A soft circle of light separated the darkness from a slight figure curled up in a chair. There in the stillness she sat with a battered black book on her lap, the only sound in the room being the scratch of the pencil she slowly moved across the pages. Were any one else around they might recognize her as Koreena Venusvii Anchalis, a pale young woman with a dark and muddled past, but no one else was around. Koreena sighed quietly to herself, reaching one ivory hand up to push the locks of hair from her face. 'Too many changes, and not all good' came the thought.

March 5, 2002 (Leesburg, VA / AP) - 3 months after DNA scientist Robert Schwartz was stabbed to death with a two-foot sword and left with a ritualistic X carved in to the back of his neck, the case has turned out to be less exotic than investigators thought, but chilling nonetheless.

September 4, 2007 (Courier News / Martin C. Bricketto) -- Halloween is almost two months away, but Readington, NJ police responded to what must have been a spooky scene of indecent exposure for several local drivers Saturday night.

June 3, 2007 (The Sunday Telegraph / Paul Lampathakis) -- Bram Stoker's over-active imagination has twisted Transylvania into the equivalent of a Dracula theme park. But this former principality of the Austro-Hungarian Empire overflows with history, architecture and culture.