*walks out of the inn and looks up at Demon* Shall we? *smiles and motions toward the intruder and the dog...then, with impressive speed, he is suddenly behind said intruder and dog...and gaining very rapidly...in a moment he is close enough to see that it is a woman...*

Deadend
12 May 2001

October 23, 2008 (The Scotsman / Rosa Silverman) -- The murder of the British student Meredith Kercher was inspired by a Japanese manga comic, it was claimed yesterday. Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor, told an Italian court that one of three people accused of being involved in her death, Raffaele Sollecito, 24, might have been inspired by a comic found in his possession that describes the murder of female vampires at Halloween.

Bewitch me with your eyes of fire,
Let me sink into the glow.
My body burns with deep desire,
Please never let me go.

I come to you so willing,
My heart and soul are yours.
This love is so fulfilling,
See how my spirit soars.

Turn me not away love,
For with you I belong.
The feeling comes from deep within,
So never declare it wrong.

My place is by your side dear,
Whatever it may take.
Our destiny that is so clear,
You cannot now forsake.

Give to me your savage kiss.

Legend paints post-apocalyptic New York City as an urban jungle being replaced by actual jungle, with plants sprouting up through cracks in the sidewalks and a veritable field of waist-high grass in Times Square. So is this what would really happen if civilization ended?

Nancy Kilpatrick has published 60 short stories and (under a pseudonym) two erotic horror novels. A long-standing aficionado of the undead, she possesses one of the world's largest collections of vampire- related materials.