African Darkness: The continent where vampire legends began

What if everything you thought you knew about vampires was wrong?

Long before Dracula terrorized European nights, something far more ancient stalked the African continent. From the iron-toothed Asasabonsam that dangles victims from treetops to the glowing Obayifo that infiltrates villages undetected, Africa's vampires are unlike anything the Western world imagines.

Drawing from suppressed colonial records, modern eyewitness accounts, and centuries-old oral traditions, investigative journalist...