J.B. Spins

Traditionally, Dracula’s familiars have been bats or wolves, but since gargoyles look like giant bats, or small vampires, it sort of makes s...

Bela Lugosi memorably launched the tradition of suavely elegant portrayals of Count Dracula. His approach remains the most popular. However,...

Here is another reminder goths are annoying and Gen Z’ers are helpless. As if we could forget, right? In this case, it is true for the undea...

Even before Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Russia was a metaphorical nation of blood-suckers. It has no manufacturing base and an a...

Walter De Ville’s stately New Carfax Abbey does not look very new, but if you remember who in horror fiction owned the old Carfax Abbey, you...

Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul’s films can drain the energy out of viewers, so maybe it was fitting for him to make a vampire fil...

Instead of a zombie apocalypse, we got a vampire apocalypse. Most of the rules remain the same. You can stake a vampire through the heart, b...

This pack of vampires really ought to be more careful when they turn more vampires. Matt’s lowlife brother Deco is not the sort of bloke you...

In fictional worlds where vampires are real, we still don’t really know much about their physiology, because the academics like Prof. Van He...

Apparently, the only thing that brings out an individual’s true inner nature more than mutant superpowers is vampirism. That is what Lulu Wo...

He is the Irish nationalist alternative to Vlad the Impaler. According to legend, Abhartach was an under-sized Napoleon-esque warrior, who b...

Dracula might be slightly more famous, but J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla has also spawned some impressive adaptations, including Carl Dre...

Undie young and party forever—that is the hedonistic school of vampirism we know from Anne Rice, Bret Easton Ellis, and Tony Scott’s T...

This vampire tale bears some superficial commonalities with Underworld , but it is exponentially gorier, with a fraction of the logic. It...

Basically, we get two kinds of vampires these days, the lusty Anne Rice kind and the moody self-denying Twilight variation. These undead...

Usually, vampires are seductive, as in Anne Rice novels, or sophisticated, like vintage Bela Lugosi. Sadly, Vidar Hårr is just plain awkw...

There have been some colorful serial killers in Latin America, like “The Ogress of Colonia Roma” in Mexico, “The Rainbow Maniac” in Braz...

Post-Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes has faced off against Dracula a number of times, so it is only fair Detective K[im Min] would get his ...

Vampires are finally getting more media savvy. They will invite a TV news crew into the home of a respected member of their underground c...

He stalks his prey in a post-apocalyptic landscape and his wardrobe is very High Plains Drifter , but you cannot get much more gothic tha...