![]() The feud only ended when Farrant died in 2019. Meanwhile Manchester claimed to have tracked the vampire down to a house nearby, where he had plunged a stake into its body and set it on fire. The duels never happened, and in 1974 Farrant was again arrested near the cemetery and convicted of damaging memorials and interfering with the remains of the dead. When a local man’s pet cat failed to return home that day, Farrant became an immediate suspect. ![]() ![]() At one point in 1973 they were meant to have a series of duels involving ‘swords and sorcery’ and rumours swirled that the two were planning to sacrifice a cat in the presence of naked virgins. Manchester published a book called The Highgate Vampire, and Farrant followed it with one called Beyond The Highgate Vampire. Meanwhile Farrant and Manchester’s war of words escalated. The story inspired the Hammer horror film Dracula AD1972, which starred Christopher Lee as the vampire preying on young Londoners.
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