We’ve long viewed vampires as lonely creatures of the night — solitary until they feast on human blood. But how true is that myth when it comes to vampire bats? However, these blood-sucking creatures ...

A purportedly authentic late 19th-century vampire-hunting kit sold for £16,900 ($20,000) at Hansons Auctioneers in Derby, U.K., last month, greatly outstripping its low £2,000 ($2,387) estimate.

I’m a horror girl born and raised. My first idols were final girls and avenging angels and witches and warriors; Ellen Ripley’s maternal badassery in Aliens, Laurie Strode’s survivalist fighter, The ...