The Gorbals Vampire

In 1954 around a hundred children descended on Glasgow's Southern Necropolis armed with kitchen knives and home-made stakes. They told the police officer who was called to the scene that they were searching for a vampire with metal teeth who had killed two wee boys. The vampire hunters were to become part of an anti horror comic-book campaign in Britain and the US and were cited in the drafting of  censorship legislation which remain on the statute books today. Louise has teamed up with...

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Published on March 28, 2010 05:36
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