The Croglin Vampire by Tony Walker 

Perfect English vampire story!

A great telling of a classic folklore tale. I love the period detail and the scene-setting. One can easily imagine the events in the theatre of the mind. Brilliant stuff!

Great story. Reminds me of MR James or Varney the Vampire. Wonderfully written.

Wonderfully effective atmosphere and writing Details achieve terrifying effect while never for a moment going too far. The characters and the impression of the village and its society are totally convincing. The ending and the question asked after the vampire's destroyed

Yikes! That was good and creepy!

I love this story. No silly fainting women or daft people who die in disbelief. Another fantastic narration.

Red eyeballs peering in the window at night.You have a knack for scaring women lol.☕🥺 Thanks Tony!

Ooooo that was a corker Tony! Gave me real chills, excellent 👍🏼😈

I remember my mother telling me this story when I was a little boy. At that time boys collected monster tales, magazines and merchandise like baseball cards. Your retelling is masterful and I love the sound effects. I just got through publishing my first vampire novel on Amazon and I'm working on my second. Thanks for sharing!

Tony, your stories are so well written, and your narration, along with background "sounds", (music and effects), makes them truly creepy and shivery.

Thought I was going to pass out when she was fumbling with her locked bedroom door….love it! Thank you 🙏

When my friends and I were teenagers we used to drive to Croglin from Carlisle at night time and scare ourselves silly. The narrow road down to both of the Croglin halls is very spooky and creepy with twisted trees especially at night 🧛

This is such an amazing and well written piece, I'm a sound designer / producer and the sound effects you've used are spot on, loved every minute of this story. Proper theater of the mind material.

My great-grandmother was named Katie Howard, but she came to the US from Ireland.

Great story & narration!

Whip Poor Wills have red eyes & they look scary when they are feeding on insects; I've seen this behavior...sound effects are fine

I liked it! You are very talented!

Enjoyed it when I read it last week, enjoyed it again hearing it in your voice, Tony.

It was very good, quite scary. I've listened to many and read many a horror book. This was very good. Thank you.

Loved the sound effects.

I can never get enough of vampires, and I’m thrilled with a tale about someone who manages to escape the clutches of one. I was yelling at my phone about their dangerous behavior of entering the vampire’s resting place so close to it awaking. The open ending was great, too. I just purchased the Audible version of “London Horror Stories” and “Cumbrian Ghost Stories.” I can’t wait until they finish downloading!

I really enjoyed your story, and you told it so well too. Thank you.

As always, I love listening to your stories. Thanks so much.

The owl effect made me jump.

That was fantastic! I'm not a vampire fan but man that was good.

Wonderfully creepy. Thanks so much, love your RU-vid channel! Cheers, Kitty.

🌟🌈First this time💥💐 Perfect way to end the day. Thank you!

I loved this and enjoyed the sound effects along with your perfect narration. Thank you!

So creepy, I love your stories

I loved the addition of the sound effects! Ultra spooky. I listened to the Highgate Vampire last night so it seems I'm on a roll. Bravo! 👏👏👏

Absolutely love your stories and this podcast.

This is too AWESOME! The moral of the story is: always let vampires in! 😂😂😂😁

I love the sound effects and the sound of your voice, Tony. I recently discovered your RU-vid channel and have shared it with others. This is a real gift; thank you.

Thank you, so very much for this delightful story. I enjoyed it so very much. I look forward to more of your exceptional writing and narration. * P.S. I've always found it interesting how quickly those plagued with preternatural manifestations clamor to their nearest Catholic Priest for the rite of exorcism. Yet, they still do not believe . I realize these days one is more likely to encounter a Gorgon in the supermarket than a Catholic priest that is willing to do an exorcism ( or even believes in such things). There are some good ones, but usually only found in the Priestly Latin Rite Fraternities.

Just as as scary--second time around with details missed before. Have bought Cumbrian Ghost Stories book. Just came. Will throw myself into it now! Thank you so much for your expressive writing and narration.

The sound effects.The story was amazing.Loved it!

Ditto this time. Thank you, Tony!

