The Vampire of Croglin Grange is one of England's most intriguing blood-sucking tales. PAUL ADAMS, author of Written in Blood: The Cultural History of the British Vampire, looks at the case.| Spooky Isles
Phantom black dogs reputedly haunt many parts of Britain. These terrifying hounds roam lonely moorland paths, urban alleys & London jails ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
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
How did the infamous Lord Byron influence our image of the sexually compelling, aristocratic vampire & what did his doctor John Polidori have to do with it?| 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
A tomb in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, is said to house a vampire. The vampire, blamed for a railway tunnel's catastrophic collapse, is ...| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen