I have always thought of Dracula’s bloody tears as pure gothic excess, but modern science is quietly catching up with the ...

In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, an enraged Dracula punishes his most gifted ...

Now Disney has entered the fray, with a short directed by Taika Waititi and featuring the voice of John Goodman, a bona fide ...

But the legend of Mercy Brown, the last New England vampire, lives on. Her tombstone can still be visited today, at the Chestnut Hill Baptist Church on Rt. 102 in Exeter. It's not unusual to find ...

Radu Jude is the internet’s favorite filmmaker. Or at least its most controversial. Despite their regional particularities—unfolding across what he calls “the margins of Europe”—Jude’s films reflect ...

In its closing week of programming, the 61st Chicago International Film Fest (CIFF) continued to display daring cinematic experiences and muted social commentaries. Although the 2025 edition of CIFF ...

In a statement by writer Matt Wagner, he describes the book as a way to dive deeper into the story of Dracula’s iconic vampiric brides. “One of the most eerie and memorable parts of the Dracula legend ...

Image courtesy of Dark Horse / Provided with permission. Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones have built impressive careers in the comic space, and one of their crowning achievements is a series of graphic ...

City Lit Theater and Black Button Eyes Productions stage Chicago playwright Timothy Griffin’s world premiere for the spooky ...

The House of Württemberg, a German dynasty, intermarried with many European royal families, including the Habsburgs, one of the most influential royal houses in the history of Europe. The Habsburgs ...

Vanessa Severo hadn’t planned to write a whole new version of “Dracula.” That is until three years ago, when the Kansas City-based theater artist took her one-woman show about Frida Kahlo to ...

With the international release of the blockbuster movie Nosferatu at the beginning of this year, interest in vampires may be at an all-time high. This is likely to bring a new wave of tourists to the ...