Nearly all cultures have stories about creatures or beings that return from beyond the grave to feast on the living during hours of darkness. In the west, the vampire has taken on a whole new persona over the last century or so. The roots of pop culture’s most famous monster are traced back to Eastern European folklore. However, similar creatures go back thousands of years in various civilizations. One early incarnation of the bloodsucker emerged in England during the 1800s when Augustus Hare told of the Croglin Grange vampire in his autobiography, Story of My Life.

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