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Barbara Shelley (born August 15, 1933) is a British film and television actress, known as the true "first lady of Hammer horror." She was very active in the 1960's, appearing in a string of Hammer horror films.

Béla Lugosi

Béla Lugosi (October 20, 1882 - August 16, 1956), was an iconic Hungarian stage and film actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the American Broadway stage production (1927), and subsequent film (1931), of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story.

Ingrid Pitt

Born Ingoushka Petrov in Poland to a German father and a Jewish mother, during World War II, Ingrid and her family were imprisoned in a concentration camp. She survived, and in Berlin, Germany in the 1950s met and married an American soldier and ended up living in California.

Christopher Lee

Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922) is an English actor known for his professional longevity and his distinctive basso delivery. Lee is also best known for his portrayals of villains; he became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films.

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Vampyre Myths and Origins May be Linked To Rabies

November 26, 1998 (The Washington Post) - Blood-sucking vampires may have their history in disease rather than the supernatural, according to a Spanish neurologist. Dr Juan Gomez-Alonso has put forward a novel theory to explain the Dracula legend - vampires were suffering from rabies. The Neurologist hit on the rabid vampire theory after watching a Dracula film.

Lost

Lost in a world I built myself
I'll hold it on my shoulders
A place for everyone else
Keep you safe as I can
Down in the darkness I will stay
To hold you in the light.

Lost in my world,
Wandering the land I shaped.
Empty...Lonely...No one to hold
Walking away...I watched you go
I'll keep to the shadows

A Hunger

Ravenous

My nostrils flared with the scent of his cologne.
I breathed him in to soothe my soul.
Hungry, I found myself salivating at the memory of
him...bleeding, and the metallic tinge to his blood.

Canadian Vampire Plot

A case in Canada that acquired the moniker, "the vampire murder" during the trial seems to have less to do with vampires than with the public's fascination with vampire-related crimes.

Vampire Bats Attack Five Indians in Chiapas, Kill Cattle

April 5, 2002 (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico / Agencia EFE) - Five Indians were attacked by hundreds of vampire bats in the municipality of Ocosingo, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Health Secretariat reported.

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