"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Vampires, mythical creatures that subsists on blood, have loomed large in literature. While Bram Stoker's ...

Few people know that The Vampire Diaries is adapted from a series of books by L.J. Smith. This is because much of the show ...

Read enough vampire books, and you might think you’ll encounter a real one someday. While “Twilight” may have sparked a vampire craze in publishing, our fascination with the creatures appears to be as ...

Even if a third season of Interview With the Vampire exploring The Vampire Lestat were to not come to fruition, AMC is still expanding its Immortal Universe based on Rice’s works. As Jones noted, ...

Rice, who died Dec. 11, grew up in New Orleans and hit it big in 1976 with her first novel, Interview with the Vampire. She followed up with more than a dozen novels. Originally broadcast in 1990.

• "The Vampyre" (1819): John Polidori's story introducing literature's first great vampire, Lord Ruthven. • "Varney the Vampire" (1847): Featuring vampire Sir Francis Varney, James Malcolm Rymer's ...

2025 has been a banner year for queer vampire fiction, including Patrice Caldwell’s debut YA novel Where Shadows Meet, Kat Dunn’s Carmilla-inspired Hungerstone, Kiersten White’s Dracula reimagining ...

L.J. Smith, who wrote "The Vampire Diaries" novels, died on March 8 after a decade-long battle with a rare autoimmune disease, her partner Julie Divola and her sister Judy Clifford told The New York ...

How come we never see chubby vampires? It seemed that no one has ever pointed out that vampires are usually thin, vain and fashionable. But Johnny B. Truant imagined what being a vampire with a lumpy ...

Vampires are back, though given the immortality, can they ever really go away? Last month saw the debut of Peacock’s “Vampire Academy”; “What We Do in the Shadows” continues to be one of the best and ...

Throughout TV history, vampire shows have varied from zany sitcoms to gory anime series and even gothic soap operas. Here's ...