Vampire folklore has been around for centuries, and while many enjoy donning fangs and pale makeup for Halloween, there’s an entire subculture of people — “real vampires” — whose lives are immersed in ...

Centuries ago, physicians began documenting people coming down with a mystery illness that tainted their urine with a reddish hue, cursed them with extreme sensitivity to the sun and transformed their ...

The Vampire Diaries actors who played had to utilize fake fangs fake fangs, of course. Conor McCullagh, the special effects and makeup artist for the show, explained how they made the teeth the actors ...

Christopher Lee as the titular vampire in Terence Fisher’s 1958 Dracula, showing off bloody canines that would prove weirdly influential. Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images Today it’s hard to ...

NEW YORK — In the dim corner of Halloween Adventure, a two-story costume store in Manhattan, a man called Father Sebastiaan sculpts vampire fangs by hand. A Ouija board hangs crooked on the wall, near ...

Editor’s note: This tour of small businesses across the country highlights the imagination, diversity, and resilience of American enterprise. Sitting in his booth, Stavros saw a chance to one-up the ...