March 12, 2007 (ananova.com) - Slobodan Milosevic's daughter Marija Milosevic has hired security guards to protect her father's body from vampire hunters. The self-styled vampire hunters have already made one attempt at driving a wooden stake through the former dictator's heart to 'stop him returning from the dead'.

June 15, 2007 (AP) -- The Romanian government stands its ground on returning "Dracula's Castle" to members of the former royal family, with the culture minister insisting Thursday that the property's restitution had been legal.

May 16, 2007 (Yahoo! India News) -- Rocker Marilyn Manson has named himself a 'vampire of love' who loves to prey on young women and craves to 'consume' them. The 38-year-old, who is dating young actress, Evan Rachel Wood, said that he always thought that his association with vampires is very obvious.

October 23, 2008 (The Scotsman / Rosa Silverman) -- The murder of the British student Meredith Kercher was inspired by a Japanese manga comic, it was claimed yesterday. Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor, told an Italian court that one of three people accused of being involved in her death, Raffaele Sollecito, 24, might have been inspired by a comic found in his possession that describes the murder of female vampires at Halloween.

I can see you around the corner

I feel you in my heart

You halt me from my desires

You wake me from my dreams