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Advisory Service on Vampires and Vampirism

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Staking a Claim

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. S taking a C laim by Steve A Wiggins Okay, I confess. When I learned my recent host in London lived in Highgate, my thoughts ...
Monday, 4 February 2013

The Highgate Cemetery Spider

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The Meta bourneti spider has been found at Highgate Cemetery. Some one hundred species of the Meta Bourneti were found in the dark...
Sunday, 3 February 2013

Encounter at Highgate Cemetery

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. . The artist - Seán Manchester - comments: "Though the experiences of Elizabeth Wojdyla and Barbara Moriarty ...
Saturday, 2 February 2013

Commemorative Anniversary Portrait

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. We commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the Vampire Research Society forty-three years ago with an oil painting titled ...
Sunday, 27 February 2011

The Last Highgate Vampire Interview

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. Seán Manchester has given his final interview on the Highgate Vampire case. He spoke for over two hours as three cameras recorded th...
Friday, 27 February 2009

President and Founder of the Society

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. . "On the morning of 27 February 1970 I awoke and found myself famous due to a banner headline across the newspapers — ' Does A ...
Thursday, 26 February 2009

London Secretary (Deceased)

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. . Diana Wynne Brewester (née Pryce) was born in Neath, South Wales, on 19 July 1944. She began working as a bank clerk, but was drawn to t...
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My principal interest of vampirism falls within a more general fascination with the supernatural. To quote Seán Manchester (who quotes another vampire expert in holy orders): "Down the ages there has been no dispute between those who studied this phenomenon that a vampire is a predatory demon of the worst kind imaginable. Montague Summers, that vampirologist and author of an earlier generation, put it succinctly: 'Throughout the whole vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire.' Summers reminds us: 'There is no more terrible tradition that that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons. Foul are his ravages; gruesome and seemingly barbaric are the ancient and approved methods by which folk must rid themselves of this hideous pest.' Demons are certainly threatening; yet among that legion the most dreaded of them is undoubtedly the vampire."
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