Twilight, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Underworld; from cinema to TV screens to novels, vampires dominate popular media today. Has there been actual vampires in history? Where does the concept of vampires come from? Who inspired the contemporary version of a vampire? Where has the crisis of vampires affect history? These questions will be answered on this blog.


The Bloody Countess

The most prolific vampire in the pre-modern age is Countess Elizabeth Bathory,...

When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, James Butler Hickok was living in Kansas, where he was about to terminate his employment as a stage driver with Jones & Cartwright freighting company. In July, he was involved in the famous fight at Rock Creek, Nebraska Territory, where he became involved in the “McCanles Massacre” during which he was alleged by pulp writers to have killed ten men in hand-to-hand combat. In actuality, only three men died and there is doubt and argument...