The final episode of Ron Nasty’s Halloween true horror series: One of the biggest cover ups in “horror history” is that Bram Stoker?s Dracula was based on a woman. The sexist society of the time hid the story of Elizabeth Bathory, a Countess of Hungary, and thought a man (Vlad the Impaler) would be more frightening.

Source: http://www.wildvoice.com/MySite/SpotlightC…47/Default.aspx

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When the editors at The Inquirer heard that I didn’t have a date for Halloween, they pitied me before breaking into evil grins. Deciding to launch me on an adventure at once macabre and potentially titillating, “Mik,” they said. “What if you tried to get a date for Halloween-with a vampire??”

Source: http://www.nyinquirer.com/nyinquirer/2006/…view_date_.html

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For all of their stomach-turning gore, horror films and haunted houses attract people in droves. This ability of the human brain to turn fear on its head could be a key to treating phobias and anxiety disorders, according to scientists.

Source: http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/06…ear_factor.html

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On Halloween, Comcast Corp., in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Lionsgate, will unveil a horror-movie network called FearNet.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/…/ap3130776.html

Fans will be able to watch movies through Comcast’s video-on-demand service and on the Web at FearNet.com, where they can blog about, search and tag the spooky flicks. Cell phone users will get free ringtones and wallpaper and eventually be able to watch video clips.

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Most vampire myths come to us from the Dark Ages, when science was in its infancy and people looked to religion or superstition to explain the world around them. While many vampire myths have their basis in Christian orthodoxy, others represent imaginative interpretations of actual vampire behavior.

Source: http://everyravlik.blogspot.com/2006/10/to…pire-myths.html

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With the possible exception of pornography, no genre in all of moviedom can churn out sequels like horror. In a lot of ways horror sequels are pretty similar to porn sequels. Each iteration is essentially the same movie with a different cast, a loosely connected theme and occasionally some more creative ways of killing or having sex.

Source: http://www.cracked.com/modules.php?op=modl…r=0&thold=0

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Don’t scientists have better things to study? Apparently not.

Horror stories may be the place for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, they are not real, warns physicist Costas Efthimiou.

Source: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2006…2145439-ap.html

More than one in three Americans believe houses can be haunted, a 2005 Gallup poll showed. More than 20 per cent of Americans believe in witches and that people can communicate with the dead.

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Mistaken for blood-thirsty ghouls, 18th century European rabies victims may have been the inspiration for the vampire legend. Neat article, just in time for Halloween!

Source: http://www.personalmd.com/news/a1998092105.shtml

Not only do people with rabies have symptoms strikingly similar to the traits ascribed to vampires, but the vampire legend also originated in eastern Europe in the 18th century — the site of a major rabies outbreak in the 1720s, according to the study.

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Efthimiou takes out the calculator to prove that if a vampire sucked one person’s blood each month — turning each victim into an equally hungry vampire — after a couple of years there would be no people left, just vampires.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/10/27/vampi…e.ap/index.html

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It may be the season for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, they’re not real, warns physicist Costas Efthimiou. Obviously, you might say. But Efthimiou, a professor at the University of Central Florida, points to surveys that show American gullibility for the supernatural.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026/ap_on_sc/vampire_science

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