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Some fan boys get carried away.

The chilling murder of Thomas McKendrick in a small Scottish village was brutal and ritualistic. He was sacrificed to satisfy a lust for blood and an obsession with the occult. Yet his killer's fixation with bloodsuckers is far from unusual. Vampirism is a rapidly growing youth cult and its followers are increasing in numbers.

Vampire films and magazines are thriving, while specialist shops meet the outlandish clothing requirements of those who fantasise about being Dracula. In cities throughout the UK, vampire societies meet on a weekly basis and act out scenes from their favourite movies. ...

Stirling University's Dr Glenice Byron lectures on the UK's only postgraduate course in Gothic imagination. She said: 'We are moving towards another high point in vampirism. I don't think the general public are aware of the extent to which it permeates our culture. On the internet it's an entire culture: people write their own vampire stories as hobbies' ...

A year earlier, the remains of a Welsh pensioner, Mabel Leyshon, were found mutilated at her home on Anglesey. She had been stabbed 22 times before her heart was removed and placed in a saucepan on a silver platter next to her body. Pokers were placed at her feet in the shape of a cross. Last week the killer, Matthew Hardman, was refused right to appeal his conviction. Aged just 17, he was obsessed with vampires and drank his victim's blood in a quest for immortality.

The Edinburgh-based forensic psychologist Ian Stephen, whom the television drama Cracker was based on, said such obsessions can be difficult to detect. 'So many teenagers become obsessed with parts of culture like this young man. It's very difficult for parents to pick up these changes from normal interests to something that can become quite scary.

'The cult of vampirism is to do with power and dominance, using blood to give you energy and immortality. If someone had ridiculed him, he may have needed to compensate for this - something like vampirism may have given him what he was looking for.'

Stephen Khan, The Observer: Celebrity cult of vampires can turn into real-life evil

Richard Evans Lee
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Drinking blood is healthy healty in some aspects and not in some.

Posted by: Peter | January 12, 2004 12:34 AM

I have nothing against the drinking of blood, as long as it's a willful event for both participants...and there is no death involved? I mean, come the fock on! If yuo have an obsession with drinking the yummy red wine of sexy damsels in distress, at least only do it to your significant other...and y'know...maybe not kill them so you can hve seconds, thirds, eigthteenths? I would be very interested to know what drives people to kill someone for their blood...what internal war or voices would bring this on. What acts of others? It's a very grotesque, yet intruguing subject, I must say.

Posted by: David DeMoro | January 17, 2004 6:53 AM

isn't this the point where the christians jump in and denounce the evils of vampire cults? they like to denounce wrong behaviour so much ... although they don't seem so keen to teach their kids the real solution required here: how to think clearly so you don't get sucked into idiotic and gullible behaviour. Why is that?

Posted by: eeen | January 20, 2004 6:26 PM

what deasese do u get by drinking blood? Any???

Posted by: ley | May 18, 2004 9:28 AM

As a test you can try drinking the blood of someone who is HIV+.

Posted by: Captain Thought | May 18, 2004 9:44 AM

I think there's a medical condition where people's body have a lust for blood.

Posted by: itslikedrugs | October 6, 2005 8:18 PM

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