June 17, 2008 (The Daily Telegraph) -- Angelina Jolie has revealed she and a boyfriend used to "experiment" with knives when younger - because she was curious about vampires. Jolie has also told of how her interest in knives as a teenager left her with scars on her body.

October 13, 2007 (NorthWest Herald / Geneva White) -- It isn't easy being a bat. Everyone seems to be frightened of you. They accuse you of having rabies and sucking blood. Women are terrified that you'll fly into their hair.

February 6, 2008 (Chicago Tribune) -- Before Barack Obama entered the cutthroat world of politics, it seems he was involved in a whole other kind of blood sport: hunting vampires.

Make a path and let me through
You'll die before I make it to you
Lying in a puddle of blood
With your body faced down in the mud
I'm running trough thorns, mist and trees
I have blood trickling down my hands and knees
I yell and scream out your name
I can't find you%3B I'm to blame
I start to stop and hear a noise
I listen closely, it's your voice
I run to the sound only to see
Your Gravestone staring at me
"I'll love you forever and always",
You you always said

"Budapest seems a wonderful place... The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East." So begins Bram Stoker's Dracula, written in a time when the city was seen as Europe's final frontier. Today, Budapest is rather more familiar (it joined the EU in 2004) - although it has lost none of its original appeal.