Other times, they chained or nailed the body down or even decapitated the corpse. Vampire grave in Zamkowa Street, Poland. Photo: R. Biskupski/Kotowicz Vampires didn't just occur in Transylvania.

“It can be assumed that for some reason those burying the woman were afraid that she would rise from the grave. Perhaps they feared she was a vampire.” Image credits: Nicolaus Copernicus ...

Cabernet is the kind of vampire RPG I've been after, complete with a morality system and bloodsucking powers ...

According to many Slavic traditions, a vampire is an undead being that rises from the grave to drink blood and take its life force from the living. The vampire's victims might then become undead ...

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 ...