This gothic horror series grows increasingly violent as Luke and Jan, the Valentine Brothers, lay siege to the headquarters of the Hellsing organization, the Royal Order of Religious Knights. After numerous humans have been killed and eaten by an army of ghouls, Victoria, Walter, and Arucard finally get around to striking back. Victoria and Walter eliminate hundreds of ghouls with a combination of deadly threads and heavy artillery. The lead flies when Arucard and Luke face off, but Luke is devoured by a canine monster Arucard summons up. Jan sets himself afire rather than reveal the mastermind of their plot to Sir Integra Hellsing (a woman, despite the title). The series suffers from underdeveloped characters, a plot that is sketchy at best, and a surfeit of pointless violence. (Rated 16 and older, but unsuitable for viewers under 18: graphic violence, extensive profanity, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

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An Essay on Vampire Biology

Before speculating on any specific pathogens capable of producing a condition akin to vampirism, I wish to post an old line of reasoning on how vampires manage to survive on a diet which contains so much water and so little else.

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behind glass

Clawing at this life, yearning to break free
on the outside looking in, looking at you looking at me
some hearts weren't ever meant to love
some tears weren't ever mean to be cried
that's what you told me on the day that I died
you left me without a soul
spiralling down into the dark
sucked into your black hole
I was your child, your lover, your friend
and you left me alone for eternity without end

Scarlette Death
October 6, 2001

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A New England Vampire Tale

July 20, 2003 (Jascha Hoffman / The Boston Globe) - When a Strigoi starts sucking the life force out of its surviving loved ones, the Romanian folk cure involves digging up its corpse, mutilating and burning it. New Englanders have dealt with their own parasitic undead in much the same way, claims the Rhode Island folklorist Michael E. Bell in "Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires" (2001).

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Three vampire bats born at LR Zoo

September 10, 2007 (AP / Little Rock) -- Seven weeks before Halloween, Little Rock zookeepers announced Monday the birth of three vampire bats. The staff at the Little Rock Zoo discovered the babies last week and estimate that they are about three weeks old and about 1 1/2 inches tall.

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11: The Communication to the Lover. -- The Heart's Despair.

Consternation is sympathetic, and any one who had looked upon the features of Charles Holland, now that he was seated with Henry Bannerworth, in expectation of a communication which his fears told him was to blast all the dearest and most fondly cherished hopes for ever, would scarcely have recognised in him the same young man who, one short hour before

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