Since Bram Stoker penned the Victorian classic Dracula, vampires have always been among our favorite monsters. In movies, bestsellers and chilling legend, these bloodsucking monsters frighten and fascinate. But now, there is reason to believe that these haunting tales and fears may be more than just our imaginings and there may be truth behind the myths.Starting in dark Transylvania with the notorious Vlad the Impaler, our search for vampires calls a historical role of names of actual people who may have been vampires. Along with the names are eyewitness accounts of corpses with pulses, of graves where nothing will grow. VAMPIRES also travels to Greece, China and the U.S. to present the wide culture of the undead. Finally, forensic specialists offer their gruesome analyses. The startling truth may re-awaken our deepest fears.

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Vampires as Victims

As vampires gain in popularity, they start to appeal to a different kind of person as well: the self-styled vampire hunter. The long-running popular television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, about a group of teenaged vampire fighters in California, has influenced this subculture. While for many, it's just role-playing, some take this game with deadly seriousness.

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Fragment of a Novel by Lord Byron

"June 17, 1816.

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The Crimson Quill [vol. 1998]

A collection of poetry and prose submitted to VO in 1998.

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In the Night

The mercury light of the streetlamp
Tints orange the images of my mind,
Its beam so strong against the night
So feeble against the darkness.

I remember the things which bring me pain;
So fast thoughts which bring joy fade.
Yet with the onslaught of time
More vivid are those of grief and guilt.

Fingers of the past clawing forward
To tighten their grip
On the mind which gave them birth.

Tethers of shame
Shrouding ever thicker
The heart of their gestation.

"No more!"

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