November 10, 2007 (New Haven Register / James Tinley) -- A Florida man who came to Shelton for a pair of custom-made "vampire" teeth will be spending more time than he intended in Connecticut after being sentenced to serve eight years in prison for a vicious assault.

March 22, 2008 (Orlando Sentinel / Adrian G. Uribarri) -- Vampire-cult leader Rod Ferrell claimed he would live forever. But as the convicted murderer serves a life sentence in prison, it's the story of his gruesome Lake County killings that just won't die.

I am a creature that crawls in the night...
I haunt your dreams and memories
and feast upon your fright.
There is no use in fleeing..
just let me being freeing you from this
ever tedious mortal coil.
I will find you once more,
and again you'll be mine.

Vampyres Mystress
March 10, 2002

When we are alone
we come alive
petals of our selves
unfold
when fingers touch

your taste
banishes my demons
fills me up
makes me hunger for...

your blood
spilt on steel
the color of
your rage
betrays your secret

you are. . . beautiful
Raised in Black.

Sylph
February 3, 2002

I am an urban vampire. My real name is unimportant as I have had so many over the years, besides names are merely the crude labels humans use and that is something I have not been for many years.