Creepy nerds seek like-minded creepy nerds

Well, these people are British, so they've got the pastiness thing going for them already:

Vampyres are prowling for new recruits in London as Halloween approaches to partake in wild parties, trips to Transylvania and bat spotting nights -- but coffin-dwelling, blood drinkers need not apply.

Okay, I might be mistaken, but I thought the whole point of being a vampire was that you fed on the blood of the living.

With a penchant for custom-made fangs, striking make-up and gothic clothes, members of the London Vampyre Group (LVG) say it's their fascination with the romantic notion of vampires, rather than any darker intent, that draws them together.

"People who think they're un-dead, hundreds of years old, or that you have to drink blood if you're interested in the dark side of things, we can put them right on that," LVG's Mick Smith, 57, told Reuters in an interview in a London pub.

Oh, now I get it. You silly people aren't vampires, you're sad, creepy role-playing goths. Read the rest, which includes their equivalent of Star Trek conventions ("Vampyres are transformed by flamboyant clothes after dark for the Dance of the Damned Vampire Ball and Requiem of the Resurrected parties"). Really, if it wasn't this close to Halloween and you replaced all the information in the article with stuff about people who dress up like Klingons, nobody would give a shit.