Es ereignete sich, daß, mitten unter den Zerstreuungen eines Winters in London, in den verschiedenen Gesellschaften der tonangebenden Vornehmen ein Edelmann erschien, der sich mehr durch seine Sonderbarkeiten, als durch seinen Rang auszeichnete. Er blickte auf die laute Fröhlichkeit um ihn her mit einer Miene, als könne er nicht an derselben teilnehmen. Nur das leichte Lachen der Schönen schien seine Aufmerksamkeit zu erregen, allein, es schien auch, als wenn ein Blick aus seinem Auge es plötzlich hemme und Furcht in die vorher heitere und unbefangene Brust der Fröhlichen streue.

Huffing and puffing, Renfield slowly dragged the hand-cart up the pathway. It had been a while since he had to do this, and he was a bit out of shape as a result. "Why the Master just doesn't let me use some sort of 20th century automotive device to deliver this stuff, I'll never know". But he learned not to question his Master's word.

He stopped the cart in front of the doorway, and began to pull some bottles from within it. Wine bottles, to be exact, but of course his Master never drinks wine, nor do any of his guests, as far as he knows.

Our traditional image of the vampire, though born from literature, is based on this folkloric vampire, which dates back as early as the eleventh century, and was (until the 1700's) found exclusively in the Slavic countries of Eastern Europe.

February 1, 2002 (The Guardian) - A young married couple who admitted to a ritual Satanic killing were yesterday told they could spend the rest of their lives in a secure psychiatric unit after a trial which has raised the spectre of bizarre underground occult groups in Britain.

Reginald Clarke had hardly left the room when Ernest hastily rose from his seat. While it was likely that he would remain in undisturbed possession of the apartment the whole morning, the stake at hand was too great to permit of delay.