Arts Dec 12 Anne Rice, who breathed new life into vampires, dies at 80 Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With a Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80. By Jake Coyle, Associated Press
Health Oct 18 How Dracula draws on our biggest health fears "Dracula" abounds with fascinating references to medicine of the day. By Dr. Howard Markel
Science Oct 28 7 things you didn’t know about vampire bats The vampire bat is hardly the agent-of-evil its association with Dracula would suggest. By Julia Griffin
Nation Oct 31 8 things you didn’t know about Halloween 1. It was the baby boomers who made trick or treating what it is today. A movement to start trick or treating began in the late 20s and early 30s. But, according to Susan Whiteside of the National… By Ruth Tam