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"Would you consider putting that mad lamp with the naked man in the corner?" David Mlinaric, the doyen of interior decorators, has come to Transylvania. Jessica Douglas-Home, champion of Romanian culture, shuffles a 19th-century ambassador's uniform to the appointed position.

In San Francisco in 1998, Joshua Rudiger, 22, claimed to be a 2,000-year-old vampire and went about the city slashing the necks of vulnerable homeless people with a knife. He hurt three men and killed a woman sleeping in a doorway, and when one victim's identification led to his arrest, he claimed that he needed to drink human blood. The woman indeed died from a lack of blood.

Let's start right in at the beginning then, with the first Renfield. At least, the first Renfield who was actually called by that name. He is a character in Bram Stoker's classic, _Dracula_, who is somehow psychically linked with the vampire.

Many have probably heard about the book called Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, which was released in October 2005. It's the story of an average teenage girl who moves to the cloudiest peninsula in the United States -- the Olympic Peninsula. Isabella Swan, aka Bella, moves to the small town of Forks, Wash., to live with her father after her mother gets married to an amateur baseball player. She hates living in Forks, until she meets a strikingly gorgeous teenager in her biology class.

When an image enters the popular imagination, its origins can become difficult to trace. How many people can name the silent film in which a heroine was first tied to railroad tracks by a snarling evildoer? Or the western in which a lock-jawed hero first told the bad guys to Reach for the sky!?