June 16, 2007 (Corpus Christi Caller Times / Barbara Ramirez / ROCKPORT) -- An Aransas County jury on Friday sentenced a 22-year-old man to 20 years in prison for shooting to death a Rockport-area woman he believed was a vampire. Nathaniel Chipps initially was charged with murder in the Aug. 15., 2006, death of 35-year-old Teresa Tracy McCartney, but a jury on Thursday found Chipps guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter.

"June 17, 1816.

a whole city, producing more devastation in the four or five minutes it lasted, than would a half century of ordinary phenomena.

I should certainly be pleased to play the part of Dracula again on the screen (surely it is the immortal role par excellence?), although I have many times refused to accept it. Nowadays I think the public identifies me with this part, and if I have sometimes refused it, it was for fear that, like the unfortunate Bela Lugosi, I should spend the rest of my life unable to play anything else.

The listless wind doth blow
over the cemetary tonight
a santuary for me to roam
without the prying eyes and light
wrapped within the stars
the lullabye of the bats
the crimson light of lust
I hold my lover tight
until he takes his last breath

Scarlette Death
October 1, 2001