Pictures?

[Mr. X]

I have been reading about the Highgate Vampire on www.gothicpress.freeserve.co.uk/Index.htm and have seen many pictures and read many articles.

However, the pictures of the vampire are cut off and I was wondering if anyone could direct me to some others or send me some.

Complete pictures would be much appreciated.

[Vampirologist]

Much better clarity is offered in their reproduction on page 144 of The Highgate Vampire book.

However, the conditions under which they were taken must also be appreciated. It was quite an accomplishment in the circumstances, as recorded on page 143:

"Arthur tried to use a camera throughout this process of rapid decomposition as if to record what his eyes could barely believe. But after several frames had been taken he was obliged to turn away; so nauseated was he by the intolerably putrid stench emanating ... "

www.gothicpress.freeserve.co.uk/Highgate%20Vampire%20Book.htm

[Mr. X]

That I can definately give them. That thing, from what I have seen, was qucik to decompose. Very quick.

[Vampirologist]

Indeed, yes.

As the author of the book himself recounts:

"We witnessed the body-shell cave in and quickly turn filthy brown which soon became a sluggish flow of inhuman slime and viscera ... "