A purportedly authentic late 19th-century vampire-hunting kit sold for £16,900 ($20,000) at Hansons Auctioneers in Derby, U.K., last month, greatly outstripping its low £2,000 ($2,387) estimate.

I’m a horror girl born and raised. My first idols were final girls and avenging angels and witches and warriors; Ellen Ripley’s maternal badassery in Aliens, Laurie Strode’s survivalist fighter, The ...

Ever since Bram Stoker introduced the world to Dracula, vampire fiction has been a top-seller over the decades. Over in Japan, one of the best entries in the genre is the long-running Vampire Hunter D ...

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...