Europe in the 17th century was also in the grip of what ... but was not technically a vampire, which he said were first described in the 1720s by officials of the Habsburg monarchy.

Archaeologists working at a site near Pień, Poland recently unearthed a fascinating relic of Eastern Europe’s vampire panic in the 17th and 18th century. In a small graveyard, they found a ...

Standing at the centre of Croatia’s vampire heritage is the case of Jure Grando, a 17th-century farmer from the inland Istrian village of Kringa. An account of Grando’s beyond-the-grave antics ...