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Highgate ‘Blood Sisters” Film Key Art

Highgate creator Asa Bailey has just released this latest key art design for the upcoming Highgate Movie “Blood Sisters” the first in a trilogy of Highgate films.

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The Highgate Trilogy Starts Here

There are currently three books planned in the Highgate Saga. The first “The Vampire of Highgate” is out now published by Hachette Children’s Books and is available to buy in all good book shops and online.

Asa Bailey is currently working on the second Highgate instalment. We are told that now the first book has set the stage and introduced readers to the lore of Highgate, the next book will build heavily on the characters and lore that has now been introduced.

Now the characters and the lore of The World of Highgate has been introduced it’s time to build on them to take readers on a blood sucking, magical journey.

No title or release date has yet been given for the second Highgate book, but fans of first book will be pleased to know that Asa is already underway penning it’s followup.

Yes OK Kathy is a touch bipolar.

Thanks to Ellen S for sending in this one, was it aimed at any one of the Highgate team in-particular? If you like it feel free to upload it to your Facebook wall.

Thanks for submitting this…

Thanks to ArcAngel for sending this in, can you tell us a bit more about the artist as we’d like to get some more of these done - pooping up all over the world.

Thanks for the update!

In the beginning even before the story begins…

Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated with the bizarre the fantastic and of course the dark. When I was introduced to the legend of The Highgate Vampire I was inspired by how it was a modern dark legend, one that had taken hold on the internet and throughout it’s life it had used the media to spread itself – like vampirism is – this legend itself is a virus. In the age of the Internet local folk lore can go viral and grow into something that previously was not possible.

I wanted to create a world not just a story, given the chance I had been given, to write a novel I wanted to expand on the mythology of the vampire and add to its world. When I dug deeper into the Highgate Vampire legend and the areas folk lore, I found that the stories of the undead walking in the Highgate area was not something new, in fact it went back further and further in time.

The area around Highgate woods was once a Roman burial ground and is known to be one of London’s oldest mass grave sites. The area has inspired stores of ghosts vampires and demons for centuries. It’s maybe one of the reasons that Bram Stocker visited Highgate Cemetery for inspiration for his novel Dracula. It’s as if The Highgate Vampire is actually the original vampire. So I took the legend right back in time tracing it through history, digging up a past till it became impossible to tell fact from fiction.

With a cast of modern characters charged with digging up the legend of The Highgate Vampire, I wanted to use my creative license as a fiction writer to create a whole new vampire mythology, to give readers a richer and alternative vampire world.

In the World of Highgate the Highgate Vampire is known by his ancient name of Aliza, who first gained his powers by drinking the blood of Christ. In this way Aliza was given the power of immortality. In these early beginnings of the vampires Aliza became the leader of the first nest of vampires. But as the times passed and the opposed religions of Christianity and Islam rose up the vampires became hidden, down trodden and eventually forgotten. This was the turning point in our vampire history, turning the vampires from God towards anger, malice and eventually the evil that we see today.

Highgate The Directors Treatment