Jure Grando: The world’s first recorded vampire
No capes or fangs here, just truly horrible stufff.
Vampires
Serbian village claims responsibility for the world’s first vampire
Locals are adamant the tale is true.
‘The Vampire Happening’: Probably the weirdest blood-sucking fest you’ll see all day
During these cold dark winter nights, I’ve been catching up on some those still-to-be-read literary classics like Biggles Flies Undone, Where’s Dildo? and improving my…
They live? Vampires, werewolves & more mythological creatures from the Cryptid Museum
‘Werewolf’ specimens or Homo Lupus/Lycanthrope by artist Alex CF. The fascinating photos you see here of the all-too-realistic looking remains of vampires, werewolves, and everyone’s…
Killers, crooks and vampires: Thrilling pages from Penny Dreadfuls
The “penny dreadful” was the name given to an incredible publishing phenomenon that flourished in Victorian Britain between the mid-1830s and the early 1900s. The…
Not just for vampires anymore: Putin, Obama and Angela Merkel cavort in evil new White Hills video
Prolific New York-based psych rockers White Hills‘ hypnotic, intense, riff-heavy music got them noticed by director Jim Jarmusch who decided to write his favorite band…
Hot-to-Trot Vampires in Canada: The Formerly Long Lost ‘Sexcula’
If I threw the words “sexy vampire comedy” at you, what are the first images that come to mind? A Catskills Lothario, fanging luscious and…
Nude vampires ripped my flesh: The films of Jean Rollin (NSFW)
The films of Jean Rollin are a feast of perverse and exotic imagery shot in the soft-focus style of a David Hamilton photo essay and…
Keith Haring and Grace Jones: flesh graffiti and the Queen Of The Vampires
In the mid-1980s Grace Jones’s body became the flesh canvas upon which Keith Haring created some of his most striking images. In the process, Haring…