampires are Goths and not all Goths are Vampires but at Halloween time the two genres embrace. Find out what must have clothing you need to fit into any Vampire Ball and where you can buy them.

If Lestat of the Vampire Chronicles were to match wits and brawn with Count Dracula, who would win? While these two bloodsuckers have much in common, they also are of conflicting natures. Which of these infamous fiends do you prefer?

New York police are in search of a man that attacked a peacock because he believed that it was a vampire.

Almost all vampire movies are connected by the commonalities of certain rules that go into making a vampire movie.

This article talks about the origin of vampire folklore and discusses two real people that likely contributed to the legend. For those that don't believe in vampires, it still shows the depravity of one of Europe's most notorious serial killers, Elizabeth Bathory.

The San Francisco Vampire tour is a delightful way yo spend two hours looking at the history of Nob Hill from the undead perspective.

Want to spend the night with one of the top female vampire characters of TV and film?

Like live action films, people tend to choose anime based on their tastes in the subject matter. For some, that means choosing a good Gothic flick. For anime viewers there are many flicks available in this genre. More specifically, there are some great Vampire flicks.

"Buffy The Vampire Slayer" is a video game made for many different game consoles, but I am referring to the XBOX addition. Read on...

Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, is the latest chapter in a story long regarded as one of the greatest Japanese animation classics. Long before there was Pokemon or Naruto, there were films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Vampire Hunter D.

It has been long thought that the condition associated with vampire legends is porphyria. A vampire's characteristics are similar to those of porphyrics and this might have been the misconception in the early 1400-1600's that porphyria sufferers were vampires.

Review of 1994 Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither. (Interview with the Vampire)

Read this informative article and find out how you can become a Vampire Slayer and cut your electric bill at the same time!

Everything you'll ever need to know about cult favorites Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can be found on these sites!

Here are three book series featuring vampires in unexpected settings plus one outstanding book on it’s own and a tip for future reading.

An exploration of two great series of vampire fiction

Although these movies wouldn't necessarily qualify as horror movies, they are the five movies that I believe are the top five vampire movies.

Review of my favorite vampire movies.

Are you looking for a different kind of vampire story? Well this is it!!

Joss Whedon, the creator of the show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" suggests new fruitful principle of co-existence between professional and amateur art. His model of professional art is designed to nurture and inspire amateur writers and artists.

Society is all-too familiar with the common vampire as a Hollywood art form, a brooding creature with intense emotion, torn between the compulsion to be good or to do evil.

Atreyu's latest album release, entitled The Curse, can be summed up as an Anne Rice vampire novel put to screaming vocals, classic melodic guitar chords, heavy punk metal drums, and atmospheric backup vocals.

The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series is a collection of books that your average guy would probably skip right past. But despite the female targeted marketing, these books are actually very guy friendly, and are a great read for either gender.

Tired of the usual games which have been shelled out and fill the shelves of video-games stores everywhere but are all exactly the same!?! Well here is the answer you have been waiting for... Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines!

"The entire system of Vampire: The Masqurade's paper-and-dice beginnings is fairly well represented here... But don't let that make you think that there's no action to be had... There is, and it's served up hot... and bloody."