Edgar Allan Poe's infamous poem The Raven was inspired by a real bird, a mischievous raven kept as a pet by Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
In 1970s London, a dark presence was said to haunt Highgate Cemetery. The Highgate Vampire sparked media panic, mass hysteria & two young vampire hunters ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
The British Museum houses a 'cursed mummy' blamed for sicknesses, deaths & even sinking the Titanic. Once a princess & priestess of Amen-Ra ..| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
Joe Magarac was a superhuman giant who laboured in Pittsburgh steel mills. Joe, made of steel, stirred molten metal with his bare hands & ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
In 1954, hundreds of children joined a hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, a boy-eating ghoul said to haunt Glasgow's Southern Necropolis. A major moral panic ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen