Count Dracula might have been an invention of the author Bram Stoker, but there is a real-life disease called acute intermittent porphyria that somewhat mimics the symptoms of horror’s scariest ...

QUESTION: Count Dracula was a ‘voivode’. What is the origin of this title? Does it still exist? The word voivode is Eastern European and dates back to the Middle Ages. The word itself comes ...

Count Dracula, a mythical, blood-sucking undead creature, is based on a real individual who has a unique place in Roman history. Vlad Dracula, nicknamed "Vlad Tepes" ("Vlad the Impaler"), was ...

Today is Halloween. In popular culture, all of the jack-o-lanterns, crazy costumes, hollowed-out pumpkins, and buckets of ...