Brief Biographical Summary

I was born at a time when the world was destroying itself with war. The obscure figure who preceded me in the field of operative vampirology, Montague Summers, was still extant and soon to hand a vampire protection medallion to my close friend and colleague, the prolific author and paranormal researcher Peter Underwood FRSA, now sadly desceased. Peter Underwood, in turn, would later bequeath the medallion to me. I regard the object as a curiosity worthy of display, but nothing more than that. My personal armoury of accoutrements is rather more sophisticated and certainly rooted in known and proven antidotes and items intended to repel these vile demons.

I nevertheless studied the works of Montague Summers while still a teenager, and have always shown appreciation to the earlier vampirologist for this introduction to the subject. I would later dedicate the expanded and revised hardback edition of my bestselling book The Highgate Vampire (1985 & 1991) to Montague Summers whose ecclesiastical career was not so very dissimilar to my own. I was not baptised until I chose to become so myself, and, while still at school, joined an Anglican choir, eventually being made head choirboy. During this time I was increasingly disillusioned with the vagaries of the Church of England whom, I felt, seemed uncertain about almost everything. I studied Catholicism and was received into the Roman Catholic Church, but it was at a time when Liberalism and Modernism were being ushered in by Vatican II. This made me a borderline Sedevacantist. I would eventually take Holy Orders in the traditional wing of an independent group of Old Catholic churches in my country; thus enabling me to serve an autocephalous jurisdiction known as Ecclesia Vetusta Catholica. As a Bishop (consecrated on 4 October 1991) I am able to carry out exorcisms unfettered, and also appoint others to do so. During my life, as my faith grew exponentially stronger, many were becoming less inclined to believe in anything, much less anything spiritual and/or supernatural. I view myself, therefore, as a bulwark to such non-belief, and have remained steadfast in that resolve since entering Minor Orders in 1973.  

I founded the Vampire Research Society on 2 February 1970, and remain its President. I was also President of an occult investigation bureau from 21 June 1967 to 8 August 1988 (when the B.O.S. was formally dissolved). For most of my life I resided in London where I met and married on 8 August 1987 a performing arts graduate, who is also an accomplished designer/sculptress. I have no children, and reside predominantly at a south coast private retreat. I no longer give interviews to the media, or anyone else for that matter, and eschew my past high profile public persona. That notwithstanding, I am not beyond addressing queries (in the comments box) made on this blog.

Montague Summers' protection medallion.