Hammer brought screen chills to cinema audiences from the 1950s, and many films were made at various studios in Borehamwood. They made stars of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. However, 25 years before Hammer were splashing around Technicolor blood, another company dominated horror films in Hollywood - Universal.

July 23, 2008 (The Business Sheet / Hilary Lewis) -- HBO is trying an unconventional ad campaign to drum up interest for Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball's new vampire series True Blood. Specifically, they're using outdoor ads and vending machines schilling a bottled drink called Tru Blood.

Over the centuries, the vampire has undergone radical changes. From the Count in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel to the alcoholic New Yorker Sam in the 1997 film Habit, the figure of the vampire has evolved with society.

Despite the full and free consent which Flora had given to her brothers to entrust her solely to the care of her mother and her own courage at the hall, she felt greater fear creep over her after they were gone than she chose to acknowledge.

April 19, 2007 (Independent Online / Irene Kuppan / SOUTH AFRICA) -- Paramedics on Wednesday saved the life of a man claiming to be a vampire and intent on committing suicide. The man, believed to be aged about 40, was discovered hanging on the wrong side of a bridge railing above railway lines along Argyle Road.