When darkness falls
The beasts of prey
Call you from your shallow slumber
The Ancient voice
Echoes in your mind
And brings you sweet insanity

You feel the thirst
It's everything
Taking over body and soul

It's too late now
You can't resist
Begin your deadly dance

Now darkness falls
And the beasts of prey
Call you from your shallow slumber

Death and carnage
Sustain your being
And drown you in insanity

August 25, 2008 (Jim Schoettler / The Times-Union) -- A man who police say claims to be a 225-year-old vampire is being held in a Virginia jail, charged with sexually battering a young Jacksonville girl in May and two other young girls he was living with at the time of his arrest last week.

A Dhampir in Balkan folklore is the child of a vampire father and a human mother, with vampire powers but none of the weaknesses. A dhampir is believed to have the unique ability to see vampires, even when these are invisible, and is unusually adept at killing them.

As I walk down the road,
Paying no attention to my social demise,
I seem to be living in the moment,
Deep inside me I hear,
A voice that haunts me from another time,
Long ago from another year,
Pulling me back and pushing me forward,
It seems my life has been directed at this point,
By an incoherent puppet master.
I have these memories driven and soaked with my tears,
Rain falls ont he pavement,
Falling between the cracks,
I can smell the sharp, racid songs of the rain on the tar,
And still be caught in my past,

May 1, 2003 - A Satan-worshipping baby-faced vampire killer has confessed to beating a hooker to death while high on cocaine and drinking her blood. But Perry Cerf, 20, insists the brutal slaying of Flo Andrade, 47, was "unintentional". Sex offender Cerf, from Bergenfield, New Jersey, has officially pleaded not guilty to murder and rape.