Vampire X Research X Society
International Society For The Advancement Of Irrefutable Vampirological And Lycanthropic Research
CREDO QVIA IMPOSSIBILE
“I believe because it is impossible.”
~ Tertullian
The Vampire Research Society originated in 1967 as
a specialist unit within the much older British
Occult Society ~ an organisation for paranormal and occult
investigation that was eventually dissolved on 8 August 1988. +Seán Manchester was responsible for the vampire research
unit becoming a self-governing body on 2 February 1970 by which time he had
initiated, as president of the BOS, a full-time investigation into the Highgate
Vampire case in 1969. It would last thirteen years. The first published account
of the case (including the initial discovery of the suspect tomb and a spoken
exorcism) was given in The Vampire’s
Bedside Companion (Leslie Frewin, 1975; Coronet
Books, 1976). The first complete account was published in the best-selling The Highgate Vampire (British
Occult Society, 1985; Gothic
Press, 1991). The current Gothic Press edition is completely revised
and updated with new illustrations. There is also a CD. Final comment on the
Highgate case in print appeared in The Vampire Hunter’s Handbook (Gothic Press,
1997) while Carmel ~ A Vampire Tale (Gothic Press, 2000)
draws on real experience based on the mysterious happenings in and around