Witches, vampires and werewolves are all creatures that stir up the horrors of our imagination. Acclaimed actor and star of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Anthony Head investigates the facts behind the fiction.

Anthony Head investigates vampires from historical fiction through to terrifying modern day realism. But what exactly are these blood-sucking creatures, and why and how do they instil such fear?

Anthony Head sets out to find out the truth behind the werewolf myth. Are they real or just the stuff of myth, folklore and Hollywood movies? Most of us are familiar with the idea of a werewolf: someone who can change into a wolf-like creature with an appetite for blood, but how did these tales come about and why have they become accepted as fact?

For hundreds of years witchcraft has been associated with evil but what is the truth behind one of the best known figures of the supernatural? We all know that practically every fairy story has a witch in it somewhere and that in the past people were burnt at the stake for being a witch. Shakespeare developed the three witches in Macbeth to be vulgar instruments of evil. But that was then... what about now? Anthony Head embarks on a journey that takes him from London, to Scotland and finally to South Africa to uncover the truth.