More than half of the members of the Royal Order of Religious Knights were massacred in episode 6; Sir Integra Hellsinger, Arucard, and Seras must now hunt down the perpetrators. The suspects include the Vatican's Iscariot Organization and whoever is making the "artificial vampirization catalyst semiconductor" or "freak chips" that turn humans into second-class ghouls. Some of the dialogue in this jejune gorefest is inadvertently hilarious. Seras asks another vampire, "How long have you been undead?" and a British Army officer says of suspected IRA members, "Even if they are no longer human, that doesn't mean their guilt as terrorists can be erased." Sir Integra is attacked by a vampire in episode 9 and stabs herself in the throat, rather than be enslaved by her own now-tainted blood. (Rated 16 and older, but unsuitable for viewers under 18: graphic violence, profanity, gore, violence against women, sexual situations) --Charles Solomon

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The World Dracula Congress

Just over a week ago, I arrived back from my second visit to Romania, this time to attend the first World Dracula Congress. As this Congress was such a major event and has received so much media attention world-wide, I thought I would provide a synopsis and an evaluation.

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'Dracula' castle closed to the public

October 13, 2007 (The Herald / Graeme Smith) -- The castle which provided Bram Stoker with the inspiration for Dracula has been closed to the public for the first time in a century. Stakes have been hammered, not into the heart of vampires, but into the clifftop on which the ruined Slains Castle stands.

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01: An Early Fright

a whole city, producing more devastation in the four or five minutes it lasted, than would a half century of ordinary phenomena.

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I Searched

I searched for you
I searched for the life I left behind
there was nothing left
I searched the world for everything I ever once loved
and found not a trace of anything
there was nothing left of my old life
nothing to show I was ever once there
I searched the continents and the seas in search of love and when I stopped I found that love was searching for me
and I found you

Raevynn
November 11, 2001

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Rebirth

I am a creature that crawls in the night...
I haunt your dreams and memories
and feast upon your fright.
There is no use in fleeing..
just let me being freeing you from this
ever tedious mortal coil.
I will find you once more,
and again you'll be mine.

Vampyres Mystress
March 10, 2002

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