October 18, 2007 (Maghull and Aintree Star / Ed Casson) -- People are being urged to don spooky outfits and complete a charity run. The Jospice Dracula Dash is a four-mile route starting and finishing at Asda in Aintree.

You should cut the lieing tongue of your love

into a million tiny bits of bile you swallow,

while tiny tremble water drop

right between your eyes

because you said you loved me and you lied

you lied.

All you wanted was to rid me of pride

to ruin me for tenderness,

you lied

you lied.

And while i still love you like a river

Bran Castle, which cleaves to a steep cliff that towers above a medieval village in Romania, is up for sale for a bloodcurdling $85 million. Why? Castles don't normally fetch such top dollars these days, but a curious modern mythology has turned this property into a Dracula draw.

My head tells me I've found a teacher.
My heart tells me I've found a friend.
My body tells me I've found a lover.
Why, then, should I fear your immortal kiss?

Is it because students graduate.
Or because friends grow apart.
Or because lovers cease to love.
And we have eternity to feel the pain?

Casandra
January 3, 2001

They swept across the Bosphorus and into Eastern Europe with a vengeance, conquering the squabbling Slavs with ease. With them, they brought their middle eastern civilization, and some of their beliefs, but mostly they brought suffering. Suffering in the form of syphilis, leprosy, smallpox, tuberculosis... and God Himself seemed to turn against them, sending flood, earthquakes, and plague.