December 16, 2002 - A Boulder fang-maker who sued his former business partners for launching a rival vampire costume venture has been awarded triple damages and interest totaling more than $2.4 million. In a 20-page ruling, a federal judge in Denver said additional damages were appropriate in part because the defendants had provided "incomplete or false testimony" in a case that proved intentional violations of patent laws.

They were sitting in a little Italian restaurant where they had often, in the old days, lingered late into the night over a glass of Lacrimæ Christi. But no pale ghost of the past rose from the wine. Only a wriggling something, with serpent eyes, that sent cold shivers down her spine and held her speechless and entranced.

Tears of blood he sheds at night
screams so loud they shake the sky
he can't escape try all his might
the ancient language he does cry.
He never meant to hurt her
couldn't see past his blindness
her love and life he does prefer
he for some reason was lacking kindness.
His life is eternal
continuing from day to day
like that of hells infernal
forever having things his way.
Blood is that he does need
to live on night to night
he's what they call the demon breed

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February 10, 2007 (David Watkinson / This Is Lancashire) - A teacher at a church high school is being investigated following complaints about her "lurid" gothic vampire websites. English and drama teacher Samantha Goldstone has agreed to stay away from St Christopher's C of E High School, Accrington, during the probe.