Vampires are real in Romania, and McClatchy’s Matthew Schofield in 2004 visited with their family members when Romania was up in arms about the police investigation into a recent vampire slaying.

The Man Who Met 'Real' Vampires Eric Nuzum, author of The Dead Travel Fast: ... About 100,000 people a year go to Romania just to go on vampire-themed tours. STEWART: Wow.

In Romanian. Absurdism earns its keep in Saviana Stanescu's hallucinatory play "Waxing West," now on view in an engaging, if coltish, 4615 Theatre Company production directed by Jordan Friend.

A real-life 'vampire' has revealed how he drinks blood and sometimes sleeps in a coffin after a dream changed his life forever. Andreas Bathory, from Romania, believes vampires are not only found ...

The "vampire metaphor" most common in the United States is derived from the Romanian Dracula, she said. But in other cultures, vampires are only female or only go after children.