March 31, 2007 (Kevin Meade / Sunday Tasmanian) - Tracey Wigginton, a lesbian "vampire" serving life for murder, is fighting a decision by Queensland Corrective Services to move her from a prison farm to the higher-security Brisbane women's prison.

During a brief hearing in the Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday, Queensland Chief Justice Paul de Jersey ordered the state's prison chiefs to speed up a review of the decision.

The judicial review has been requested by the 41-year-old convicted murderer.

Wigginton, a self-proclaimed vampire who stabbed a man to death and drank his blood in 1989, was transferred from the women's prison to the low-security Numinbah Valley prison farm in the Gold Coast hinterland in September 2000 - a move that sparked community outrage.

She was moved back to the women's prison in June last year after she was accused of punching another female prisoner.

The assault allegation was investigated but no charges were laid against her.

The court heard yesterday that Wigginton was alleged to have intimidated the other prisoner into withdrawing her threat.

The court was told Wigginton had also been accused of assaulting a prison guard.

In October 1989, council worker Edward Baldock, 47, was on his way home after a drinking session at a club when he was lured into a car by Wigginton and three other women in the inner-Brisbane suburb of Kangaroo Point.

Baldock was driven to a park by the Brisbane River in West End where Wigginton stabbed him 27 times, almost decapitating him, and drank his blood.

Two days before the murder, she told her accomplices she was a vampire who had been drinking animal blood from butcher shops, but now craved human blood.

She was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In her court action, Wigginton is challenging both her move back to the women's prison and a change in her classification from "open" security to "low" security.

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Pain Rekindled

Every time I turn around, I see your shadow.
In the background of every conversation is the sound of your laugh.
Even when I close my eyes the memory of your smile remains.
When I move, the scent of you is rekindled.
The pain remains fresh as if you leave me again every second of every day.
My mind is consumed with thoughts of you; my body stuck in the repetition of habits we once shared.
Time no longer moves forward, for I am stuck in the moment  of your leaving, the moment I realized that I had lost the very breath that once animated this dry husk.

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Monsters in the movies

Ron Chaney's hillside home near Palm Springs doesn't look much like a haunted house, but he always looks forward to getting it ready for Halloween. Chaney is, after all, a descendent of monsters.

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Plea to a Count

My dearest Count,
Oh Lord of night.
Your noble image,
Is a welcome sight.

I have waited, for so long,
I knew you would return.
For your bitter sweet kiss,
My humble neck does burn.

So come my dear,
And drink your fill.
Whilst in your arms,
I feel no ill.

Then leave you will,
I know you must.
But promise me you will return,
For in your word I trust.

Raven
December 26, 2001

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Fatal Vampire Attack in Germany

April 4, 1995 (The Fortean Times) - A man of 75, walking Jockel, his Dachshund, in Berlin on 4 April 1995, was attacked by a 43-year-old man who bit him on the neck, shouting "I am Dracula!" Passersby overpowered the attacker and handed him over to police. He said he had been drinking.

The victim went home and died an hour later from a heart attack.

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Vampires: the Celtic connection

Dracula Myth author: Gabriel Ronay

The Truth About Dracula. author: Gabriel Ronay Mass Market Paperback: $2.95

A 4000-year-old "vampire" grave, believed to be the world's first burial place for one of the presumed "undead", has been discovered in eastern Europe. It bares spookily similar hallmarks to Celtic tombs in the British Isles designed to prevent bloodsucking "revenants". These were recently buried people who were believed to rise from the grave, walk the earth and prey on the living.

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