Greece

What started back in 2010 in Athens as a revival of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" - where Greeks dressed up in their best zombie costumes - has now become the Annual Walk of the Zombies which has entered its 5th year! The...

According to deviant burials unearthed at the necropolis of Greek colony Passo Mariano in Sicily, Italy, modern Greeks are not the first generation to fear the walking dead. According to the unique graves that were unearthed in the ancient cemetery, ancient Greeks feared...

Vampires are some of the most famous creatures of the horror, and now romance, genres. The folklore of countless cultures around the world features some sort of vampire figure, and Greece's Vrykolakas is no different. The Greek vampire is an...

Mykonos, Greece's most famous island, is well-known for its luxurious amenities, party atmosphere, and the Hollywood celebrities who visit the island each year. However, little is known about the vampire who haunted the island. According to Greek folklore, there was...

A video clip shot in Mykonos by Latin singers J Balvin and Bad Bunny has caused anger in the Greek island, as locals say it portrays their homeland in a negative light. In the bizarre clip filmed by director Colin...

July 20 and August 14, 1974 – mark a day of remembrance and a morbid recollection of Attila’s military invasion of Cyprus. This is the time when the shrieking sound of sirens blasting across the island wake up ghosts...

Despite having been criminally ignored in a series of award seasons in the US, "The Walking Dead" is by far the most popular TV show of the last decade, in the world. Already in its eighth season, the provocative show,...

Greeks may not have grown up with the spirit of Halloween, but in recent years the idea has caught on. How could it not? The scary spirit of Halloween matches the spirit of gloom and doom in the country....

Jet2holidays.com and Atomik surveyed 1,000 children aged between 7 and 13 years of age about their favorite vacation preferences. Greece ranked 4th among preferences featured among the top 5 destinations along with Italy, Spain, Portugal and France. Almost half (45 percent) wanted...

On the first floor of the Herakleidon Museum Annex on Apostolou Pavlou Street in central Athens there is an automatic maid that looks like it came out of Star Trek. Surprisingly, it was made hundreds of years ago by Philon...

“SYRIZA is the alarm clock that will wake EU leaders out of their slumber,” party leader Alexis Tsipras told British TV station Channel 4. “What we demand,” he said, “is a European conference to tackle this European problem together, and...

With the gates of hell open, anything can happen. Psycho killers, wanton cheerleaders, zombies thirsty for flesh, and TAZ with a saw, all take part in the 1st International Horror Film Festival in Greece. The Festival, officially called the 'Horrorant...

By Ioannis Patrikakis* The current state of affairs in the Euro zone clashes with the basic principles of Aristotelian Ethics philosophy. Aristotle is describing a "flourishing state of the mind," (Evdaimonia), as the perfect aspiration for all human beings. After...

Former Greek premier George Papandreou's stay on the island of Samos hasn't been a welcome one for him with residents angrily demanding he leave, unhappy that he had put big pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on the...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras must awake each morning and say it really is good to be king. The King, after all, not only is above the law, he sets the law, and in the plutocratic oligarchy that is...