York Explore Library :

Tues 30 Oct :

6.30pm – 7.30pm :

£5

What if we told you that the vampire was more than mere superstition? And what if we told you that its birthplace wasn’t mountainous Transylvania, but leafy England? The walking dead of authentic folklore are distinct from the debonair bloodsucker found in popular culture. But the bloodline is there.

Acclaimed author and occult historian Gavin Baddeley leads us on a vampire-hunt through a Renaissance Venetian leper colony, via a cursed medieval crypt in a Slovakian chapel. We conclude, worryingly close to home, on the North Yorkshire Wolds, as the audience are invited to solve a sinister enigma still confounding historians today.

Follow Gavin on Twitter @GavinBaddeley

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