Suzy Beal, who occasionally comments here, sent me a clipping of a story that caused both of my eyebrows to go up in utter astonishment. Just read it. It explains the header for this post, quite ludicrously.
I had to laugh, because the next story (actually the original story in order of composition, but taking place after Martha’s Children) that features my vampire-sorceress Martha Fokker begins with her fleeing Portland, Oregon, where a vampire gang war is in progress.
Sillyverse 
Gosh! Though as said, everyone has their reality, that’s the starting premise in NLP. And the American Constitution says everyone’s entitled to their beliefs. I think in England this would not have been reported in the same open vein. (Oops, punning it.)
But ‘energy vampires’, yea, I’ve encountered a fair few of those. One of my friends was in a debilitating relationship with one such an e-vampire. No danger of dying; a parasite does not kill its host.
To be precise, a successful parasite doesn’t kill its host. There actually is a well-known short story from a century ago about an energy vampire: “Luella Miller,” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. (Text available at http://www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/freeman_luella.pdf
Garlic allergy, telling! Investigators should have used a cross, I say!
I imagine they at least dragged the defendant out into the light of day. 🙂
Alrighty then!! A cross or a mirror or the daylight!! Their truth..stranger than fiction? Or perhaps not in the world of imaginative writing!! 🙂
Elves? OK. other dimensions? Yeah, sure. But vampires? C’mon, get serious, chum!
😉