By KI MAE HEUSSNER
Oct. 31, 2008

With their cloaks aflutter and their fangs flickering in the moonlight, thousands of vampires will take to the streets tonight.
Along with masquerading witches and warlocks, they’ll knock on doors, nosh away at bite-size candy bars or guzzle a beer or two at a friend’s party.
But Anshar Seraphim, 28, doesn’t [...]

Vampires are real! If you think that’s outrageous, let me tell you about the weekend I spent as the honored guest at a local vampire house. Not everybody gets invited to sample the real vampire lifestyle in an intimate setting, and perhaps there are even fewer people who would accept such an invitation. But I [...]

By MAE ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
“The New Annotated Dracula”
By Bram Stoker, edited by Leslie S. Klinger (W.W. Norton & Co.)”The New Annotated Dracula” (W.W. Norton & Co. 624 pages. $39.95), by Bram Stoker, edited by Leslie S. Klinger: Part trick and part treat, this weighty tome seeks to add another dimension to [...]

John Roach
for National Geographic News
October 27, 2008
A previously unknown population of vampire moths has been found in Siberia. And in a twist worthy of a Halloween horror movie, entomologists say the bloodsuckers may have evolved from a purely fruit-eating species.
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For our money, there is no cooler creature in pop culture history than the vampire. • Infinitely adaptable, mysterious and powerful, vampires are the hip kids of the zeitgeist. They dominate humanity while standing apart from it, embodying all things forbidden and seductive in one conflict-laced package. • Little surprise, then, that the form each [...]

The illustrious Anne Rice, now 67, is most famous for her lush vampire novels beginning in the ’70s. The most famous is “Interview With the Vampire,” 1976. Critics have said her vampire books compare favorably with Mary Shelley’s legendary “Frankenstein.” Her output has been diverse, and she has more than 30 novels to her credit, [...]

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) — Marina Picasso remembers her famous grandfather as a “vampire”: “He squeezed everyone out like his tubes,” she told the German news magazine Der Spiegel.
The organizers of “Picasso et les Maitres” (Picasso and the Masters), the blockbuster exhibition that opens today in three Paris locations, seem to share that opinion. The catalog [...]

Van Helsing and his intrepid band of vampire hunters might have disposed of Bram Stoker’s creation Dracula more than a century ago, but a sequel to the novel by Stoker’s great grand-nephew will see them under attack from the undead once again.
Dacre Stoker delved into his ancestor’s handwritten notes on the original Dracula novel to [...]

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.—An Orange County school district has reinstated a series of fantasy vampire novels at its 12 middle schools after banning the books from campuses last week. Capistrano Unified School District banned Stephanie Meyer’s four-book “Twilight” series on Friday after a literacy program coordinator decided the subject matter was too “mature” for middle [...]