Cold as ice, thou breath doth feel,

Skin ablaze in firey hell,

Mine heart crushed beyond repair.

 

Speak not the memories of past ages,

think not the cold caress of teeth to flesh,

but think always of my love for thee, tortureous.

 

Love not the way I think you dear,

nor of the way I hold you near,

Make a path and let me through
You'll die before I make it to you
Lying in a puddle of blood
With your body faced down in the mud
I'm running trough thorns, mist and trees
I have blood trickling down my hands and knees
I yell and scream out your name
I can't find you%3B I'm to blame
I start to stop and hear a noise
I listen closely, it's your voice
I run to the sound only to see
Your Gravestone staring at me
"I'll love you forever and always",
You you always said

The mind lets go of fear
by telling us to scream
whether out of panic, danger
or to awake from a dream
If the body does not allow
if the scream is kept inside
if its silent, in your head
it then becomes, the worst kind
You see, no one can hear it
or come to your aid
Which is what screams are for
why they escape.
But left pent up
it sounds louder in your head
then a meltdown begins
and fills you with dread.
So silently you scream,
for anyone, or release
Before the blackness sets in

July 20, 2003 (Jascha Hoffman / The Boston Globe) - When a Strigoi starts sucking the life force out of its surviving loved ones, the Romanian folk cure involves digging up its corpse, mutilating and burning it. New Englanders have dealt with their own parasitic undead in much the same way, claims the Rhode Island folklorist Michael E. Bell in "Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires" (2001).

April 11, 2007 (wired news) -- Auction hounds are snapping up "vampire killing kits" and "vampire hunting kits" manufactured by a nineteenth century quack named Ernst Blomberg. The kits, which have been found in Australia and sold by at least two auction houses (including Southebys, reportedly for $12,000), include silver bullets, a wooden stake, holy water, and other important vampire-destroying items.