While fiction is the main home of the vampire, the net is also a great repository of fact and history concerning the undead. Most of this is devoted to Vlad Tepes, the historical Dracula. Over centuries, one 'fact' after another about vampires has been discovered and then discarded: methods for identifying the undead, diseases that cause vampirism, conditions in life that cause a person to join the undead after death, vampiric murders, and so on.

Do vampires really exist? I can't say for sure. A great many things exist in our world which cannot be readily explained. I don't believe that creatures stalk the night preying on those of us asleep in our beds, and then go to sleep in coffins all day. While it's an old and popular image, I don't think that's what a vampire is. But I do believe that something of us lingers on after death - and if that something causes grief and pain and a drain of love, life, and energy to those we leave behind... that, perhaps is what a vampire really is.

Below are a few links to sources of factual and historical vampire information. If you know of anything that should be on this list, please e-mail me.

Diaries of the Family Dracul, devoted to a trilogy of novels, but has some interesting historical information and pictures..
Following Dracula's Steps, a guide for tourists in Romania.
Australian Vampire Information Association has some good information.
An essay on the history of vampires, by Anders Labich.
Vampiric Studies, a site by a teacher of vampiric truth and lore.

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