Saturday 25 March 2017

vampires 4

Croglin Grange

This is an interesting tale, but Harper himself questioned it.
He said that Croglin Grange didn't exist, as far as he could find.
There was a Croglin High Hall and a Croglin Low Hall, according to Harper 
It reads like a story, rather than an account of an "actual" happening. 
I haven't come across it anywhere else, but.....

THis is what the wikipedia entry says about it: 

The Vampire of Croglin Grange is a vampire legend that took place in Cumberland, England. The story first appeared in Story of My Life by Augustus Hare, written in the 1890s. In 1929, Montague Summers republished the story along with the first chapter of Varney the Vampire. He pointed out that the two stories were very similar and should be dismissed as folklore.

It also says that

A version of the story appears under the title "The Window" 
in Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell's 
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1984).

Still, it is a good dark story, isn't it?

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