Comments from interested parties

[Vampirologist]

Informed comment about the definitive account of the UK’s best documented contemporary vampire case written by the man who led the only investigation into the spectral hauntings, nightly visitations, demonic disturbances and blood lettings at Highgate Cemetery and its environs, including the Great Northern London Cemetery, from 1969-1982.


“Ever since I became aware that Highgate Cemetery was the reputed haunt of a vampire, the investigations and activities of Seán Manchester commanded my attention. I became convinced that, more than anyone else, he knew the full story of the Highgate Vampire.”

~ Peter Underwood, ghost hunter & author, The Ghost Club Society, London, England


“I am very impressed by the body of scholarship you have created. Seán Manchester is undoubtedly the father of modern vampirological research.”

~ John Godl, paranormal researcher and writer, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


“Seán Manchester is to be congratulated on this fine piece of research work which I confess to enjoying to the extreme.”

~ Professor Devendra P Varma, vampirologist & author, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada


“Fascinating in its subject matter and magnificent in the quality of its prose. Seán Manchester’s literary style is refreshingly reminiscent of the Gothic genre.”

~ Paul Spencer Vickers, Dept of English Literature, University College, London, England


“Seán Manchester is the most celebrated vampirologist of the twentieth century.”

~ Shaun Marin, reviewer and sub-editor, Uri Geller’s Encounters magazine, England


“A most interesting and useful addition to the literature of the subject.”

~ Reverend Basil Youdell, Literary Editor Orthodox News, Christ the Saviour, Woolwich, England


“This book will certainly be read in a hundred years time, two hundred years time, three hundred years time ~ in short, for as long as mankind is interested in the supernatural. It has the most genuine power to grip. Once you have started to read it, it is virtually impossible to put it down.”

~ Lyndall Mack (aka Jennie Gray), Udolpho (magazine of the Gothic Society), Chislehurst, Kent, England

[Vampirologist]

“Seán Manchester, the most authentic vampire hunter in the world today, penetrated the very heart of the mystery whose necrogenic setting has such impressionistic power that within the shades of dark ebon the most disbelieving sceptic will witness something spectral in the ghostly whiteness of moonbeams shining on marble tombs.”

~ Devendra P Varma, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada


“Britain’s only full-time vampire hunter, … [Seán] Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority.”

~ Joe McNally, contributing editor, Fortean Times magazine, England


“His lectures at universities and organisations led to my inviting him to address members of the Ghost Club Society which he duly did. We met at that time at the Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury and the President of the Vampire Research Society arrived, suitably attired, and gave a memorable and in many ways remarkable lecture. Certainly we had had nothing like it before and have never had anything like it since; not a few members at the crowded meeting revised their opinion on vampires and vampirism after that evening.”

~ Peter Underwood, President, The Ghost Club Society, London, England


“One of the most notable figures to visit the [Kirklees] haunted site under cover of darkness was Seán Manchester, whom Green has called one of Britain’s foremost vampire hunters and exorcists.”

~ Craig Miller, associate editor, Fate Magazine, Minnesota, USA


“I believe Seán Manchester is this country’s only genuine vampire hunter.”

~ Nicole Lampert, journalist, features department, The Sun newspaper, London, England


“Dr [Seán] Manchester doesn’t just acknowledge the possibility; he knows that vampires exist.”

~ Stephen Jarvis, author and researcher of strange pursuits, England


“First thrust into the public eye in the Seventies after a spate of gruesome reports about North London’s Highgate Cemetery, Seán Manchester is now acknowledged as a serious vampirologist with a God-given mission.”

~ Frances Hubbard, features’ writer, IPC magazines, London, England


“Seán Manchester, descendant of Lord Byron, scourge of the undead and Britain’s number one vampire hunter.”

~ Michael Magenis, freelance journalist and researcher, London, England


“Seán Manchester has been called in to investigate ghoulish visitations at former Liberal leader David Steel’s Scottish castle and an old estate in Yorkshire where a dark, demonic spook is terrifying locals. … He is descended from the romantic poet ~ his great, great, great grandfather was the son of a housemaid Byron got pregnant.”

~ Pam Bentley, features’ writer, Sunday magazine, London, England


“Seán Manchester, a self-confessed Vampire Hunter [who] knows they exist, … has spent a significant proportion of his life pursuing reports of vampiric and necromantic activity. His visceral account of his pursuit and termination of a vampire he discovered entombed in Highgate Cemetery’s Egyptian columbarium in the ‘70s, The Highgate Vampire, even includes a photograph of the staked beast in its death-throes.”

~ Stevan Keane, features’ writer, City Limits magazine, London, England


“The shadow of a stone angel stole across Seán Manchester’s face as he laid out the tools of his trade: old Italianate crucifixes, holy water, fat white bulbs of garlic and sharpened wooden stakes. Traditional instruments of protection. … Risking life and soul is all part of a night’s work for Manchester. … The founding president of the Vampire Research Society spends four or five nights a week out hunting.”

~ Beverley d’Silva, features’ writer, Sunday Times magazine, London, England


“Britain’s foremost vampire hunter [is] Seán Manchester.”

~ Len Markham, author and researcher of the paranormal, Yorkshire, England


“Seán Manchester, billed as ‘Vampirologist and Exorcist,’ pops up in a graveyard [on London Weekend Television’s South Bank Show] with groovy long hair and crucifix of cinematic proportions. Is he for real?”

~ Suzy Feay, sub-editor, reviewer and critic, Time Out magazine, London, England


“Seán Manchester’s Vampire Research Society grew out of his previous leadership role in [the British Occult Society] an occult investigation bureau. The society investigates all aspects of ‘supernatural vampire phenomena,’ a task that has led to a variety of research projects, including the famous Highgate Vampire and the Kirklees Vampire projects.”

~ J Gordon Melton, chronicler of vampire topics, Santa Barbara, USA

[rpazul]

I have read both The Highgate vampire & From Satan To Christ and found them utterly inspiring! Bishop Manchester has shown the world that we live in a spiritual battlefield betwwen Good & Evil and that love prayer and Faith In Christ is the strongest weapon and armour we have to win. The empty tomb of Christ is our victory and Sean Manchester shows how that victory can vanquish evil and lead us to salvation. These books show the darker side of our universe and the dangers of dabbling in the occult and dark powers and serve as ample warning to take up the "ARMOUR OF GOD" and stand in the LIGHT OF CHRIST.

Amen


Rodzdred