Vampires in our culture? Yeah, sure, there's a lot of vampire stuff out at Halloween. But most people see vampires nearly everyday, the other 364 days a year, and don't even know it. To begin to study vampires in pop culture, we must first identify all the places they pop up.

February 9, 2008 (The Morning Call / Chris Parker) -- A Pottsville man convinced a 15-year-old girl he was part werewolf and part vampire before sexually assaulting her, police say. Kristian Allen Carl, 19, also believed he was a supernatural mixed breed, police say.

do you cry at night
do you wonder why
do you sit awake and think
do you ask yourself
do you imagine yourself different
do you change your point of view
do you see yourself through another's eyes
do you get disgusted and try to hide
do you change your ways
do you no longer care
do you finally give in to their stares
but now that you've changed
now that they know you're there
can you really be sure they care
do you honestly thing you fit in
do you really think you belong

When I am alone in the night
The velvet darkness reminds me:
Of the whisper-soft touchof your hair,
Of the deep midnight pools of your eyes,
Of your raiment; so like the night itself;
Clinging, cloaking, shielding
With dark mirrors of illusion,
Of the jewels at your throat; jet on ivory.
The images invoked by my memory
Catalysed by the very darkness
We shared.
Your image is engraved upon my eyelids
Inescapable.
I am a prisoner of my memories,
Trapped in a glass box
Like a killing jar,

Never again will I let you in,
Never again will you see inside,
I opened my soul to you.
Handed you my heart.

Love was between us...
And you went away...
I stood and waited.
I stayed and supported.

Never again will you see in.
Never again will I let you inside.
I handed you the essence of my soul.