That was really scary, especially with those fab sound effects. My heart was going hell for leather when it crawled through the window, lol! Brilliant story, beautifully read as always. Cheers, Tony. Good stuff! :)

Indeed, I came across this story in multiple collections of old folktales, and the like. Together with another whose name escapes me. Like Prof. Shrewsbury said: "at the bottom of every legend, myth and folktale, lies, how distorted it might have become, a core of truth." And I have to agree....🤔

Found it, this one is the best you have written....really liked it. Great sound and nice pause between phrases.

So well written & wonderfully narrated. Xcllnt wrk my good man! Thank u.

Great story.

The music and sound effects are amazing. Above all, this is damn fine story, Tony. Great job. Your works are amazing. I enjoyed this over a Hefeweizen and some fine tobacco very late in the evening. Great setting for a good story. I really like the conversation the guys have at the end over beer in leather tankards. Keep up the great work!!

Wow, excellent story and narration! After a long time, a horror story made me shudder! And also enjoyed the ominous music.

Why is this Chanel so underrated?

Another keeper , thanks heaps for this . 🙃

Loved it! The sound effects were great!!

Wonderfully creepy and excellently told.😃

Excellent as always. But that awful noise you have at the end of this made me jump! I just received your book from Amazon and look forward to reading it!

More please.

Yowzers what fun!! THANK YOU! I'll now take a left, and left again off the high road to the High Hall, and perhaps then a right to the ...Low Hall...

I did like the sound effects!

Scary .well done .

Ah I absolutely need to buy your book this coming fall 🍁 I love your stories! Not to mention your narrations.

That was good, Tony! 🙂👍 Sure enough, that is pretty much the version of the story I remember! (Scary to think there might have been others, though! But where would they have slept once the crypt was destroyed? 🙂) And oh, yes, I liked the sound effects! 🙂 The first time I ran across this tale was in an account by Tom Slemen. He set it far too late, though: 1900s. I also read some years ago, that the Revd Lionel Fanthorpe researched this story, and he thought it was true, or at least possible! 🙂 Some critics said Croglin Grange wasn't a real place. But it was!

I enjoyed that! Thanks!

U have done it again 😳. Creepy !

BRAVO! BRAVO! 👏👏

I only recently discovered the stories you narrate on RU-vid, and like them I'm a great deal

Awesome English vampire story

Shivers! Loved this one! Thank you!

Creepy!

a great little story, just the kind of thing i'm looking for in a spooky period piece :^)

This was great!

Great Stuff 👻

Great narration and great channel earned a new subscriber

Excellent story! I totally got into it!!

The figure in the window reminds me of the story Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson. Perhaps that story was based on the folk tale as well.

I thought a vampire could not come in your house unless you invited them in but I love the stories anyway

Tony, this was a fantastic Halloween listen. Good work

By the way, I like the sound effects, a fine enhancement!

wow great

How about the Gorbals Vampire up in Glasgow ? I think I may have asked you about this one before. What always struck me about that story - apart from the grimness of the setting - was the similarity of all the descriptions given of the thing; roughly seven feet tall with glowing green eyes and iron or steel teeth. If I was a predator where better to hunt than in the most forsaken housing estate in the entire UK with a massive necropolis stretching for miles behind it ? Also just how much time are the police going to invest in tracking down missing slum urchins from Glasgow ? I read what I could find about it online and found the whole story fascinating. Either an extreme case of mass hysteria or something else. And last but not least where is he now ?

27:18 "Perhaps the same could be said of all religions."

One minor touch bothered me. With less than 10 minutes before the sunset, they send for and get the shavings and tallow they need for the cremation of the monster. I suppose it is possible that they forsaw this need before sitting out and carry these items with them, and the men who would descended really sent up to the people in the surface for these materials.

One subjective comment about the sound effects. Early on, when we hear the owl's cry, it is so loud as to be too startling, so much that it distracts me from the story and gets me thinking about the sound effect. Otherwise I thought the sound effects were just right.

Is Tony Walker the author of the Kroger Vampire in addition to reading it? I was unable to find the office credit

sven vath

Is this the last vampire one by tony ? Of the 3 on here. And how would the vampire get in if it wasn’t invited…. Clearly this one of the 3 is fictional lol