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 ...

Whether it’s to give a good scare or suck blood from an unsuspecting victim’s neck, it’s an edgy look for rapper and singer-songwriter Machine Gun Kelly. On Monday, July 15, the recording artist ...

Machine Gun Kelly took his edgy look a few steps further this week by debuting a newly-inked pair of matching crow neck tattoos along with cosmetic vampire fangs. The 34-year-old recording artist, who ...

Young women in Tokyo are undergoing a cosmetic procedure called yaeba –giving them pointy, crooked teeth. Yaeba in Japanese means “double tooth”. The procedure pushes canine teeth forward so they ...

The rapper and singer, who now goes by the name mgk, shared three photos in a post yesterday (July 15), showing off his vampire fangs in the second. After the photos, he included a video in which he ...

Meet the woman who claims to be a "real-life vampire" and treats every day like Halloween. Hellen Schweizer, better known as Vampire Hellie, spends her days dressing up in cloaks, wearing fangs and ...

Tami Varma, right, and her brother Robin, the grandchildren of Devendra Varma — a scholar of English gothic tales and an expert in vampire lore — pose in coffins at the Bran Castle in Bran, Romania, ...

As vampire literature expert Elizabeth Miller 1 points out, "the vampire always embodies the contemporary threat." Sure, the Buffy, Anita Blake, and Twilight novels can be read as light, escapist ...

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