especially these guys. I don't know who to loath more the people who think that they are vampires or the people who think it's a good idea to give these a-holes press.
Real-Life Vampires: Who Are They?
Around the World, Subcultures Coalesce Around the Vampire Image
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.
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Shade as she's initiated into House Lost Haven, a close-knit, semiformal organization for vampires... Expand
Shade as she's initiated into House Lost Haven, a close-knit, semiformal organization for vampires and other individuals who believe their souls are connected to nonhuman creatures. She is exploring the vampire identity, her boyfriend, Anshar Seraphim, told ABCNews.com. Seraphim identifies with the vampire community and is also a member of House Lost Haven. Collapse
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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 have any special Halloween plans and has no intention of throwing on a plastic Dracula suit.
Maybe it's because dressing like a vampire one day a year isn't anything special when it's who you believe you are for all 365 of them.
"My personal belief: Vampirism is an inexplicable part of science that we don't understand yet," Seraphim said. "I don't know if the things that cause it to exist are chemical. When we associate ourselves with the word 'vampire,' we're describing the relationship that we have with the people around us."
As fictional or mythological characters -- from Bram Stoker's count "Dracula" to Anne Rice's Louis to HBO's new cast of bewitching "True Blood" suckers -- society accepts and sometimes celebrates the vampire. But for many people, such as Seraphim, vampirism isn't just a literary genre. It's an identity and a lifestyle. Yes, blood-drinking and all.
And though it may sound incredulous, some experts say that there's a little bit of a vampire in all of us. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=6154446&page=1/farl 
