April 27 2007 (Yahoo! News) -- A 4-year-old boy broke his leg after he jumped out of a second-floor window while trying to imitate a character from his favorite movie Wednesday night. Gustavo Osario was alone in his bedroom at his home on Cedar Creek Place when he tried to fly out of the window. He said he got the idea from watching his favorite movie, "The Little Vampire."

A comparison of various popular sources for vampire lore against the myths of history. Do all vampire have fangs? Can all vampires reproduce? How do the popular vampires of the 20th century live and die and hunt and feed? S. A. Rudy takes a look at five modern vampire themes.

You might be wondering, what's a guy called "Herman" doing in a place like this? It's simple, really: I'm a vampire hunter.

Having thus far, we hope, interested our readers in the fortunes of a family which had become subject to so dreadful a visitation, we trust that a few words concerning them, and the peculiar circumstances in which they are now placed, will not prove altogether out of place, or unacceptable.

November 8, 2008 (San Diego Union-Tribune / Peter Rowe) -- Zombies are red, vampires are blue. Whatever its challenges, the Bush White House has presided over a period of robust health for a genre that -- if history is any guide -- will soon fade: the zombie movie.