David Castleton (Author)
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Freelance journalist specialising in the gothic, weird history, the literary, dark & strange. Amazon #1 best-seller of non-fic (Shire/Bloomsbury). Novelist, winner of the Go Gothic Short Fiction Prize. Likes Victorian oddness, folklore, graveyards, mythology, psychogeography, mad Romantic poets, etc. Website & blog: https://www. davidcastleton.net/serpents_pe n_blog/
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David Castleton (Author)
@david_castleton@universeodon.com
Freelance journalist specialising in the gothic, weird history, the literary, dark & strange. Amazon #1 best-seller of non-fic (Shire/Bloomsbury). Novelist, winner of the Go Gothic Short Fiction Prize. Likes Victorian oddness, folklore, graveyards, mythology, psychogeography, mad Romantic poets, etc. Website & blog: https://www. davidcastleton.net/serpents_pe n_blog/
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Mar 09, 2026
Real attempts to deal with 'dangerous corpses' persisted in England long after vampires had been made into literary and theatrical spectacles. Four years after the publication of 'Dracula', a Devon farmer is recorded as saying the coffin of a "troublesome" woman would be buried upside-down so "her can on'y diggy downwards." During World War I, English soldiers are recorded as having buried a "huge, scowling" German facedown for the same reason. #gothic #folklore #mythology #vampire #vampires #death #history #paranormal #weird
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