Lay my hands on heaven the sun the moon and the stars.
As your blackhole eyes pull me closer until I press my lips against god.

"Why looks my lord so deadly pale?
   Why fades the crimson from his cheek?
What can my dearest husband ail?
   Thy heartfelt cares, O Herman, speak!

"Why, at the silent hour of rest,
   Dost thou in sleep so sadly mourn?
Has tho' with heaviest grief oppress'd,
   Griefs too distressful to be borne.

"Why heaves thy breast?--why throbs thy heart?
   O speak! and if there be relief,
Thy Gertrude solace shall impart,
   If not, at least shall share thy grief.

June 28 2007 (Reuters / New York) -- In the cutthroat business of real estate, U.S.-based firm Baytree Capital Associates has been chosen to market Dracula's Castle. Archduke Dominic Habsburg, who lives in New York state, and his family retained the private investment firm to market Bran Castle and the surrounding property in the Transylvanian region of Romania.

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.

Cold as ice, thou breath doth feel,

Skin ablaze in firey hell,

Mine heart crushed beyond repair.

 

Speak not the memories of past ages,

think not the cold caress of teeth to flesh,

but think always of my love for thee, tortureous.

 

Love not the way I think you dear,

nor of the way I hold you near,