Don’t forget your rain cape

JUNEAU, Alaska – A weeklong vampire convention on a cruise ship that will feature a vampire ball and costume contest is planned for scenic Southeast Alaska next summer.

Holland America’s cruise ship Zuiderdam will be the setting for the event, scheduled for late June.

The ship will make stops in Juneau, Glacier Bay, Skagway and Ketchikan after it departs from Vancouver, B.C.

Vampire scholar John Edgar Browning is scheduled to host a vampire movie festival.

Also scheduled to join the cruise is Dacre Stoker, a great-grandnephew of “Dracula” author Bram Stoker and a co-author of a sequel, “Dracula: The Un-Dead.”