Self-identified vampires in New Orleans and Atlanta open up about the communities they’ve built and what they want the rest of us to know about their unique way of life. CNN values your feedback 1.

The Georgia vampire’s life is relatively quieter than Lore’s — he prefers to slink around restaurants, bars and cultural events rather than work and play in New Orleans’ sleepless downtown.

Forget Method acting, forget in-depth role research, forget any of that fancy-dancy stuff they teach you in acting school.

While it's hard to know exactly where vampires live, nearly everyone agrees that New Orleans is as good a place to start. "The idea of vampires in New Orleans is a very, very old concept," Weiss said.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT This is the much-anticipated spinoff of "The Vampire Diaries." Sicko vampire hybrid Niklaus Mikaelson (Joseph Morgan) -- one of the world's first vamps -- has come to New Orleans ...

NEW ORLEANS — “The Vampire Diaries” star Ian Somerhalder will be in New Orleans this weekend for a Vampire Fan Weekend event.Creation Entertainment’s Vampire Fan Weekend is a convention ...

He was talking to the store owner of Wicked Orleans, a Gothic-style clothing and leather shop in New Orleans’ French Quarter, when a middle-age woman and two teenage boys walked through the door ...

Welcome to New Orleans — or at least the New Orleans of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire.The network recently released three new photos for the upcoming adaptation of Anne Rice’s iconic ...

New Orleans duo The Convenience trust ... and Duncan Troast didn’t have much planned when they started working on the songs that would make up “Like Cartoon Vampires,” their new album ...

By Scottie Andrew, CNN When Maven Lore was being fitted for his first set of fangs, a switch within him flipped on. “Something just came to the surface and everything felt right for once in my ...