When we think of vampires, we generally think of the Edward Cullen and Dracula types who have captured the popular imagination for centuries. Pale? Check. Fanged? Check. Totally fictional? Check. But ...

At home and abroad, vampire scares usually began when a person died and others in the vicinity began dying, too, usually of the same sickness. Dod Miller / Getty Images A little more than a century ...

The vampire subgenre of Horror became famous thanks to a pair of world-famous creatures of the night — Dracula and Nosferatu. From the time they arrived in movies, it set the template for what vampire ...