A vampire is said to have menaced Croglin village, Cumbria. Issuing at night from a churchyard vault, it entered a young woman's room and bit| 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
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
A colony of ferocious feral pigs were once rumoured to inhabit the sewers under Hampstead. A terror to 'toshers' - men who scavenged sewers ..| David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
A Russian princess is said to lie in a glass coffin in her opulent Paris tomb. Anyone brave enough to spend a year alone in her mausoleum ...| 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