Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a
young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local 'vampire
tower', in another explosive episode of Six Stories...
***Winner of the Capital Crime Award for Best Independent Voice***
'Matt Wesolowski brilliantly depicts a desperate and disturbed corner of
north-east England in which paranoia reigns and goodness is thwarted ...
an exceptional storyteller' Andrew Michael Hurley
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fiction' Alex North
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A frozen girl
A haunted town
A deadly challenge
Six Stories
Which one is true?
In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK
in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian
coast. Twenty-four-year-old Vlogger, Elizabeth Barton, had been
barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', where she
was later found frozen to death.
Three young men, part of an alleged 'cult', were convicted of this
terrible crime, which they described as a 'prank gone wrong'. However,
in the small town of Ergarth, questions have been raised about the
nature of Elizabeth Barton's death and whether the three convicted
youths were even responsible.
Elusive online journalist Scott King speaks to six witnesses - people
who knew both the victim and the three killers - to peer beneath the
surface of the case. He uncovers whispers of a shocking online craze
that held the young of Ergarth in its thrall and drove them to escalate
a series of pranks in the name of internet fame. He hears of an abattoir
on the edge of town, which held more than simple slaughter behind its
walls, the tragic and chilling legend of the 'Ergarth Vampire...
Both a compulsive, taut and terrifying thriller, and a bleak and
distressing look at modern society's desperation for attention, Beast
will unveil a darkness from which you may never return...
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