By James King A vampire slaying kit which belonged to a 19th century English lord who kept guns, crucifixes, holy water, and a wooden stake in case of an attack, is going under the hammer.

Photos by Emily SlackMaven Lore, with his portable fang-making kit. Lore closely guards the secrets to creating the fangs because he does not want imitators to know his process.

AN antique vampire-slaying kit discovered in a cellar yesterday sold for thousands of pounds at auction. The macabre Victorian casket went under the hammer for £7,500 at Tennants Auctioneers, in ...

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.

Kaos Kustom Fangs owners Stavros (left) and Krys Kaos. About 30 percent of Kaos’s business, virtually all of it conducted online, is custom, for clients looking for something special.

The vampire-slaying kit has been given an estimate of £2,000-£3,000 ($2,500-$3,700) by valuers. It will be auctioned off online on July 16.

While fangs began to appear on the big screen in the 1950s in Turkish and Mexican productions of Dracula, true vampire buffs say it was the 1958 British Hammer Films version, starring a sexy ...