Count Dracula might have been an invention of the author Bram Stoker, but there is a real-life disease called acute intermittent porphyria that somewhat mimics the symptoms of horror’s scariest ...

More “disease” than “Dracula” — how the vampire myth was born Modern vampires like Nandor in "What We Do in the Shadows" are dashing, but weren't in original vampire myths ...

Letter: Dracula's disease. Published 23 February 2011. From Rob Roy . I was surprised that in your otherwise excellent article about the basis for belief in vampires (29 January, p 40), Paul ...

People believed to be vampires in real life may have had a disease. ... But many modern notions of vampires started with the 1700s media frenzy and continued with "Dracula" and other tales.

Dracula: Colonized or Colonizer Although we shall never know for sure if Bram Stoker was indeed hinting at the evils of colonization in his now-famous novel, the breadcrumbs are there to suggest it.

More "disease" than "Dracula" — how the vampire myth was born Modern vampires like Nandor in "What We Do in the Shadows" are dashing, but weren't in original vampire myths ...

Disease was a primary culprit, but a sort of “perfect storm” existed in Eastern Europe at the time. The era of the Great Vampire Epidemic was not just a period of disease, but one of political ...

The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, and one that takes many forms: from Alucard, the dashing spawn of Dracula in the PlayStation game “Castlevania: Symphony of the Night ...

The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, and one that takes many forms: from Alucard, the dashing spawn of ...

Modern vampires like Dracula may be dashing, but they certainly weren’t in the original vampire myths. Archive Photos/ Moviepix via Getty Images Stanley Stepanic, University of Virginia The ...