August 22, 2007 (Boston Herald / Laurel J. Sweet) -- A Jamaica Plain "vampire" who drank the blood of his wheelchair-bound grandmother after shooting her to death is trying to sell his amateurish art online to bankroll "a new start" if he’s freed.

What a splendid idea! *grabs three goblets from the rack behind the bar...pulls out a bottle of the house vintage and pours a measure into each glass...passes one to Ven and another to Demon...raises the last one himself and smiles* Hear hear!

*something catches his eye...it is only there but a moment, but it looked as if someone were peeking in the window...* Who is that? *sets down his goblet and walks over to the window*

Deadend
10 May 2001

Several weeks had elapsed since the conversation in Reginald Clarke's studio. The spring was now well advanced and had sprinkled the meadows with flowers, and the bookshelves of the reviewers with fiction. The latter Ernest turned to good account, but from the flowers no poem blossomed forth.

February 9, 2008 (The Morning Call / Chris Parker) -- A Pottsville man convinced a 15-year-old girl he was part werewolf and part vampire before sexually assaulting her, police say. Kristian Allen Carl, 19, also believed he was a supernatural mixed breed, police say.

September 19, 2007 (Yahoo! News / Bucharest, Romania) -- Lawmakers began debating Wednesday whether the Transylvanian fortress commonly known as Dracula's Castle was legally returned to an heir of Romania's royal family and whether he is allowed to sell it.